Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a violent row in the Bundestag , for instance , when the SPD leader , Kurt Schuhmacher , attacked Adenauer for cosying up to the enemy by calling him ‘ the Allies ' Chancellor ’ in 1949 . |
| 2 | ‘ The first thing I want is a bath , ’ said Kenichi Horie after coming ashore on the southern island of Okinawa . |
| 3 | Northern Ireland international striker Colin Clarke retains his place in Portsmouth 's team for the home League game against Tranmere after scoring twice in the FA Cup victory at Middlesbrough in midweek . |
| 4 | A day of sorrows for Crusaders was capped just before half-time when the usually lethal Sid Burrows was booked for throwing the ball away and referee Alan Snoddy had a word with manager Roy Walker for coming on to the pitch . |
| 5 | I sat down to watch the late afternoon shadows climb Rise Hill before striking out for the Occupation Road . |
| 6 | The woman who sang wandered over , carrying her sheets of music , and stopped to say a few words to Dr Rafaelo before going up to the little stage and setting up her recording deck to accompany her nightly concert . |
| 7 | This event had two consequences : the German submarines stationed off Scapa Flow , with the task of harassing Jellicoe when he put to sea , were running out of fuel ; and , on the new date set for sailing — 31 May — strong winds prevented Zeppelins from reconnoitring ahead of the High Seas Fleet . |
| 8 | After her interview with J. D. O'Connor she had mitigated her whoppers to Matey and Dr Neil by moving on to the West End , where she walked along Oxford Street , entering Mr Gordon Selfridge 's store , gazing as raptly at its wonders as though she were truly the poor girl whom she pretended to be , the whole place seeming quite different now that she no longer had her papa 's bottomless purse at her command . |
| 9 | If we had more courage at Goodison in facing up to the truth unpalatable though it may be things might begin to improve . |
| 10 | Such was the concern of the Allies to prevent Spain from gravitating further towards the Axis that they were prepared to swallow Franco 's blatant duplicity to achieve that aim . |
| 11 | The following year Graham Greene , having struggled to write a script from Galsworthy 's Twenty-One Days — about a murderer who killed himself and an innocent man who was hanged for the suicide 's crime — within BBFC rules that forbade the representation of either suicide or a failure of British justice , joined with J. B. Priestley , Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells in speaking out against the censorship system . |
| 12 | Away from Central , the loop passed beneath Lockoford Lane before turning away from the town towards Brimington and Staveley . |
| 13 | ‘ Hope you had a good time , ’ said Chris Robinson before trotting energetically off the stage . |
| 14 | EC negotiator Ray MacSharry , back in charge after walking out accusing Mr Delors of thinking only of the French , predicted last night an agreement could be reached within days . |
| 15 | Top EC negotiator Ray MacSharry , back in charge after walking out accusing Mr Delors of thinking only of the French , predicted last night an agreement could be reached within days . |
| 16 | The train departs Oxenhope at 09.00 hrs on Saturday , October 19th and calls at Ingrow and Keighley before heading out over the S & C. |
| 17 | Continuing his march eastwards , Edward came to within not many miles of Paris before swinging northwards in the direction of the Channel . |
| 18 | While Beck 's adventures were cut short , Nick Faldo , beaten by Lyle in last year 's final , went into overtime against David Frost of South Africa before coming through on the 38th hole . |
| 19 | ‘ I told you not to bother , ’ Ellen said disparagingly as she climbed the main companionway , and I guessed that she had been listening to my conversation with Billingsley by standing just under the saloon skylight which was propped open . |
| 20 | Tony Heginbottom incorporated the tradition , however , when he revived Spaw Sunday by going early to the well and surrounding it with boughs of may and holly and bunches of wild flowers . |
| 21 | ‘ I know lots of places , ’ she retorted then glared at Doyle before striding out of the bar . |
| 22 | Generally , the Bristol and English Channels with the high ground of Devon and Cornwall between correspond roughly with the distribution of basin and range in New Red Sandstone times . |
| 23 | Bolger monopolised the rest of a seven-race programme , compiling his first five-timer at odds of 681–1 and Mrs Payson saw two explosive wins from her home-bred colts Tropicarr and Magic Carr before flying back to the United States yesterday . |
| 24 | The ‘ Hinch was stung into some retaliatory play , with a shot from Keri Kidd in the 55th minute only inches wide , but Kidd made amends in the following minute , beating Johnston from close in for the equaliser . |
| 25 | There are , of course , specific Israeli laws to stop Damiani and Abu Khadra and Mrs Zamzam from crossing back in the other direction . |
| 26 | Apparently from the notes , a certain Fruchtbaum in the Times Literary Supplement has described Charles on setting out on the Beagle voyage in such terms , which is certainly an exaggeration , but I do not know anyone else who has ever subscribed to that opinion . |
| 27 | Ballantine , of Birchburn , Aultbea , had admitted causing the death of Louis Innes-Loo by driving carelessly on the Poolewe to Aultbea road last 13 July and while over the limit . |
| 28 | Ballantine , of Mossat House , Aultbea , had admitted causing the death of Louis Innes-Loo by driving carelessly on the Poolewe to Aultbea road and while over the limit . |
| 29 | Dr Bob Holman , a National Children 's Home neighbourhood worker on the Easterhouse Estate in Glasgow , told a conference in London on growing up in the inner city organised by the Thomas Coram Foundation and chaired by Lord Scarman , that most of the 44,000 people there lived in poverty . |
| 30 | When James succeeded his brother Charles as king in 1685 he showed that he was willing to make the power of the Crown more effective in North America by pressing on with the creation of the Dominion of New England , but he had neither the surplus revenue nor the obedient bureaucracy needed to run a system like that applied by continental monarchs . |