Example sentences of "[noun prp] [coord] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once away from the railhead , however , the army was back in the age of Napoleon and moved at the pace of horse and man . |
| 2 | As they rounded the bend towards Westminster , Ranulf nudged Corbett and pointed to the near bank . |
| 3 | The manikin threw a malevolent look at Corbett and fled into the darkness . |
| 4 | Shortly before he died Churchill visited Biggin Hill and spoke of the role it had played when Britain stood alone against Germany . |
| 5 | They were already in sight when Thorfinn with Tuathal behind him rounded Moncrieffe Hill and dashed into the flat plain of Rhind , where the Earn joined the Tay . |
| 6 | Although he trained with the England A team during the winter and felt optimistic , he was in pain again before he left for Portugal and looked on the tour as a ‘ make-or-break ’ exercise . |
| 7 | In spangled blue pyjamas and bare feet he came bowling out of nowhere past the ship , somersaulted over the guard of Perks and cannoned into the hook-up crew , scattering them like tenpins . |
| 8 | D' ya remember that res , you know when we went to Brussels and stayed above the sort of Indian restaurant ? |
| 9 | While the Society of Women Market Vendors exposed the corruption of the PDC and objected to the high tariffs in the new markets , it was not sufficiently organized to form a counter-proposal or take action upon it . |
| 10 | The Taunton Commission ( 1864–8 ) was critical of the impoverished inefficiency of Thame and led to the reform of Emanuel . |
| 11 | That old woman across the landing who was judged to be clear thinking ; so much so , even at her age , that she visited the factory every Friday and went over the books with Henry . |
| 12 | ‘ I sat my exams on Wednesday , Thursday and Friday and went through the tunnel on Saturday , ’ was his later dead-pan summary of that period . |
| 13 | In 1915 , he enlisted in the RFC and served for the remainder of World War One firstly as a gunner then as a pilot . |
| 14 | In the end the plan was repudiated by Mr Gorbachev and rejected by the Soviet parliament . |
| 15 | In Structuralist Poetics Culler took an unenthusiastic view of deconstructionism , but he shortly returned to the United States and succumbed to the deconstructive wave that swept through the American academy in the late seventies , and into which I did not feel inclined to plunge . |
| 16 | In 1878 he arrived in the United States and studied for the Unitarian ministry at Meadville Theological School in Pennsylvania . |
| 17 | Well I erm , I was , I was burgled about a year ago and I 'm am ex er , I 'm a retired criminal lawyer , and , but I , I felt that if I lived in the States and trained in the States and I carried a gun then and I felt very vulnerable in not having a gun because he , I was in my own home and he fist me with a knife |
| 18 | After a short time , some of the braver members of the group drew up their courage to watch West Germany v The United Arab Emirates on the portable black and white that had mysteriously disappeared from the bedroom of 43a St. Clements and reappeared in the canteen room of the Family Centre . |
| 19 | I waved to Toby and went for the door . |
| 20 | When I last saw Mailer and talked about the impending book , the atmospherics had turned suddenly propitious . |
| 21 | Half an hour later , he went into the Lights of Lisbon and sat at the bar . |
| 22 | ‘ Cheers , ’ said Hitch and snapped off the radio . |
| 23 | The Heather Bell was acquired by George Burt and plied across the Bay during the 1870s . |
| 24 | A general strike by supporters of both sides ( but predominantly Hungarians ) had been called in surrounding regions and the Hungarian Prime Minister Miklós Németh sent a letter of protest to Bucharest and appealed to the UN to intervene . |
| 25 | When shop assistant Michael Griffiths tried to stop him , he was grabbed from behind by Alan Rootham and knocked to the floor . |
| 26 | Well y it always used to be stowed down at , come from er Sprawton and stowed on the dock , |
| 27 | Soon some doctors came from Washington and spoke to the workers . |
| 28 | ‘ Get him , ’ I said to Curtis and pointed to the stairs . |
| 29 | yes okay replied to various of your constituents and have conducted a robust discussion on this matter with councillor Jane and recorded in the the Cambridge evening news , I 'm sorry I have n't replied , right . |
| 30 | It was night when he turned down the A1120 , drove through Yoxford and continued along the winding country road . |