Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [noun] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Mrs Simmons drives to town each Saturday afternoon to shop at the market . |
2 | There was old Ma Feeney to call for the laying out , the coffin maker to see , the burial to arrange . |
3 | I 've got an obit of poor old Eddy Moulton to do for the Journalist . |
4 | Agreement had to be reached with the Northern Cheyenne to film scenes at Lame Deer , Montana , and with Scarvee and Stony Indians for the use of land in Calgary , as well as a contract drawn up for forty Crow Indians to appear in the film . |
5 | At a meeting in Penang last month , a coalition of environmental groups formed the Global Anti-Golf Movement to campaign against the spread of golf courses in Asia . |
6 | At this point , Alf Jacobson entered the room to inform us that when he rang the Canadian Pacific Railway to check on the 9.15pm train by which Mr Murray and party were to travel to Regina , he was informed that the train was held up at Swift Current because of the blizzard , and that it would seem the CBC party might have to spend the night in Moose Jaw . |
7 | And he pleaded for the public to write to Premier John Major to protest at the move . |
8 | Moscow , USSR : At the same time , 12,000 miles away , a delegation from Amnesty 's International Secretariat is making plans for a fledgling Moscow Group to participate in the Women in the Front Line campaign . |
9 | The economic spokesman , Alex Neil , the industry spokesman , Roger Mullin , and the transport spokesman , Kenny MacAskill , resigned after the party leadership won a critical vote of confidence by just two votes — 13 votes to 11 with two members abstaining — over the controversial decision of the three SNP MPs to vote with the Government on the Maastricht Bill last week . |
10 | The furthest anyone has had to travel was to Los Angeles and back , all in forty-eight hours , to persuade the reclusive Harrison Ford to appear on the show . |
11 | The decisions , tantamount to a significant downgrading of COMECON ( as also indicated by a sharp staff reduction at the Moscow secretariat ) , and which were expected to be approved at a future summit meeting , were the outcome of an undertaking made at the summit meeting in January [ see p. 37202 ] to review existing COMECON arrangements to allow for the wider operation of market principles . |
12 | Does not that show that , despite all the promises and pledges , in the past five years the Government have carried out a sorry and tragic charade and have connived at every stage with Black Bob Scholey to sell off the Scottish steel industry ? |
13 | It was fear of the Soviet military threat which led many US administrations to work for the political unification of Europe — a process in many ways inimical to their own interests — and to urge the United Kingdom to play her part . |
14 | Mitsui Computer has launched a major campaign to attract Sun 3 , Sun-386i and older Sparcstation users to upgrade to the Sparcstation 10 machines due soon , backed by what Mitsui terms an ‘ aggressive ’ pricing policy which has a ‘ no penalty ’ upgrade path to the latest Sun Microsystems machines . |
15 | The brothers chatted with their father Prince Charles and the Duke of Edinburgh while the family lingered in front of a crowd of around 600 who braved a cold misty Norfolk morning to stand outside the church . |
16 | A labourer complained , " touching in particular the said churchwardens and overseers of the poor , not finding a house and providing labour or work for the said William Ashton to do in the parish " . |
17 | When he and my mother came to live at the house he bought five Aylesbury ducks to swim on the pond and clear it of weed . |
18 | By the time you read this , results from the new monitoring at the Swansea sewage outfall will be available , and Hines and other Badlands surfers will have joined with Welsh SAS members to respond to the findings . |
19 | It is further alleged that he ‘ counselled or procured ’ two BLW salesmen to deal in the shares , saving clients more than £1,300,000 in the process . |
20 | ENGLAND skip John Bell and his Cumbria partners Ian Carruthers , Stephen Farish and Andrew Baxter , beat off a spirited recovery from a young Ely team to scramble to the fours title by a single shot at the Manchester Unity National Indoor Championships at Melton Mowbray . |
21 | Other Essex groups to benefit from the Foundation for Sports and Arts grants are : |
22 | In 1977 I visited Lesotho and worked together with colleagues in the Ministry of Education to recommend a possible strategy for primary school curriculum change in conjunction with the setting up of a Curriculum Development Centre funded by the World Bank and a parallel UNICEF programme to assist in the processes of syllabus and materials production and implementation . |
23 | The new units will also take account of an earlier SCOTVEC project to look at the competences required in the building industry . |