Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun prp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She takes over from Susan George and before that Jan Francis in the show . |
| 2 | At a public meeting in Barking Town Hall Wilson repeated the message to a wider audience , advising all the strikers in London to return to work , denouncing a prayer offered up on Tower Hill by the fiery Ben Tillett for the death of Lord Devonport , the Chairman of the Port of London Authority , assuring the men present that a just settlement could be achieved and declaring his intention of ordering his 4,000 London members back to their jobs . |
| 3 | IAN RUTHERFORD Looking ahead with apprehension : A dockyard worker contemplates the future after yesterday 's grim news A grim-faced Allan Smith at the yard yesterday after the news was announced |
| 4 | Although his career may be on the wane , he should still prove a useful asset to Ballymena , who just pipped top Junior side Coleraine for the veteran 's services . |
| 5 | With the addition of the two seats held by Moledet , the coalition now held 66 seats in the 120-member Knesset [ see p. 37872 for addition of four-member Agudat Yisrael to the coalition in November 1990 ] . |
| 6 | The plague bacillus , known by the Latin name Yersinia pestis , was carried on marmot skins by fur traders travelling along the old Silk Road from the East . |
| 7 | The headquarters of the KGB is 2 Dzerzhinsky Square in the heart of Moscow , close to the Kremlin , and incorporates the site of the notorious Lubyanka prison where so many opponents of the Russian regime have been tortured and murdered . |
| 8 | ‘ I was about to visit old Will Yaxley at The Pightle , ’ Frere volunteered eventually . |
| 9 | She and Horatia , her daughter by Nelson , were taken from their house in Fulham to a Lock-up or Sponging House within the ‘ Rules ’ ( boundaries ) of the King 's Bench Prison in Southwark — no. 12 Temple Place on the east side of Blackfriars Road where it joins St George 's Circus , one of a terrace of twenty houses . |
| 10 | It would be wrong to assert that Ayrshire 's claim to Old King Cole of the nursery rhyme can be substantiated beyond reasonable doubt but only the foolish would ridicule the ancient legend . |
| 11 | So I mean you 're not gon na say well let's go and get another Ian Wright off the peg so fair enough . |
| 12 | What 's this Monte Viso in the horizon of which you operate ? ’ |
| 13 | THATCHED HOUSE LODGE 5 October : Princess Alexandra , attended by Lady Mary Mumford , left Royal Air Force Benson this morning in an aircraft of The Queen 's Flight to visit the Caribbean Dependent Territories of Montserrat and the British Virgin Islands in the wake of the destruction caused by Hurricane Hugo . |
| 14 | In return for permission to reside on Henderson , Smiley Ratliff has promised to provide the inhabitants of nearby Pitcairn Island with the use of his proposed airstrip , a launch to ferry them the 90 or so miles between Pitcairn and Henderson . |
| 15 | One interesting find was a pre-war Dinky car , identified by a helper with the words : ‘ Oh yes , that 's the 20 horse-power Rolls Royce with the Mulliner body . |
| 16 | ‘ And me thinking of old Al Bowlly in the Blitz , London , fog in the streets . |
| 17 | The live anniversary performance of Messiah by George Frederic Handel ( C4 , Monday : 8.30–11.40 pm ) will be given some way from down-at-heel Fishamble Street at the Point Theatre . |
| 18 | In 1915 , they sank the British liner Lusitania off the coast of southern Ireland , and among the many passengers drowned were 128 American citizens . |
| 19 | I 've had support from as far away as Boston , Massachusetts ( nowhere else , actually ) , for the retention of old Sir Wynkyn at the head of this column , but now that I have met the new fellow , commissioned at vast expense ( as the Editor has been at pains to point out ) , I feel he 's quite me . |
| 20 | And that could set up a multi-million pound transfer merry-go-round at the City Ground , with fans ' favourite Roy Keane at the centre of it . |
| 21 | If he wins that he 's set to meet Newcastle 's newly-crowned British champion Davison in the Spring with both titles at stake . |
| 22 | This could only be averted by unrestricted use of submarine warfare , which in turn would bring an enraged United States into the conflict . |
| 23 | Rangers are waiting for Keegan to come back with an improved offer after rejecting a staggering £3.3m bid , and Keegan could offer transfer-listed Franz Carr as the makeweight in a new player-cash deal . |
| 24 | The courtheard Mr James had been arguing with his pregnant girlfriend 16 year old Jessie Barnes at the time . |
| 25 | Okay let me do the prog right er Noel that 's a funny name Noel by the way is n't it ? |
| 26 | At Bilbao , whose list of foreign managers includes Ronnie Allen and Howard Kendall , he will replace caretaker-manager Jesus Aranguren at the end of this season . |
| 27 | ‘ Alice Muir , ’ he writes , ‘ was a homeopathist and in 1878 treated old Mrs McNeil at the Boathouse in Brodick so successfully that two years later the latter presented her with an engraved tumbler glass . ’ |
| 28 | I was very happy teaching pretty little Adèle in the daytime , and talking to kind old Mrs Fairfax in the evening , but I felt that something was missing from my life . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's my birthday tomorrow , ’ said old Mrs Ransome at the Post Office . |
| 30 | ‘ But alcohol dilutes someone 's judgment to the point where they 're physically dangerous , ’ says Luke who ironically plays recovering alcoholic Dylan McKay in the teen series . |