Example sentences of "[vb past] [coord] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One often reads of jealousies , of quarrels , of friendships , of instances of patronage , of pique and of loyalty which illuminate some aspect of a man 's character , of the nature of the society in which he lived or of the system in which he worked . |
| 2 | A person domiciled in a part of the United Kingdom may , in another part of the United Kingdom , be sued : ( 1 ) in matters relating to a contract , in the courts for the place of performance of the obligation in question ; … ( 3 ) in matters relating to tort , delict or quasi-delict , in the courts for the place where the harmful event occurred or in the case of a threatened wrong is likely to occur ; … ( 8 ) in proceedings — ( a ) concerning a debt secured on immovable property ; or ( b ) which are brought to assert , declare or determine proprietary or possessory rights , or rights of security , in or over movable property , or to obtain authority to dispose of movable property , in the courts of the part of the United Kingdom in which the property is situated . |
| 3 | I have some knowledge of the Lutterworth site to which Professor Lock referred and of the Toyota site at Derby . |
| 4 | The Defence Department also proposed a possible reduction to a level of 150,000 of US troops stationed in Europe over the five years to 1995 , provided that the Warsaw Pact reciprocated and on the assumption that the Soviet Union could no longer depend upon its Warsaw Pact allies to support any military action it may take . |
| 5 | April came and by the end of it I felt exceedingly well . |
| 6 | Then the war came and after the war the concert-managers offered me a chance to do all the Mahler symphonies . |
| 7 | He went past the bo , my brother wanted dropped off , it was a one way street he went the way down came back up and parked and by the time he come up and parked it was thirty P extra ! |
| 8 | The french windows of the living-room stood open while they ate and by the time they reached the coffee stage darkness had closed over the hills across the water . |
| 9 | It left me fatigued and in the mood to fall asleep every time I sat down . ’ |
| 10 | The intensity of Käthè Kollwitz ‘ representations of the poor , the grieving , and the anger has rendered problematic the interpretation of the objects which she produced and of the subjects under her scrutiny . |
| 11 | The records must contain day-to-day entries of all money received or expended and of the matters to which that related and a record of the company 's assets and liabilities . |
| 12 | A number of unexpected things happened and in the middle of it all they had to make a decision about purchasing a property . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's what we hated and in the end we found it intolerable . |
| 14 | And shall there insert every persons name that shall be wedded christened or buryded And for the sauff ( safe ) kepinge the same boke the parish shale bonde to provide of these comen charges one sure coffer with twoo lockes and keys where of the one to remayne with you and the other with the said wardens , wherein the said boke shalbe laide upp Which boke ye shall every Sonday take furthe and in the presence of the said wardens or one of them write and record in the same all the weddinges , christenyngs and buryenges made the hole weke before , And that done to lay upp the boke in the said coffer as afore . |
| 15 | Every sunset the apes would return from their day 's foraging to sleep in the branches of this giant tree , and we were driven to distraction by our repeated attempts to film them properly in the few seconds after they arrived and before the sun set . |
| 16 | She was singing on stage when we arrived and by the time I had reached my seat I said to the man who was with me , this is the Salome I have been looking for . |
| 17 | Dacourt , lost in his own reverie , nodded and within the hour our horses were saddled and we followed the groom out of the chateau . |
| 18 | However , in the short time they flourished , they had an enormous impact , not so much on the towns they joined but on the countryside through which they passed . |
| 19 | He recovered but at the age of 22 was left almost completely bald and had to wear a wig , a fashion he discarded in the heat of India . |
| 20 | That homes already furbished or in the process of being refurbished or identified for refurbishment shall not be closed and will re-open as county council E P H s . |
| 21 | A further cause for concern was Recommendation 6 , with its proposal to base grant for the coming year to each Responsible Body not only on the standards of its own work but also on the needs of the area it served and on the provision made by others . |
| 22 | This project aims to identify the local leaders who were responsible for chapels , schoolrooms and manses in a period of nonconformist growth , to study their place in the religious bodies they served and in the communities where they lived . |
| 23 | Six heavy 18-pounder siege guns were brought from Whitehaven , a cumbrous , three-day , process , but on 28 December the siege began and on the morning of the 30th , after Cumberland had hanged four prisoners outside the walls as a specimen of what the rest may expect' , a white flag was hoisted . |
| 24 | BRITAIN has unveiled its plan for World Communications Year ( WCY ) , a month after the year began and with the maximum of waffle and minimum of hard fact . |
| 25 | The fines created so much public interest that , on the following Sunday , the Ravenhill Church ‘ was packed half an hour before the service began and throughout the proceedings men climbed onto the windows to listen and people thronged the open doors and queued out in the street at the back and side of the church ’ . |
| 26 | Our son 's achievement level soared and at the end of the school year he received a glowing report from his teachers . |
| 27 | The ‘ quality ’ of the links which had been created in the semantic net were compared for the situation in which no Definition Table existed and for the situation in which a Definition Table did exist . |
| 28 | So , it was argued , she was mistaken as to the essential character of the document she signed and of the transaction which it effected . |
| 29 | Ultimately I took to wearing them all the time — only whipping them off when approached by a boy I vaguely fancied or at the doorway of the house of a friend of my mother 's , with a boy my mother fancied for me inside . |
| 30 | Er few problems with the job before we started or during the job er , come back to us for a six so far so we have to What we will do is drop them down and Er another problem with the job is we 're about three week 's behind er arranged for them to come in on Monday . |