Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [noun prp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the moderates finally marched out and surrendered their authority to Cromwell , the radical remnant called Moyer to the Speaker 's chair and sat on until the military evicted them . |
| 2 | In 1828 , in a village called Ecclesfield on the road from Leeds to Sheffield , the body of a newly-born child was discovered without its head . |
| 3 | On two occasions he failed ignominiously to lose his virginity to a girl called Rosie in the packing department . |
| 4 | The software incorporates a remote debugging tool called VxGDB at the host and a target debugging agent , VxMon . |
| 5 | This key requests that a copy of the currently displayed page be sent to a file called FORM.LST on the VMS directory from which you accessed LIFESPAN . |
| 6 | The story of The Way To The Lantern is inspirational and tells of an actor called Robert during the time of the French Revolution who , by assuming different personae , evades the guillotine . |
| 7 | It is a circular building with a large central hall marked E and the prisoners or those under surveillance and regulation in the positions marked H. At the centre is an inspection lantern , a cylinder in which the inspector sits ( Figure 5.2 ) . |
| 8 | Croatia 's rebel Serbs live in a string of southern villages in an area called Krajina near the town of Knin , and in another string of villages in Slavonia to the north . |
| 9 | In solidarity with his fallen race , though he himself was without any sin , this man called Joshua in the Hebrew and Jesus in the Greek entered the river Jordan to be baptised for the remission of sins . |
| 10 | ‘ Once upon a time , ’ he would begin his lectures , ‘ in the remote marches and forests of Central Asia , near a lake called Issyk-Koul in the province of Semiriechinsk , there lived a small , pretty squirrel-like creature called the Marmot … ’ |
| 11 | He was an eccentric who , amongst other exploits rode a bull named Jupiter to the hunt and attracted the attention of George III . |
| 12 | Uncle had a bitch called Jill at the time and they had puppies which we gave to the neighbours . |
| 13 | No fewer than 20 Atlantic depressions affected Scotland during the month and one in particular may have been the deepest low seen near the British Isles this century . |
| 14 | There was a port called Minoa on the south-west coast of Sicily which may have been a Crete-controlled trading station . |
| 15 | This latter undertaking was , however , independent of and severable from that of the shareholders and there was no reason why it should not be enforceable by the shareholders among themselves as a personal agreement that in no way fettered TBL in the exercise of its statutory powers . |
| 16 | It was a popular game on several of the Hebridean islands and though there were regional variations , this version is from the Rev. N. MacDonald who was recorded by the late Calum lain MacLean of the school of Scottish Studies in 1953 . |