Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er you mentioned glucose in fact the one that is actually produced |
| 2 | Though some of Baldwin 's kinsmen found favour with Charles the Bald , there is no evidence that they formed a consistent political grouping — any more than Robert and his relatives did . |
| 3 | He looked tired and drawn and her heart went out to him , but when he caught sight of Belinda the smile was back on his face . |
| 4 | Here he caught sight of Aziz the janitor , who was standing at the back of the hall with his mop and bucket . |
| 5 | Both girls thought she was joking at first but when she recounted word for word the interview she had had with Moran they exploded into wild laughter . |
| 6 | The reformist president , FW de Klerk , told parliament on Wednesday the mobilisation of reservists would help police crack down on ‘ barbaric ’ political violence including child murders . |
| 7 | Richard Duke of Gloucester , the late king 's soldierly youngest brother , was at his castle of Middleham in Yorkshire when he received news of Edward the Fourth 's death . |
| 8 | As part of the weekend 's festivities , a special steam hauled train to Minehead the ‘ Severn Coast Express ’ will depart from Bishops Lydeard at 7.25 pm on Saturday evening , returning there at 11.00pm . |
| 9 | For a time Malins regarded himself as a Liberal Unionist , but he made policy toward drink the only basis for supporting parliamentary candidates . |
| 10 | In the offices at Gedling pit , and I started work on August the third . |
| 11 | And it 's quite true , I was there about four years and they always took stock before January the first , so that after Christmas came an anomaly , we 'd had a Christmas holiday and gone back to work . |
| 12 | The Russians demanded compensation for installations the former Soviet army is leaving behind , and the Poles sought payment for four decades of use of Polish property as well as environmental damage at military sites . |
| 13 | In the summer of 1306 there took place at Montreuil the first of a series of meetings ( ‘ processes ’ ) between French and English representatives to try to work out the legal position of the lands held by the English in Aquitaine . |
| 14 | The public session of the Congress , on its second day , took place on Friday the 25 July . |
| 15 | When the full institutional visit took place in December the Council found that the expectations of the preliminary visit were being fulfilled . |
| 16 | ‘ Barratt was just telling us the other night at the Goodys ' , ’ says Prue , as she pours coffee in the living-room , ‘ about how he had lunch with God the other day . ’ |
| 17 | As long as he remained bishop of Rome the pope belonged in Rome . |