Example sentences of "[vb past] [num ord] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We and customs did n't know much at all till you phoned last night with the stories about the lorries and the baggage handlers at Gatwick . ’ |
| 2 | It is evident in the vitality of the arts — hardly a city in the country now lacks for an international festival — and it contributed last year to the remarkable election of Mary Robinson , only in her mid-40s and impatient with old ways , to the ( largely honorary ) post of president . |
| 3 | Sport and Oxford United 's biggest crowd in three years of just under ten thousand packed into the Manor Ground last night for the FA cup tie with Sunderland . |
| 4 | An example of radio-frequency interference or RFI — which is how the phenomenon is termed in industrial circles — occurred last year at the disabled nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania . |
| 5 | The accident occurred last night in the Toxteth district of Liverpool as he and his friends played football . |
| 6 | Then there was the Indian woman reported last year in the New England Journal of Medicine ( vol 306 , p 1056 ) who had a craving for paper . |
| 7 | Their findings , reported last year in the British Medical Journal , highlighted poor sanitary conditions in some inner London schools . |
| 8 | Tens of thousands demonstrated last night in the Romanian capital after reports of at least 20 deaths there earlier in the day , and students at the heart of the protest movement have called for a general strike today . |
| 9 | It surfaced last year during the trial of Frank Beck , former head of a Leicestershire children 's home , who used it to abuse young people in his care both sexually and physically . |
| 10 | Mr Tonner , education convener of Strathclyde 's students ' union , and Ms Brolls , a former vice-president and debates convener of the union , argued second proposition for the motion : ‘ This house believes that the break-up of the family has led to the break-up of society . ’ |
| 11 | Two of his comrades had relatively minor head wounds and received first aid in the trench before heading back to a safer area . |
| 12 | The latest , and the largest of the takeovers came last week with the offer of £1.1bn by Australian Mutual Provident , Australia 's largest life insurance company , for Pearl Group , a leading British life insurer . |
| 13 | His most recent succés du scandale came last spring at the Venice Biennale , the art world 's Cannes , where Koons showed a polychromed sculpture of him and Cicciolina as a soft-core Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden , surrounded by three laser-painted and varnished canvases of the couple making love . |
| 14 | With the first test against the West Indies just two days away , and after the humiliation suffered last summer at the hands of the Aussies , in regaining the ashes , the Test and County Cricket Board has launched a scheme of excellence so that the country 's test prospects can be spotted that much earlier . |
| 15 | But if the Working Party 's estimate of an average loss of between £20,000 and £25,000 is correct , the financial consequences are small compared with the minimum of £300,000 which even the least rewarded county received last year from the TCCB , whose main source of income is the profit from international cricket . |
| 16 | ‘ Verderers camped last night at the Five-wents . |
| 17 | It has taken several years of animated discussions among the members and their respective lawyers to arrive at these terms and conditions , which are also intended to be in line with the code of conduct adopted last year by the European federation of art dealers , FIDOAO ( Federation Internationale des Diffuseurs d'Oeuvres d'Art Originales ) . |
| 18 | In a sweeping report adopted last month by the annual CHA convention , Canada 's 1210 hospitals also urged that a measure of market-style competition be introduced in the system to force hospitals to compete for patients and tax dollars , as well as reward the efficient institutions . |
| 19 | A BRITISH passenger told last night of the moment he was separated from his wife by a wall of flames as their holiday jet crash-landed . |
| 20 | She jumped out of bed and , pulling on her shirt , darted next door into the head . |
| 21 | After recent problems with pigs — the kind that can become trapped in pipelines — it was ironic that Hyde project celebrated first gas from the field with a great pig roast . |
| 22 | We arrived next day at the hot springs of Sade Malka ; these were surrounded by dom palms , odd-looking forked trees with clusters of hard nuts . |
| 23 | Just beyond it we struggled over a particularly difficult pass and arrived next day on the Mana river . |
| 24 | A major , official Henry Moore exhibition opened last month in the gardens of the Bagatelle . |
| 25 | The new NEC High Performance Computing Software Development Center in Switzerland , which opened last month in the same building as CSCS , will by the end of this year give a limited number of outside users access to its Cenju-2 parallel supercomputer , says A. Scheidegger , director of CSCS . |
| 26 | A two-day meeting of the JCE opened next day with the arrival in Dhaka of India 's Water Resources Minister , V. C. Shukla . |
| 27 | The timing of notices was determined by the fact that all tenants will be protected by the Landlord and Tenant ( Licensed Premises ) Act 1990 by July 1992 as a result of the legislation that we enacted last year at the tenants ' request . |
| 28 | Carole Swan has just rung me from her lovely home to tell me what happened last night in the Hotel … ’ |
| 29 | Heinzer 's win followed second place to the Austrian veteran Leonhard Stock at Val d'Isere and second to Frenchman Franck Piccard in the Valloire super giant slalom . |
| 30 | celebrated 100 years at the Suffolk Show in May and to top the occasion collected first prize for the most attractive non-machinery agricultural stand at the show . |