Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two owners were aged 84 and 71 and , after the chewing incident , the RSPCA swapped it for a smaller dog . |
| 2 | But when the RSPCA found him in January , he was in a starved condition , his ribs and hip bones showing through , and his back legs hardly able to support him . |
| 3 | When the Abwehr sent me to Ireland in forty-one I met a friend of his in Dublin . |
| 4 | Four days after the Ralembergs told me about the Luciferi , I was in the Golden Turk carousing by myself . |
| 5 | On the day before de Macon sailed on his second voyage , the Ralembergs invited me to a formal supper . |
| 6 | In Kazakhstan the CP dissolved itself on Aug. 28 to create an organization uniting progressive forces . |
| 7 | He was an Apostle and a prizeman , though his zeal as president of the Union condemned him to a second in part ii ( 1904 ) after a first in part i ( 1902 ) of the classical tripos . |
| 8 | After his death , the Maori honoured him with a lying-in-state at Pipitea Marae , near Wellington Cathedral , and a karanga ( lament ) by two kuia ( older women ) who remained with the casket throughout the ceremonies . |
| 9 | The paper should prove to be ‘ a powerful stimulus ’ to discussions , the Institute said , while the ACCA welcomed it as ‘ an important contribution to the expectations gap debate ’ . |
| 10 | At a symbolic rally , held on May 23 in the capital San Salvador , the FMLN transformed itself into a political party . |
| 11 | It defines material which ‘ any reasonable person ’ ( a judge , for example ) would find ‘ shocking , disgusting and revolting ’ , as Lord Denning the then Master of the Rolls defined it in 1976 . |
| 12 | As all areas were initially classified as class I and II , the EPA left it to the states to redesignate some class II areas as class III , or even to upgrade such areas to class I ( Stern , 1977 ) . |
| 13 | The Sheikha settled herself in the dressing room , determined not to be too far away from her son at any time . |
| 14 | From that moment on , the Kremlin saw him as a ‘ realistic ’ politician — in other words , as one who urged the people to accept the invasion . |
| 15 | In their first game the Transvaal beat them by fifty runs . |
| 16 | Current predictions for the cost of generating electricity with the Super-Phenix put it at about the same as coal but twice as expensive as a conventional reactor . |
| 17 | The Webbs devoted themselves to pressing these ideas upon leading politicians and civil servants . |
| 18 | Within years their cotton plants were decimated by a tiny bug and the Sutherlands resigned themselves to a meagre living from farming . |
| 19 | The LDP forced it through its committee stages in the House of Representatives — the Lower House of the Diet — on Nov. 27 , thereby causing a brawl to erupt amongst legislators angry over what they saw as a flouting of established procedure . |
| 20 | The Sandfords provided us with an elderly Amhara called Habta Mariam as cook . |
| 21 | The proto-JPL proved itself during the Second World War . |
| 22 | The Feldwebel took us to a German Red Cross canteen . |
| 23 | The Feldwebel took it into a corner and pulled out a large envelope which he threw onto the table . |
| 24 | Soon the mousy man became exhausted by struggling with the suitcase and for the first time the Feldwebel carried it for him . |
| 25 | The CNAA committed itself to the Diploma . |
| 26 | Simon the Trapper led them by devious paths to the lakeside hut . |
| 27 | Later the Youngs accompanied them to Harold and Isobel Shoosmith 's house where they were to spend the night . |
| 28 | ‘ Once they were a proud people and ruled the greater part of Scotland but the Celts , the Angles , the Saxons and the Normans drove them from their lands into the dark vastness of the forests . |
| 29 | The Roman defences were still in place , and the Normans used them as the foundations of their medieval fortress . |
| 30 | In 376 , however , the Visigoths found themselves under extreme pressure from the Huns , an Asiatic people from the steppes . |