Example sentences of "[num] [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Los Angeles directorship , open since Earl A. Powell III agreed to take over at the National Gallery , now belongs to Michael Edward Shapiro , formerly chief curator in St Louis . |
| 2 | So when the 9.15 came screaming out of the tunnel , the three children waved … |
| 3 | All in all , the grandiose hopes of the 1760s had petered out in the Sussex of the 1820s . |
| 4 | A third round of preliminary talks in Rome between the TPLF and the Ethiopian government on March 20-29 had broken down over the TPLF 's insistence that " substantive talks " should involve a joint delegation of the TPLF and its ally , the Ethiopian People 's Democratic Movement ( EPDM ) . |
| 5 | There was to be no repetition of the disaster two years previously in 1896 , when a crowd in excess of 60,000 had spilled on to the pitch . |
| 6 | The policeman had been genuinely pleased by the invitation , and the two had set off for the river . |
| 7 | The pathology lab 288 had kicked off with the first of the parties , and everything had gone pretty well although nobody had wanted to touch the sandwiches . |
| 8 | But the evidence suggests that the fragile though real co-operation between liberals and workers of 1905 had broken down by the pre-war years . |