Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] ended in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , if in a much more restrained manner , the Englishman , John Page , himself a soldier in Henry V 's army , described in detail and in passages of considerable emotion the sufferings of the helpless civilians during the six-month-long siege of Rouen which ended in January 1419 . |
| 2 | A second reason why bulls have taken heart is that , after a two-year IMF programme which ended in March , the government is now going for growth . |
| 3 | A presumed member of Hizbollah , Ali Mohamed Hariri , is in prison in Switzerland for the murder of a Frenchman on board an Air Afrique airliner during a hijack attempt which ended in Geneva in July 1987 — and Hariri 's release is said here to have been part of the price which the Swiss government secretly agreed to pay for the release of Peter Winkler , the Red Cross official who was freed in Sidon 10 months ago . |
| 4 | Analysts say that Shearson is paying the price for overmanning during the market boom which ended in 1987 . |
| 5 | Things were tight after all that round-the-world fighting which ended in 1815 . |
| 6 | It was at a time when Joyce had brought proceedings for divorce against his first wife , an action which ended in the dissolution of the marriage in 1936 . |
| 7 | First , Athens lost Boiotia in a rising which ended in an Athenian defeat at Coronea . |
| 8 | Mr. Ibrahim Sadek , an Egyptian engineering consultant , lays the blame on the lack of unleaded fuel and to state production of outdated car engines : ‘ We are producing Fiats with engines designed back in the Forties ’ , he told the World Conference on Preparing for Climatic Change which ended in Cairo yesterday . |
| 9 | The problem arose again thirty years later , when their energies were channelled off on a crusade which ended in defeat at Nicopolis in 1396 , and yet again in 1444–5 when , after the truce of Tours , the ‘ Ecorcheurs ’ who were , as their name implied , ‘ skinning ’ France , were led off for a while to Switzerland and the imperial lands . |
| 10 | Miss Griffiths remembers costly experiments with machining wool at Tybrith which ended in disaster as the fabric had stretched and shrunk in all the wrong places . |
| 11 | The tradition began in about 1700 and continued with the Evening Courts which ended in 1939 . |
| 12 | For some reason , William sought to get rid of Adelizia and he began a case against her in the church courts which ended in a declaration by Pope Innocent II that his first contractual marriage was binding . |
| 13 | After a long game in the kitchen which ended in a draw , they went upstairs and made love . |
| 14 | It was erm the sort of commentary was er interspersed with anecdotes and it was really excellent and there was even a little bit of a mention of a connection with er D H Lawrence in respect of the lady of the house at one time of day was er er had er assignation with the local gamekeeper which ended in a bit of tragedy . |
| 15 | Following the government 's failure to meet the deadline the CFD held a rally on Sept. 30 in Ouagadougou which ended in clashes with government supporters . |
| 16 | The history syllabus as defined in the first national curriculum which ended in 1926 : |
| 17 | The situation grew worse after the arrest of Lord Montagu of Beaulieu in 1953 followed by the famous Montagu case which ended in 1954 when three of the five men convicted were sent to prison , two being allowed to go free as a reward for turning Queen 's evidence against the other three . |
| 18 | To the boy 's worried parents the whole scene which ended in the exclusivity of an intensive care unit must have been a Faustian nightmare . |
| 19 | An impatient , callous thrust which ended in her impalement to the hilt . |
| 20 | In two mass trials which ended in October and December 1989 , 253 and 168 BR members respectively were acquitted of charges alleging calls to armed insurrection and civil war . |
| 21 | Under the captaincy of McBride and the coaching skills of his Ballymena colleague Syd Millar , the Lions , with nine Irishmen in tow , won 21 of their 22 games , and were only denied a clean sweep when flanker Fergus Slattery was robbed of a try in the dying minutes of the Fourth and Final Test which ended in a 13–13 draw . |
| 22 | After the bloody war of independence which ended in 1962 , the pieds noirs left everything — houses , belongings , money — behind them in a mass exodus to France , arriving in their thousands by boat in Marseilles . |
| 23 | They came out into a wide waterway which ended in docks . |
| 24 | The remaining SDR44,840,000 ( $60,000,000 ) was available immediately under the compensatory and contingency financing facility ( CCFF ) to cover the excess cost of oil imports and a shortfall in export earnings during the 12-month period which ended in March 1991 . |
| 25 | But behind this there lies a period , obscurely documented , in which there was far greater freedom and equality among the cities — an era brought to a sharp end by the threat of foreign conquest , which drew the Greek cities together in heroic resistance to the Persian invaders — and thus began the process which ended in the effective dominance of Sparta and Athens over their neighbours . |
| 26 | Where Annie had got an average degree , taught English ‘ O ’ Level , married Mike and had Sally and Alex , settling in London , Sheila had sailed close to the fringes of student politics in the late 1960s , been arrested for demonstrations against the American presence in Vietnam in the war which ended in the early 1970s , squatted with the squatters , and done a variety of part-time nomadic jobs . |
| 27 | After the First World War which ended in 1918 , local authorities would also advance money for house purchase , as would a body called the Public Works Loan Board ; but between 1920 and 1934 building societies lent £920 million and the others only £94 million . |
| 28 | PLAN has agreed with the Ugandan Government to begin its operations in the Luwero district , an area which was particularly devastated by the civil war which ended in 1986 . |
| 29 | Half convinced , she shrugged philosophically and turned to leave the apartment 's square entrance hall in which they were standing , aware of Luke following her into the luxuriously appointed lounge , a long elegant room which ended in sliding glass doors opening on to a balcony with a view she had spent part of the afternoon enjoying , pretty green parkland dotted with ornamental ponds linked by a winding , deeply cut stream that was spanned by the occasional arched stone bridge . |
| 30 | In a race which ended in chaos with thunder , lightning and heavy rain , Prost cruised home 1min 19 secs ahead of Brazilian Ayrton Senna in a McLaren . |