Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [pron] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stood fingering the tresses of the willow , branches of which wept over the upturned hull of a boat , which had been dug out of the peat bog to the north of the island and was permanently on display . |
| 2 | He now wrote a number of books on it intended for the general reader , including History of Astronomy ( 1909 ) and The Wonder and the Glory of the Stars ( 1926 ) . |
| 3 | Noreen quickly took her from Jock and with her brothers beside her ran through the porch of the church into the daylight . |
| 4 | ‘ In those days when the number of disciples was increasing , the Grecian Jews among them complained against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food . |
| 5 | it must not be possible to modify archived material ; system users may not have access to archive material but may read copies of it provided by the system manager |
| 6 | Views of what happened in the past will vary . |
| 7 | As the summer wore on and Dubah 's name kept cropping up in raw intelligence data from DEA/NARCOG informants , Coleman eventually reported to Donleavy that , without ever leaving the country , the Syrian spymaster seemed to have his hand in the pockets of everybody engaged in the Bekaa 's drug traffic , from Damascus to Dearborn . |
| 8 | As a result the Company lost its monopoly ; after 1697 all English merchants could trade with West Africa , though they were supposed to pay a tax of 10 per cent of the value of goods exported from England , the proceeds of which went to the Royal Africa Company to enable it to keep up its forts on the West African coast . |
| 9 | Littleton Surface supervisor Mr. Brian Sutton explained : ‘ She did look at home here particularly as there are n't many industrial sites like ours left in the country with sidings and our own mineral line . |
| 10 | It was only then she saw what she should have noticed immediately : a bunch of keys with one stuck in the lock , many of them hung with labels . |
| 11 | ‘ I remember — and it 's lucky for you no one asked any awkward questions about what happened along the way when you and Anna spent a night together . ’ |
| 12 | At once that part of the map seemed to come alive ; was overlaid with a fine web of brilliant gold , the nodes of which sparkled in the overhead light . |
| 13 | Galleys took some small part in the indecisive battle of Cape Matapan between the Turkish and Venetian fleets in 1717 ; but apart from the large fleets of them maintained in the Baltic by Russia and Sweden they had become obsolete long before the end of this period . |
| 14 | Jane carried the tray across to the police officers with what looked to the sergeant like absurd concentration and Dexter wondered uncharitably whether she had already been drinking . |
| 15 | Numbers and commentaries upon them lay at the heart of the Robbins Report , although there was much else besides : the scale of research undertaken for the Report and the quality of the statistical analyses were unprecedented . |
| 16 | Multiple shadows of him fell on the perimeter wall , leaping like pale giants . |
| 17 | The move brought into the open the so-called " Saddamgate " scandal , the rumbling allegations of which centred upon the charge that the Bush government had concealed that extent of its illegal support for Saddam Hussein prior to August 1990 . |
| 18 | They used to swap aluminium ore for shiploads of them imported from the Soviet Union . |
| 19 | Altogether I was away from Low Birk Hatt for two months and those kind neighbours of mine came to the rescue once again and looked after the animals . |
| 20 | Of course , there are no witnesses to what happened at the other end of her journey . |
| 21 | In cases involving media rights heard in British courts today , the Convention and the cases on it decided by the European Court are usually cited in argument on behalf of the media . |
| 22 | It certainly knocks spots off anything attempted by the newly-Thatcherising Conservatives in the run-up to the 1979 election . |
| 23 | The most serious charges against them related to the fraudulent transfer of public funds estimated at more than 2,300 million francs CFA . |
| 24 | I checked and the Peterborough players with me went for the check . |
| 25 | The Irish republican SDLP and other groups which had had members in it turned on the Wilson government with the utmost ferocity for being weak , cowardly and treacherous . |
| 26 | A group apart , the links between them welded by the sheer weight of society pressing down upon them . |
| 27 | Not only does it ignore the sense in which suffering can be unwitting but it also begs the question in favour of saying , when specific symptoms like struggling or urination occur in animals , that these are properly to be seen as , emotional responses ' ( which covertly elicits our sympathy for the conscious distress of the stricken human parent rather than the symptoms of it observed in the struggling , yet unaware , athlete ) . |
| 28 | President Fernando Collor de Mello resigned on Dec. 29 as impeachment proceedings against him began in the Senate . |
| 29 | Herbert 's notes give only tantalizing hints of what happened to the other Jacobson children . |
| 30 | ‘ But sir , volunteer soldiers like me joined with the determination to resist any attack upon our country . |