Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] the [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Claude Duclos wiped the champagne froth from his mustache with the back of his hand and refilled their glasses . |
| 2 | Too late Trent flung the motor cycle into a skid as a steeply-banked riverbed opened before them through the driving rain . |
| 3 | And this issue he had been hard put to it to find a couple of intelligent letters for the correspondence page ; sometimes it seemed that every crackbrain in north-east Norfolk read the PANUP newsletter but that no one else did . |
| 4 | Doyle lowered the beer can , slightly puzzled . |
| 5 | In the year they began , 1853 , Queen Victoria laid the foundation stone of her new highland home , Balmoral . |
| 6 | Whatever its internal opinions , in responding to the House of Commons Select Committee 's report Acid Rain , the DoE peddled the Forestry Commission line that British tree damage bore only a ‘ superficial resemblance ’ to ‘ that associated with air pollution in West Germany ’ . |
| 7 | Far right : Former Managing Director of P&O Cruises , Alan Langley made the reply speech on behalf of the guests . |
| 8 | Cartier made the desk clock sans mouvement . |
| 9 | Liese made the ocean sound like a hungry beast that demanded to be fed with human flesh . |
| 10 | Hat-tricks from Dave Vedmore , Mark Delaney and Phil King led the hit parade for Holt S & S ( Jimmy Lee 2 , Steve Keogh , Tony Baxendale ) in their 13-1 home romp against Inn Lodges . |
| 11 | Rosheen entered the flight deck . |
| 12 | The company was originally styled Information Workbench and Sippl provided the seed capital . |
| 13 | Jiang Zemin , the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ) , Premier Li Peng and Vice-Premier Tian Jiyun inspected the flood situation in Shanghai , Anhui , Jiangsu and Zhejiang and promised central government aid . |
| 14 | Hendrique looked up as Sabrina entered the dining car . |
| 15 | Working with Cadillac engineers , Kettering created the starter motor , using the flywheel to turn over the engine . |
| 16 | ‘ And they were able to do that because DEA Nicosia used the Eurame office as a waiting room for unscreened Lebanese coming in from Beirut . |
| 17 | Bewl Bridge Reservoir near Wadhurst , East Sussex provided the battle ground for an unusual inter-divisional challenge . |
| 18 | Manager Alan Murray described the record club buy as ‘ a quality player ’ whose pace will strengthen the attack . |
| 19 | Look at the facts : she was seen in Alexandra Road at 11.15 , the very time at which Gerald found the yard door barred against him . |
| 20 | Match referee Deryck Murray confiscated the match ball after umpires John Hampshire and Ken Palmer showed him the scarred leather . |
| 21 | Tohou opened the scoring in the 11th minute when she beat goalkeeper Jo Thompson and after Mary Nevill had levelled with a penalty stroke within a minute , Tohou made the game safe with her second goal two minutes from time . |
| 22 | COLIN Montgomerie experienced the torture chamber of Baltusrol for the first time yesterday and insisted the time had come for Europe to demolish America 's stranglehold on the U.S. Open . |
| 23 | And Belgium international striker Marc Wilmots made the tie safe when he scored the only goal of the night after 62 minutes . |
| 24 | Solon divided the citizen body into four classes on the basis of wealth or property ownership , and while most important political offices were confined to the higher of these classes , the lowest class were entitled to attend the Assembly or Ecclesia , and to make up the juries who decided both on guilt and innocence and on sentences in the courts . |
| 25 | Er , no we got it read yesterday , and , and zeroed up , so Jean got the till roll , I 'll have a , I 'll erm |
| 26 | Marx and Engels expected the arbiter state to be an untypical regime under capitalism , quickly superseded as the onward rush of history produced decisive shifts of power towards the proletariat . |
| 27 | When David Walker led the poll tax rebels of West Oxfordshire out of the tory fold many pundits expected the new Independents would be replaced by more compliant conservatives at the first electoral opportunity … but two years on independents still hold more than half the council wards . |
| 28 | Pat Williams told me she thought they were' a load of tripe' , but it was tripe that brought people into the cinemas for more than two decades and Ken became the staple part of a diet for which at one time the public seemed to have an insatiable appetite |
| 29 | ‘ When Lawrie made the check call he was informed Pallister was coming but that Ince was out on his feet . |
| 30 | In 1963 Earp returned to England , Lawrie was transferred to the North Lowlands Unit and Johnstone became the District Geologist for the Highlands and Islands . |