Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Great Earth Mother Mafulke lived in the Underworld and tended the enormous fires which blazed there . |
| 2 | William read through the article , finding two literals , while she finished the last page . |
| 3 | Gerald fought to the bar for a couple more glasses and generously shared the bottle . |
| 4 | Mr. Occhi got into the taxi , took £1 out of his wallet and gave it to the appellant who then , the wallet being still open , took a further £6 out of it . |
| 5 | Their discovery helped overthrow the medieval concept of the Solar System and a few decades later , by a method that I shall not describe , observations of Io led to the first determination of the speed of light , which until then was thought by many philosophers to be infinite . |
| 6 | Jerome crept to the foot of the steps , and there halted , baulked , rather , like a startled horse , drew hard breath and assayed to mount , and then suddenly threw up his arms to cover his face , fell on his knees with a lamentable , choking cry , and bowed himself against the stone of the steps . |
| 7 | Armstrong zipped through the City with more than usual aplomb , which made me think that Duncan the Drunken had given him a tuning . |
| 8 | Alexandra plunged into the wastepaper basket to retrieve the torn envelope . |
| 9 | Haverford asked on the children 's behalf , but they had already found it , scampering away through the display of giant dolls , plastic picnic tables , local cheese and wine , and returned resentful at having been glowered at by the resident guardian because they had n't understood the purpose of her saucer of lire . |
| 10 | This obstinate refusal to be a conformist explains not only the difficulties of integration that Nizan experienced within the party , but also — and this needs stressing — underlines the extent to which he succeeded in retaining intellectual autonomy and integrity within the party itself . |
| 11 | After 1620 Warner lived at the Woolstable in Charing Cross and at Cranborne Lodge , near Windsor , with Sir Thomas Aylesbury [ q.v. ] , who sponsored his continued work on optics and mathematics . |
| 12 | Cynthia Iliffe shared with the Board a feeling that it could be rather ‘ a hybrid sort of degree course at first ’ , but Pocock and the Board really believed in it , understood that the Crick model of a discipline-based degree had provided it with an academic foundation , but even then ‘ we talked a lot about integration ’ . |
| 13 | Three years after his return from Aden , Nizan got to the heart of his dilemma when he proclaimed : I came very close to being a bourgeois … |
| 14 | Nutty rode into the warehouse to see if it was ready , and Hoomey followed her , towing Bones , who was ready to go wherever the food sacks were going . |
| 15 | The importance which Ellis laid upon the drafting and promulgation of such rules is generally regarded as one of his major contributions to the civilizing of Texas prisons . |
| 16 | On May 11 Sahnoun met with the chairman of the United Somali Congress ( USC ) , Gen. Mohammed Farah Aydid ( whose dispute with interim President Ali Mahdi Mohammed was the immediate cause of continuing instability ) , to discuss the possible deployment of UN observers and of security personnel in Mogadishu . |
| 17 | A police Sierra cruised along the A614 near the mining village of Ollerton . |
| 18 | Harvey checked with the photographer , the forensic expert , who both said they did n't need the body any more . |
| 19 | Mrs Hollyoake lived at the house in Belper , Derbys , with her husband and their 16-year-old daughter . |
| 20 | While Madeleine snored in the bottom bunk Léonie fought to keep awake , to know the exact moment when , in the very centre of the Channel , precisely equidistant from both shores , the walls of water and of words met , embraced wetly and closely , became each other , composed of each other 's sounds . |
| 21 | Florrie gazed at the letter in her hands . |
| 22 | The discovery , in 1945 by Brotzu in Sardinia , of antibiotic activity in a species of Cephalosporium recovered from the sea near a sewage outfall was brought to Florey 's attention by a former British public health officer and led to work at Oxford and elsewhere on this and similar organisms . |
| 23 | Still muttering the word justice , Yeremi gazed at the quatrefoil viewscreen . |
| 24 | She came in front beside Patrick and Jim crept into the back , where he promptly fell asleep . |
| 25 | , Benjamin Wills ( 1807–1899 ) , Plymouth Brother , was born in Devonport , Plymouth , 12 December 1807 , the only child of Quaker parents , Benjamin Newton , a draper of Plymouth dock who died ten days before the birth of his son , and his widow Anna , a daughter of Roger Treffry of Lostwithiel , with whom Newton lived until the age of twelve . |
| 26 | ‘ Previously , a security officer at the Hardshaw Brook depot in St Helens checked with the Met Office , took readings from a thermometer and inspected road surfaces outside the depot . |
| 27 | Duvall collided with him in the rush , nearly flinging him to the corridor floor , but Cardiff clung to the door knob and swung himself back again as Rohmer and Gilbert hurtled past him . |
| 28 | Well the last the last time when Sunderland got to the Final in seventy-three er there were five of us in the , in my house and I 'd made red and white rosettes |
| 29 | Thus Louis controlled the frontier with the Saracens in the Pyrenees , Pepin curtailed the Duke of Benevento and defended north-eastern Italy against incursions by the Avars , and Charles the Younger fought against the Bretons of Armorica , who rebelled in 786 and 799 against Frankish rule . |
| 30 | One ex-sailor whom Minton met at the Mandrake was Joshua ( ‘ Mike ’ ) Avery , then just embarking on his discovery of Soho and sharing a room with Daniel Farson . |