Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the bureau became embroiled in the Watergate affair and between 1973 and 1976 it was subjected to unprecedented investigation which revealed the full extent of its post-war activities and the dangers inherent in unchecked police bureaucracies . |
| 2 | These became exposed in the Triassic and again in the Cretaceous and consequently the interbedded evaporites were removed and the carbonates themselves were karstified . |
| 3 | Oh aye he applied to go to the Gulf . |
| 4 | But in the end she agreed to go with the Pitts to the local police station to express concern about the absentees . |
| 5 | Johnson responded to this courteous , gentlemanly Highlander ; Boswell failed to see beyond the Gael , the Jacobite . |
| 6 | ALAIN Prost captured his sixth consecutive pole position of the Formula One season as he led qualifying for the Monaco Grand Prix today . |
| 7 | In October 1991 the company ceased trading in the United Kingdom and its business , assets and liabilities there were transferred to a United Kingdom company . |
| 8 | On 26 October 1991 I.B.C. ceased trading in the United Kingdom . |
| 9 | The agents of the Crown consequently became disillusioned about the New Forest as a Crown asset : it barely escaped the fate of the other royal forests . |
| 10 | Prunskiene , who had resigned as Prime Minister on Jan. 8 , 1991 [ see p. 37944 ] , consistently denied the accusations ( made in April — see p. 38880 ) , claiming that a document bearing her signature in which she agreed to work for the KGB was a forgery and that the trial was politically motivated . |
| 11 | There is now a wide variety of special hardware and software for handicapped people , much of it designed to work with the BBC , Archimedes and IBM PC-compatible computers commonly used in schools , though it is equally applicable to adults . |
| 12 | The lexicon used consisted of the Oxford Advanced Learner 's Dictionary of Current English ( OALDCE ) . |
| 13 | By Article V of the Convention , the sultan promised to negotiate with the Serbs on their demands for freedom of worship ; the right to establish their own schools and printing presses ; the return of areas won during the first revolt and forcibly returned to Turkish rule in 1813 ; the right of Serbian merchants to trade freely throughout the Ottoman empire ; a prohibition on any new Turkish settlement outside the major towns ; and an increase in the powers of Serbian government . |
| 14 | A RUSSIAN sailor charged with murdering five shipmates on a German freighter found drifting in the North Sea last week has confessed to killing two of the crew with an axe , Danish police said yesterday . |
| 15 | The car , a Vauxhall Cavalier reported stolen from the Wakefield area , had crashed into the narrow bridge at Eller Beck , on the A169 Whitby-Pickering road near RAF Fylingdales . |
| 16 | We got the Jet Ski onto its trailer but William 's Merc was one of the cars trapped on the slip ; he tried to reason with the BMW people , then sat in the car and sulked . |
| 17 | In late March reports described fighting in the Pietermaritzburg ( Natal ) townships as some of the worst in the region since clashes began three years previously [ see pp. 36069-70 ; 36911 ] between pro-ANC militants and supporters of the ( mainly Zulu ) Inkatha movement led by Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi . |
| 18 | The Dutch launched their much larger East India Company with about £500,000 of capital two years later , and when the English company tried to trade with the Spice Islands the Dutch opposed it fiercely . |
| 19 | Tried working through the Alekhine Paz had given me , but even chess filled me with disgust . |
| 20 | At Kensington Palace and Highgrove the couple entertained little , so rarely in fact that their butler Allan Fisher described working for the Wales 's as ‘ boring ’ . |
| 21 | It was in Kashmir that Apollonius of Tyana , a Pythagorean philosopher , became instructed by the Nagas and completed his initiation into the mysteries . |
| 22 | In the confusion , our film , which we had dutifully sent to the group 's London management as promised , got lent to the BBC . |
| 23 | So that was how I came to sit at the Gorengs ' dining-table with Master Goreng and Longman 's standard conversational texts before us . |
| 24 | Sometimes famous musicians came to perform in the Lake District . |
| 25 | Some months ago , a reader sent me a copy of the form she 'd received from the States , but I was then advised this was n't likely to be honoured in law . |
| 26 | There was one man near Tynemouth who was known as ‘ Dead Bodies ’ , so named because he earned seven and sixpence for collecting ( by hook ) the corpses of suicides who 'd jumped from the Tyne Bridge , ten miles up-river . |
| 27 | A leading scientific journal , Nature , did not publish the paper but none of this seemed to matter before the Utah steamroller . |
| 28 | The committee then adjourned to meet at the Blenheim coffee house , New Bond Street , on 1 2 January 1 79 1 . |
| 29 | She is exactly the same age as Mrs Smith and came to Britain from Jamaica in 1957 as a 20-year old with her father ( a skilled motor mechanic who came to work on the London buses ) , her mother and her three brothers . |
| 30 | Although I 'd rung on the Thursday and they said his kidneys were failing , it still came as a shock when they rang on the Saturday at 9.30 in the morning to say he 'd died . |