Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At his father 's death , Webb moved to Kingswood to take over the business , married Alice Trobridge , and had many daughters , and one son , Benedict . |
| 2 | Kate bent over Nicandra to pick up the tray : ‘ And you did n't eat the half of it , ’ she said reproachfully . |
| 3 | I had come to Uganda to observe how the women use music to give advice , support each other and express their need for political identity . |
| 4 | One could fly no higher than the signal book that young Lieutenant Pasco used at Trafalgar to send up the Immortal Signal . |
| 5 | And so , Nicodemus would have been familiar with this story , and Jesus says as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness , even so , must the son of man be lifted up , but whoever believes in him may have eternal life . |
| 6 | ‘ What happens in Europe remains only the icing on the cake for Rangers , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Waiting for Scott to pick up the telephone , Annabel could visualize the scene at the TV station . |
| 8 | Two weeks later , Coleman arrived in Gibraltar to clear out the funds standing to his credit at Barclays Bank . |
| 9 | Lord Suffolk served his purpose as a liaison between the French scientists and government officials who were going to Britain to carry on the war , and he was good at smoothing difficulties with pantechnicons of furniture and the occasional arrival of a weeping mistress , or in one case two . |
| 10 | Describing in today 's Sunday Times of Johannesburg how he found Stompie 's body in Mrs Mandela 's house , Morgan said : ‘ One morning I got to the house early and I was told by Winnie to pick up the dog and dump him . |
| 11 | A further important lesson conveyed by Donaldson concerns both the necessity and difficulty of formal education for the young child . |
| 12 | At the time , there was quite a campaign starting to build , calling for Wimbledon to dig up the grass . |
| 13 | Instead they managed both by using the County Homesearch Company based in Truro to take over the housing negotiations , reports of which chased them round Australia on fax . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , despite Northgate 's Irish facade and despite the growth of local mosquito exploration companies , mining in Ireland has since the sixties always been controlled from outside the country . |
| 15 | Staying in Blackpool to ride out the storm might have been unduly bullish , while retreating to London could have prompted undue alarm bells . |
| 16 | There are men who have been in prison for ten years and more for claiming their liberty ; men who have slipped away to struggle overseas ; men who have escaped to Europe to carry on the fight there — they are hounded and they are imprisoned , but their views are heard . |
| 17 | In 1873 he returned to England to take up the post of electrician to the Highton Battery Company , and in 1877 set up the first experimental overhead telephone line in England , only two years after the invention of the telephone in the United States by Alexander Graham Bell [ q.v . ] . |
| 18 | A union organizer has travelled from Santiago to explain how the new union , El Libertador , is co-ordinating a plan to enable seasonal workers to qualify for government-subsidized housing . |
| 19 | It 's the fat doorman at a terribly grand hotel , dressed in the livery of an olde worlde flunkey to give foreign tourists a thrill , and blowing a little whistle , his cheeks puffed like Aeolus sending out the wind . |
| 20 | All the talk now was of the Second Front , and everyone thought that the Army would have to land in France to finish off the war . |
| 21 | The Treat negotiated at Maastricht laid down the process under which the Community can , if its members meet certain economic conditions , create a monetary union with a single currency for some or all of them . |
| 22 | Upstairs , over the Moon , there is now a large new gallery sponsored by STC to mark both the company 's centenary and World Communications Year . |
| 23 | The SLA 's release of 51 Arab prisoners from the al-Khiam prison in the southern Lebanon " security zone " on Sept. 11 coincided with Israel handing over the bodies of nine members of the pro-Iranian radical Shia Hezbollah organization , and followed the receipt by Israel of information about two of its servicemen missing since 1986 . |
| 24 | The Government have requested that all Insurers give a generous interpretation when dealing with ASU claims where the claimant is attending an Employment Training Course . |
| 25 | An NVQ co-ordinator , Gill Murdoch , was appointed in May to carry forward the challenging work of developing assessment strategies for level 4 qualifications and informing and helping potential centresand candidates in implementing the new qualification system . |
| 26 | A rapid counter-offensive culminated in Hateley bursting down the left flank . |
| 27 | Today Central went to France to check out the check-outs , with a visit to this hypermaket in Calais . |
| 28 | The Dalek ship is programmed to return to Kembel in spite of all their efforts to divert it , and it falls to Steven to hand over the fake core to the Daleks once the Doctor and Sara are aboard the TARDIS . |
| 29 | Not very early , you can sleep in I 've got ta go to Waitrose to pick up the stuff . |
| 30 | His health , never very good , began to fail in 1851 , and in August 1854 , he proceeded to Germany to try out the mineral waters there , but died on 25th November 1854 at Cannstadt , near Stuttgart . |