Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marcos fairy tale A touching story has reached me from the Manila Times of how Ferdinand Marcos had planned to bequeath more than £2.5bn in gold to his beloved people , but fell ill before he could sign the will . |
| 2 | SUN man Paul Welford has reported him to the police , and Flashman said : ‘ If people want to do that , then fair enough . |
| 3 | John Major has made one for citizens , British Rail has done it for their passengers , the banks have formulated one for their customers and now the JS distribution division has done it for the branches . |
| 4 | This accursed recession has blinded us to the fact that we are well placed , vis-a-vis our competitors in Europe , to create wealth . |
| 5 | She plans to launch her own designer clothes label but that is one area where her younger sister has pipped her at the post . |
| 6 | My own experience has led me to the conclusion that at the present stage of development of comprehensive education , a purely individual-based approach to support teaching is likely to prove counterproductive for a combination of three reasons : |
| 7 | As for their laying the birch on my pocket , I compute that my support of Lewis and Brzeska has cost me at the lowest estimate about £20 per year , from one source alone since that regrettable occurrence , since I dared to discern a great sculptor and a great painter in the midst of England 's artistic desolaton . |
| 8 | His crime has brought him to the extremity which Marmeladov was telling him about and tasting at the bottom of his own vodka jug in the opening pages of the novel . |
| 9 | Dear Rothenstein , Now that the Mexican president has provided you with the beak and talons of an Aztec eagle you may perhaps feel better equipped to face me in open contest . |
| 10 | Deeper study has convinced me of the opposite . |
| 11 | Nicholson 's new boy Adrian Maguire has thirty four winners already … but a double from Richard Dunwoody has taken him into the twenties |
| 12 | His research has taken him through the alpine and arid zones of Australia ; botanical history is one of his many interests , and he specialises in the ‘ Compositae ’ family . |
| 13 | The same morning Mrs Singh had approached me in the school foyer , handed me a bag full of letters , and burst into tears . |
| 14 | She 'd been close to panicking when Jeff had phoned her about the Sardinia stint . |
| 15 | Man of the match Smith admitted he would not have been surprised if Hick had pipped him to the award . |
| 16 | Something Neil had told me about the island . |
| 17 | Frankie Howerd had bought it in the early Seventies . |
| 18 | Donna had helped her onto the sofa , woken her gently but then realized that she was becoming hysterical . |
| 19 | ‘ Several times more than once , ’ the Doctor said , the tone of his voice reflecting the numerous occasions on which Bernice had dragged him into the flea-pit cinema she 'd found in the TARDIS and insisted that he pay attention to the noir motifs and the semiotics of Double Indemnity . |
| 20 | My experience at the Fiesta Club had led me to the conclusion that , on average , a ‘ star ’ lasts about three years before fading to a nonentity and I intended to earn as much as possible in that time and retire — unhurt — with enough capital for a business . |
| 21 | Few were tempted by credit cards , debit cards , store cards or account cards to overstretch themselves , but ‘ in several moments of madness ’ Allison Battye was able to do so at Harrods , the House of Fraser store in Knightsbridge , to the tune of £2,300 on a card which Harrods had given her on the strength of her claiming on the application form that she was in employment , which was not true . |
| 22 | In a daring helicopter operation supporters had freed him from the prison on Naos Island , off Panama City , on Dec. 4 . |
| 23 | Her fingers stiffened under the memory of the innumerable raps on the knuckles Sylvie had given her in the past . |
| 24 | This was pronounced with a kind of funereal satisfaction , and for a moment Jackson could imagine the remorseless gossip that someone else 's tragedy had afforded her at the time . |
| 25 | Malpass had made it across the street , about eighty feet or so in front of Armstrong . |
| 26 | The extraordinary stop-start conversation between Victor and his monster had convinced me of the latter 's supreme dangerousness : given its malevolence , its lying and eloquent tongue was probably as big a threat as its turn of speed . |
| 27 | And the Cid sent for all his friends and his kinsmen and vassals , and told them how King Don Alfonso had banished him from the land , and asked for them who would follow him into banishment , and who would remain at home . |
| 28 | As she stared up at the height a voice spoke from behind her , and she turned to discover that Silas Wilder had followed her down the track . |
| 29 | Beryl 's words had impressed him at the time because they summed up his own vague feeling that what had happened and what was happening might be consequences of the old man 's cynical , even malicious contrivings . |
| 30 | But once Gyggle had positioned me in the tank — which crouched there like a miniature submarine , or a twenty-first-century washing machine — and swung shut the rubber-flanged door , I found it impossible to lose — and therefore as he hoped , reencounter — my self . |