Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [conj] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.

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1 We collected our horses , took leave of Santerre and galloped down the frozen , cobbled track as if Mandeville intended to waste no time in reaching Glastonbury before nightfall .
2 UN-sponsored talks had begun on June 2 , when the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( FRY ) leadership called for Bosnian Serb leaders to stop the bombardment of Sarajevo and to hand over the airport to UN control .
3 So too his message of the coming kingdom can not be lifted out and carried over to the present : that message was refuted when Jesus himself attempted to provoke the intervention of God and bring about the end of history by challenging the powers and authorities of his own day .
4 The Meeting Stent themselves with fifteen shillings sterling being the estimate given for Painting the Church yeard Gate of Kilarow and putting up the Globes on the Pillars of the Gate …
5 Guillaume , the third Bretonnian King , defeats a large Orc army at the Battle of Armandur and drives out the last of the Orcs from northern Bretonnia .
6 They consulted a map of France and worked out the ideal point between London , Paris and Helmond in the Netherlands .
7 As Alcuin looked back from the high days of his own collaboration with Charlemagne , which also involved his many pupils who became bishops and abbots , he obviously saw a model of this relationship at the York of his younger days , when Eadbert ruled Northumbria while his brother Egbert was archbishop of York and built up the cathedral library .
8 Charlotte booked into a hotel in the centre of Boston and hunted down the telephone directory in her room as soon as the porter had left .
9 Does my hon. Friend think that the Labour party was acting in the best interests of Britain and of our Baltic friends when , in 1969 , it did a deal with Brezhnev and handed over the Baltic gold ?
10 I drove north into Georgia and pulled off the road into Brunswick .
11 Both originated in a split in the nationalist movement of the early 1920s about the acceptability of the 1921 treaty with Britain that set up the Irish Free State .
12 So she went and bought some in Lincoln and came back the next day and got down on her knees and cleaned it all up .
13 We also hired a speedboat in Ipsos and powered up the coast for a beautiful view .
14 Join up in the evening for a night out in Kos and check out the discos .
15 By doing business , inviting foreign experts to work and teach inside China and opening up the country to the world , progress seemed certain .
16 For example , environmental audits of the prioritised projects of reducing chronic air pollution in Silesia and cleaning up the Baltic Sea , have shown that the most effective ways of dealing with the problems are to modernise Silesian state-owned coal burning power plants and provide sewage plants for Poland 's Vistula River .
17 He knelt before Dorn and held up the knife .
18 Returning now to the context of a church planting team , it will not be such national pronouncements that are being sought : rather it is the expression of words from God that build up the individuals listening .
19 He was sent back to England in 1595 and by 1605 he had set up an organization of recusant Welsh gentry , Welsh secular priests , and Jesuits ( centred in Gwent and extending up the marches ) .
20 Brandt was determined to develop co-operation with eastern Europe in the hope of reducing tension in Europe and building up the independence of eastern states , and he believed that East Germany 's existence must be treated as a reality .
21 Last summer HP decided to proliferate its SoftBench framework source code beyond CASE and stripped out the CASE-specific utilities , getting down to a core communications technology known as the Broadcast Message Server which can coordinate messages among different software applications in a common environment .
22 Teclis returns to Ulthuan and takes up the position of High Loremaster in the Tower of Hoeth .
23 Barclay 's has now moved to al purpose built new regional headquarters at One Moorfields selling Martin 's Building to Carroll and leasing back the ground floor banking hall .
24 Think of India or the hippy trail to Kathmandu and pick up the hint of the free-wheeling late Sixties flower-power look .
25 One firm is even arranging for convoys of lorries to travel with the coaches to France and bring back the booty .
26 He would go down to Nunes and take over the house .
27 He told the boy , she says , to go back to Wales and save up the money which would allow him to come to London with a certain degree of security .
28 Every few weeks I would get one or two days off duty to catch the ferry to Nanaimo and motor down the scenic Malahat Drive to Victoria .
29 Last year small river craft were brought in by air or overland to Kalewa and driven down the Chindwin to the Irrawaddy .
30 And then sailed from Montreal , I was going to go back my , it was my intention to go back to New York , but I changed my mind at Montreal and sailed down the St Lawrence from Montreal , back to Glasgow .
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