Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun] [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gedge 's mother was pleased to see the band put our a tribute to Jones but would have preferred her son 's singing to be given a lot more prominence . |
| 2 | Perhaps his most inspired piece is the saga of Cosmo , the fairly accurate knife thrower , whose failure to see the point makes him the sharpest act in town . |
| 3 | The veteran jockey 's normally-stony face crumbled as he read the letter wishing him a ‘ speedy recovery ’ after his fall in America 's Breeders ' Cup . |
| 4 | This so delighted the King that he asked the University to make him a Doctor of Divinity . |
| 5 | Outside the hotel she asked the doorman to get her a cab . |
| 6 | Donna , satisfied that her sister was well , asked the hotel to get her a hire car for the next couple of days . |
| 7 | In a modest attempt to amend the damage accumulated over centuries by this pernicious little fiction , I asked the children to give me the Other Version , particularly Eve 's , but Adam 's or God 's as well if they preferred . |
| 8 | One set was all they needed from the match but coach Tommy Dowens admitted the defeat left him a little flat in spite of the fact his team clinched the title . |
| 9 | Make the effort to send everyone a Christmas card every year . |
| 10 | But why do the other animals , seeing the pigs hoodwink them every time a commandment is altered , still accept their right to lead ? |
| 11 | No I should n't think The girls bought you a bottle each look |
| 12 | The model for much contemporary medical research is the double-blind trial , in which neither the patient nor the person administering the treatment knows what the treatment is ; controls ( such as sugar pills ) are always included . |
| 13 | Continuity in marketing can count for a lot , but not if consumer attitudes are going through a sea change , and BMW 's light-footedness in launching the 3-series earned it the brand of the year award for durables . |
| 14 | Indeed , in January 1709 , when the Commons were discussing a recently published Nonconformist tract calling for the repeal of the Test , it was a Whig , Sir James Montagu ( brother of the Junto chief ) , who moved the House to vote it a seditious and pernicious libel . |
| 15 | The first person to find the thimble hides it the next time . |
| 16 | One Christmas , Mother managed to find the time to make me a dolly , but only because I pestered . |
| 17 | During the next few weeks over 15,000 East Germans visited the tunnel to see what the ‘ capitalist warmongers ’ were up to . |
| 18 | The CVR allows the investigator to know what the members of the flight crew were saying to each other , and to some extent what they were thinking , at relevant times during the flight . |
| 19 | I told the servants to keep it a secret . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ She always says the crossing gives her an opportunity to relax and study her scripts . ’ |
| 21 | The company says the deal gives it the opportunity to distribute financial information to clients ' branch offices by using their own hardware and networks . |
| 22 | She probably could never have afforded a stairgate , so Save The Children lent her the equipment from its safety loan scheme . |
| 23 | Though a newcomer to 500s , the Aussie reckons the Honda gives him no other choice ( Doohan has even lowered gearbox ratios to encourage wheelspin to help turn the bike ) . |
| 24 | But then she remembered Tony , and how grateful she would have been to anyone who had had the courage to give her a hint of his real nature … |
| 25 | AT THE end of the Treta , or Second Age , Dasaratha , the childless king of the Solar race , performed the Aswa-medha sacrifice of horses and begged the gods to grant him a son . |
| 26 | We started many years ago by believing that innovation and uniqueness would provide the revenue to give us a good return , and for a time it did . |
| 27 | I have to know that sort of thing otherwise I would n't know how hard to fire the retro-rockets to give you a gentle landing . |
| 28 | How on earth had Gesner persuaded the Volksoper to sell him the costumes ? |
| 29 | Seven years later , however , Christien has not only got over the pain but has used the experience to make him a better actor . |
| 30 | They stopped on a straight stretch of upland road blatantly obvious and since there was a can of oil in the boot Maxim opened the bonnet to give them a cover story of the oil warming light having come on . |