Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lynda Clifford did a sponsored aerobic session , Sue Tons and her family took part in the Great North Walk , Cycle Ride and Run , and Gary Bainbridge joined them for the Run . |
| 2 | Frank Packman tries his running skills at full-back in place of Hunter with Ben Ward succeeding him on the right . |
| 3 | But if you do n't want to hear it … ’ he made as if to go but Herr Nordern took him by the elbow . |
| 4 | Patrick Devlin regarded him as the most effective speaker of his time : |
| 5 | It 's alleged Gary Corbett held her by the legs and swung her against a wall at the flat in which they all lived at Forest Green in Nailsworth , near Stroud in Gloucestershire . |
| 6 | Mountbatten 's task was not simplified when General MacArthur saddled him with the additional responsibility of taking over Indonesia and Indo-China , previously within the American sphere . |
| 7 | British Champion Colin McRae pushing everything to the limits … it requires rapid changes through the gear box … even when cornering … now in the Banbury factory of Prodrive engineers have spent 18 months developing a semi-automatic gear box … they 're already becoming common in Formula One … now for the first time they 've been successfully introduced in a rally car … with just a touch of a button the driver can change gear without having to take his hand off the steering wheel . |
| 8 | The civil rights marches created an opportunity for Ian Paisley to put himself at the head of plebeian Protestant resistance to the civil rights movement . |
| 9 | I even went out and bought a dictionary on Sixth Avenue to assist me in the project . |
| 10 | I heard Miss Temple greet them as the wife and daughters of Mr Brocklehurst . |
| 11 | RICHARD MARPOLE GUIDES YOU AROUND THE COUNTRYSIDE IN AUGUST |
| 12 | The decision has caused considerable controversy and been criticized as an excessive response to the problem , but Mayor Jean Baylaucq justified it on the grounds that the bears constituted a threat to animals and humans . |
| 13 | When Michele had retrieved the crutch from the back seat Luce followed him into the bare concrete building and waited while he knocked at the door of one of the ground-floor flats . |
| 14 | Britain 's golden boy who lost his shine when newcomer David Grindley beat him for the final place in today 's 400 metres final is ready to take a year off from the track if it means he can beat the trouble . |
| 15 | Bert Burnell sees it in the number of passengers travelling on each of his routes . |
| 16 | David Beaton clapped him on the shoulder . |
| 17 | Richard Branson saved us over the boredom . |
| 18 | But Malcolm Morley , although born in England , is an American painter , and in many respects Hockney became one in the 1960s though he 's now living with the French masters in a Côte d'Azur of his own imagining . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , David Speedie puts himself in the shop window at St Andrews tonight . |
| 20 | David Frost put it to the right hon. and learned Gentleman no less than three times that it would be an unfair burden on many people who are not rich if he were to carry out immediately his proposed taxation arrangements to pay for Beckett 's law — the abolition of the upper earnings limit for national insurance contributions and the 50 per cent . |
| 21 | Miss Liberty marched her towards the cross . |
| 22 | Lucy Lane told him about the journal . |
| 23 | TIM PEACOCK joins them on the road and discovers that they 're dab hands at snooker , Ian T Tilton gets them in the frame . |
| 24 | TIM PEACOCK joins them on the road and discovers that they 're dab hands at snooker , Ian T Tilton gets them in the frame . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The captain of the Rebecca Sims described it in the ship 's log as a brownish-grey reptile at least 45 metres long . |
| 27 | David Dorn puts you in the picture |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | By the time he meets his benefactor Pip has none of the sympathy of the reader as he is snobby , condescending and harsh towards Magwitch as is shown in this quote from Pip |
| 30 | 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 . |