Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I found the home which his cousin Ibrahim owned next to the Tel Aviv — Jaffa port railway line . |
| 2 | John Brown 's shipyard at Clydebank became famous with the launching of Cunard 's liner Lusitania , followed by Queen Mary , Queen Elizabeth and , ultimately , QE2 . |
| 3 | His sojourn on Flinders Island became one of the highlights of his stay in Tasmania . |
| 4 | They marched from Geneva , Charles leading one army over Mont Cenis , while his uncle Bernard led another through the Great St Bernard Pass . |
| 5 | Yellowfin became elusive after the El Nino current change affected the availability of food supplies over the last two decades . |
| 6 | Hull became one of the main fishing ports of Britain . |
| 7 | Stockman got most of the cuts he wanted from the cabinet and then turned his attention to the legislature . |
| 8 | The planning at Brighton revealed some of the unease in relations with the local authority . |
| 9 | As Arabella passed one of the doorways , a pair of hands shot out . |
| 10 | Lisa Martin of Ards and Lorna Cardwell of Bangor produced one of the best races ever seen at the Ulster Age group swimming championships last night . |
| 11 | Tranmere made a lightning start with Aldridge firing wide in the first 60 seconds . |
| 12 | Thomas Davidson became deaf at the age of four due to illness and was educated as a private pupil of Dr. Thomas Watson of the Old Kent Road Asylum . |
| 13 | Where the A625 road from Hathersage to Sheffield crosses one of the ‘ edges ’ peculiar to the Peak District , just before reaching the Yorkshire border , the keen explorer may find heaps of unfinished millstones in the undergrowth . |
| 14 | An art connoisseur , Gaskell owned one of the finest collections of paintings in the north of England , including works by J. M. W. Turner and John Constable [ qq.v . ] . |
| 15 | Simultaneously Taylor became one of the Archbishop 's chaplains . |
| 16 | John Taylor became one of the best known prospective parliamentary candidates when some local tories objected to his selection . |
| 17 | It is therefore possible , M Delors admits , for an EC wholesaler sending food to the Vatican to claim one of the Community 's fabled ‘ export refunds ’ — the generous cash incentives to dump surplus produce outside the EC which have crippled the world trade talks . |
| 18 | Jenkins unlocked one of the bedrooms when they got back to the Windorah and switched on the light after he had crossed to the window to draw the curtains . |
| 19 | Alter Judy became pregnant in the lower sixth at school , she left and found herself a tutor for her A-level English , and also attended maths classes at the local college . |
| 20 | Sheila became aware of the hem of her dress slowly rising . |
| 21 | W. E. Gladstone had returned as Prime Minister and in South Africa , Lt. General R. S. S. Baden-Powell became prominent as the defender of Mafeking . |
| 22 | The Republic of Botswana became independent within the Commonwealth in 1966 . |
| 23 | William became free of the Masons ' Company in 1663 . |
| 24 | The village of Estreito has one of the best restaurants in the island for espetada ( meat on a skewer ) — the menu and seating are simple , but the meat is very good . |
| 25 | The French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau provided one of the earliest examinations of this question . |
| 26 | For two hours , they 're packed together as the Hercules fly low above the make believe battle zone . |
| 27 | For two hours , they 're packed together as the Hercules fly low above the make believe battle zone . |
| 28 | At £1,045 , the Greenfield has many of the same basic components as its rivals . |
| 29 | Shadow Employment Secretary Tony Blair visited one of the region 's jobless blackspots , |
| 30 | This led to Gibson being seconded in 1928 to work with Michels on the properties of gases at high pressures , and to ICI becoming interested in the chemical effects of high pressures , the theme of Gibson 's work on his return to Winnington in 1931 . |