Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We might conceive of the aside as occupying a zone midway between the play and the audience ; we continue to experience the play , but we do so via the new information or attitudes given us by the character or characters speaking the asides . |
| 2 | The Minotaur was finally slain by Theseus , who found his way out of the labyrinth by trailing a skein of thread given him by the king 's daughter , ARIADNE . |
| 3 | Part of the confusion came from the unworthy pleasure given him by the prospect of holding onto his ward a little longer . |
| 4 | This teacher 's view that the Afro-Caribbean pupils felt obliged to live up to the labels given them by the school was reiterated by other teachers . |
| 5 | The blue eyes regarded her across the stretch of mahogany desk . |
| 6 | Deep-set eyes quizzed her in the candlelight . |
| 7 | The President called him into the room . |
| 8 | The barman fixed me with the kind of stare you could roast weenies on . |
| 9 | His unflappability deserted him in the face of by-election reverses . |
| 10 | He commented : ‘ The promotion was a tremendous success thanks to the wholehearted manner in which the branches promoted it to the public . ’ |
| 11 | His sad tones prepared them for the news as he announced that German troops had not withdrawn from Poland and consequently Britain was now at war with Germany . |
| 12 | When my young cousin 's pet budgie died , her parents buried it in the garden while she was asleep to avoid her being upset . |
| 13 | My mum washed mine at the weekend and they 're in a pile on my floor and I have n't been arsed so I 'm just sleeping on the mattress with the bare duvet . |
| 14 | David looked down at her as she lay against the white pillows , pale and thinner than ever , and thought how much easier it would be to keep himself in check if her husband treated her with the gentleness she deserved . |
| 15 | Almost all the murders that the police solve in real life are either dealt with in a matter of hours ( the husband done it with the kitchen knife ) or as a result of long , long , tedious inquiries , mostly house-to-house , the taking of fingerprints and the elimination of perhaps thousands of marginal suspects . |
| 16 | The marquis pinned her to the ground by her shoulders , sitting astride her so that she could n't move . |
| 17 | The neon striped it in the air . |
| 18 | Had my Pop passed me in the street , he would n't have recognised me . |
| 19 | Only once have the gods assaulted me in the guise of another person . |
| 20 | In the last year of his life Carleton 's connections with the tightly knit Puritan gentry of the midlands involved him in the Puritan literary conspiracy of the Marprelate tracts . |
| 21 | Against the advice given me at the Centre , quite deliberately I decided to have neither a counsellor nor a healer . |
| 22 | But it echoes an example given us by the Consumer Credit Association ( an amalgamation of the Retail Credit Federation and National Personal Finance Association , representing some 900 companies involved in personal loans and retail credit ) . |
| 23 | The profession has managed to offer CPD on a shoestring up until the mid-1980s but henceforth some funding will have to be found if it is to fulfil the role given it by the membership . |
| 24 | The Franciscan friars of Reading found it necessary in 1234 to obtain from the king a letter ordering the warden of Windsor Forest not to exact cheminage in respect of the timber given them in the forest for their buildings at Reading . |
| 25 | Thirty yards separated them from the catamaran . |
| 26 | Had Dane told him about the weekend in Glenshee ? |
| 27 | Had Hendrique warned him at the beginning about the current intensifying when crossing the colour boundary the game might already have been over . |
| 28 | For the next seventy-five minutes he will be the most important man on the floor-maintaining discipline and relaying all the instructions given him by the team assembled up in the gallery . |
| 29 | Darkened windows separated them from the chauffeur . |
| 30 | Their contribution is perceived as threefold : they were long-standing rivals of Gloucester , which virtually guaranteed a power struggle in 1483 ; the favour shown them by the king had made them unpopular with the rest of the Yorkist establishment ; and they were so closely identified with the young king , Edward V , that any limitation of their power could only be made permanent by his deposition . |