Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [verb] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lass in Low Newton hanged herself the second time I was in there . |
| 2 | Monsieur Saulnier informed me the other day that it was not usual in this part of Normandy to have so many mosquitoes . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's a fine idea , but Mrs. Olinton told me the other day that Mr. Olinton would n't lend any of his buildings to Scouts or Guides or Brownies or Cubs . |
| 4 | So many of the stories were wild exaggerations , inflamed by a number of factors — the ‘ culture contact ’ between rural and urban society , personal resentment ( particularly if two women were forced to share the same kitchen ) , the strangeness of the whole situation at the start of a frightening new war , or simply as Angus Calder put it the English tendency to confuse manners with morals . |
| 5 | Match referee Deryck Murray confiscated the match ball after umpires John Hampshire and Ken Palmer showed him the scarred leather . |
| 6 | DAVID Sinclair made himself the ideal employee when he filled in an application form for a sales job , a court heard yesterday . |
| 7 | The legendary Enzo Ferrari rates him the best driver ever , and coming from the man with Ferrari 's wealth of experience and knowledge , he must be right . |
| 8 | Dr Sasaki found himself the only doctor in the hospital who was unhurt . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm not frightened of dying because Dr Child gave me the right attitude : Think of the future and be hopeful . ’ |
| 10 | Former technical direct Dr Nigel Mykura told us the immediate cause of his February 1991 resignation was a transfer of £350,000 from AMS1s bank account to another MacDonald company , which Mykura believed would make it impossible for AMS to continue its research . |
| 11 | He is the vital element , a striker with so much potential that , if Graham Taylor gives him the same encouragement he has received at Highbury , he will become Gary Lineker Mark II — only better . |
| 12 | When we arrived , Helen Stoner showed us the three bedrooms . |
| 13 | That is why , when the French economy was screaming for lower interest rates , President Mitterrand increased them the other day . |
| 14 | He was created baronet in 1837 , but Sir Robert Peel refused him the Irish peerage promised him by Melbourne . |
| 15 | ALASTAIR McIVER BRINGS YOU THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO TENNIS FOOTWEAR FOR 1992 |
| 16 | ‘ I almost had the creature last night , ’ Mr Crangle told him the next day . |
| 17 | Over a glass of wine Ladislav told me the following story : ‘ There was a Bohemian landowner called Prince Paar . |
| 18 | The Leisure 200-S offers you the best of modern design with the instant control of modern gas technology with full ignition to the hotplate , oven and grill . |
| 19 | The supply curve SS tells us the marginal value of the leisure being sacrificed in order to work another hour , the marginal social cost of extra work . |
| 20 | The demand curve DD tells us the marginal value product of labour , the extra benefit society could have from extra goods produced . |
| 21 | Jarvis , who was getting out at the next station , asked where they would be the following night ; the man who said his name was Jed Lowrie told him the Metropolitan , the Hammersmith Line . |
| 22 | ‘ My sister Mary gave him the stable name ‘ Arthur ’ . |
| 23 | Perhaps we need men like Denis O'Neil to give us the pointless perspective , to underline the fact we do not live by bread alone but by blarney and beauty and other indefinable things that do n't always make money . |
| 24 | In the first of a series of four reports this week , Mike Rowbottom brings us the Inside Story . |
| 25 | Between the last years of the 16C and about 1653 , they rebuilt the Church of St Salvator making it the first church in Prague of the Counter-Reformation . |
| 26 | Admittedly the absence of Brian Reid gave him the 250 at Carrowdore and then Derek Young 's injury at Kirkistown handed him the Open Road Racing Ireland award , but he has certainly had a year to remember and his performances in the 600cc series have all been high class . |
| 27 | In life Kelly set herself the toughest challenges , and she met them head on . |
| 28 | Dr Cathy Read brings you the latest on health news and views , from the dangers of drastic exercise to the benefits of sensible sleeping — and a scary tale of birds |
| 29 | Steve White says its the first stepping stone of a month , where they have all the top teams and it 's very much in their own hands . |
| 30 | ‘ Anyone who knows George Amiroutzes knows who the real devil is . |