Example sentences of "[vb past] the [noun sg] [noun] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Germany predominating , they also shared the iron ore deposits of the Saar basin and Lorraine ( these last had only just come into use , because of the discovery by an English chemist , Thomas , of a way of making steel from iron ore with a high content of phosphorus ) . |
| 2 | He slung the twin cartridge belts over his shoulders and tucked a roll of the heavy tape into each of his jacket pockets before making coffee . |
| 3 | ‘ Managers were proud to lead their staff into dispute and out into the streets over the years ; unfortunately , very many of them became the pit bull terriers of 1992 ’ . |
| 4 | And I got the Engine Room boys in the basement to give me three photocopies of our Romanian friend . ’ |
| 5 | When David Walker led the poll tax rebels of West Oxfordshire out of the tory fold many pundits expected the new Independents would be replaced by more compliant conservatives at the first electoral opportunity … but two years on independents still hold more than half the council wards . |
| 6 | The discharge of crude into the Gulf once again created a huge floating oil slick reported by Platt 's as measuring 35 miles long by 10 miles wide ( 56 x 16 km ) , which endangered the seawater intake points of nearby desalination plants and also much of the resident bird population , drawing charges of ‘ environmental terrorism , . |
| 7 | Carson ( 1970 ) analysed the Factory Inspectorate files on a randomly selected sample of two hundred firms in one district of south-east England covering the years 1961 to 1966 . |
| 8 | Finally , after Ruddock had made one clumsy , belated attempt to launch ‘ the Smash ’ , Lewis provided the killing brush strokes of the boxing artist . |
| 9 | Mr Fallon , known as the man who described the TV series Neighbours as ‘ junk ’ , has a look of stoic resignation , almost as if some injustice has occurred , while his wife registers a wary but altogether more wistful expression . |
| 10 | Lennox Lewis dismissed the world title plans of rival British heavyweight Frank Bruno during the latest round of verbal in-fighting between the two men , writes Steve Bunce . |
| 11 | And the net result of all of these things together is that it narrowed the cost value differentials between U K and overseas holidays . |
| 12 | Detailed descriptions of the boys were released yesterday after police photographic specialists enhanced the security video pictures of the boys leading two-year-old James from the shopping centre . |
| 13 | More clearly than Wheatley , he identified the gold standard policies of the Treasury and the City of London as the major obstacle to national economic recovery . |
| 14 | Harold Elletson , Tory MP for Blackpool North , slammed the dinner table antics of Lisa 's group . |
| 15 | A big turnout of diminutive Dexters dominated the dairy cow classes at last weeks ' East of England Show at Peterborough . |
| 16 | This approach , which dominated the abortion reform movements of Sixties ' North America , is rooted in liberal humanism which values science and rational thought . |
| 17 | Another safe bet are current teen sensations Take That who dominated the Smash Hits awards with their album Take That And Party ( RCA ) . |
| 18 | Inaccurate : the council of the Law Society of Scotland abolished the conveyancing scale fees in 1985 ! |
| 19 | They then stunned the County Week champions by taking all three doubles matches , with Paul Scullard and John Vinnell saving a match point in their 2–6 , 7–6 , 6–4 defeat of Ian Blakeman and David Hirst . |
| 20 | Donald and I , who as schoolboys frequented the South Kensington museums during our holidays , and returned by various routes to tea in our hated home , must often have passed that way . |
| 21 | Following as it did the enormous publicity that surrounded the child abuse allegations in Cleveland , Nottingham , and Rochdale , Orkney Islands Council were strangely unprepared for the wide interest their own case attracted . |
| 22 | Wayne handed the clipboard to Pete , and then locked the boat house doors behind him . |
| 23 | These changes followed the exchange rate realignments of January 1987 , and the basis for concern was that individual EC countries ' currencies continued to move differently in response to the depreciation of the US dollar . |
| 24 | APPEAL ( No. 6 of 1991 ) with leave of the Court of Appeal of Bermuda by the plaintiff , Horace Brenton Kelly , from the judgment of the Court of Appeal of Bermuda ( Blair-Kerr P. , Roberts and Henry JJ.A. ) given on 30 November 1989 allowing an appeal by the defendants , Margot Cooper and Helen Cooper ( trading as Cooper Associates , a firm ) from the judgment of Hull J. delivered on 14 November 1988 in the Supreme Court of Bermuda ( Civil Jurisdiction ) , whereby he awarded the plaintiff $200,000 damages for breach of contract and made a declaration that the defendants were not entitled to commission on the sale of the plaintiff 's property , and the defendants ' counterclaim for commission was dismissed . |
| 25 | He never actually produced it or named the State Department Communists on it . |
| 26 | It would be a neat trick of fate if he survived the plasma energy weapons of the platforms only to be burned to a crisp because the pod entered the upper atmosphere of Tarvaras at the incorrect angle . |
| 27 | The Sandinistas survived the Contra war thanks to a free lifeline of Soviet oil . |
| 28 | Inside the pump-house there was little more to do , but they smashed the transformer oil pipes with sledge-hammers and threw down some tar baby incendiaries . |
| 29 | This was a bar that er went under the bomb like that when they fastened them up , and then when they dropped the bombs this bar was in a clip , like where me finger is , i in a clip so when they released them it dropped out of this clip the bar went as well of course , down that went down went the bomb drop bars with it used to be make them day and night and things like that and er of course there was er Bloxwich Lock and Stamping we used to do odd stamping , odd forgings and things li and er that was other part of the war work . |
| 30 | In July 1990 Louis Le Pensec , the French Overseas Departments and Territories Minister , attended the independence anniversary celebrations in Port Vila . |