Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Telephone or client bidding secured the majority : ‘ The Princess of Salm with her son ’ sold for £29,000 ( $45,820 ) , est. £30–45,000 ; ‘ Monsieur de Cormainville sold for £42,000 ( $65,436 ) , est. £25–35,000 ; ‘ The Prince of Saxe-Gotha with his Tutor ’ sold for £20,000 ( $31,600 ) , est. £25–35,000 ) ; ‘ Baron de Talleyrand ’ sold for the same amount against the estimate of £20–30,000 ; ‘ Baron de Bombelles ’ sold for £18,000 ( $28,044 ) , est. £20–25,000 ; ‘ The Duke of York on a quay ’ sold for £17,000 ( $26,486 ) , estimated £20–30,000 ; and ‘ Colonel Morrison ’ sold for £13,000 ( $20,254 ) , est. £15–25,000 . |
| 2 | The Sultanate of Oman produced about the same amount of oil in 1984 as Qatar . |
| 3 | Many of the pieces were purchased by Dubosc in Japan where he lived for the latter part of his life and much of his collection is now in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco . |
| 4 | After I 'd returned and delivered the order someone else asked for the same service , which I willingly performed again , and yet again . |
| 5 | But in a sense it failed through the same sort of determination that gained him the earlier success on April 27th . |
| 6 | Falconi , swept over the island , while the Bf109Es of 7/JG 26 also made for the same location . |
| 7 | The Davies injury occurred as the former U S and British Open champion was diving for a catch . |
| 8 | I hope you 've found the meeting this evening positive , I 'm sure you have n't heard perhaps if the people found after the this evening and the guy up there reckons we ought to retire , well I do n't think we will retire but I think we will be responding to the things that you raised this evening I happen to think the Harlow theatre I 'm not sure how you measure success , erm I think we measure it 's success in the fact that people actually do use the building , people do come to see the shows . |
| 9 | President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro signed three decrees and a presidential agreement on property rights on Sept. 9 in an attempt to defuse the most contentious issue facing her government — the estimated 4,600 claims for redress from owners of property and land expropriated under the former Sandinista ( FSLN ) regime between 1979 and 1990 . |
| 10 | Because of what transpired in the latter part of 1989 , seldom has your insight been so penetrating and accurate , and between now and August is a time of unrivalled opportunities for you to make your mark . |
| 11 | Although the figure rose in the latter half of the year as the Gulf crisis drove up oil prices , the growing recession in November and a fall in the volume of oil imports saw the deficit fall to $9,700 million , and to $6,300 million in December . |
| 12 | The Midland rose in the same way as it later fell — by acquisition . |
| 13 | The number of part-time university students on degree courses ( other than OU students ) rose in the same period by 36% ( DES , 1989a , Table 1 ) . |
| 14 | He was holding a cage in his hands , dredged from the bottom-most depths of the Luggage . |
| 15 | It moved in the same half — crouched , shambling run as it had the night before , quietly , stealthily , purposefully . |
| 16 | But he and Eleanor moved in the same set socially . |
| 17 | It was short , like Mr Hyde , and it moved in the same light , quick , active way . |
| 18 | This behaved in the same way as the first unit , so I took this one back and got a third … |
| 19 | We also tested an unrelated human osteosarcoma-derived cell line ( 13.1 ; M.P.K. and G. Attardi , unpublished observations , and ref. 18 ) , and it behaved in the same way : the cells could be induced to undergo apoptosis by either serum deprivation or staurosporine treatment , and they were protected by transfection with bcl-2 ( not shown ) . |
| 20 | Quite clearly ‘ neighbourhood ’ representation emanated from the latter group since all active members were home-owners . |
| 21 | Mr Watson said : ‘ It is the intention of Coun Garvey as long as he retains control of his private prosecution to seek that it be directed to the crown court on the basis that the allegation against him is heading towards the crown court and it would be sensible to have the two alleged criminal acts tried arising out of the same incident tried before the same court . ’ |
| 22 | Many years later , in the ‘ time of early love ’ , he wandered in the same area , which was now invested with ‘ youth 's golden gleam ’ ( see Elegiac Stanzas , p. 140 ) . |
| 23 | But then I found in the same week in the relatively liberal UK magazine Time Out several references to women as ‘ chicks ’ and ‘ broads ’ . |
| 24 | As late as October 1958 Khrushchev referred in the same breath to ’ the tragic fate of Guatemala' and ’ the heroic but unequal struggle of the Cuban people ’ . |
| 25 | There are at least ten or a dozen different principal textures , but it would be unusual to find a large number of them used in the same piece . |
| 26 | The case would go to appeal on the issue of whether West German law could apply to events which occurred in the former East German state . |
| 27 | One of the most important of these ‘ eruptions ’ occurred in the latter decades of the nineteenth and early decades of the present century when the fabulous wealth of plants in the Chinese hinterland was made known to the West by French missionaries and British and European hunters . |
| 28 | On weekdays , a further peak occurred in the half hour before noon , but demand then dropped over the lunchtime period until 13.00 , when it started to climb once more , reaching a peak at 14.15–14.30 , after which it declined gradually until the end of the day . |
| 29 | PERINATAL MORTALITY RATION — The annual number of late fetal deaths plus infant deaths during the early neonatal period ( sometimes infant deaths during the first month of life ) per 1,000 live births that occurred in the same year . |
| 30 | As early as 1952 ( the first British atomic test occurred in the same year ) the defence planners produced a new and detailed analysis — the " Global Strategy Paper " . |