Example sentences of "in the [noun prp] de [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vineyards in the Côte de Sézanne in the south-western Champagne district are noticeably less concentrated . |
| 2 | Driant 's men in the Bois de Caures bore the brunt of the attack and he himself was killed . |
| 3 | A camp was set up in the Bois de Lapiérouse . |
| 4 | This time his powers of concentration were not helped by the fact that on a hot and humid Sunday afternoon in the Bois de Boulogne he was feeling awful : he had been wasting in order to ride Beaver II at nine stone ten pounds later in the afternoon , and was severely debilitated by a stomach upset which had kept him up all night . |
| 5 | Foreign artists tried hopelessly to find work , dig trenches , look after the four cows in the Bois de Boulogne , anything to earn a few francs . |
| 6 | Edouard rides every morning , you know , in the Bois de Boulogne . ’ |
| 7 | They were to drive in the Bois de Boulogne . |
| 8 | Captain Delvert , appraising in April 1916 the crowds of gorgeous well-dressed women who promenaded in the Bois de Boulogne on the arms of their escorts , was reminded of |
| 9 | Very little is known historically about Roland , but his fame lives on in the Chanson de Roland and legends that arose not long after his heroic death . |
| 10 | In his book Time in French Life and Thought Richard Glasser has drawn attention to the fact that nowhere in the Chanson de Roland do we find any indication of time . |
| 11 | ‘ Qui plus fait , mie[u]x vault ’ ( ‘ Who does most is worth most ’ ) , the refrain in the Livre de chevalerie written in the middle of the fourteenth century by Geoffroi de Charny , the standard-bearer of King John II of France at the battle of Poitiers , who preferred to stand and die rather than run away in the moment of defeat , aptly sums up the chivalrous attitude to war . |
| 12 | While Bruno de Bayser continues to work in the Galerie de Bayser , his first floor premises , Bayser fils has converted two ground floor courtyard rooms previously used for storing picture frames into a gallery devoted mainly to nineteenth-century drawings . |
| 13 | From the age of eight onwards he was allowed to dine with his parents at the Bonaparte family dinners which took place every Monday at the Tuileries , and occasionally at more formal dinners which were held in the Galerie de Diane . |
| 14 | At 2.45pm on Sunday , November 1990 , the body of an Englishman was found in a small gorge high up in the Sierra de Gredos mountains of central Spain . |
| 15 | By then , not only had the Nationalist seventh Division failed to enter Madrid , it had also failed in its first attempt to isolate the city from its northern defences in the Sierra de Guadarrama . |
| 16 | Some 300,000 years ago , the remains of at least 24 people somehow found their way into the Sima de los Huesos , a small chamber deep within a cave in the Sierra de Atapuerca , northern Spain . |
| 17 | Admittedly , Jean Poiret 's congealed froth of a farce is a cut above the spurious Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune and Exclusive , the most radically merit-free play in town , if not history . |
| 18 | Nesting for the first time in the delta since the 16th century , the flamingos had flown up the coast from the southern province of Malaga after finding their traditional nesting ground in the Fuente de Piedra lake had dried up after a prolonged drought . |
| 19 | For although Cabezón 's compositions first appeared in print in Luys Venegas de Henestrosa 's Libro de cifra ( figure notation ) nueva para tecla ( keyboard ) , harpay vihuela ( Alcala , 1557 ) , and the rest of them only in the Obras de musica published posthumously by his son ( Madrid , 1578 ) , no doubt many had been written as early as the lute pieces in Narvaez 's Delphin de musica ( Valladolid , 1538 ) . |
| 20 | Unknowns are always discovered in the Copa de Republic . |
| 21 | On Nov. 6 insurgents had also bombed the Caño Limón-Covenas oil pipeline in the Norte de Santander department and attacked 12 banks and two police stations in Bogotá , the capital . |
| 22 | She still made occasional trips to Brittany ; on the last of those , she fell ill and died 18 September 1939 in the Hôpital de Dieppe . |
| 23 | Castilian admirals also gave the French advice on re-establishing their own navy in the Clos de Gallées at Rouen , and the combined power of the French and Castilian navies presented a formidable threat to England in the 1370s . |
| 24 | One afternoon in the last week of their stay she went to a reception in the Rue de Varenne given by yet more of their friends . |
| 25 | Germaine also saw him with Jeanne and her mother in the Rue de France . |
| 26 | Samuel 's large stall was in the rue de Sanghines , the street of the moneylenders . |
| 27 | W H Smith celebrates 90 years in the Rue de Rivoli |
| 28 | The English Bookshop in the Rue de Rivoli has the distinction of being the W H Smith branch which has remained longest on its original site . |
| 29 | In the Tournoi de Chauvency ( 1285 ) there are jokes about Picard French , and very funny and elaborate parodies of Alsatian speech . |
| 30 | Paris Journal referred in 1911 to the enthusiasm with which Picasso would show his collection to visitors to his studio in the Boulevard de Clichy . |