Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [noun prp] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the risk to humans was believed to be remote , manufacturers reduced DEHA in the film . |
| 2 | The same waves reached Hawaii in the central Pacific less than 5 hours later and must have travelled at a speed of 740 km per hour . |
| 3 | At Notting Hill , Carnival was rained on but still managed to struggle past the 7pm curfew in parts , though sensible southerners spent Monday in the marquee at the Full Circle all-dayer . |
| 4 | Norsemen conquered Orkney in the ninth century when the islands became dependencies of Norway and Denmark . |
| 5 | When agricultural improvers visited Sussex in the war years they had little favourable to say about the situation in general and the Weald came in for wholesale condemnation , although there was some disagreement about the details . |
| 6 | The teller of tall tales poked Rex in the chest with his pistol and steered him to the far end of the room . |
| 7 | The deal was agreed , and the novelty of the terms put Arsenal in the headlines as never before . |
| 8 | And thereupon the said Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons pursuant to their respective letters and Elections being now assembled in a full and free representative of this nation taking into their most serious consideration the best meanes for atteyneing the ends aforesaid Doe in the first place ( as their Ancestors in like Case have usually done ) for the vindicating and asserting their antient rights and Liberties , Declare . |
| 9 | EPRDF forces captured Mezezo in the Shoa region on March 19 , bringing them within 50 km of Addis Ababa . |
| 10 | This table of the Nations in Genesis 10 can hardly be more ancient than the seventh century B.C. Not much later Ezechiel or one of his disciples included Yavan in the lamentation for Tyre ( 27.13–19 ) . |
| 11 | The Achaemenid monarch Cambyses conquered Egypt in the year 525 BC ( his predecessor Cyrus had conquered Babylon in 539 BC ) and so the replacement of the ‘ Old-Avestan calendar ’ , as the one formerly used by the Iranians is now called , presumably occurred after that . |
| 12 | Russian forces invested Przemysl in the third week of September 1914 , but it was only on 22 March 1915 that it fell , soon to be recaptured . |
| 13 | Most of the German states supported Prussia in the Austrian Prussian war . |
| 14 | The Poles beat Russia in the 1920s . ’ |
| 15 | As soon as they knew that Bella had been assigned to her , the other two trainees cornered Marie in the canteen and briefed her on what to expect . |
| 16 | That was clear as a succession of batsmen joined Gooch in the ignominy of having their stumps knocked over . |
| 17 | The Romans left Britain in the early fifth century and the fashion for bath houses gradually passed . |