Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [prep] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The bank made shipments from Timbuktu in the Middle Ages , when African gold was at its finest . ’ |
| 2 | He laid foundations for Christianity in the city which were to survive the coming of the Barbarians . |
| 3 | In February 1173 he met Humbert at Montferrat in the Auvergne to finalize the details of the betrothal . |
| 4 | Sprawled out across it were a rabble of Russian fugitives , whilst ahead a thin dark line of guns crept foot by foot towards the safety of the opposite shore . |
| 5 | An EC-EFTA meeting on Dec. 19 made progress in discussions on the European Economic Area or EEA ( the term now adopted in preference to " European Economic Space " or EES — see pp. 37134 ; 37535 ) , and it was anticipated that these EC-EFTA talks would now reach a conclusion by mid-1992 such that an EEA agreement could go through the various ratification processes and take effect on Jan. 1 , 1993 . |
| 6 | In the summer of 1962 , in Appropinquante Concilio , Pope John promulgated rules of procedure for the Council ( confirmed with some additional points the following year by Paul VI 's Ordo Concilii Oecumenici Vaticani Secundi ) . |
| 7 | The got £1,800 in grants from the BMC . |
| 8 | Object Design Inc is getting ready to ship ObjectStore 2.0 , claiming that the enhancements made thanks to feedback from the likes of IBM , SunSoft Inc and NeXt Inc raises the benchmark by which all commercial object database products will be judged . |
| 9 | The poignant melody made him think of soft feminine sighs , warm arms and whispered words of love in the dark of night . |
| 10 | If anybody got wind of strangers about the area , we sent the children back to their parents immediately . |
| 11 | At Talgarth they got wind of skirmishes in the south , and set off southward over Mynedd Troed for Tretower ; but because of the time they had lost they were always too far behind their quarry even to realise the magnitude of the chance that persistently slipped through their fingers . |
| 12 | From 1908 till 1918 he was lecturer in metallurgy at Glasgow University , and became professor of metallurgy at the Royal Technical College , Glasgow , in 1918 . |
| 13 | He became professor of anthropology in the University of London in 1927 , and taught there till he went on sabbatical leave to the United States in 1938 . |
| 14 | 2 Brush a large , doubled piece of foil with the rest of the sesame oil . |
| 15 | Inside her she had felt a little sense of triumph begin to grow as they rode side by side through the cool bright jungle glades ; sometimes she had allowed her horse to drift towards his on the narrow trail , perhaps hoping he might give voice to the passion his expression had seemed to promise at the palais . |
| 16 | ( iii ) Keep both the stock and diluted solutions at 4-C in the dark . |
| 17 | According to a minister of state in the Foreign Affairs Ministry at the end of January 110 companies were being investigated for alleged illegal deliveries to Iraq , of which 11 were being prosecuted , although none involved exports to Iraq after the August 1990 embargo came into force . |
| 18 | Net per share rose 50% to $0.24 in the quarter , 38.2% to $0.47 in the half . |
| 19 | The bishop followed up this preliminary scorching with a promise of eternal fire for the abbot of Glastonbury , upon whom he pronounced sentence of excommunication for the sin of damaging his property . |
| 20 | March : March 5 : United Kingdom Prime Minister John Major had talks in Moscow with Gorbachev on the Gulf conflict and the situation in the Baltic states ; March 7 : the RFSFR and Czechoslovakia signed a trade co-operation agreement ; March 12 : it was announced in Moscow that the withdrawal of the 50,000 troops stationed in Poland would begin in April , although the process would not be completed before 1994 ; March 14-16 : following a tour of the Middle East , US Secretary of State James Baker visited Moscow for talks on the situation in the Gulf and the presentation of a six-point US plan for peace and stability in the Middle East ; March 18-20 : UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd visited both Kiev and Moscow for discussions on British-Soviet relations ; March 22 : Soviet-Romanian treaty of friendship and co-operation initialled in Moscow ; March 28 : Bessmertnykh held further talks in Tokyo in connection with Gorbachev 's forthcoming visit . |
| 21 | He also played the video game machine and sank cans of drink in the Lemon Plaice , Axminster , Devon . |
| 22 | Net earnings per share rose 100% to $0.05 in the quarter , 43.8% to $0.23 in the year . |
| 23 | Net earnings per share rose 100% to $0.05 in the quarter , and amounted to $0.03 in the year . |
| 24 | Net earnings per share , adjusted last time for a two-for-one stock split paid in March 1993 , rose 100% to $0.36 in the quarter , 104.4% to $0.92 in the nine months . |
| 25 | Out of pre-tax profits that rose £175,000 to £19.25m in the six months to July , some £6.7m could be described as exceptional if not extraordinary . |
| 26 | Outlook page 25 Profits up : Pre-tax profits at Tootal rose £175,000 to £19.25m in the six months to July ahead of next week 's MMC report on Coats Viyella 's £395m bid . |
| 27 | Net earnings per share were $0.30 in the quarter , and rose 80% to $0.90 in the nine months . |
| 28 | " The European Council reviewed progress on ratification of the Treaty on European Union signed on Feb. 7 and reaffirmed the importance of concluding the process as soon as possible , without reopening the present text … |
| 29 | The GLC , under Labour control , stretched its responsibilities in unexpected ways and pursued policies in conflict with the priorities of the Conservative government . |
| 30 | MFI 's shares firmed 1p to 126p on the news yesterday . |