Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun sg] of [noun prp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Mountbatten 's orders from the Prime Minister made the invasion of Europe the main objective with ‘ a programme of raids in ever-increasing intensity ’ . |
| 2 | As we entered the Sound of Islay the gale renewed its fury , whipping the strong tides of the Sound into white water and the picturesque shoreline disappeared into low cloud scud and rain , only appearing intermittently as shadow all the way to Oban . |
| 3 | Back on the main road , Robert caught a glimpse of Aziz the janitor . |
| 4 | Instead , Mr Gummer told the House of Commons the list drawn up by the manufacturers themselves contained new instructions which would make all the machines ‘ perfectly safe in use . ’ |
| 5 | Iain Reekie confesses to entertaining an ambition to stage it ever since his days at college when he played the part of Creon the king , and perhaps this background makes him hostile to any interpretation which would see in Creon a proto-Nazi . |
| 6 | When parliament heard the news of Crécy the commons ‘ thanked God for the great victory He had given their king and they said that all their money had been well spent ’ . |
| 7 | When day dawned the home of Simon the Trapper was no longer on a peninsula but on an island and stood just clear of the water . |
| 8 | Other factors included the fact that the liberal-nationalist unification movement looked to Prussia as the natural leader of Germany : the Frankfurt Assembly offered the King of Prussia the imperial crown in 1849 but he rejected it , disliking their excessive parliamentary vision for the new Germany . |
| 9 | He became Robert of Jerusalem to his contemporaries ; his deeds were recorded in the Song of Antioch ; his pious bravery totally expunged the memory of Robert the Frisian 's usurpation ; and after his death his son Baldwin VII harped on his father 's achievement to justify his substantial use of coercion against the enemies of the church . |
| 10 | He perhaps promoted the cult of Edward the Martyr for similar reasons . |
| 11 | Not since Mavis mourned the passing of Harriet the budgie has a death been so dramatically evoked as that in which Ted finally succumbed to rigor mortis . |