Example sentences of "[noun prp] [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had become interested in the Sudan itself after reading Samuel Baker 's books , but at first my interest was largely in the wild life and the big-game hunting in the Southern Sudan ; then at Eton I chanced on The River War , Winston Churchill 's vivid account of Kitchener 's campaign to reconquer the Sudan from the Khalifa . |
| 2 | One of the things the group in Wolverhampton I think at the Theatre Royal there is , is doing both audio descriptions by sign language I think and one of the things they 've , they , they do is meet in the bar |
| 3 | In Cardiff I went to the local elementary school and in 1939 , in the competitive scholarship examination , won a special place at Cardiff High School . |
| 4 | In Guildford I saw for the second time the travelling exhibition ‘ Architecture in Context ’ , staged by the RIBA 's South East Region . |
| 5 | In Harehills I belonged to the upper crust of the lower middle classes who were getting out as fast as they could . |
| 6 | Returning through Brotton I looked across the valley and wondered why a huge Union Jack was flying half-mast on the top of the Zetland Hotel at Saltburn . |
| 7 | Then on the Tuesday I went to the hospital . |
| 8 | LAST Tuesday I mused on the problems the Queen was facing with her family . |
| 9 | W. S. I operated from the Dog and Gun Police Station . |
| 10 | On Crag Hill I stopped at the cairn to look down on Dentdale spread below me , Helms Knott , the Howgills and the distant forms of Cross Fell , Dun Fell and , facing me , the long ridge of Barbondale . |
| 11 | Giving evidence , Capt von Humbracht said that he picked up the uniform , hat and sword belonging to Napoleon which lay on the ground . |
| 12 | Two years later we find Datini himself writing in the same vein to one of his partners in Spain , Cristofano di Bartolo , whom he wished to persuade to come home . |
| 13 | Certainly , when Richard himself wrote to the Calais garrison on 28 June , setting out his title , his claim was vague to the point of invisibility . |
| 14 | Certainly , when Richard himself wrote to the Calais garrison on 28 June , setting out his title , his claim was vague to the point of invisibility . |
| 15 | DOWN Royal have received an unusually high number of entries for their meeting next Saturday which clashes with the Grand National . |
| 16 | Sagadat Nurmagambetov , held two days of talks in Alma Ata which concluded with the signature on Aug. 19 of a military agreement , covering the transfer of personnel between the two armed forces , training , and military co-operation . |
| 17 | ‘ He said it did n't matter , ’ another voice joined in , and Edward himself stood in the doorway . |
| 18 | Gorbachev himself warned of the danger of replacing an overcentralised state with ‘ something amoeba-like ’ , and called for ‘ strong republics and a strong centre ’ . |
| 19 | I detest Lourdes Ortiz who weeps for the incorruptible corpse of ‘ Guernica ’ seen one quiet Sunday in its mausoleum , with the endless queues of happy people when our democracy was still in the making , with the Casón as its banner . |
| 20 | Only , it was n't Matey who walked into the kitchen as McAllister began her blackleading , but Dr Neil , yawning and fastening the buttons of a rather natty grey coat which she had never seen before . |
| 21 | prebble quotes the Chevalier de Johnstone who fought with the Glengarrys : ‘ What a spectacle of horror ! |
| 22 | Following some heroics from Bateman , France levelled through Olivier Camus who drove in the equaliser in the 66th minute . |
| 23 | He succeeds Alejandro Figueroa Ventura who returns to the Dominican Republic as Director of Alfalit Dominicano . |
| 24 | Tooting itself lies within the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth , in the County of London . |
| 25 | When they wanted to stop the investment programme , it was managing director Malcolm Cotton who fought for the idea . |
| 26 | The Roll of Honour , dedicated to the men of Patrington who served in the First World War , stands in the middle of the village . |
| 27 | It was my friend Nellie who lived in the yard next to ours . |
| 28 | Frank was a local boy from Camberley in Surrey who signed for the Palace on his 17th birthday in June 1931 after having caught the eye of our then Manager , Mr Jack Tresadern . |
| 29 | The gallery 's name ( ‘ yellow music ’ ) goes back to Wassily Kandinsky who wrote about the aggressive force of the ‘ sound ’ of the colour yellow which ‘ unsettles , and stings ’ . |
| 30 | Springfields-based Dr Sue Ion has been appointed Director of technology Development to succeed Dr Harry Allardice who retires at the end of August . |