Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | one of the two flashy men-about-town , professing intimate acquaintance with all sorts of illustrious personages ( ‘ even the Blood Royal ran in the muddy channel of their personal recollections ’ ) , whom Tigg introduces to Jonas Chuzzlewit to impress the latter with the power and glory of the fraudulent insurance company he is seeking to involve Jonas in . |
| 2 | Drifts three or four feet high lay within the castle walls . |
| 3 | STRONG support for research on human embryos up to 14 days old came from the Medical Research Council yesterday , which adds its voice to that of the Royal Society , the Royal Colleges , and the medical charities opposing a ban . |
| 4 | A green BMW with the boot ajar stood outside the rear entrance of the fourth house ; a man was loading boxes and files . |
| 5 | When Mrs Handy went to the sink she must have touched the machine and up to two hundred and forty volts passed through her body . |
| 6 | This year 's Lipton International coincided with the launching of an astonishing new book entitled , ‘ You Can Play Tennis In Two Hours ’ , written by Argentinian , Oscar Wegner who now coaches at the Colony Club Tennis Resort in Sarasota . |
| 7 | Brean Murray Foster Securities Inc acted as the agent for the placing . |
| 8 | Dream : Anglers watched in disbelief as a shoal of bream over 100 metres long swam along the Leeds-Liverpool Canal at Melling . |
| 9 | Archie and his mate were producing super spliced tip rods well before the Shakespeare international came onto the scene . |
| 10 | Last year 's trouble at Castlemorton Common erupted over the late May Bank Holiday . |
| 11 | According to Steve Bourne , now director of ONC+ Open Network Computing and network technologies at the Sun Microsystems Inc company , the process change that SunSoft Inc undertook in the development of Solaris 2 . |
| 12 | In place of a sermon there was a time of quiet in which women present spoke to the theme of ‘ creation ’ , some from the perspective of giving birth . |
| 13 | Slough , Berkshire-based Ambitron Ltd showed for the first time in the UK the low cost desktop virtual reality system — CrystalEyes VR — and three-dimensional video system from Stereographics Corp of San Rafael , at the Virtual Reality ‘ 93 Conference in London earlier this month . |
| 14 | In 1982 the Berlin Philharmonic rebelled over the attempt to appoint the clarinettist Sabine Meyer . |