Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pron] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bit o' glass 'ad caught him on the fore'ead , but otherwise we 'ad n't a scratch to show for it between us . |
| 2 | This accursed recession has blinded us to the fact that we are well placed , vis-a-vis our competitors in Europe , to create wealth . |
| 3 | The fact that a person against whom an order is sought has received nothing under the transaction resulting from or , as the case may be , constituting the contravention may be relevant to discretion but is not , in my judgment , relevant to the power of the court to make the order . |
| 4 | As far as I know , the Canadian Rugby Union has received nothing for the development , or even the maintenance , of our cash-strapped programme . |
| 5 | At one extreme is the person who starts a diet every morning and has broken it by the evening . |
| 6 | That play has as an epigraph a Christian equivalent of the escape through ‘ Shantih ’ from the cycles of creation : ‘ Hence the soul can not be possessed of the divine union , until it has divested itself of the love of created beings . ’ |
| 7 | When that news hits him , the narrator seems to crumble , even though a premonitory dream the night before has readied him for the shock . |
| 8 | MR JOHN MacGregor , the Education Secretary , has distanced himself from the Government 's loans scheme for students by appointing the two most junior ministers at the Department of Education and Science to sit on the parliamentary committee discussing the Education ( Student Loans ) Bill . |
| 9 | The UNO coalition has distanced itself from the contras , as has the US Administration by ending military aid . |
| 10 | Mellowes has assigned me to the duties of the administrative assistants , then to those of the statistical clerks . |
| 11 | I am glad that she has joined us for the debate . |
| 12 | But he has forsaken them for the moment , at least in his current Emmerich show , ‘ Some Very Recent Paintings ’ ( opening 14 January ) . |
| 13 | It could also be that for some of you 1988 has also seen some trouble , a bereavement perhaps , that has shaken you to the foundations . |
| 14 | I think the first evidence we have of that , is when Brocklehurst has placed her on the stool and publicly humiliated her . |
| 15 | It is your enthusiasm , dedication and sheer hard work which has placed us at the forefront of our industry . |
| 16 | He care for the whole of mankind and has given us in the Bible a guide-book by which to live . |
| 17 | Check the output which CREFDL has given you against the example of a successful run of the command file as shown in Figure 2.1 . |
| 18 | ‘ It has devastated everyone in the organisation . |
| 19 | The first argument to scotch is that Britain has committed itself over the years to accepting the single currency and the central bank . |
| 20 | Agnes nodded and smiled at her ; then , as Nan came behind the counter , she whispered to her , ‘ His lordship has reminded me of the time . |
| 21 | ‘ a very long boy , with a very little head , and an open mouth of disproportionate capacity ’ , devotedly attached to Betty Higden who has rescued him from the workhouse in which he has been brought up , having been a foundling child . |
| 22 | Michael Mills ’ production , always avoiding the self-consciously funny , has caught something of the style — and I choose the comparison with due care — of Laurel and Hardy . ’ |
| 23 | In 1867 Bagehot may have been able to write that ‘ a republic has insinuated itself beneath the folds of a Monarchy ’ ( 1965/1867 : 94 ) . |
| 24 | In 1986 Metromedia 's six US television stations were sold to Rupert Murdoch , who has grouped them into the Fox Television network . |
| 25 | THE 1993 British and US Open champion , Patty Sheehan , had the better of a tense battle with Canada 's Dawn Coe-Jones to win the $700,000 Standard Register Ping — a 32nd tour victory which has catapulted her into the LPGA 's Hall of Fame . |
| 26 | So far as teachers are concerned , it might be necessary to tap a pupil on the shoulder to point out that s/he has dropped something on the floor , or to grab hold of a pupil to prevent an assault by that pupil on another . |
| 27 | PETER MARSHALL 's double-handed style has carried him to the top of the British rankings , and many observers were looking to this week 's British Open Championship at Wembley Conference Centre to provide proof of his potential at world level . |
| 28 | SUN man Paul Welford has reported him to the police , and Flashman said : ‘ If people want to do that , then fair enough . |
| 29 | ‘ Our visit has impressed us with the skill and the quality of our soldiers , and with the risks they run . |
| 30 | But it is obvious that the sentences form part of some larger act of conversational interaction between two speakers ; the sentences contain several references that presuppose shared knowledge ( e.g. ‘ that meeting ’ implies that both speakers know which meeting is being spoken about ) , and in some cases the meaning of a sentence can only be correctly interpreted in the light of knowledge of what has preceded it in the conversation ( e.g. ‘ You ca n't be sure ’ ) . |