Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun prp] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Democratic Convention also won the mayoralties of the important cities of Brasov , Constanta , Ploiesti , Sibiu and Arad ( having won Timisoara in the first round , with 64 per cent of votes ) . |
| 2 | It then bores on in this vein until our hero — Bjorn Borg , unmistakably — has won Weembledon for the fifth time consecutively . |
| 3 | After all , it was the British and the Russians who had dominated Iran through the nineteenth and much of the twentieth centuries . |
| 4 | In the following month the Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister , Kunihiko Saito , had visited Moscow for the first working-level negotiations on the dispute since the termination of the Soviet Union . |
| 5 | Travel plans have been curtailed so people can focus on the imminent launch later this month and people who have visited Redmond over the last 11 years say they 've never seen the intensity level so high . |
| 6 | Travel plans have been curtailed so people can focus on the imminent launch later this month and people who have visited Redmond over the last 11 years say they 've never seen the intensity level so high . |
| 7 | Ten years now he had lived in Vienna , fourteen since he had quit Russia for the last time , twenty-two since the day he had realized his boyhood ambition to become an officer in the St. Petersburg Grenadiers . |
| 8 | Later , after she had visited Joy for the last time and he had filled her arms with fruit , as he had on every visit , she made her way to the cemetery . |
| 9 | In his History of the English Church and People , the eighth-century monk and historian , Bede , named Ella as the first ‘ High-King ( Bretwalda ) , of all the provinces south of the Humber ’ . |
| 10 | No one who contemplates the brutal war that has racked Croatia over the last few months can do so without a deep feeling of sorrow and shame : sorrow that such devastation and misery should disfigure our continent in 1991 , and shame that we have been unable to do anything to halt the carnage and destruction . |
| 11 | Ive been reliably informed that we have drawn SUNDERLAND in the 2nd round of this years littlewoods cup . |
| 12 | As he set off for the airport Lewis remembered that he had told Adam from the first that only trouble could come from a person of his youth and inexperience inheriting a big house and land of the dimensions of Wyvis Hall . |
| 13 | She left shortly , having surprised Dinah for the first time in her life ; and there were to be more surprises . |
| 14 | The countryside , here called Wessex for the first time , village community life , the joyousness of seasonal festivities , the importance of music — all familiar from Under the Greenwood Tree — are integrated into a more complex story than any Hardy had yet attempted . |
| 15 | The Cossacks had crossed Siberia in the seventeenth century . |
| 16 | The severe storms that have affected Britain in the last few years may be linked with sea-surface temperatures which have been fractionally higher than the long-term average . |
| 17 | As a long time drinker of real ale , who has only joined CAMRA in the last year , I found this belly-aching very annoying . |
| 18 | But in fact what takes place this April could well mark the beginning of a whole new era or cycle for you , as once the Sun has entered Taurus on the 20th you will come to realise that what others are determined to acquire has no place in your long-term scheme . |
| 19 | Opponents claimed that HDZ policies were reminiscent of the fascist ustasha government which had ruled Croatia during the Second World War , and that it was receiving funds from ustasha emigré organizations . |
| 20 | So Tallis at last entered the stone corridors and galleries which had once led Harry to the first forest , and a forbidden land in whose winter embrace he had become lost . |
| 21 | His family has ruled Morocco since the seventeenth century . |
| 22 | I 've quartered Europe in the last few years . |
| 23 | M. Lévy gave me a third more for the second vase than he had given Jean-Claude for the first one . |
| 24 | After all , she had signed Sting in the first place ( she had even given him a list of music-business lawyers to consult at the time , but he had used the Newcastle lawyer because he was cheaper ) . |
| 25 | If you are unemployed and have left Salford within the last two years , Careers can mail you copies of vacancy lists . |
| 26 | Defeat would have officially sent Cowdenbeath to the Second Division but that inevitable fate has only been delayed . |
| 27 | Royce 's seminars had acquainted Eliot with the second law of thermodynamics if he had not known it before . |