Example sentences of "with [art] [noun sg] of [noun prp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pair of rock crystal goblets engraved with the cipher of Peter the Great . |
| 2 | But the more closely historians examine the seventeenth century , the more precedents they find for the innovations associated with the name of Peter the Great . |
| 3 | With the fall of Singapore the fate of Rangoon seemed sealed and on 19th February I paid my last visit to the Delta , to bring back our missionary nurse and to confer with village clergy and elders and teachers about what should be done if the worst happened . |
| 4 | And with the help of Dan the dog , Elgar wrote his eleventh Enigma Variation . |
| 5 | One of the set texts for Advent dealt with the birth of John the Baptist . |
| 6 | Did God really care that the Lord 's Anointed , blessed with royal oils on hands , feet and brow , the descendant of St. Margaret with the blood of Edward the Confessor in his veins , had been destroyed , brought low , murdered , tossed off the top of a cliff like a spent leaf blown in the wind ? |
| 7 | This beautiful priory of St. Leonard 's , originally belonging to the Holy Isle of Lindisfarne , was later destroyed by marauding Danes and was only rebuilt in 1082 with the co-operation of William the Conqueror . |
| 8 | James had armed himself with the sword of Robert the Bruce , but it stood him in poor stead . |
| 9 | With the defeat of Napoleon the German states reversed emancipation of the Jews . |
| 10 | With the loss of Southwark the project organisers had to find another similar London borough . |
| 11 | More bits of layette arrive from all parties , including a romper-suit with a picture of Horace the Happy Horse on it , which Paul furtively throws in the dustbin . |