Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the right bank " in BNC.
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| 1 | battery wrote in his journal during the peak of the March battle on the Right Bank ; ‘ the fine weather continues , the days lengthen ; it is a pleasure to get up in the morning … ’ |
| 2 | The street-lamps lining the promenade on the right bank glittered in the waters below the bridge where a flotilla of ghostly swans floated in the current . |
| 3 | Home furnishings , by their very nature , were subject to fewer of these problems and when they appeared in the French capital , with a big new shop on the Right Bank , in the fashionable seiziéme , it was yet another conquest . |
| 4 | Conjointly , a second attack was to be launched the following day on the Right Bank to capture Fort Vaux , whose enfilading guns had also stopped the Fifth Army on its other flank . |
| 5 | In its rapid advance up the right bank of the Meuse , it had increasingly exposed its flank to the French on the hills the other side of the river . |
| 6 | Three factors combined to cause repeated postponement ; firstly , bad weather throughout most of April impeded the digging of jumping off trenches ; secondly , the French — under a new local commander on the Right Bank — had taken to launching a series of costly , but annoying , counter-attacks ; but thirdly , and most important , the attack along the Left Bank had fallen far behind schedule , and before those deadly flanking batteries could be mastered there was little prospect of an advance on the Right Bank . |
| 7 | At 11 o'clock de Castelnau , by now in receipt of further intelligence which seemed to presage the total collapse of the defence on the Right Bank , was back in Joffre 's office . |
| 8 | With this caveat , he endorsed the Fifth Army proposal for resuming the offensive on the Right Bank . |
| 9 | The part of the town on the left bank of the Nive is known as Grand or Greater Bayonne , the part on the right bank as Petit or Lesser Bayonne . |
| 10 | The other Chief-of-Staff from the Right Bank , Major Wetzell , was no more confident , making the old familiar complaint of the lack of forces available . |
| 11 | A path on the right bank leads to a church in the distance . |
| 12 | Three factors combined to cause repeated postponement ; firstly , bad weather throughout most of April impeded the digging of jumping off trenches ; secondly , the French — under a new local commander on the Right Bank — had taken to launching a series of costly , but annoying , counter-attacks ; but thirdly , and most important , the attack along the Left Bank had fallen far behind schedule , and before those deadly flanking batteries could be mastered there was little prospect of an advance on the Right Bank . |
| 13 | Instead , General von Mudra , the commander on the Right Bank , recommended a system of local advances on a small scale . |
| 14 | Over the whole period , the front on the Right Bank never shifted as much as 1 , OOO yards ; for the Germans , a bitter contrast to the five miles they had advanced in the first four days of the offensive . |