Example sentences of "the [adj] [vb past] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Germans had the Berlin Wall to dance on , the British had the Wembley pitch ; both events were part of the same great story of liberation . |
| 2 | Voters throughout the region are trying to make sense of the new Europe tonight , after the French accepted the Maastricht Treaty by the narrowest of margins . |
| 3 | The Targa Florio started in 1906 but in 1923 the French introduced the Le Mans 24-Hour race which soon gained a reputation for being the world 's premier long-distance event . |
| 4 | The Japanese ended the Pacific War penniless , starving and exhausted ; the economy was in ruins . |
| 5 | His first seventeen designs carried the AIR– designation but in 1937 the eighteenth became the Ya–18 and during the Second World War the now well known Yak-prefix came into being . |
| 6 | As the 1970s began the US asbestos industry experienced a severe safety crisis that threatened the industry 's continued existence . |
| 7 | The latter exposed the BBC 's numbers fraud . |
| 8 | The latter sent the Leeds fans ( who totally outsang the Kop ) into howls of rage and a chant of ‘ What the f*** is going on ? ’ |
| 9 | At all events , the mediaeval part of the village developed at the junction of the rivers Cerniog and Carno , before the latter reached the Severn , and is grouped around the church and the site of a Roman camp . |
| 10 | ( The latter included the UK . ) |
| 11 | The '80s saw the U.S. postal service commemorate the 50th anniversary of Bobby Jones ' Grand Slam with the issue of a special stamp showing the famous golfer in plus-fours at the finish of a swing . |
| 12 | Aye had the Horseman 's word some of the older heard the Horseman 's word but that was afore me time . |
| 13 | The first followed the Barlow Report in assuming that ‘ no new industry shall be admitted to London and the Home Counties except in special cases ’ . |
| 14 | Next came a terrace of three three-storey houses , in the first lived the Salisburys , the name always amused me when I was small . |
| 15 | In 1986 , the Dutch had the EC Presidency and proposed a cut of at least 50 per cent for West Germany and others , with 40 per cent for Italy and the UK . |
| 16 | Newman 's anger eventually subsided , mollified in the main by the overwhelming hit the Daleks made with the public that so proved Verity Lambert and David Whitaker 's instincts correct again . |
| 17 | Dave 's first major success with Fernandez came at Fulford in 1975 when the Argentinian clinched the Benson and Hedges International . |
| 18 | WITH CHARACTERISTIC PRECISION AND MORE THAN A SOUPÇON OF INSPIRATION , THE SWISS CREATED THE DUROMATIC |
| 19 | They travelled for days and on the third entered the Lauderdale valley . |
| 20 | The 1860s saw the Quay Street Mills started by Samuel Luker . |
| 21 | Later he left the Papal service and in the 1550s accompanied the Cardinal Charles de Lorraine to France where he naturally preferred the chanson . |