Example sentences of "[noun prp] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1964 he was voted European Footballer of the Year and in a long career with Scotland he won 55 caps and earned the interchangeable nicknames ‘ Denis The Menace ’ or simply ‘ The King ’ . |
| 2 | After a short lying-in-state at the Abbey of St Denis the remains were shipped back for eventual burial at Westminster , some two months after the death had taken place . |
| 3 | He gave Stieber the number he was calling from , told him to call him back from outside . |
| 4 | The Kiwis wasted two excellent try opportunties with careless forward passes , and gifted St Helens the opening try when David Watson allowed Alan Hunte a 15th-minute interception . |
| 5 | And for Hobbes the idea of the sovereignty of the ruler was paramount . |
| 6 | For Etzioni the compliance of professionals to their organizations rests upon ‘ normative ’ commitments . |
| 7 | When Couvelaire bought Mooney the company had a project called the Model 301 flying as a proof-of-concept prototype . |
| 8 | Tommy Mooney the scorer … |
| 9 | v. Ratcliffe the plaintiffs refused to admit coloured persons to their ballroom but they did allow coloured musicians to play in the orchestra . |
| 10 | And surely Wat the dung-collector would make sure the door was locked and Godric safe ? |
| 11 | Windsfield straight into New Invention and every Wednesday night , first it was the cows that would come and then the sheep and they 'd got to walk to the abattoir at Bloxwich , and erm sometimes the cows were so heavy with milk that er a lot of people in New Invention had free milk and then if the , if the sheep would be here there and everywhere you know and then with mother living where there was an entry dividing four houses er and a well straight at the top , and a. a big old-fashioned er tap for the cold water , there were n't any taps laid in kitchen in er what are the outhouses it was a communal tap erm sometimes the sheep would get out of hand and they 'd run up the entry hall and all round mother 's yard and then the cows would go around , but er it , it to me I felt sorry about it , because especially in the summer er erm the poor things were so hot and to walk all those miles , now they 're carried are n't they and they used to every Wednesday every Wednesday of the year the drivers would er the men must have been absolutely tired out , well although they 'd be used to it would n't they , but it was miles to walk from Wolverhampton the cattle market to Blox straight to Bloxwich and er that was another event that erm it , we , it , we used to have . |
| 12 | At Wolverhampton the carriage had all but emptied , leaving only a sleeping woman cradling a badminton racket . |
| 13 | In the New Forest the duties of the Verderers ' Court are now mainly administrative , and are concerned with the supervision and administration of rights of common on the open forest . |
| 14 | Give Palace 's manager Steve Coppell the dosh and he will show you what to do with it . |
| 15 | I 'll tell Alison the accountant then , and she 'll tell me what she 's sold and how many contracts we 've booked and but it 's done in front of everybody else while everybody , why everybody else who 's on the phone . |
| 16 | Mr Flood the butcher had looked at them very strangely as they walked up the street . |
| 17 | Ian the devil worshipper |
| 18 | This gave Ian the idea of setting up a similar , small-scale , homely establishment in the Highlands . |
| 19 | With help from Susan and a recovered Ian the renegades are caught . |
| 20 | he says , in the case of Ian the number of occasions where Ian has worked two hours on a Friday morning and then he 's worked Friday Saturday as overtime . |
| 21 | Nicholas Ferrar , portrait by M. Gheeraerts the Younger ( c. 1617 ) |
| 22 | In Spence the deadline stipulated by the purchaser for the sale of the business by a receiver had passed and the receiver ceased trading and dismissed the employees . |
| 23 | The distinction between Spence and Litster is that in Spence the dismissals had nothing to do with any transfer of a business . |
| 24 | She told Susan Coltman the friendship had started while Paula was living with her parents and Gilfoyle was staying at their new home in Grafton Drive , Upton , as it was being renovated . |
| 25 | She told Susan Coltman the friendship had started while Paula was living with her parents and Gilfoyle was staying at their new home in Grafton Drive , Upton , as it was being renovated . |
| 26 | A chapter on famous people , I was amused to see , devoted only a paragraph each to renowned saints , scholars and patriots , but devoted nearly a whole page to Collier the Robber ( 1780 — 1849 ) , a noted highwayman . |
| 27 | However , in Morris v Murray the Court of Appeal held that the defence of volenti should have succeeded . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , Sunderland fans have given chairman Bob Murray the go-ahead to move from Roker Park to a brand-new £60m stadium . |
| 29 | By ALAN MURRAY THE RUC is conducting a nationwide hunt to track down 400 boys as part of an investigation into allegations of sex abuse at a Belfast home . |
| 30 | At Vauxhall the unions are divided on a two-year offer of a 9.7 per cent rise plus a lump sum payment of £200 in the first year and inflation-plus-£5 in the second . |