Example sentences of "the [adj] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the desper ate days of July , the wounded lingered in the foul , dark , excrement-ridden vaults of Fort Souville for over six days before they could be evacuated . |
| 2 | The blood of the wounded trickled from the bank , spilling like one of the showers that freshened the earth each day , and flowed downstream towards the sea , which was not so far that its rich scarlet could diffuse before it met the waves . |
| 3 | The papal legate in England in 1213 , Nicholas de Romanis , reported that he had not received the 1000 marks left to the pope ( nor the 500 left to the cardinals ) by the archbishop of York , Geoffrey Plantagenet . |
| 4 | The rich fled to the hill stations and the beggars followed them . |
| 5 | One reason why some of the most energetic of antislavery activists in the 1830s resorted to the mass public meeting , the public lecture , the organisation of vast petitions and the delegate convention was that they lacked the easy personal access to ministers and administrators which an earlier generation of antislavery leaders possessed . |
| 6 | Walsingham wrote that the English broke off the siege of Quimperlê and returned home sadly and slowly , and rumours of treachery and corruption soon began to circulate . |
| 7 | Within the total for universities , seven were providing no Chapter III courses and of the five which did , most of the twenty-one listed in the table were arranged by Birmingham where this type of course had been offered in the industrial areas prior to the introduction of the 1932 Adult Education Regulations and which had continued under an established precedent . |
| 8 | The February and October revolutions seem to have had the same effect on the Russian colonists as the expulsion of the British had on the American colonists in the eighteenth century — a removal of all restraint on the ambitions to despoil native lands and assets . |
| 9 | Its mood of self-confident chauvinism galvanized the nation , however little the British knew of the culture , economy , history , or even postage stamps of the distant Falklands and its population of just 1,200 sheep-farmers and their dependants . |
| 10 | The Non-Proliferation Treaty , however , was the last occasion when the British sat at the top table to discuss nuclear questions with the superpowers . |
| 11 | Most of the 800 named by the commission were wanted by Yugoslavia , and the FO secretly acknowledged that it had an excellent case . |
| 12 | Gracey 's British Indian forces eventually totalled over twenty thousand men ; and by December 1945 the French had about the same number in Vietnam . |
| 13 | The Treaty of Brètigny provided for this , and a treaty which the French appeared for the moment willing to accept was a much more substantial victory for Edward than one which gave him a vast area on paper but which the French would be bound to resist . |
| 14 | In 1326 Scotland and France had concluded a new alliance , the Treaty of Corbeil , under which the French , while not being required to take military action on behalf of the Scots in any future conflict with England , agreed to give them diplomatic support , while the French obtained from the Scots an agreement to attack England in the event of war between the French and the English . |
| 15 | Often this was reflected in the village church , where the old sat in the best seats and the young at the back . |
| 16 | Run by the few fell to the many , and |
| 17 | Only the proprietor of the six left in the room had a clear idea of what the concept meant . |
| 18 | The six sat round the table in the kitchen , with an assortment of take-aways , which they had brought in separately and which they would now consume together : pizzas , and fish and chips , and pies . |
| 19 | The observer must ensure that the six named in the sample can be identified . |
| 20 | Until the Japanese arrived in the 1980s , American and British suppliers had to meet lower standards than the Japanese demand . |
| 21 | The accused got into the driver 's seat , released the handbrake , and steered the car downhill for 200 yards . |
| 22 | ‘ Yeah , we know it were him , ’ said a woman as she added another bunch of flowers to the hundreds piled on the embankment . |
| 23 | All parties are aware of the need to train native architects , archaeologists , technicians , and craftsmen to replace the hundreds murdered by the Khmer Rouge . |
| 24 | The 100 came in the 28th over , and for those who wondered how England could be doing so well after Pakistan 's moderate success , the answer lay as much in England 's two disciplined straight bats as in the departed cloud cover . |
| 25 | ‘ I was on my way down the stairs when the second came through the roof . |
| 26 | The second came in the 1990 tax act . |
| 27 | The second came in the last minute of normal time and followed an impressive maul , in which Boro drove over the line but could n't get the ball down . |
| 28 | The second came from the head of Captain , Colin Calderwood . |
| 29 | He tried the first door , it opened into the kitchen ; the second led to the living-room . |
| 30 | The second went to the Liverpool Drug Dependency Clinic which gives maintenance , but did not accept Wirral residents . |