Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | TIM PEACOCK joins them on the road and discovers that they 're dab hands at snooker , Ian T Tilton gets them in the frame . |
| 32 | Ann Williams pipped her on the line and the Sale athlete is among her rivals again , along with Yugoslav Snezana Pajkic , the European 1500 metres champion , and Gateshead Harrier Chris Cahill . |
| 33 | The frontier post spotted him from the photos we rushed to the western frontier . |
| 34 | The captain of the Rebecca Sims described it in the ship 's log as a brownish-grey reptile at least 45 metres long . |
| 35 | Friday evening saw me at the National Gallery with her boyfriend and , quite literally , hundreds of other people , to the opening of the annual exhibition , sponsored this year by BP , of the Scottish Artists and Craftsmen . |
| 36 | ‘ What am I supposed to do ? ’ he said in an aggrieved tone but ( fortunately , Nutty thought ) a misguided girl in puce trousers hit him over the head with a handbag and he launched himself instantly at his aggressor , being no respecter of the female sex , and thereby deflected a fair amount of Jazz 's opposition on to himself , the girl 's screaming indignation making her plight quite plain . |
| 37 | David Dorn puts you in the picture |
| 38 | Does she agree that haemophiliacs and others who are given contaminated blood transfusions receive them from the national health service ? |
| 39 | On our way home via New York , some ‘ dear ’ friends ( as in generous ) , fixed us a stretch limo to take us to the airport . |
| 40 | Oh yeah , he told me afterwards right , that he , the only reason he was angry was because Friday night reminded him of the time in his past or something ! |
| 41 | ‘ I telephoned the coastguard and port authority on Friday night to inform them of the event , start times and which VHF frequency we would be using . |
| 42 | Now remove the yarn from the yarn guide and on Silver and Knitmaster machines reposition it on the yarn guide on the other side ( on the side that is now nearest the knitting ) . |
| 43 | Post-GLC and with Third Term Thatcherism staring it in the face , Labour did , in a sense , revert to type . |
| 44 | Straw Dogs managed to attract enough blood seekers to put it into the black at the box-office , but this disturbing tale of rural atrocities can scarcely have done much for the Cornish tourist industry . |
| 45 | Yelena Prokina skilfully using Mussorgsky 's rapid melodic fragments to suggest her terror as she is about to succumb to rape , Andrey Khovansky pursuing her with the exaggeration of the weak man who is over-asserting himself . |
| 46 | The heron 's special neck vertebrae provides it with the speed to spear fish and donates to the neck a broken ‘ S ’ shape which is very dynamic . |
| 47 | From the village , a 10-minute cable car ride delivers you to the slopes . |
| 48 | Lindsay Kemp : ‘ David Bowie struck me from the very beginning as being very versatile and very ‘ up-front ’ and not in the least bit naîve . |
| 49 | So in the afternoons Anne and some of her friends stayed late at school , and Miss Stacy helped them with the special examination work . |
| 50 | What I was trying to say was , if you 're really bored with him and he 's doing is , any form of bio-chemistry start asking him about the correct names , what are they ? |
| 51 | As David Lodge put it in the first issue of The Birmingham Magazine : |
| 52 | The same goes for diving in front of a seal pup to protect it from the sealers . |
| 53 | ‘ And lastly , ’ Matilda said , ‘ what did your father and Miss Trunchbull call you around the house ? ’ |
| 54 | Lifting the spoon from the bowl , Tuan Ti Fo placed it to the boy 's lips , tilting it gently . |
| 55 | Christian Lacroix 's C'est la Vie dress : Sylvie Guillem wore it on the night |
| 56 | The word came from the dressing room that it was Martin Foyle ; I saw Andy Melville kick it into the net — what did n't I see ? |
| 57 | On the following morning Miss Stapleton took us to the path through the marsh . |
| 58 | The movie version blows it in the first couple of minutes . |
| 59 | The man was disabled eight months after the soldiers died when UVF men shot him in the back . |
| 60 | Signor Gismondi followed her to the door . |