Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Parquet had existed , he thought , since at least 1883 when a reforming Minister of Justice had unearthed in his office some Arabic translations of parts of the French Code Napoleon and promulgated them as the new Egyptian legal system . |
| 2 | She led me into the pink-and-green chintzy sitting-room where Harry , pale with blue shadows below the eyes , sat in an armchair with his bandaged leg elevated on a large upholstered footstool . |
| 3 | People whose parents baptised them into the Roman Catholic Church will probably be counted as Catholics all their lives — even if they never go to church ; for people to be counted as Baptists , however , they will have to have expressed a strong commitment to their faith and to have undergone adult baptism . |
| 4 | They had been coming over steadily ever since , in spite of warnings about the difficulties of living in a foreign land — warnings given them by the English Jewish establishment . |
| 5 | You can also recognise them by the round yellow bill patch . |
| 6 | Hopefully , YTS permitting , the rest of the country can catch them on the forthcoming Teenage Fannies tour . |
| 7 | Hopefully , YTS permitting , the rest of the country can catch them on the forthcoming Teenage Fannies tour . |
| 8 | The EC defines people in poverty as those whose ‘ resources are so small as to exclude them from the minimum acceptable way of life of the member state in which they live ’ . |
| 9 | He now faces Alan McManus , the Scot who defeated him in the Asian Open semi-finals last year . |
| 10 | She was not there and after running frantically around the garden he eventually found her beside the old hanging tree at the bottom of the path . |
| 11 | Nobody helped her beyond the poor sad girl at the library to whom she was kind and who now bounded about the romantic fiction section for her , feverishly pulling down titles she thought Kitty would like . |
| 12 | A longer length of rope was circled around her shoulders and under the table , then over her gorgeous breasts and downwards until her rib cage was completely covered in coiled rope , which fastened her to the hard wooden table . |
| 13 | A similar reason was given for refusing the remedy to a convicted prisoner who brought an action against the Home Secretary and the prison governor requiring them to provide him with the necessary medical treatment in accordance with the Prison Rules . |
| 14 | A tramp had found her freezing and near to death on the doorstep of a gin palace near the Elephant and Castle and he had carried her to the local Catholic church . |
| 15 | ‘ I just missed everything , ’ moaned Ivanisevic , who crashed 6-3 , 7-6 , 7-6 to a clay court specialist who also beat him at the French Open this year . |
| 16 | ‘ I just missed everything , ’ moaned Ivanisevic , who crashed 6-3 , 7-6 , 7-6 to a clay court specialist who also beat him at the French Open this year . |
| 17 | And send it to the given stamped envelope . |
| 18 | In August-September 1982 it proved unable to clinch a peace treaty with its Maronite ally , having effectively installed it as the new Lebanese government . |
| 19 | He has felt the presaging shadow of death , and he goes to meet it in the old unchanging way of the wild — alone . |
| 20 | A bridge joins it to the old Lusignan palace . |
| 21 | Mr Major argued that as good Europeans we should tie it to the strong German mark to lick inflation and sustain recovery . |
| 22 | The guard scanned the colour photograph on the pass more carefully , checking it against the listed physical description and the man himself . |
| 23 | Then take a second card from the middle pile and place it on the other outside pile . |
| 24 | Advocates of a return to gold still remain , and at times there have been proposals to consider reinstating it as the key reserve asset in the international monetary system . |
| 25 | Wrangham 's work goes far to provide us with the essential spatial structuring that underlies this flexibility . |
| 26 | Unfortunately none of the five provide us with the expected objective measure of pain which we could apply with confidence to adults or to babies or to animals . |
| 27 | Nothing had prepared me for the overwhelming architectural beauty of Salamanca , and in particular for the grandeur of the university , the oldest in Spain and one of the oldest in Europe , with its noble façade in plateresque style . |
| 28 | She even told them about the nice young man who said he had n't seen her for some time . |
| 29 | And when Albert and Mister Johnny came in , she cut the pie and told them about the big fair that was held every Michaelmas in the Norfolk village where she had lived when she was a little girl about the gay gipsy carts and the fire eater , and the booth where you could have a tooth pulled for sixpence with a brass band to drown your screams ; about the two-headed calf and the Bearded Lady and the Toffee Woman . |
| 30 | I laughed when my mother told me of the entire postnatal fortnight spent in the maternity hospital , with bedpans and blanket baths and fierce ward sisters who wagged fingers at you if you as much as stuck a big toe over the side of the bed . |