Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun prp] [conj] [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The paratroop regiment that he had left eighteen months before was now bivouacked in a concrete and brick school house on the outskirts of Jalalabad and dominated the low ground of an Afghan valley . |
| 2 | He attended two performances of Figaro and gave a concert at the opera house , which included the première of a new symphony he had written specially ( K.504 , known afterwards as the ‘ Prague ’ ) . |
| 3 | The Irish Acts of Union did not prohibit the creation of new peers of Ireland but imposed a limit of 100 at any given time . |
| 4 | They were of an age , Hawk and Jennifer , and had been close as teenagers , before Hawk joined up with the Sons of Geronimo and left the Reservation , intent on changing the world . |
| 5 | From nineteen seventy three to nineteen ninety two he was Chairman of the Charities Committee of the Yacht Clubs of Weymouth and played a leading part in organizing forty eight championships including fourteen R Y A Weymouth olympic weeks as well as twelve world and European championships . |
| 6 | They had escaped the witch-hunt purges of Europe and had an entirely different significance in the lives of the Eastern peoples . |
| 7 | We landed in shelter then strolled along the deserted beaches of Baleshare and bodysurfed the blue foaming waves . |
| 8 | These cars once graced the highways of mid-America and cruised the strips of countless towns and cities across the United States . |
| 9 | But the Jews rebelled after a defeat , and Antiochus IV naturally turned against them , killed all the inhabitants of Jerusalem and converted the Temple into a pagan sanctuary . |
| 10 | Rival managers Alex Ferguson and Ron Atkinson were good friends of Mervyn and had no hesitation in helping organise an event which should be a fitting tribute to one of Irish football 's greatest administrators . |
| 11 | They were shadows that she could never have imagined when , as a young girl , she had run along the cold sands of Northumberland and watched the east wind flatten and fold the dunes as she dreamed of a bigger , more exciting world beyond — and away from her mother 's influence . |
| 12 | She pushed her way through the narrow , crowded streets of Southwark and crossed the river by Blackfriars Bridge so that she would n't have to pay a toll . |
| 13 | Although the US was anxious ( or at least willing ) to approve the Bay of Along agreement which would have reincorporated Cochinchina with the other two parts of Vietnam and paved the way for the return of Bao Dai as the Emperor of a legally united Vietnam , the French government was hesitating to submit the agreement to the Assembly because Indo-China , as the US Ambassador in France described it , was a stick of dynamite or , to change the metaphor , the French government was like an overloaded ship incapable of accommodating one more passenger without capsizing : ‘ Indo-China is that passenger ’ . |