Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 you see , so er anyway when we got off the phone Mike said yeah but what about bloody power you see
2 I got off the Air India jet spitting betel nut and nursing a swollen hand .
3 When his court-appointed attorney , Michael Deutsch , filed a discovery motion on 30 August for documents that might show Coleman had been acting under orders when he applied for the Thomas Leavy passport , the DEA , the DIA and the CIA all declined to comply on grounds of national security .
4 Stourport along with Bromley qualified for the Crystal Palace finals .
5 One exception is that the Menil Foundation specifically asked for the Philip Wilson Publications imprint for the eagerly-awaited Volumes II and III of David Sylvester 's Rene Magritte , catalogue raisonne , Vols .
6 Included in the exhibition are a Lucas van Leyden ‘ Portrait of the Emperor Maximilian ’ , a portrait of Christian II of Denmark by Jan Gossaert , an album of coloured drawings of flowers and insects by Jacques de Gheyn II made for the Emperor Rudolf II , a number of drawings by Goltzius and two sheets by Dürer .
7 The model being erected was that made for the Olympia Aero Show in 1929 .
8 Geoff , of Abram , near Wigan read about the South Donegal Railway Preservation Society and immediately contacted members to see if he could help despite the little matter of 150 miles of murky Irish Sea .
9 Nor did he reveal any keener affinity with Schubert in the rather mechanical , plainly stated accompaniments that he provided for the mezzo Yvonne Howard .
10 Together they cleared the table , and as they moved about the kitchen Lucy thought of her aunt , and in doing so she remembered something that caused her to turn to Silas .
11 Unlike the role it played in the IFL , political anti-semitism never became a total ideological explanation of all the imagined ills of British society for most of the official leadership of the BUF , though there were obvious exceptions like William Joyce and some of the speakers he trained for the East End campaign of 1935 — 7 .
12 The people loved the play , they loved Burbage as Hamlet , they cried for poor Ophelia 's death , and they shouted for the murderer Claudius to die .
13 A few surprise upsets occurred during the Midland Bank/LTA Trust British Students Tennis Championships , held at a Bristol University at the end of June .
14 Strong naval forces , including three aircraft carrier battle groups , headed for the Indian Ocean and other nearby areas ; land-based airpower , F-15s and B-52s , was established in the Arabian peninsula ; and the celebrated 82nd Airborne Division was also deployed to provide the beginnings of a ground force presence within what came to be spoken of as ‘ Operation Desert Shield ’ .
15 We headed for the north Norfolk coast , careering through the bright afternoon until Edward parked by a staithe where a creek coiled across a salt marsh , and we all piled out .
16 I frittered away the morning and then got Armstrong wound up and headed towards the West End .
17 He turned to the back seat as I swung under the arch and headed towards the Baños del Inca .
18 Barney , who had been deep in thought , spoke as the car thundered past the Berkeley Hunt kennels .
19 As he moved towards the table Joe noticed that , although they had been bidden to take their seats , neither Mrs Carver , nor Mick , nor Carrie did until Mr Carver was seated ; then , each pulling a chair out from under the table , they sat down ; and having done so , Mick pointed to a carved chair with a leather seat and said to him , ‘ Come , sit down .
20 It contains a piece of paper scrawled with the initials H.G. and enclosing a lock of brown hair .
21 Maureen Paley , founder of Interim Art , moved into the West End a year ago only to return to the East End earlier this summer as a result of the recession .
22 He moved into the Greenwich Village brownstone which had once housed Virgin 's American record company operation and hastily recruited staff .
23 All 9 crew members on board the Hercules transport plane were killed when it crashed into the Grampian Hills in North East Scotland last Thursday .
24 On a spring evening in 1980 an Italian DC9 aircraft carrying 77 passengers and four crew disappeared from radar screens and crashed into the Tyrrhenian Sea .
25 Two crewmen of the UK Royal Air Force were killed on Aug. 17 , 1989 , when their Tornado jet crashed into the North Sea near Humberside , just two miles from the spot where three others had been killed in a mid-air collision involving similar aircraft on Aug. 14 , bringing to 24 the number of Tornados lost in British airspace since 1983 .
26 Mostyn and Cheadle humped themselves up the stairs , and crashed into the Silver Shuriken , guns discharging .
27 Joseph of Arimathea is reputed to have planted one at Wearyall Hill , which subsequently sprouted into the Glastonbury Thorn .
28 He wandered along the Charing Cross Road , trying to think what to do next , Galahad on hearing that someone else had found the Holy Grail , Knight Errant without an errand .
29 minutes later , as he edged and darted through the sluggish traffic that moved along the Marylebone Road , Bodie saw the van turn sharply into the underground car park of the Cambridge , and he went in pursuit .
30 Registered XB-AKM and named Conquistadores , it crashed in the Potomac River at Washington on the return flight , killing Sarabia .
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