Example sentences of "de [noun] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He paid the cab off on the east side of Etoile in the towering shadow of the Arc de Triomphe and took the pedestrian subway across to the west . |
| 2 | The midday sun glinted against the bronze bas-reliefs of famous battle scenes on Napoleon 's column as Chantal steered the Harley-Davidson through the place de l'Opéra and turned down the busy rue de la Paix . |
| 3 | Two hours before dawn , in the wavering beam of our torches , we followed their steps to the Flammes de Pierre and caught them , still cocooned amongst the rocks . |
| 4 | The present building is supposed to have been erected in 1333 , when the church was made collegiate by Sir John de Heslerton and housed six chaplains and three clerks . |
| 5 | In 1985 Caffier took advantage of a quiet hour over lunch at the Musée de l'école de Nancy and stole five pieces of pate de verre by Daum and Galle valued at more than FFr30 million . |
| 6 | Lincoln solved the codes during his holiday and on his return home contacted de Sede and asked him why he had n't published the solution . |
| 7 | I went to the university on the Plaza de Anaya and climbed the familiar stairway in the Palacio de Anaya . |
| 8 | Rain and Oliver crossed the rue de Rivoli and looked up at Cobalt 's flat . |
| 9 | He crossed the Rue de Rivoli and entered the fairground . |
| 10 | Picasso presented Max Jacob with a bound copy of L'Imitation de Jésus-Christ and inscribed it : ‘ To my brother Cyprien Max Jacob , Souvenir of his Baptism , Thursday 18 February 1915 . |
| 11 | This would counter the activities of Charles de Gaulle and put a brake on the inward-looking tendencies in the Community . |
| 12 | Nationalisation had begun under de Gaulle and embraced the coal , gas and electricity industries , airlines , major banking and insurance companies , and Renault cars . |
| 13 | During a break in which the designer 's assistant smeared the mirror above the fireplace with vaseline — ; Meredith had complained it reflected too much light — Dawn Allenby apologised for the drenching smell of eau de Cologne that pervaded her person . |
| 14 | Céline has escaped from the Marquis de Pierre-Noire and fled to Edinburgh . |
| 15 | By the time I was through San Pedro de Lloc and had reached the turn-off to Cajamarca at San José my mind had built the man up into some sort of a monster . |
| 16 | But it was not only the work of Vredeman de Vries that made this garden so remarkable . |
| 17 | The Revd T. S. Holmes speculated that he was the son of Thomas and Isabel de Bubwith and had two brothers , Henry and Thomas . |
| 18 | This was a Cistercian house founded in 1131 by Walter de Clare and survived until the Dissolution of the Monasteries under Henry VIII in the 1530s . |
| 19 | Joëlle Pesnel , you may recall , gained the trust of the rich heiress Suzanne de Canson and persuaded her to sell a number of works from her collection . |
| 20 | He was educated at the Collège de Genève and entered the University of Aberdeen in 1874 , where he graduated MB in 1878 and MD in 1881 . |
| 21 | Miranda could tell that Madame Davenant was not angry that she had had to climb five floors to Miranda 's chambre , la quatorze , on the level just below the mansarde , where Marie-Angèle had her quarters , for the maid looked cheerful as she nodded in the direction of the salle de bains and promised , ‘ Une autre fois . ’ |