Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] a [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His chief undertaking , Fowey Consols , became for a time the second largest producer in Cornwall . |
| 2 | Born in 1927 , Denis Serjeant qualified as an architect the hard way , by taking external examinations whilst articled to an Oxford architect . |
| 3 | Chris Nicholls from Plymouth asked for a Turbo The Tortoise infinite lives poke , so thanks go to W Keenan from Tyne and Wear for his/her help . |
| 4 | When the Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales , and the Gwent and Brecknock Wildlife Trusts met council officers and their advisers they asked for an assurance the council would proceed with the bill ( 2 ) . |
| 5 | Ranteallo simply looked sheepish when we first asked for an explanation the following morning , and it was left to Werner Meyer to give us an explanation , when he finally arrived to join us . |
| 6 | It is highly unlikely that he envisaged anything more than joint diplomatic pressure on Russia which would bring Nicholas to the conference table to discuss the problems at issue , which explains why he used as a pretext the totally ridiculous question of the keys to the Holy places in Jerusalem , whose custody was disputed between the Latin Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches . |
| 7 | Alan , Carolyn and Christopher moved into a flat the September after he was born . |
| 8 | But he mentioned in an essay the degree to which certain forms of anaemia were conducive to such creation ; and , in our conversation that day , he described how , when he was working on The Waste Land in Switzerland in 1921 ( ‘ by the waters of Leman ’ ) , he felt at one moment that his brain was going to burst . |
| 9 | The defendant , Ballay and another employee of the shop , named Rai , were arrested and later tried on an indictment the fourth and fifth counts in which charged all three with theft contrary to section 1(1) of the Theft Act 1968 in respect of the two transactions . |
| 10 | With his entrepreneurial skills , and his international connections , he seemed for a time the man most likely to lead the British film industry away from its artisanal base , but he turned out to be no more responsive than anyone else to developments that were going to make things very difficult for the pioneers . |
| 11 | The IMF noted as an objective the reduction of Hungary 's current-account deficit in trade with the West , from $1,400 million in 1989 to $550 million in 1990 . |
| 12 | And after what seemed like an eternity the door opened — and she stared in surprise and disbelief at the tall black-haired man with the blue , blue eyes . |
| 13 | She woke with a start the next morning , confused and disorientated . |
| 14 | Even as he lifted from a cupboard the freshly ironed shirts , about which he was so particular , he was already mentally back in England . |
| 15 | So as we came to a stop the hatch was opened and this young fellow put one foot on the throttle quadrant , another on my shoulder and the next one on the top of my helmet and he was out . |
| 16 | As soon as the propellers came to a standstill the passengers disembarked onto the parking bay in front of a small terminal building . |
| 17 | It all came to a head the day a fire engine could n't get down the High Street for parked cars . |
| 18 | Everyone was too interested in singing to the actions of the game to take much notice , but as the game came to an end the Brownies saw that Brown Owl was gazing upwards with a rather troubled look on her face . |
| 19 | As 1745 , a year of defeat and near disaster , came to an end the government in London was far more concerned about the enemy presence just across the Channel than the more distant one beyond the Scottish border . |
| 20 | As the 1980s came to an end the fitness movement worldwide had become a £1 billion industry . |
| 21 | And er the War ended as you know in November eighteen and er when the War came to an end the the Government introduced a form of service whereas if er we youngsters volunteered say if you volunteered for two year they gave you twenty pound and two months leave you see , if you volunteered for three year they gave you forty pound or was it thirty , thirty forty , and er three months leave . |
| 22 | ‘ Formally , the Tyrrell Society came to an end the day of Ramsey 's funeral . |
| 23 | The United Kingdom , Belgium and Greece all took the view that Community law did not limit the competence of each state under public international law to define as it thought fit the conditions upon which it granted to a vessel the right to fly its flag . |
| 24 | He studied at the Royal College of Chemistry , London , under A. W. von Hofmann , and in 1860 joined as a partner the well established chemical manufacturing business founded by his grandfather , Luke Howard [ q.v. ] , in 1807 . |
| 25 | Her warm and wide smile greeted me at the door and I forgot for a while the riddles and innuendos which surrounded Brian Harley and hid the killer of Froggy Davies . |
| 26 | While studying theology at Oxford he joined for a time the household of Robert Grosseteste [ q.v. ] , bishop of Lincoln , probably through the good offices of Adam Marsh , who described him as ‘ active , discreet , full of goodwill and devoted to the cure of souls ’ ( Mon . |
| 27 | When Mr Lavender turned into an alley the pair followed him , the Old Bailey jury was told . |
| 28 | As abruptly as it had started , the storm stopped and the sun shone from a sky the colour of a Ceylon sapphire . |
| 29 | The killer stole £8,500 she withdrew from an account the previous day . |
| 30 | You got into a fight the other night . |