Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] the royal [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicola is such a brilliant student I 'd asked the Royal Ballet to give her an audition . ’ |
| 2 | The two weeks of training on the Soltau-Luneberg Training Area had given the Royal Scots the opportunity to test to the full those operating procedures and ideas that had been developed since the conversion to Warrior had started in the new year . |
| 3 | Charley Hoskins had been trained as a blacksmith but , like so many Saltash boys , had his heart set on the sea and it was when he had joined the Royal Navy that he met Ben Bellaser . |
| 4 | After she had finished midwifery and two years as a Benedict 's junior sister she had joined the Royal Navy as a nursing sister for a few years . |
| 5 | She had expected the royal apartments to be brimming with activity . |
| 6 | Her father had chaired the Royal Society meeting in February 1839 when William Henry Fox Talbot [ q.v. ] first publicly revealed the details of photogenic drawing . |
| 7 | Much of the strongest criticism was voiced not by the judges in the House but by non-lawyers such as Lord Benson who had chaired the Royal Commission on Legal Services which reported in 1979 . |
| 8 | He had done the Royal Marines commando training , he had insisted on parachute jumping and escaping from a tank in 100 feet of water in a simulated exercise — an exercise that killed two men over the next two years . |
| 9 | A sudden and debilitating attack of the sweating sickness had rendered her unfit for travel , with the result that Anne had accompanied the royal family into sanctuary and her mother had been taken by litter to Norfolk House in London 's Strand . |
| 10 | Their progress was fast , the ground had hardened after the rains while Sir James had unfurled the royal standard of Scotland to make it obvious to any others using the road to stand aside quickly and let them pass . |
| 11 | But the disfavour of heaven had driven the royal army back too soon , and there was no Iago here to relieve the house of its dangerous guest . |
| 12 | The nervous tension of the build-up to the wedding had left the royal couple absolutely drained . |
| 13 | Meanwhile many intelligent deaf people who might have gone into education , but now finding these opportunities non-existent because of the Education Act of 1893 which had implemented the Royal Commission for the Education of the Blind and the Deaf and Dumb 's recommendations , were now turning to missioner positions in deaf societies and institutes for a living . |
| 14 | thesis , ‘ Communications in a Disciplined Society ’ , a sergeant ( Wilson 1978 : 6 ) explained why he had chosen the Royal Navy in preference to the police in which to carry out his research : ‘ [ I ] considered incompatible a progressive career within the police force , and the implications of carrying out research within that organization ’ . |