Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [prep] [noun prp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are substantial reasons for attributing to Evesham the monuments to Hester Salusbury ( died 1614 , Stansted Mountfitchet , Essex ) ; Robert Rich , first Earl of Warwick ( died 1619 , Snarford , Lincolnshire ) ; Sir Justinian Lewin ( died 1620 , Otterden , Kent ) ; John Troughton ( died 1621 , Ingatestone , Essex ) , and the black stone panel engraved with allegorical devices in commemoration of Guy Carleton ( died 1628 , Cuckfield , East Sussex ) . |
| 2 | Still , even after signing to EMI The Smiths had to maintain a further year 's recording schedule with Rough Trade . |
| 3 | After passing through Enville the Way wanders through the lovely old village of Kinver and climbs up to its end on the sandstone ridge of Kinver Edge . |
| 4 | The magistrates have now called a pre-sentence report -- and he 'll be summoned back to court for sentencing on November the Ninth . |
| 5 | As an example , let us briefly consider some aspects of spelling in Havelok the Dane . |
| 6 | He was in the middle of explaining to Franco the events of his day . |
| 7 | Matthew Arnold 's great achievement was that he convinced the younger generation among his readers of the necessity for providing throughout England an abundant supply of public secondary schools for boys and girls , schools which would be intellectually competent , attested by public inspection , and aided both by local authorities and the state . |
| 8 | On the other hand , my journeys in Wiltshire had made me a familiar figure to the police , and I consulted them about evacuating from London a distinguished man , of whose name , I need hardly say , they had never heard . |
| 9 | Indeed Katie 's group , when I 'd pushed them into talking about Mitch a little more , spent most of their time examining his picture and finding fault with his appearance . |
| 10 | Owen Barfield , both in conversation and in writing , had already gone a long way in revealing to Lewis the fallacy of making sharp distinctions between ‘ myth ’ and ‘ fact ’ . |
| 11 | Starting off in Vienna , the cars will travel through Italy , Switzerland , Croatia and Slovenia before returning to Austria a fortnight later . |
| 12 | Pretender Charles attempted to enter England in 1744 , and succeeded in landing in Scotland the following year but , after initial successes in Scotland as ‘ Bonnie Prince Charles ’ — the grandson of James II — he suffered a terrible defeat at Culloden in 1746 and that was followed by the imposition of a ruthless repression in the Highlands of Scotland by the favourite son of King George II , the Duke of Cumberland . |
| 13 | Before going to China the Indonesian delegation went to Japan for Emperor Akihito 's enthronement on Nov. 12 [ see p. 37859 ] . |
| 14 | Yet he proceeded to declare that by refraining from exercising in America the power of the executive which it controlled in Great Britain , Parliament would preserve the unity of the Empire : |
| 15 | Before playing for Northants the cheerful James had played for Wellington in New Zealand . |
| 16 | The first study in recent years of this important Boston painter and teacher whose Paris training stood him in good stead in introducing into America a fascinating mixture of French Academicism , Barbizon and early Impressionism . |
| 17 | Beyond that would be a ferry flight to Leuchars in Scotland for the northern Battle of Britain display before settling upon Finningley the same day ( 19th ) for a display and a nightstop . |
| 18 | Before leaving for Jerusalem a selection of the paintings were exhibited at Sotheby 's London , on the initiative of Melanie Clore of their Impressionist and Modern Pictures department . |
| 19 | Since moving to Knaresborough a year ago , Mrs Goode has become involved with the local playgroup where she does three sessions a week . |
| 20 | ‘ Jock ’ Barber left 261 Squadron on posting to A.H.Q. The last of the original Hurricane pilots still with the squadron , during his almost ten months of operations he had flown over 90 sorties , claimed three and one shared shot down and at least three damaged . |
| 21 | Since arriving in Perugia the Neapolitan 's days had been spent slumped in the Alfetta in the car park beneath Zen 's office window , reading comics and listening to the radio . |
| 22 | ‘ Although we were disappointed at losing to Japan the emergence of Tony Stanger plus Ian Corcoran , Cameron Glasgow and Adam Buchanan-Smith emphasises the value of touring , ’ Munro said . |
| 23 | This tactical change , confirmed at the ninth full session of the Communist International in February 1928 , and aimed , according to Georges Cogniot , at creating in France a working-class front against the combined bloc of social democracy and the bourgeoisie , was none the less interpreted by many in the PCF primarily as the need to intensify the struggle against social democracy . |
| 24 | She achieves this by attributing to Freud a relatively low level of transhistorical applicability . |
| 25 | The Spaniards were heavily outnumbered ( the French ambassador , d'Estrades , had prepared for a struggle by bringing to London a number of officers from regiments commanded by himself and his son as well as soldiers from the garrison of Gravelines , on the northern coast of France ) ; but they none the less won the immediate contest by cutting the traces of the horses pulling the French ambassador 's coach . |
| 26 | ‘ If there 's bandits along any of these sections , ’ he said , ‘ we 'll skip 'em and you can tack on the extra mileage by walking round Kano a few times . ’ |
| 27 | Gao Dai , whom Deng had earlier criticized for his hardline views , appeared to revise his stance by publishing in June an article which was highly critical of " leftism " . |
| 28 | Nepos at first delighted Sidonius by conferring on Ecdicius the patriciate which Anthemius had promised . |