Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their discovery helped overthrow the medieval concept of the Solar System and a few decades later , by a method that I shall not describe , observations of Io led to the first determination of the speed of light , which until then was thought by many philosophers to be infinite . |
| 2 | After 1620 Warner lived at the Woolstable in Charing Cross and at Cranborne Lodge , near Windsor , with Sir Thomas Aylesbury [ q.v. ] , who sponsored his continued work on optics and mathematics . |
| 3 | While Madeleine snored in the bottom bunk Léonie fought to keep awake , to know the exact moment when , in the very centre of the Channel , precisely equidistant from both shores , the walls of water and of words met , embraced wetly and closely , became each other , composed of each other 's sounds . |
| 4 | Wigeon grazed on the far shore . |
| 5 | Pauline Kael admitted in The New Yorker that , ‘ reviewing this perfect nothing of a movie is rather degrading : it 's like giving consumer hints on the latest expensive worthless gift for the person who has everything ’ . |
| 6 | When he and Adenauer met for the first time , de Gaulle records , ‘ We discussed Europe at length . |
| 7 | On the right is the entrance to Newington Crescent where Nicholson and Maule lived during the 1850s . |
| 8 | Armstrong fought in the First World War and was a war artist in the Second , sharing with other Surrealists the challenge of creating a pattern out of devastation . |
| 9 | Sophie gazed at the huge , ugly monster with his great broad head and tiny protuding eyes . |
| 10 | Another celebrity winner was Schnorbitz , the St Bernard owned by the late Bernie Winters . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Amid tight security the Presidents of the United States , Colombia , Peru and Bolivia met in the Colombian Caribbean resort of Cartagena and signed on Feb. 15 the Cartagena Declaration , pledging their governments to intensify and co-ordinate efforts to curb the consumption , production and trafficking of cocaine . |
| 13 | Mills arose in the remote valleys below the moors , and hamlets and villages quickly clustered around them . |
| 14 | Dame Frances gazed round the small kitchen of the novitiate . |
| 15 | That night , Ted and Jim met in the local pub to discuss the situation . |
| 16 | So when they held dinner-parties Scarlet skimped on the smoked salmon , and Brian rebuked her for her graceless parsimony . |
| 17 | Jenjin paced off the new line , marked it , and offered his bow to Yuan . |
| 18 | " Walls built after the 1953 floods are getting old " , explained Peregrine . |
| 19 | Petr Korda crashed into the top ten for this year with puzzled frowns asking : ‘ Petr Who ? ’ |
| 20 | Harry Pascoe shouted from the far end of the room , and young Jan Lanyon , who sailed with him , put up his firsts and echoed : Aye — just let 'em try ! " |
| 21 | The people of Kislev moved into the Old World from the areas east of the Worlds Edge Mountains and founded the kingdom which lies on the north eastern borders of the Empire . |
| 22 | Even ITN has had to turn to CNN for some footage of the Gulf , but that does n't cause Phillis any problems : ‘ I 'm a great admirer — Turner 's done a marvellous job , ’ adding that while the US network has received plaudits for its Gulf coverage , it is merely returning the coverage that ITN provided of the Conservative leadership contest . |
| 23 | The bodies of nine crewman who were killed when their Hercules crashed in the Scottish Highlands a week ago , will be flown back to RAF Lyneham tomorrow . |
| 24 | Whitlock shouted at the two policemen on the motorcycles to get the photographers back a few feet to give Mobuto a chance to get out of the limousine . |
| 25 | Dalrymple presided over the halcyon days of ‘ c'moan or get aff ’ until his retiral in 1926 , and Dalrymple 's days saw the expansion of the system to 100 miles of track and an annual profit , together with a yearly 300 MILLION passengers , not all on the one tram of course . |
| 26 | I have to admit that I felt a strange sense of elation as I hit him again , in fact I plumbed the depths of bad taste by yelling , ‘ Never one around when you want one , is there , Jack ? ’ as Armstrong bounced for the second time . |
| 27 | The first stage of Felix lased for the first time in August 1991 , and the second stage will be operational this summer . |
| 28 | Then Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolay Bulganin dined with the Labour leaders . |
| 29 | Doyle peered at the crumpled figure . |
| 30 | ( 1988 b ) support this interpretation by demonstrating that the VS pre-exposure treatment will produce perfectly good latent inhibition when the CS used in the conditioning phase is itself vinegar followed by sucrose , an arrangement that should ensure that the same representation of vinegar is activated on both occasions . |