Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] that [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , one evening an imposing delegation of Tominahs arrived unannounced in our royal upstairs boudoir to inform Ranteallo that the spiritual path was finally clear to transfer Puang Sangalla 's remains from its abode of four years , a quarter of a mile away , to the death-house in the Rante for the culminating month of final rites . |
| 2 | About then , word came from Salines , three hours away , to inform Nicholas that the Venetian sugar ship had reached Alexandria and would be leaving soon for Episkopi to pick up the combined Cypriot cargo . |
| 3 | On a visit to Israel on Sept. 2-5 , President Ion Iliescu of Romania assured Shamir that the Romanian government would work to counter manifestations of anti-semitism in Romania . |
| 4 | The Delphic Oracle advised Hercules that the only way to rid himself of her curse was to undertake twelve gruelling tasks . |
| 5 | He told Richardson that a Dutch gentleman had given him Frageria chiloensis , a native strawberry from the Spanish West Indies , but although Miller had not yet seen the fruit he quoted A. F. Frézier who ‘ in his Voyages says it grows as big as a pullet 's egg … a great rarity ’ . |
| 6 | Ryzhkov told Prunskiene that the Soviet authorities were to allow unconditionally the partial resumption of natural gas and raw material supplies to selected Lithuanian enterprises ( the gas supplies resumed on June 16 ) . |
| 7 | Scott , however , was intent on adhering to his stated principles and effectively told Palmerston that a Gothic building was the only solution . |
| 8 | Christopher Trickie and his Wife … told Mogg that the French people had taken the plan of their House , and that They had also taken the plan of all the places round that part of the Country , that a Brook runs in the front of Trickie 's House and the French people inquired of Trickie wether the Brook was Navigable to the Sea , and upon being informed by Trickie that It was not , they were afterwards seen examining the Brook quite down to the Sea . |
| 9 | His servant came to pack his clothes , and while he was doing this , he told Dorian that the dead man was a sailor , but no one knew his name . |
| 10 | The wheedling tone as well as the now seldom-used paternal appellation told Wexford that a monstrous request was to be made of him . |
| 11 | Following the visit , Sean Caughey , secretary of the NICCL , issued a statement which said that his council had told Ennals that an impartial inquiry by an independent body in Britain could do much to redress the grievances of the minority . |
| 12 | It troubled Alexei that the failed assassination seemed about to be dismissed as an effort at the removal of some imagined stain on family honour , and he wondered if Jotan truly believed the explanation he had offered , or if he was acting at Burun 's direction to distract Artai from the truth . |
| 13 | When Ceausescu in 1968 refused to become involved in the Warsaw Pact intervention against Czechoslovakia , and publicly condemned it , the Kremlin was furious , and briefly threatened Romania that a similar fate awaited them . |
| 14 | But against this Vernon warned Hunsdon that the great elevation of the Lord Chamberlain 's position would arouse jealousy , involve heavy expenses , tie him to the court , and expose him to disgrace for any errors that he might commit . |
| 15 | His life is changed when a London lawyer , Jaggers , tells Pip that a mysterious benefactor has provided money to make him a gentleman with ‘ great expectations ’ . |
| 16 | Once it had , though , it was relatively simple to convince Karen that the whole thing had been inevitable . |
| 17 | But he returned to the side in last week 's UEFA Cup match with Torpedo Moscow and his performance against Brighton finally convinced Fergie that the little winger still has a part to play . |
| 18 | It now emerged that the new National Rivers Authority had warned MAFF that the voluntary approach was ‘ an insufficiently secure base ’ . |
| 19 | It was to honour Dicke that the Dutch Society for Gastroenterology instituted the Dicke medal to reward pioneering work in hepatogastroenterology and , naturally , the first gold medal was awarded to Dicke himself . |
| 20 | And Austen Chamberlain was still telling Baldwin that the Conservative position would only be restored if he bestirred himself and put a less negative spirit in his speeches . |
| 21 | A COUPLE of years ago , a rumour swept Oxford that the National Front was to have a stall at the Freshers ' Fair . |