Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [vb past] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Parquet had existed , he thought , since at least 1883 when a reforming Minister of Justice had unearthed in his office some Arabic translations of parts of the French Code Napoleon and promulgated them as the new Egyptian legal system . |
| 2 | Selkirk stood , looked down at Corbett and patted him on the head . |
| 3 | On Dec. 4 Kaunda dismissed his Defence Minister , Lt. Gen. Hannaniah Lungu and replaced him with the former Deputy Defence Minister , Dodson Siatalimi . |
| 4 | She had n't told him much except that she did not like her neighbour Fireman Mosse and blamed him for the death of his wife . |
| 5 | Mrs Smith 's Arnold had confirmed she took her gloves home on Friday and threw them in the dustbin and … |
| 6 | Cleo ran to Lucy and hit her around the knees with the balloon shouting ‘ Doon … doon . ’ |
| 7 | When such a man came down from Olympus and applied himself to the problems of Africa , his voice was heard . |
| 8 | Mr Kendall , you came through the hole , found Mr Goodhaven and brought him to the surface . |
| 9 | Juliet smiled at Donna and followed him from the room . |
| 10 | THE estranged wife of a cheating council boss told last night how she took his £22,000 Mercedes and rammed it into the front doors of the town hall where he works . |
| 11 | The 28year-old blonde jumped into his Hregistered Mercedes and rammed it into the front doors of Gosport town hall in Hampshire . |
| 12 | One day his inquisitors would take Master Learmouth and put him to the question . |
| 13 | That was a mythical representation of Scotland that owed everything to the prejudices of people who lived in the past and knew nothing of the realities of the Scotland that then existed . |
| 14 | Mrs Lennox threw an arm around Maggie and drew her into the kitchen . |
| 15 | ‘ Anybody could have driven it to Exeter and dumped it at the station without leaving traces that would be discovered by anything short of a pukka forensic examination . ’ |
| 16 | Ruth Michaelis felt betrayed from the time her mother brought her over to England and left her with the Reverend Stead and his family . |
| 17 | The band were initially looking for a lighting rig and a PA system to do a gig in Aberdeen and obtained them from the music shop she worked in . |
| 18 | Another one snapped out of the melée around Hrun and caught him around the waist . |
| 19 | Almost the first thing she said was that a madman had escaped from Rampton and killed someone in the kitchen . |
| 20 | The British Foreign Office analysed the constitution of North Korea and compared it with the constitutions of other communist states . |
| 21 | The American occupation misunderstood the nature of the unrest in south Korea and attributed it to the machinations of the communists . |
| 22 | A POWERFUL low drive by Nick Summerbee earned England a 1–0 win over Scotland and eased them into the final of the Under-21 tournament in Toulon last night . |
| 23 | He summoned all the archbishops and bishops who were with him in Sicily and flung himself to the ground at their feet . |
| 24 | Police intercepted the Peugeot and chased it into the lower Shankill , where the gunmen jumped out . |
| 25 | Police intercepted the Peugeot and chased it into the lower Shankill , where the gunmen jumped out . |
| 26 | MADRID — A distraught blind man , Manuel Eulogio Suarez , cornered his three tiny children in their flat in Vigo , north-west Spain and tossed them over the sixth-floor balcony , apparently after a row with his estranged wife . |
| 27 | Graziano , 68 , won the world title in 1947 with a sixth-round knock-out of Tony Zale but lost it to the same fighter less than a year later . |
| 28 | He had waylaid Mr Dwerringhouse and hit him on the head to stun him , but in falling to the ground , the older man had hit his head on a large stone and sustained a fatal blow . |
| 29 | and then er dad and Mike come down in the Sierra and met us in the pub . |
| 30 | Hussa and the boy 's sister soon arrived from Al Ain and installed themselves in the adjoining bedrooms . |