Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That extra-strong attachment for Mum remained until the end of our mother 's life , at the age of eighty-two . |
| 2 | However , Aglen 's appointment as inspector-general coincided with the anti-Manchu revolution of 1911–12 which resulted in the breakdown of the administrative arrangements of the Chinese , and faced by these unprecedented difficulties , Aglen made arrangements for the safety and integrity of customs revenue by placing it in foreign banks in his own name . |
| 3 | ‘ We 're in for a storm , ’ Ashley remarked , grimacing as thunder rumbled in the distance . |
| 4 | Resistance to the EEC-funded search for uranium began with the anti-nuclear movement but quickly developed , in the major area being prospected , Co . |
| 5 | The other Senate seat up for election went for the first time to the PAN , which won 17.7 per cent of the vote and secured 92 seats in the Chamber of Deputies . |
| 6 | A debenture is a document issued by a company in exchange for money lent to the company . |
| 7 | The original claim by the present plaintiff against the appellants was one for money lent in the sum of £500,000 . |
| 8 | At the end of the nineteenth century , dredging for gravel began in the bay when extensions to Devonport 's naval dockyard were planned , and the sinking of the protective shingle beach left Hallsands exposed to the winter storms , which in 1917 were so severe that after two days only one house was left standing . |
| 9 | A PENNILESS van driver 's master plan for murder ended in the slaughter and dismemberment of a retired bank official and his daughter — for the sake of stealing a car , an Old Bailey jury heard yesterday . |
| 10 | Chartering aircraft for pleasure began in the 1920s . |
| 11 | ‘ You said someone who had been travelling through snow stood at the back of the church . ’ |
| 12 | Her plea for companionship appeared in the Manchester Weekly Journal in 1727 . |
| 13 | In the case of Northern Ireland , the pressure for uniformity came from the majority of the electorate who want to be as well treated as British citizens are in England or Scotland . |
| 14 | Over the centuries all the world 's religions have accumulated vast amounts of scriptures , as generation after generation struggled with the problems of defining an ever-growing variety of gods ; of endeavouring to explain the origins of the earth and the universe , ; of setting out independently the rights and wrongs of almost everything , ; of justifying caste systems and privilege by birth ; of seeking to instil a belief in an afterlife ; of explaining the complexities of simple and compound reincarnation , ; of building an hierarchy , sometimes with well-paid officers , ; of introducing rituals , rules and forms of worship , and combating ever growing scepticism until the whole world and all life would seem to be in existence solely for the purpose of providing space for this monstrous dumping ground for the products of centuries of speculative and ineffective effort . |
| 15 | He has been serving with St John Ambulance for six Flat fire : Firemen had to cut away floorboards and remove a hearth after fire escaped into the hearth in a flat above a shop in Friarage Street , Northallerton , on Thursday night . |
| 16 | The complexity of the Sun , IBM and Motorola designs can also slow time-to-market : a six-month slip , such as Sun had with the SuperSparc , can make a new CPU suddenly uncompetitive . |
| 17 | The complexity of the Sun , IBM and Motorola designs can also negatively impact time-to-market : a six-month slip , such as Sun had with the SuperSparc , can make a new CPU suddenly uncompetitive . |
| 18 | The appeal for a day of prayer for peace came as the conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina grows worse and threatens to spread into other areas of the Balkans and beyond . |
| 19 | a layer of mango lay above the guava . ) |
| 20 | Similar evidence of unity emerged from the numerous ( about 600 ) Latin American bishops . |
| 21 | The effect of the infighting , together with the government 's unimpressive pace of democratic reform , meant that the ruling party 's level of support dwindled throughout the year , a fact which was translated into several humiliating by-election losses [ see p. 37375 ] . |
| 22 | The astonishing show of support came on the day it was revealed that tapes of an intimate phone call between Di and a male friend are almost certainly genuine . |
| 23 | But the largest readily accessible reservoir of support lay in the French empire , which the Germans did not occupy and where Vichy 's authority was uncertain . |
| 24 | Evidence of change lay in the increasing local diversity of management arrangements as authorities and managers used their new found autonomy to shape structures and roles to suit themselves . |
| 25 | Even at the tiny rate of change discovered by the two men , an accurate clock started then would now be several hours out , compared to time judged by the positions of the sun or stars . |
| 26 | As a result , his skin glowed more healthily and his halo of hair gleamed like the outer circle of the sun . |
| 27 | Marilyn Thompson tossed her head and a lock of hair drifted from the elaborate structure . |
| 28 | His shoulders drooped , he expected nothing , but a small flicker of hope showed in the uptilting of his chin . |
| 29 | There can be no doubt of the widespread feelings of horror felt across the world at the thought of the use of nuclear weapons , in however ‘ limited ’ a way , and therefore the unacceptability of the view that their use could be justified as legitimate . |
| 30 | A cry of horror came from the artist when he saw the terrible face in the portrait . |