Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [noun prp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been christened Nicandra on the insistence of her father who , in his luckier years , had bred and trained and ridden an outstanding winner of that name . |
| 2 | Doctors are keeping Tim on the life support machine for 24 hours to make sure the drugs have worked out of his system and have not ruled out all hope . |
| 3 | Journalists , desperate to break the story on the latest trend in designer drugs , are hyping Ketamine as the drug to take over from Ecstasy . |
| 4 | Well , they 're touring Scotland at the moment , they 'll be back bi Wednesday . ’ |
| 5 | He says they are moving Steiner from the Tower of London to a place called St Mary 's Priory . ’ |
| 6 | The Strawbs and er and Part of the Union and I 'm reliably informed by John Shaw that the Strawbs are supporting Lindisfarne at the Concert Hall in er December so there you are one to one . |
| 7 | I can remember Leslie coming home , I think I must have been expecting Doreen at the time , that was in , that was early early on , nineteen , well that was nineteen sixty three , and he was , he had heard that had I had been in the Gatehouse Drama Club , and er he said , Would I be interested in com in coming to the Drama in if they started ? |
| 8 | When Douglas MacArthur returned to America , MacArthur had not been back to America since nineteen forty one this is ten years later , he 'd been running Japan in the meantime there was one of these huge ticker-tape parades in New York , he was the welcoming hero and President Truman was seen as the villain and some analysts argue that that decision , that single decision to sack MacArthur may well have cost Harry Truman the American presidency . |
| 9 | But if we want to adopt an approach to family life which is Christ-centred in its essence , we must ask how we are to glorify God in the relationship of parents to children and children to parents . |
| 10 | More than half the 100 exhibitors have indicated that they will be using Rooftec for the launch of new or updated products , and these will be short-listed for the Federation 's coveted ‘ Ken Soulsby Innovation Award . ’ |
| 11 | The best will be representing Britain in the Paralympics in the Summer . |
| 12 | I 'm meeting Lucy off the train later on anyway , and if you want to know the truth ’ — he looked about him with rolling eyes — ‘ I 'm completely pissed off with the whole of this bloody set-up . |
| 13 | I thought he might be called Peggy in the House for ever after . |
| 14 | There are a number of points of view the executive want to put and I 'll be calling Paul at the end of that debate . |
| 15 | I 'm asking Natalie at the moment . |
| 16 | yeah she always is , it 's this one that 's not you must be joking Charlotte out the way , do n't be so impatient , oh god , thanks very much right , hang your coat up , hang your coat up , I 'll hang your coat up give us your coat |
| 17 | Liberals and Socialists agreed that the only purpose served by an Anglo-German war would be to place Europe at the mercy of the Russian autocracy . |
| 18 | The Secretary of State argues that to allow what my Bill proposes would be to place Scotland at the top of a slippery slope , but his attitude has the effect of placing Scotland at the edge of a cliff . |
| 19 | He could be leaving Wigan before the start of the season . |
| 20 | GAVIN PEACOCK is studying Italian at night school but wo n't be following Gazza in the player drain . |
| 21 | It came to me as a gift , a little black-faced lamb sent to me by the Batesons who were farming Briscoe at the time . |
| 22 | Some of these were given AZT from the start ; the others were given a placebo until they developed symptoms of either AIDS or AIDS-related complex ( ARC ) , when they were then switched to AZT . |
| 23 | Others include Willard Metcalf , Theodore Butler , Carroll Beckwith , Lila Cabbot Perry and less eminent idolators , who eventually were to irritate Monet beyond the point of endurance . |
| 24 | I thought , well , they were trumpeting Ade for the gold medal . |
| 25 | Accordingly , without intercepting their telephone communications we obtained a fair amount of information about their attitudes on quite a wide range of topics that were concerning C.N.D. at the time . |
| 26 | American political pressure on Churchill in London , and diplomatic help to Nasser in Cairo , resulted in the highly unsatisfactory Anglo-Egyptian Agreement of October 1954 , whereby the military base installations in the Canal Zone were to be handed over to British civilian contractors , and all uniformed personnel were to leave Egypt by the end of March 1956 . |
| 27 | They had talked about words during that drive , well , place-names really , with particular reference to the villages that were called Roding after the river : High Roding , Berners Roding , Margaret Roding , and Rufus told him they were pronounced Roothing from the old Danish , which Adam had n't known before . |
| 28 | They were performing Luxembourg for the remainder of the week . |
| 29 | Seb groaned , but — with the impressive upper-class confidence in his own innate superiority which always impressed Nutty enormously — waded into the melee and started to beat off the boys who were dragging Jazz down the road by his hair . |
| 30 | He explained that Louis Johnson and General Bradley were visiting Japan near the end of May and should return to Washington by 12 June . |