Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even more gripping than this documentary feature is Apted 's fictional movie based on the same incident , Thunderheart , a tight , concentrated political drama which the director got off the ground thanks to the backing of Robert De Niro . |
| 2 | Only in the late nineteenth century did these contracts generally disappear and instead the land was sold or let and the old people lived off the cash proceeds . |
| 3 | and I just got through the traffic lights first thing in the morning and there was two light |
| 4 | Numerous disputes arose between the Forest officers and the owners of lands and woods they had re-afforested . |
| 5 | I tried several places before they tumbled through the ballroom doors . |
| 6 | But they did manage to get as far as Wales , where the foothills of Snowdonia passed for the Karakoram mountains . |
| 7 | Many Americans who lived through the war years and remembered quite vividly the virtual hatred and perceived Japanese treachery fuelled during the war probably stiffened at the presented Japanese viewpoint but it remains , for the most part , historically accurate . |
| 8 | The person concerned is , generally speaking , the mother , but , given the role reversal which I experienced during the school holidays , it seems reasonable to point to my father 's behaviour as a possible contributory factor to my becoming anorexic . |
| 9 | A Japanese man came in and asked about the china ducks . |
| 10 | My hon. Friend asked about the Export Credits Guarantee Department . |
| 11 | At the beginning of each week she read through the Radio Times and TV Times and ringed the programmes that she wanted to see . |
| 12 | The physicists lived for the emulsion trails and double checked to see if they were interpreting them correctly . |
| 13 | Mr McAteer said : ‘ I was in the Sheriff Clerk 's Office and asked for the defence documents . |
| 14 | It 's been going on for about seventeen months now and the in chief man at Hill House was rather interested to hear that we 'd not actually had it resolved yet , and asked for the reference numbers and . |
| 15 | And to asked for the cream teas to be retained . |
| 16 | The Nixon administration , now on the defensive , asked for the Senate deadlines to be relaxed , but with strong public and media backing , the policy presented by Muskie was enacted . |
| 17 | Arriving at the podium to a standing ovation , Jesse asked for the house lights to be raised — ‘ so that I may speak unto the people ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ But we have a hectic business schedule tomorrow , ’ he drawled as the lift doors slid open . |
| 19 | Tony finished his evening meal and scanned through the television programmes in the local newspaper . |
| 20 | ‘ Do n't you want to get your overcoat ? ’ she asked , as they passed through the swing doors into the freezing outside air . |
| 21 | ‘ We 've all got to share , ’ she said , as they passed through the swing doors and found themselves looking down at the courtyard of the Museum . |
| 22 | However , those who passed through the entrance gates where Hades stood might never return to the mortal world . |
| 23 | As you passed through the iron gates you could feel at once that it would cost real money to have your temperature checked . |
| 24 | But that November evening , the evening it all started , it was raining heavily and just after six I passed through the iron gates and followed the path through the forest of Gothic monuments and gravestones . |
| 25 | They passed through the iron gates and the lodge , up the drive bordered with rhododendons , into the home park dotted with massive trees , to the grand sweep of gravel in front of the house . |
| 26 | When war broke out in South Africa MacBride was one of the first and most prominent members of the Irish Brigade which fought for the Boer republics , and at Ladysmith , Colenso , and elsewhere he proved himself to be a brave and resourceful soldier . |
| 27 | There are many many people who live in houses on their own ca n't get out and again it 's an indictment on our society when you hear and read about the telephone profits that er that B T are making . |
| 28 | I laughed and set spurs to my horse and thundered through the convent gates as fast as a deer . |
| 29 | Turnout rose as the opposition parties recovered from their disarray of 1918 and there was a large turnover of votes . |
| 30 | He even posed for the newspaper photographers , insisting only that they refrain from taking behind-the-bars type pictures . |