Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun sg] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then as they passed the Odeon cinema the man lunged at him with his walking stick beating him over the head and arms . |
| 2 | It was an officer revolt , justified by a crude political theory which made the officer corps the ultimate repository of a general will . |
| 3 | Lie-don 's lyrics , his jack-knife turns on single words like ‘ Va-cunt ’ , the inspiring segueing of jackboots marching , hands clapping , and a drum 's beat , and the basic thrill of the most rancid and magnetic voice in rock made the Sex Pistols the most intimidating and exhilarating fanfare of contempt and discontent going . |
| 4 | The revenue repaid the building society the moneys with interest from 31 July 1987 but refused to pay any interest in respect of the period up to the date of judgment . |
| 5 | And erm another thing is that , we got the dress rehearsal the night before the show ! |
| 6 | A self-portrait and a portrait by Jean-Baptiste Greuze were bought in at a sale held at Drouot by Laurin-Guilloux-Buffetaud-Tailleur on 10 March after French museum authorities notified the auction firm the same day that the first work might not be allowed to leave the country . |
| 7 | As he entered the dining room the gong was just being sounded by a squat elderly women who later proved to be Frau Zimmerman , wife of the proprietor . |
| 8 | And then as we approached the tube station the arm around me again and erm and he |
| 9 | The two policemen took statements from the servants about the last known moments of the occupants of the manor , and from Seb , Tom and Carrie , who described what they had seen as they approached the manor house the previous night . |
| 10 | I found the ankle cuff the right height and shape to provide support without restricting my movement . |
| 11 | Elsie provided a copper ashtray the size of a flower pot . |
| 12 | ‘ But that success created a wage structure the club could not afford . |
| 13 | Defence lawyer Tony Cinnamond , QC , told the Crown Court the prosecution had also put forward ‘ a strange collection of witnesses ’ some of whom , he alleged had told lies . |
| 14 | They told the insurance company the same . |
| 15 | At the hotel a tearful maid told the sailor pair the tragic news that Bessie had been carried off to the cholera hospital . |
| 16 | It was skinnyness that was popular , the more you resembled a telegraph pole the bigger your chance was of winning the annual ‘ narrow cup ’ . |
| 17 | The same magazine declared The Body Shop the second fastest growing medium-sized business in Britain in a survey of two hundred firms . |
| 18 | He opened the door to the gun-room and showed the estate agent the interior . |
| 19 | Seeking continuity , they chose Caledor 's son , who was to become the Phoenix King Caledor the Second and taught the Elf princes the folly of hereditary kingship . |
| 20 | I heard a fuzz guitar the other night — who was playing it ? |
| 21 | He called the council tax the poll tax mark II and said that the new tax was to be bulldozed through the House . |
| 22 | The building was burnt to the ground in the disaster which overtook the town in AD 296 , when the northern frontier was overrun by invaders , but it was soon rebuilt on an even more lavish scale , which possibly included a bath wing The whole complex is usually interpreted as a mansio . |
| 23 | The Court of Appeal held that as the plaintiffs employed no union members the union 's actions were not in furtherance of a trade dispute and injunctions were issued against the union . |
| 24 | After they reached the dressing room the Boro players learned second-placed Ipswich had lost to Watford . |
| 25 | When he reached the ticket hall the heat was so fierce the water from his hose turned to steam before it reached the fire . |
| 26 | The third Phoenix King was to be Imrik , who upon his succession took the name Caledor the First . |
| 27 | Now it was whilst I was standing out there on my own — and really feeling very , very , browned-off — that I saw an aeroplane approach the airfield and make a quiet and dignified circuit . |
| 28 | ‘ Poor ’ in person , the monks enjoyed nevertheless a standard of living far above the Sussex norm , a situation made clear by the accounts of the late fourteenth-century cellarer , Brother Thomas Ellam , who bought the bulk provisions the monks needed : |
| 29 | Only bad light and rain , which prevented play in the final session , saved the tourists from total embarrassment after Allan Border 's decision to bat gave the Kiwi bowlers the chance to exploit movement on an Eden Park wicket that looked deceptively flat . |
| 30 | He gave the union leaders the opportunity to tell him in a forthright manner where they thought he was going wrong with his policies and he in turn did some pretty plain talking about what he saw as their shortcomings . |