Example sentences of "[noun prp] [n mass] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The painter Patrick Heron wrote for the New Statesman in London in the 1950s , and used this technique for writing about Braque , whom he compared with Picasso . |
| 2 | Soup kitchens were opened to feed the destitute ; in Chicago people waited at the back doors of restaurants for left-over food . |
| 3 | CCG staff rose to the challenge and baked hundreds of scones and cream teas for the Weir Paper Products fete held in Falkirk . |
| 4 | Li Yuan stared across the water , delighted , then looked back at Fei Yen . |
| 5 | Li Yuan glanced at the slender folder he was carrying beneath his arm . |
| 6 | Li Yuan stood at the rail , looking out across the darkness of the lake , his sense of ease , of inner stillness , lulling him so that for a time he seemed aware only of the dull murmur of the voices behind him and the soft lapping of the water against the wooden posts of the jetty . |
| 7 | Just months after the P&O Golf Day , golf clubs were out in force again , as P&O people took to the green . |
| 8 | The Chelmsford pair battled through the earlier rounds despite their putting , which at crucial moments let them down , but were ultimately found out in a showpiece beset by cold winds and rain . |