Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] and [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let me , let me just illustrate that in the case of sacking MacArthur and in the case of sending federal troops to Little Rock to des desegregate schools , the orders were readily carried out . |
| 2 | It was hard work trying to understand Franco and by the end of the last telling of the story Sandison was happy to accept a second , though rather smaller , whisky . |
| 3 | The company has its own customer information system named CARGOLINK and by the end of the present year all the company 's offices will be using this system thus enabling the organisation to control each individual consignment during the transport from booking to final delivery to end user . |
| 4 | The cell secretary told Yakovlev that ‘ for one named Kochergin and for the chairman of the cell they [ the peasants ] have stabbing eyes . ’ |
| 5 | After the flight to France of James II , Ken took part in the Parliamentary Convention which considered the constitutional position ; he voted that William and Mary be declared Regents and against the Resolution declaring the throne to be vacant . |
| 6 | ‘ Enduring ’ means nothing if you 're having a rotten time now , so you guys love Shakespeare and in the meantime I ca n't get a good hot cup of coffee in this country . |
| 7 | As The Beatles rose inexorably , so did Smith and by the time ‘ his mates ’ were splitting up in 1970 , he was approached to take over the editorship of NME . |
| 8 | The subsequent liberation of Spain was largely the work of Wellington 's armies ; after the battle of Vitoria ( June 1813 ) Joseph left Spain and in the spring of 1814 the Desired One returned to his kingdom . |
| 9 | There 's built-in Ethernet and around the back you 'll find three ways of getting at it — BNC for thin co-ax , a 15-way D-type socket , and a phone jack for twisted-pair cables . |