Example sentences of "the [noun] [noun prp] [conj] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 On the contrary , it proved , beyond any doubt , that the Templars were familiar with the Atbash Cipher and employed it in their own obscure , heterodox rites .
2 The Orc Warlord that led them was Azhag the Slaughterer , and under his command were tribes of Orcs and Goblins from the highlands around Red Eye Mountain .
3 Who sent them down to the Florida Keys and left them there in hurricane months ?
4 The Economist called it the Consumer-Credit Snowball and pronounced it well and truly rolling .
5 Then as he pulled open the door of the Alfa Romeo and invited her to climb inside , he suddenly caught her arm and looked down into her face .
6 Rudyard Kipling ( who once was forced to travel on a migrant train in the United States and found it a ‘ nightmare ’ ) encountered a peculiarly American hazard for the famous traveller .
7 The fungal affinity of these bizarre forms was not recognised until the 1850s , when Charles Robin and Camille Montagne described the genus Laboulbenia and placed it in the class Ascomycetes .
8 In this case it was a combination of steam power and the proximity of the River Severn that allowed it to prosper to such a comparatively late date .
9 With a swift movement he picked up one of the Lal Khals and kissed it on its head .
10 Israel also took control of the water sources of the West Bank and integrated them into its national water system .
11 I think in the end it was the Populus alba that did it .
12 He had propped the tarpaulin trailer-cover against the Land Rover and weighted it with jerry cans to eliminate the wind that swept under the vehicle .
13 As soon as he walked through the door of the rather dark basement flat in the Bayswater Road and heard her explain that Pauline 's boyfriend was ill so she had gone off to his place to see what she could do for him , Freddie wanted to flee .
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