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

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1 The bridge was complete , the air blowers on each rig whined as the remaining air bags were inflated for additional buoyancy , and footwalk posts and ropes were installed .
2 Most social historians have tended to stick with Raymond Williams 's argument and have been reluctant to give up the notion that what was most lively and energetic in all that variety came from the working class .
3 Rain said , exasperated , that each route led to the same point and that meant back to the Tunisian .
4 They had grubby overalls on , and caps with protective masks , through which each gang peered at the other .
5 That tovarisch lay in the earth ,
6 Ever since that story broke in the papers , Creed seemed to be testing loyalties .
7 At that Nessie reappeared with the bucket in her hand .
8 ‘ There is no doubt , ’ Agrippa intervened silkily , ‘ that Ruthven died by the same hand and in the same way as Selkirk in the Tower . ’
9 And then the second says show that that complex numbered to the power of four where that complex number is that complex number , so all you do is that four , that and then you get minus a corner .
10 First , there was subservience in that Bacon looked toward the pope for patronage .
11 He 's always fore he 's forever contrasting er these these er centres in Highfields with his village halls and er small village halls and that and that 's very , the very truth , I 'd like to refer him and he knows as well as I do that what he should really be comparing with are the youth and community provision across the county which is an enormous amount in excess of the amount we put into old people 's homes and as Mr so rightly said , they 're problems were gon na have to grapple with in the future and so you then look at what has been suggested , what has been proposed and the point that Professor made about the Labour party having to make it work , is because it is they and everybody knows it 's they have been five membering this thing all the way through .
12 For several weeks that fear remained at the back of our minds and we wondered what was behind the brief news bulletins which were issued , and whether the whole fateful adventure would be a success .
13 The girl had been seeing a lot of another young man , an estate agent called Jose , and that association continued after the marriage — long after !
14 But he might at least be " useful " , as he had wanted , and part of that usefulness lay in the fact that , on one level at least , his poetry could have a public and national purpose — although , when the war had been won , he no longer cared to draw attention to those aspects of it .
15 The 5-2 fav had drawn upsides The Vatman Cometh when that rival capsized at the final obstacle .
16 Even up to the end of the eighteenth century it was widely held that mind resided in the spaces within the brain , the ventricles , rather than in the neural tissue itself .
17 ‘ Nine players in that side appeared for the first team later .
18 For example , each side said about the other side :
19 There existed a second manor of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul 's Cathedral , close to Chesewic , and that manor lay between the river and Turnham Green and was called Sutton which it is thought probably derived its name from South Town .
20 A confirmation will confer some high degree of merit on a theory if that confirmation resulted from the testing of a novel prediction .
21 This change came with the eighth in the Val Fajr series , launched in the south on 9 February in commemoration of the period seven years earlier when the Shah left and Khomeini returned from his sojourn in France .
22 This change appealed to the Christians who had long observed Sunday — the Lord 's Day ( Dies Dominica ) on which Christ rose from the dead — as the first day of the week , in place of the Jewish Sabbath .
23 This change had by the November 1983 uprating resulted in the abolition of short-term child support .
24 This change occurred at the beginning of the Paleozoic era starting with the Cambrian period , about 570 to 700 million years ago .
25 But above all I would hope to go home with a faith in some measure renewed by the experience of seeing close at hand how many of the Peruvians live theirs .
26 Suggestions of this kind culminated in the creation of the foreign office which began its life in 1782 .
27 Even though this case went to the House of Lords no disagreement with that statement of principle is found in the judgments there .
28 This case turned upon the wording of section 14 which is set out a little further on .
29 Perhaps I should just say a word about that that operation since you 've raised it , because it is one type of job that we do , that is taking part in a rather large group , in this case sponsored by the Commonwealth Secretariat at the request of the government of Uganda after the fall of erm of Amin , to assess the rehabilitation needs of the country and to suggest what policies should be priority policies for their point of view and what contribution could be made by other countries through aid and erm other ways of technical assistance and fellowships for training and so forth , to help in this rehabilitation .
30 We have excluded from these analyses case 14 in table III because this case occurred beyond the period specified in planning the analysis ( see introduction ) .
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