Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [noun prp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Flanagan said : ‘ I had no hesitation in advising the board to promote Nigel to the job — and his results have proved me right . |
| 2 | A special international award was given to Alexey Yablokov , Russian President Boris Yeltsin 's special environmental adviser , for his willingness to alert Yeltsin to the extent of Russia 's ecological problems . |
| 3 | Loretta decided she would have to abandon her attempt to see Veronica for the rest of the day . |
| 4 | In my room I fell to my knees to thank God for the sign he had sent me , and waited eagerly for daylight . |
| 5 | French league president Noel Le Graet had urged Tapie to withdraw his civil court action to reinstate Marseille in the competition after world soccer 's governing body FIFA threatened to suspend France from international competition . |
| 6 | It is not yet possible to expect any therapy to eliminate HIV from the body and anti-viral therapies will have to be taken for long periods , maybe for life . |
| 7 | During the long drawn out hostage crisis the American people had watched impotently , wondering how it was that a nation with the supposed military capability to wipe Russia off the map at the push of a button could do nothing . |
| 8 | All the time , I was straining my ears to hear Tom through the wall . |
| 9 | French successes faltered , however , when the maid of Orleans , failing in her attempt to wrest Paris from the English in 1430 , was captured and burned at the stake in Rouen on 30 May 1431 . |
| 10 | In what was widely seen as an attempt to draw Israel into the conflict , Iraq had launched a number of missile attacks on Tel Aviv and Haifa [ see pp. 37936-37 ; 37984 ] . |
| 11 | The King , however , was disinclined to anything other than an exchange of courtesies , once again making it quite clear that any attempt to detach Prussia from the rest of Germany was a fruitless exercise . |
| 12 | Melissa was shocked at the lack of sensitivity and promptly made up her mind to use Eleanor as the model for a future victim . |
| 13 | After an abortive attempt to force Shamil into the open in 1845 , Vorontsov combined a policy of gradually strangling the rebellious highlanders with an approach to civil administration which allowed natives a little room for manoeuvre . |
| 14 | With Forster supporting his legs , Delaney used the forward motion of the boat to haul Nell from the water , finally landing her like a slippery black sea creature . |
| 15 | According to The Hindu of March 31 , Lal had acted in order to pre-empt a possible move by Singh to remove Chauthala from the party and also in order to convey a message to the Prime Minister that any action against his son " could not only evoke resistance but provoke counterattacks " . |
| 16 | For example , Zuwaya said they were subjected to discriminatory conscription in Ajdabiya : those youths who shouted ‘ And we killed Pasha Naiz ’ , provoked Magharba to denounce Zuwaya to the commander of the garrison at Sirte . |
| 17 | Cardiff bay has a great deal to offer Wales in the way of prestige projects , for example . |
| 18 | Bath are now title favourites ; they won 21–13 at Rosslyn Park to replace Northampton at the top . |
| 19 | ZEUS was , however , unimpressed by Bellerophon 's temerity and sent a gadfly to sting Pegasus on the rump . |
| 20 | In what appears to have been a carefully stage-managed cry of unanimity , it was agreed that Edward should never rule over them again , and the Bishop of Hereford took a delegation which was headed by William Trussell to Renilworth to inform Edward of the assembly 's decision . |
| 21 | For centuries young bloods had been sent off by indulgent parents to tour Europe in the hope that they would return cultured , educated , their manners refined and their address books packed with useful contacts , but Cook 's was the first group tour of European countries organized by an excursion agent . |
| 22 | I next plan to visit Cyprus for the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in 1993 . |
| 23 | If you have previously run BBCBASIC(Z80) , you can return to it by using the cursor keys to select BASIC from the list of suspended activities in the index . |
| 24 | ‘ No one 's suggesting , do you see , a full-scale plot to undermine Winston on the spot . |
| 25 | The FO 's assessor will have a say in how the BAS spends its money and will report back to the Foreign secretary on how useful the BAS is as a political presence in the Antarctic and the south Atlantic , This move , which clearly follows from Britain 's determination to outface Argentina in the region , brings a new political backdrop to the activities of scientists in the Antarctic . |
| 26 | We support the campaign to keep Eldorado on the TV . |
| 27 | The Thirty Years Peace meant , for Athens , the end of the central Greek land empire , the end of the plan to control Delphi through the Amphictyony , the end of the Athenian outposts in the Peloponnese . |
| 28 | Ferguson marked his return by latching on to an Alan Main clearance to beat Murdoch to the jump on the edge of the box , and head in the fourth . |
| 29 | However , despite my misgivings , I plump for Swansea to face Llanelli in the final . |
| 30 | On this aspect of the story Mr Sale is an invaluable guide and teacher , but he goes well over the top in his determination to present Columbus as the representative of a devilish western world driven only by the desire to rape , grab and despoil a land of innocence . |