Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [noun] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My ideas for rail freight hit the buffers full tilt |
| 2 | Flammable petroleum gas escaping through rock vents created the sacred pillars of fire worshipped by Zoroastrians . |
| 3 | Addressing the Commons environmental committee , Mr Rupert Grantham , the NRA tidal water officer for south-west England said the absence of salmonella , stipulated by the EC Blue Flag scheme , could not be guaranteed . |
| 4 | After tea Susan played the piano for a little while . |
| 5 | Some time after supper Alex finished the discussion by kicking one of the Spaniards in the face . |
| 6 | As winter frost covered the sleeping flowers , the cold silent house was battered by wind and damp by driving rain . |
| 7 | Of course , even though no foul was committed the ref. for peace sake gave the scum a free kick . |
| 8 | An extensive programme of windtunnel testing at facilities such as Saint Cyr-l'Ecole permitted the careful refinement of the Clio 's design to achieve low aerodynamic lift values at both front and rear — thereby ensuring driving stability at higher speeds . |
| 9 | Alex Barr of Payment Services showed the London Press the £45,000 the Bank would have expected to lose on 31,000 cards over 18 months . |
| 10 | A Ministry of Defence spokesman said the crews were there on ‘ humanitarian grounds ’ . |
| 11 | A long secret all from a Ministry of Defence civilian locked the pendulum on the side of suspicion . |
| 12 | However , UK Ministry of Defence officials examined the cylinders on April 12 and confirmed that they were " capable of being a gun " . |
| 13 | Later Ministry of Agriculture officials told the nuns that this was a mistake and that the food poisoning was due to Salmonella typhimurium . |
| 14 | What I am saying most specifically is take all of me — and here of course Gary began the melody on the piano and we all smiled and then she sang , sang her song , and believe me we did all listen to the words that night , we knew that the man who had been attacked was there , and we knew that O and Boy were standing shoulder to shoulder in our midst , we saw them in the centre of the mirror , saw ourselves standing beside them and standing by them and give me a drink now because I had such hopes of a lover of my own on that evening and here I am . |
| 15 | He was gentle enough about it , but of course Lisabeth got the hump . |
| 16 | A comparative analysis of course documents made the extent and systematic nature of the changes quite evident . |
| 17 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA got a most dispiriting Christmas present on Christmas Eve when the US General Services Administration Board of Contract Appeals snatched the $740.3m Desktop IV US Air Force personal computer contract away from Bull 's Buffalo Grove , Illinois-based Zenith Data Systems . |
| 18 | A vast circle of storm clouds hugged the ground and rose towering into the air , so they seemed becalmed on the inside edge of a massive mauve funnel through the swirling walls of which Trent could make out , to the south , a thin line of greater darkness that he knew must be the rain forest bordering the Makaa River . |
| 19 | Addington 's form of income tax introduced the novel principle of deduction at source , which enabled much better anticipation of outcome than had Pitt 's own assessments . |
| 20 | Any movements of base level set the sea to work at a different level and the processes of subaerial erosion to grade to the new level . |
| 21 | Telegraph/Times readers were more ambivalent , however , and our small sample of Guardian readers preferred the press by a big majority . |
| 22 | Even a quiet word in the boardroom at half-time — ‘ I thought someone was playing a joke , ’ Hill pleaded — failed to douse his passion for lighting up , and the BBC 's voice of football reason contravened the ground regulations for 90 minutes . |
| 23 | A manual of current patterns and an album of stock materials completed the transportable tailoring business , and Kirov was ready to travel again . |
| 24 | They are the latest development in an initiative which began in 1975 when a group of industry representatives launched the Site Management Education and Training Scheme . |
| 25 | Ministers and heads of aid agencies received the DAC Chairman 's annual report on the flow of aid , showing official development assistance ( ODA ) up by 3.3 per cent overall in 1991 , mainly because of increased Japanese aid . |
| 26 | The defence of the coastline had also to be seen to , and was not infrequently found to be wanting , most particularly when small forces of enemy soldiers attacked the English shore and ravaged villages and towns which they found undefended . |
| 27 | Whether the startling but short-lived explosion of punk rock represented the first sign of a new situational fracture ( new production methods ; ‘ outrageous ’ music ; independent operations ) , or the last twitch of the moment of ‘ pop culture ’ ( a rerun of rock 'n' roll do-it-yourself amateurism ) , or a less organic , conjunctural tremor ( like hip hop , ‘ charity rock ’ , Bruce Springsteen , Billy Bragg and many more ) is difficult to say . |
| 28 | In 1921 the Society of Chemical Industry instituted the Messel medal , its senior award given every second year . |
| 29 | The Society of Chemical Industry endowed the triennial Hurter memorial lecture . |
| 30 | A trio of marathon runners flew the flag for the Wedgwood Group in Britain 's premier long-distance road race . |