Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | William Temple came at the age of 28 and was headmaster from 1911 to 1914 . |
| 2 | Now yesterday Alison MacDonald looked at the lot of parents struggling around Glasgow in the first of her series on child friendly Scotland . |
| 3 | Allan Stewart went to the door . |
| 4 | Ellsworth Kelly honoured at the Jeu de Paume |
| 5 | In a separate case last Friday , Mr Justice Popplewell ruled in the High Court that the courts were not an appropriate place to decide a child 's educational needs . |
| 6 | Sarah Huntley trained at the Drama Centre and has since been working constantly , in television , in the West End , at the National Theatre , at Stratford East , Northampton and for the Kent Theatre Company . |
| 7 | And as a mark of their respect for their aviator comrade , a lone bugler played The Last Post and Reveille before an RAF Hercules flew over the graveside at Frankby Cemetery in a special salute to the man who had given the last six years of his life to his country . |
| 8 | Percy Marlborough Stewart left to the people of Pocklington his collection of water-lilies , one of the finest in Europe , and the Stewart collection containing illustrations and objects of the many countries of the world which he visited on his hunting expeditions . |
| 9 | SHOOTING victim Jason Ward spoke for the first time yesterday about his week-long ordeal after suffering serious gunshot wounds . |
| 10 | By the end of the congress , which approved a revised party statute and electoral platform , former Prime Minister Michel Rocard emerged as the party 's most likely candidate for the 1995 presidential elections . |
| 11 | A fast and furious encounter between Aldenham and King Edward School , Witley , had yielded no goals when , with just minutes to go , Aldenham 's Jason Clemow tried a long-range shot , the goalkeeper parried , and Kazeem Abimbola poked in the rebound . |
| 12 | Gary Mills crossed from the left . |
| 13 | But City hit the woodwork three times and defender Kevin Ashley cleared a Gary Mills shot off the line . |
| 14 | Patrick Lundy stood on the street for a few moments , staring unseeing into the windows , and then he turned away and headed back up to Mayfair . |
| 15 | Trevor Steven went close with a volley from the edge of the box while Dusan Vrto kicked an Ian Ferguson shot off the line . |
| 16 | Bishop Patrick Kelly wrote to the Foreign Secretary , Mr. Douglas Hurd , on 26 February , also urging the government to revive its former policy of actively promoting a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty . |
| 17 | Bishop Patrick Kelly wrote to the Foreign Secretary , Mr Douglas Hurd , also urging the government to revive its former policy of actively promoting a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty . |
| 18 | Herr Nordern heaved on the steering-wheel and swung the Lada into the relative safety of a narrow street shadowed by the bulk of a church where he pulled up , although wisely keeping the engine running . |
| 19 | ‘ I ca n't say how I feel , ’ Herr Nordern said for the twentieth time . |
| 20 | Herr Nordern looked around the table , exuberant , dizzy with happiness , and then , remembering the toast he had been about to make , raised his glass . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , ’ Herr Nordern struggled with the gears as a gigantic lorry with a huge sign saying ‘ Workers of All Countries Unite ’ painted on it cut across him , its horn blaring . |
| 22 | Herr Nordern went through the sitting-room to the front door . |
| 23 | Herr Nordern went up the stairs , into a dark flat and a discontented bedroom . |
| 24 | Herr Nordern staggered as the night air hit him and Bodo held his elbow as they lurched back to the flats . |
| 25 | Herr Nordern turned to the door . |
| 26 | Herr Nordern jumped from the sofa , exultant . |
| 27 | as if they were doing a bizarre dance , followed by Marx , Herr Nordern backed through the tiny vestibule , into the sitting-room , and a silent , apprehensive circle of Norderns . |
| 28 | Much of the work that is rediscovered may have the literary qualities that will satisfy readers without particular feminist interests : the poems by women that Roger Lonsdale included in The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse are a small-scale , easily accessible instance . |
| 29 | Kington comes across as a natural traveller , just as Colin Thubron did in the Silk Road programme in David Wallace 's series . |
| 30 | But he acted as if he remembered the phrase that Dean Acheson used in the spring of 1947 , in those days of little sleep and many martinis when Acheson , George Marshall and Harry Truman had to convince a sceptical Congress to back containment . |