Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Known , but somehow often overlooked , is the fact that Ellsworth Kelly he of the precise abstract geometries and the monochromatic fields has always kept a pencil within easy reach , taking it up regularly over the years to make line drawings , uninflected by modelling , chiefly of plants and flowers . |
| 2 | Through a second marriage it passed to William Baker who on the death of his son in 1775 is registered as of this parish i.e. Upper Hailing . |
| 3 | We had navigated the 10-minute ritual of telling Peggy Sue which of the nine alternative piscatorial preparations we preferred ; coffee and iced water were in place ; salad and Thousand Island on the way . |
| 4 | They will obviously be an extremely happy couple , although I told Miss Ingram something about the Rochester property which made her look quite depressed . |
| 5 | On Saturday evenings everybody in the family had a bath one after another in an old tin bath in front of the fire . |
| 6 | With this gadget a skilled man could make eight hundred chair legs a week , which he delivered to factories in London and other centres where the complete chairs were assembled , until the rise of High Wycombe itself as the centre of furniture making , early in the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | It is a sadly neglected work , and again the only serious alternative to Järvi is Stravinsky 's Chicago recording which like the Jeu can only be obtained as part of a mammoth 22-CD Sony set of virtually all Stravinsky 's major works ( totally indispensable though that is ) . |
| 8 | The itinerary included parts of Czechoslovakia and Austria and a day trip into Hungary , with Martin Randall himself as the lecturer . |
| 9 | In post-war years MI5 has been remarkably unsuccessful at catching spies and traitors in our midst , going right back to Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean who in the summer of 1951 defected under the noses of MI5 despite supposedly being under surveillance . |
| 10 | Well , it is summertime and if you have trouble getting time on the courts here in town and tripping to the Hamptons presents a problem why not simply go to Terry Dintenfass where the witty William King he of the loopy lanky aluminoids has set up a gallery-wide installation called ‘ Tennis : The Monument ’ ? |
| 11 | Now football , and Swindon Town have moved up into sixth place in the first division after beating Grimsby Town one-nil at the County Ground last night . |
| 12 | I remember the first production of The corn is Green with Sybil Thorndyke playing the hopeful headmistress and Emlyn Williams himself as the talented Welsh miner . |
| 13 | Here is the sad story of the initiation of a new dealer at Eyas Securities who for the purposes of this book shall be called Sandra . |
| 14 | I do n't think a Chinese could have taught Mrs Goreng anything about the black arts of dissimulation . |
| 15 | Behind the creation stood the familiar figure of Lloyd George who in the previous December had formed a coalition with himself as Prime Minister to replace the previous government of Herbert Asquith which had become discredited by criticisms of its conduct of the war . |
| 16 | Until the mid-19th century , these huge vaulted spaces ( presently subdivided ) opened directly on to the Thames , giving Somerset House something of the character of a great palazzo along the Grand Canal . |
| 17 | Not the Ka de We on the corner . |
| 18 | Is , is in some sense the starting point of low temperature physics , erm One does n't want to mention too many names but one erm the sort of grandfather of , of the whole subject is a man called Cameling Onis who in the , erm in Holland in the Leiden erm University there , first liquified helium . |
| 19 | T. B. Everything on the Dock Estate was owned by the Docks and Harbour Board . |
| 20 | Because of his knowledge of languages Blake was recommended for a commission and was sent on to an officers ' training course at HMS King Alfred which in the spring of 1944 he passed and was appointed a sub-lieutenant in the RNVR . |
| 21 | Each vehicle was crewed by two men , with Fire Chief Bob Wallace himself in the cab of the lead one . |
| 22 | Peppard of South Oxfordshire , the champions of the Parasol League have moved to a ground at a stadium in Reading , where they beat Oxford city 1-nil in the FA Vase . |
| 23 | At Cherry Willingham everyone on the premises was involved . |
| 24 | Given the number of titled ladies in the volume , it is hard to believe that their struggles were absolutely equivalent to that of , say , Aphra Behn who at the end of her life was brought to desperate circumstances . |
| 25 | They walk together now , Philip listening , in horror and disbelief , as Iain unburdens himself of the story . |
| 26 | ABOVE George Zirkle who in the early 1930s , showed impressive scores in ESP experiments run by JB Rhine . |
| 27 | Lamarck , and many of his contemporaries ( including Charles Darwin himself in the later stages of his life ) , supposed that repeated use of a trait could itself change the genetic material that was responsible for the transmission of that trait so that characters acquired or improved by repeated use could be inherited directly by the offspring . |
| 28 | It was perhaps a coincidence that chairman of the IEE meeting was RS Sandell who in the 1970s , with SM Edwardson , developed the BBC 's medium-wave Carfax system that was later aborted . |
| 29 | We forgot to mention that as an added bonus the winner will be presented with the 555 by Paul Chandler himself at the London Music Show ‘ 92 , so get dialling and it could be you . |
| 30 | South of Barrowgate Road there existed a few houses fronting Sutton Court Road ; some Almshouses on the southern side of Sutton Lane , with the fish pond behind them ; Sutton Court itself at the bottom end of Sutton Court Road , where Sutton Lane turned south — that part of Sutton Lane later became Fauconberg Road — with the Lawn Tennis Grounds on the southern side and Chiswick Park Farm occupying the whole area of land to the east of Sutton Court Road , and the continuing Sutton Lane — which later formed the southern part of Sutton Court Road — curving round to meet the bottom end of Burlington Lane , on the southern boundary of Chiswick House Gardens . |