Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the thread of light upwards into the darkness , Bernice found that the curves and kinks which had been so obvious from the surface of Belial had straightened out a little more . |
| 2 | The Russians who went to war on their side were now regarded as their enemies , and he contended that the reason why the British government was trying to prevent the Russian Government trading with this country and was using Polish forces to fight the Russian people was because the people of Russia had set up a form of Government which was antagonistic to a capitalist Government like theirs . |
| 3 | It was announced on May 9 that the government of Byelarus had taken over the former Soviet troops in the Byelorussian Military District . |
| 4 | The chronicler William of Newburgh was disposed to believe that King Sverre of Norway had brought about the destruction of King Magnus 's fleet in 1186 by invoking the Devil . |
| 5 | The son of Topsider did make up a lot of ground in the closing stages , but by then it was far too late . |
| 6 | Although the Treaty of Rome had laid down the fundamental freedom of movement of workers ( Arts 48 – 51 ) and the right of establishment in any economic activity across all member states , a succession of secondary legislation has been required to give concrete form to these principles . |
| 7 | The loans and diplomatic favours that paved the way for the entente with Russia helped to prop up a regime seen by radicals as the major threat to freedom — and to peace — in Europe . |
| 8 | In the spring of that year , 1955 , not long after this meeting , the tutor Edouard had hired for Grégoire left to take up an appointment elsewhere . |
| 9 | And a shock came when , on 12 March , the large picture was sent on its way to Bohemia ; the transport firm in Decin had loaded up the lorry with gas containers from Belgium . |
| 10 | National minority rights came into question in January when Romanians , Croats and Slovaks in Hungary began to set up a joint organization which intended to help the government prepare decisions affecting minority rights . |
| 11 | If any of the Lords or great ‘ Herren ’ in England wished to lay out an new garden or remake an old one , Mr. Miller would always show them how it ought to be done . |
| 12 | ‘ The wife of one of the guys who lives in Lowestoft had sent out a video of his son 's birthday party which also had a bit of my Help programme for Anglia TV on it . |
| 13 | French relief workers claimed that the Djibouti government and French army officers stationed in Djibouti had sent back a group of refugees across the border into an inhospitable desert region of Ethiopia on June 2 ; however , the French Foreign Ministry denied that there had been any forcible expulsions from Djibouti . |
| 14 | Sir John Mogg , the 80 year old former deputy supreme allied commander in Europe tried to fight off the robbers who invaded his Watlington home armed with a knife . |
| 15 | Grollet said a laboratory in Utrecht had carried out a second test on 14 September and that , too , had been positive . |
| 16 | Careless talk or dark allegations about the true intent of such moderate measures as the Registry Act by slave-owners themselves in Barbados had brought on the trouble there in 1816 . |
| 17 | In the late tenth and eleventh centuries a marked revival of agriculture and country life in Lombardy had ushered in the urban renaissance in its heartland ; for it was to be the Lombard cities above all which lured the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa to Italy in the 1150s and 1160s , and whose almost innumerable walls baffled his armies in the long war of the Lombard League . |
| 18 | On June 26 and again on July 5 the Soviet military command in Berlin threatened to slow down the repatriation of Soviet soldiers because construction of accommodation for returnees had not yet begun . |
| 19 | For some reason we do not think in such simplistic terms and did not dismiss the Director of Licensing at the CAA from office when the pilot of a Vanguard trying to land in a snowstorm at Basle failed to carry out a successful instrument approach and killed all those poor housewives out on a day shopping trip . |
| 20 | Much of this went to Hull for export , but trains for Lancashire had to go up the formidable Worsborough bank avoiding Barnsley , and joining the main line just south of Penistone . |