Example sentences of "[noun sg] [det] [noun sg] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Upon baptism this king took the Christian name of Abraham — perhaps because he hoped to be the father of a long line of kings associated with Frankish power . |
| 2 | The still dark that night had the effect of making everything heavy with meaning . |
| 3 | And news of the DoT decision to look at the interchange this week raised the hopes of green campaigners opposed to the cross-town route . |
| 4 | He also found that sitting a person inside for a period each day helped the processes of healing . |
| 5 | ‘ You were so horrible all of a sudden that formality seemed the order of the day . ’ |
| 6 | The conference this year took the same theme and posed the question has anything really changed ? |
| 7 | After the Second World War this countryside witnessed the struggle between the priests and embryo commissars described in Guareschi 's Don Camillo , a struggle which continued , in a more mild form , until comparatively recently . |
| 8 | On April 23rd , the day that parliament endorsed the anti-crisis programme , Mr Gorbachev met leaders of nine republics ( excluding the six refuseniks — the three Baltic states plus Georgia , Armenia and Moldavia ) . |
| 9 | I was there the night that Madame made the first move in what I now see was a careful campaign to prepare Boy for this romance or meeting . |
| 10 | Thus it was that the idea of pictures as mere contributions to the decor was happily turned on its head the minute this visitor entered the darkened room and was greeted by a series of large colour photos of what could be described as ‘ Still-life with Penis ’ . |
| 11 | It seems the parish priest at Upton has a servant who visits his brother 's family in Preston once a week , and that night this fellow walked the road from Upton to Preston along with Aldhelm , who works at the demesne , and lives in the neighbouring village . |
| 12 | It was his management at the end of last season that cost United the First Division title . |
| 13 | The mechanic this time replaced the water temperature sender unit on the engine block — it has a black top with a long stem . |
| 14 | Early yesterday morning this arrow shattered the window of a house on Oxford 's Barton estate . |
| 15 | . The Nuclear Installations Inspectorate this week told the inquiry that it has identified 82 unresolved safety issues affecting the design for Britain 's first PWR station at Sizewell . |
| 16 | The annual conference competition to win the George Wood Cup this year took the format of target shooting ( with tennis balls ) and the Welsh dexterity of earned him the honour of collecting the cup at the conference Installation Ceremony . |
| 17 | The sheer strength of feeling across the nation this afternoon forced the President of Trade and Industry to backtrack on the pit closures . |
| 18 | The disgraceful way ordinary , moderate men and women have been sacked at Timex and the way this government cheapened the working man and woman in this country by rejecting the Social Charter and by portraying Britain as a low wage economy . |
| 19 | Her Royal Highness this afternoon attended the Annual General Meeting of the National Association of Victim Support Schemes at Central Hall , Westminster , and was received by the Lord Mayor of Westminster ( Councillor Simon Mabey ) and the Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 20 | Her Royal Highness this afternoon visited the Devon Guild of Craftsmen 's Centre , Bovey Tracey , Devon . |
| 21 | Her Royal Highness this afternoon opened the new Head Office Building for the Woolwich Equitable Building Society , Watling Street , Bexleyheath , and received a donation from employees for the Save the Children Fund . |
| 22 | Twelve pupils in lower sixth ( S5 ) at Merchiston Castle School this month visited the Cite des Sciences et de l'Industrie in La Villette , north-east Paris , writes Education Correspondent Douglas Fraser . |
| 23 | An outcry from dentists around the country this week forced the Government to postpone their decision on the payments until May 1 . |
| 24 | For some time this provision represented the sole full-time undergraduate degree in the UK devoted uniquely to publishing . |
| 25 | It is time this government valued the academic nature of course work . |
| 26 | Each time this sound came the man ran from the tent with his knives and spears , but he came back , huddled and weeping . |
| 27 | To a large extent this model survived the WFP negotiations . |
| 28 | The US Department of Energy this week gave the go-ahead for a $39-million project to rebuild the core of one of the world 's largest solar power plants with the goal of generating commercial quantities of electricity by 1998 . |
| 29 | In fact this individual found the stress of such an existence too much and was forced to leave his job . |