Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mix-up in dates has also occurred in other parts of the country and Neil Dickinson , secretary of the English Schools AAA , wrote to county secretaries a month ago reminding them of the recommended date . |
| 2 | She would see Mama and Papa again soon , they were coming over well before the wedding , and what bliss to greet them as the future Marchioness of Blaine , beautiful blond Havvie by her side , eager to meet them — or so he publicly said — his private comments were somewhat different — more to the effect that he could swallow Sally-Anne and her dollars , but her parvenu papa was quite another thing ! |
| 3 | We had some discussion at somewhere , that we decided that erm to include them in the divisional training , Yeah . |
| 4 | The most intriguing matter supplied by Gaitskell was when he consulted me about the constant leakage of the party 's National Executive minutes to the Manchester Guardian . |
| 5 | Once women have reached senior management , for instance , where they are the only woman among 20 or 50 men , some companies tend to see them as the token woman singlehandedly proving that the company is encouraging and supporting women to reach the top . |
| 6 | I said authenticity was one thing but did my devoted fans really want to see me on the big screen with spots a foot across all over my face ? |
| 7 | ‘ Did you , as a matter of interest , happen to see me on The Human Angle last week ? ’ |
| 8 | In the main these were the moving of all the machinery from the Frame Shops themselves and Body-Shop lean-to , relocating them in the Old Lifting Shop ( No 34 on the 1906 map ) , and the introduction of welded frames . |
| 9 | When the snow comes , this will insulate them from the cold air and allow them to tease out woodlice , spiders and other invertebrates from leaf-litter or plant roots . |
| 10 | ‘ If we 're acting for the smaller firm it invariably happens , and if and when we 're acting for the larger firm we always identify the key partners in the smaller firm and bring them into the new management team , ’ Mr Llambias reveals . |
| 11 | And after the harvester they would take in those big tramp coles and bring them into the big hay stack . |
| 12 | He believes it should take the parts of our lives that are most sore , most hurtful , most unspoken , most taboo and bring them into the public sphere . |
| 13 | ‘ The native habit of tethering horses and hobbling them in the full glare of a torrid sun ( with a temperature of perhaps 120 degrees F. in the shade ) destroys the strongest constitution and often kills them out-right … |
| 14 | This attribute separates them from the outside world and can be shared by no non-Japanese . |
| 15 | The House of Lords has concluded that our Sunday trading laws are unclear and has therefore referred them to the European Court of Justice to clarify whether they are compatible with European law . |
| 16 | They had bought flowers in the village and they laid them on the new grave . |
| 17 | Alexandra took the long pins out of her hat and laid them in the red glass tray on her dressing-table . |
| 18 | She had written to them at once after Mr Renfrew 's visit , encompassing them in the great outpouring of gratitude that had flooded her , and received from her father in reply a letter that had shocked her and alarmed her . |
| 19 | If you if you need to do something about it , then er in order to secure that order for a hundred , then sell them at the old price . |
| 20 | It 's better to take them with you in the car rather than consign them to the chilly furniture van . |
| 21 | In short , the consumer called the tune and the operators who prospered were those who best identified the needs of the consumers and met them at the right price . |
| 22 | Pa sits me on the wooden bench he has built facing the altar , and himself sits down next to me . |
| 23 | " We 're going to carry the yew berries home in our mouths and eat them in the great burrow . |
| 24 | At the top of the staircase various Chamberlains , dressed in gold embroidered jackets , welcomed the guests and led them to the Grand Master of Ceremonies . |
| 25 | And members are still less than enamoured with their district council group leader , Coun John Richardson from Willington , who led them to the disastrous defeat . |
| 26 | Bloom et al. " s study of how to is acquired in infinitival complement constructions led them to the clear conclusion that " the children learned to with the meaning " " direction towards " " and not as a meaningless syntactic marker " ( 1984 : 391 ) . |
| 27 | Presently it led them from the main highway to minor roads and country lanes . |
| 28 | But the archaeologists ' obsession with the past had blinded them to the real cause of the lamentations they witnessed along the river . |
| 29 | Louis XIV and his admirals had , meanwhile , after the Battle of La Hogue , licensed numerous ‘ corsairs ’ to make a nuisance of themselves in the Channel and North Sea , some of whom , actually held naval rank and had guns — up to 50 or 60 in the larger ships — lent them by the French navy . |
| 30 | ‘ Then came the day when I snapped off my Marigolds , flung them in the marbleised pedal bin — well it was n't marbleised then , but it is now — and set off on this glittering career . |