Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] the [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A possible Trojan link was claimed by William of Jumièges for William the Conqueror as soon as he became king ; a late eleventh-century genealogy of the counts of Boulogne produced a similar conceit ; and Genealogy IV of the Counts of Flanders , written about 1120 , made them the most important non-royal family to trace its ancestry back to Priam . |
| 2 | She knew stories about Anancy the spider and the Maroon people who fought the British in the mountains . |
| 3 | Theatre 's task is ‘ to smash language in order to touch life ’ ; it is to show that the force of the aural lies in sound ( reduplicating for Artaud the significance that dreams give to the sounds in speech ) and not words ( Sellin 1968 , pp. 49–52 ) . |
| 4 | Andrew was a cross between Dennis the Menace and Jean Paul Sartre , and in the late forties and fifties his flat was full of the aroma of coffee made with milk and boiled in a saucepan , and the company of people like Davy Donaldson , Alfie Avella , Bill Henry , Bet Low , Ernie , a motor bike philosopher who pre-dated Jack Kerouac by 1,000 years , and various other artists , and literati , who were encouraged by Andrew to give up their jobs driving buses or whatever and accept the roving hard-luck life of the creative . |
| 5 | Dr Kavanagh , who wears a beret above fierce eyebrows and is known in New York as Frankie the Mechanic because he fixes the neighbours ' cars , is on permanent red alert over his brother 's reputation . |
| 6 | After Munich the idea that the main danger came from Chamberlain rather than Hitler became difficult to sustain . |
| 7 | Since then churches have been named after Charles the Martyr and his claims have sometimes been asserted quite as highly as in 1662 . |
| 8 | We were flying first to Nassau where the senator was to be guest of honour at an American Embassy reception for senior officers of the naval units taking part in Exercise Stingray , and after Nassau the Maggot and I would fly on to Grand Bahama where he lived and where Wavebreaker was docked . |
| 9 | I hope that as chairman of ICI the contribution that I can make is to be looked upon by people on all levels as someone whose experience they can call on at any time . |
| 10 | The comedy duo follow will be following in the footsteps of Orville the Duck and Little and Large as recent big-name acts to bring festive crowds flocking to Darlington 's record-breaking Civic Theatre . |
| 11 | In the Norman tapestry it was Halley 's Comet which bode ill : not , as it turned out , for the invading forces of William the Conqueror but for the defenders led by King Harold . |
| 12 | One of the Romans city , so you can pick out some Roman traces , one of the erm the er er Viking city , one of what happened in the Norman period the eleventh century , time of William the Conqueror and the two castles and the big er erm abbeys he put up , and finally the medieval city . |
| 13 | A descendant of William the Lion that was king of Scotland at one time . |
| 14 | Her husband the earl was brother-in-law of Edward the Confessor and William the Conqueror 's cousin . |
| 15 | For many of these more moderate members of the Church of England the ritual and ceremonial elements of its liturgy , which were so offensive to Puritans , were a source of great comfort and spiritual solace . |
| 16 | From this period until the reign of Constantine the emperor and his mature male subjects were almost invariably bearded . |
| 17 | The third individual was the writer and novelist Henry Williamson , author of Tarka the Otter and other nature books . |
| 18 | On his bookshelves were the tattered copies of Tarka the Otter and the works of Cherry Kearton that he had read and re-read as a schoolboy , weeping the while . |
| 19 | For everyone else , it really does n't matter , because the detective work is going to lead to applications for us today , as disciples who follow in the footsteps of Matthew the apostle and whoever it was who put together the first gospel of the New testament . |
| 20 | The organization of the Council , borrowed from that of the universities , was by ‘ nations ’ ( principally in order to restrict the voting powers of the large number of Italians ) , but the French objected to the English existing as a separate nation from the Germans — significantly in the Arts Faculty at the University of Paris the English and the Germans were included in the same one . |
| 21 | Why , it is in the power of Jesus to whom all authority in heaven and earth is entrusted ; this Jesus is with them always in their mission , to the end of the age ; and naturally , therefore , they baptise men not only into the possession , the ‘ name ’ , of God the Father and the Lord Jesus , but into the sphere of that Holy Spirit who makes real to them the presence of the risen Christ , and empowers them for their work of making him known ( Matt. 28:18–20 ) . |
| 22 | Thus it is significant that in a more secular drama ( affected also by some of the emphases of Protestantism ) the formerly habitual direct dramatic presentation of God the Father or Jesus Christ became prohibited or unthinkable . |
| 23 | THE young people of St Thomas More deanery are all out to celebrate their first ever youth day on Sunday , November 22 , The Feast of Christ the King and National Youth Sunday . |
| 24 | As I went through the drab little hall , I wondered whether there was an overseas branch of the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist and , if so , whether it contained a man called Danzig . |
| 25 | The Mnchener is suing Atlantic Richfield for nearly $150m , alleging that the company knew that the products the unit was developing would never be commercially viable , and according to the Wall Street Journal citing electronic mail messages , one of which says that as it appears the development ‘ is a pipe dream , let Siemens have the pipe , ’ and another that says ‘ We will attempt to finesse past Siemens the fact that we have had a great deal of trouble in successfully transitioning technology from the laboratory to the factory ’ ; Atlantic Richfield denies attempting to mislead Siemens over the unit . |
| 26 | A magazine was preparing a cover story on the emergence of Jack the star and in their background investigations , which took them to Neptune in search of old chums , discovered the secret that Mud had kept from him since birth . |
| 27 | Tolkien must have been thinking of Njorthr the sea-god and Skathi , daughter of the mountain-giant , in Snorri Sturluson 's Prose Edda . |
| 28 | The mordant prophecy of Sisobyk the Scryer and the many ‘ openings ’ of Zilpah give the novel , always on the edge of domination by a single voice , a welcome variousness . |
| 29 | Now , with Benjamin James Titford , the eldest son of Benjamin the Silversmith and Elizabeth , we encounter a craftsman 's son who would establish himself as a member of the professional classes — by becoming a schoolmaster . |
| 30 | The rest of this dissertation relates the various attempts made since 1979 to promote to the people of Bangladesh the idea that drinking an oral electrolyte solution is an effective method of replacing the fluids and minerals lost during diarrhoea . |