Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun prp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roger Alwen , the club 's joint owner , said : ‘ We have given Greenwich the opportunity to lead British football into the 21st century . |
| 2 | By policing the mental and the physical borders of the newly formed Germany the Völkisch ideologists wanted to create a new and pure German identity . |
| 3 | Sophie had given Pascoe the bare details as they ran back from the restaurant ; now she told the rest . |
| 4 | Brian had given Scarlet the impression that , if it had not been for his first wife and her child , and his second wife and her child , he would have been living a life of carefree splendour in a house adjacent to the park . |
| 5 | Wright struck just 52 seconds after Kevin Campbell had given Arsenal the lead in a dismal match at Highfield Road . |
| 6 | When Diana first consulted Penny the princess revealed that she was interested in astrology , but knew very little about it . |
| 7 | Riveted and astonished , I can report that in a palace whose previous tenants have included Ivan the Terrible and Stalin , parliamentary democracy is flourishing . |
| 8 | That kind of attitude , putting the interests of others before her own , has earned Steffi the highest respect . |
| 9 | No , he had n't forgotten Simon the carpenter , one of his more errant parishioners , a florid-faced , thickset man with an evil temper and a long Welsh dagger . |
| 10 | It is this abrasive commitment to this duties which , in part , has won Skinner the Whitbread Player of the Month Award . |
| 11 | O'Hara reminded him that Jung had considered Liverpool the centre of the Universe . |
| 12 | Eos abducted ORION to be her lover , and later wed Astareus the Titan and bore the Four Winds , Boreas , Eurus , Notus and Zephyrus . |
| 13 | Harris then told the court that he had again approached Drew the following day . |
| 14 | The Caesar in question was the almost forgotten Flavius the Noseless . |
| 15 | We we 've dropped In the Bleak Midwinter , and we 've added Hark the Herald , yes ? |
| 16 | The problem position , of course , is fly-half — the berth that has given Ireland the greatest of difficulties over the past few seasons . |
| 17 | If Whizzo had been any good Jazz could have transferred but Biddy , having given Whizzo the thumbs down , had found him a good home with a nervous lady in the suburbs and he was no longer available . |
| 18 | For twenty years Floridablanca 's ‘ system ’ — the French alliance — had given Spain the appearance of a first-class naval , military , and colonial power . |
| 19 | ‘ In Moscow they have given Holovich the Red Stripe category . ’ |
| 20 | He tells how the Holy Spirit fell on Cornelius , and points out that God had given Cornelius the same gift as the Jewish believers . |
| 21 | Success in key areas has made Germany the world leader in the export of manufactured goods . |
| 22 | We entered that same comfortable flat off Siltasaarenk where I had met Harvey the previous week . |
| 23 | ‘ His mother told him on the morning of the killing that Joanne had phoned Dean the night before . |
| 24 | Had times been normal we are sure that Mr Crawford would have made Otago the foremost province in the Dominion . ’ |
| 25 | The major success of the development of the Campos Basin has made Brazil the third largest oil producer in South America at some 25 million tonnes . |
| 26 | You might have seen Pete the Pylon in a certain television commercial . |
| 27 | In him it is said Aenarion the Defender has come again . |
| 28 | On July 13 the Home Affairs Minister , S. B. Chavan , who had visited Ayodhya the previous day , told the Lok Sabha ( lower house of parliament ) that the central government 's offer to provide additional security to ensure that the disputed land was not encroached upon had been turned down by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh . |
| 29 | Not only had Lothar consolidated his position west of the Meuse ; he had heavily defeated Louis the German 's forces in the Rhineland and driven Louis back to Bavaria . |
| 30 | She slept , with something of her old determination , in order to be awake when he came ; and often she wanted to talk : about Bruges ; about the past ; about all the foolish exploits that had made Claes the apprentice notorious — the jokes with the gun and the waterwheel ; the chases , the skating ; the escapade with the ostrich . |