Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a gladiator 's performance that again calls into question Manchester United 's decision to sell him for £750,000 in the close season . |
| 2 | Anfield has quickly taken to the midfielder and manager Graeme Souness 's decision to replace him with Michael Thomas during Tuesday 's match with Southampton was greeted by a chorus of boos . |
| 3 | Stuart Harper ( Points of View , 6 February ) welcomes the Government 's decision to provide him with data on examination results so that he can use it to make decisions on schools in ‘ the Government 's market-place for education . ’ |
| 4 | BARRY FRY wants to put Stan Flashman through the wringer by forcing the man dubbed ‘ Fat Stan ’ to account for yesterday 's decision to sack him as Barnet manager before an industrial tribunal . |
| 5 | Mazzin 's presence filled us with foreboding . |
| 6 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the two essential components for a policy of nuclear deterrence are that one possesses the capability and that a potential enemy does not doubt one 's willingness to use it in order to defend oneself ? |
| 7 | Undertaking an obligation to obey the law is an appropriate means of expressing identification with society , because it is a form of supporting social institutions , because it conveys a willingness to share in the common ways established in that society as expressed by its institutions , and because it expresses confidence in the reasonableness and good judgment of the government through one 's willingness to take it on trust , as it were , that the law is just and that it should be complied with . |
| 8 | and er , I think until women 's football take it on board all the way erm , they 're not really gon na stand up with the men they have to become , referees , they have to become coaches , and more and more of these people erm , taking responsibility . |
| 9 | Just as Elisha could answer the widow 's need because he had been in touch with his Lord , so the Holy Spirit is God 's agent to keep us in touch with Him , and to make us pure . |
| 10 | Sula was by birth a Manghutt princess , and she had lived under sentence of banishment until her son 's accession to the Dragon Throne for her part in her family 's attempt to install him as Kha-Khan while his grandfather Arjun yet ruled . |
| 11 | ‘ My poor wife 's attempt to scare her into flight must have been the final straw . |
| 12 | On the strength of that idea , Brenda 's mummy took her into Stowbridge on the day before her birthday — because it was the day the Stowbridge Brownies held their Pack Meeting — to see the Brownie Guider about her joining the Pack . |
| 13 | PAUL MERSON 'S self-destructiveness banished him to football 's margins for several weeks . |
| 14 | Hotspur 's wardrobe furnished him with clothes , and Hotspur 's stable , when he was strong enough , and already restive with inaction , supplied him with a mount . |
| 15 | Because in 1982 , when I was nine years old , my father 's work brought us to North Cornwall , where the landscapes are among the most magical on Earth and the legend of King Arthur still burns . |
| 16 | ‘ We left Malta shortly afterwards and my Dad 's job took us to Japan . |
| 17 | At all events , King Malcolm 's immediate reaction to Rufus 's refusal to see him at Gloucester was to go straight to Wilton , tear the veil off Matilda 's head , and take her back to Scotland . |
| 18 | Michael 's parable reminded me of Jules Verne 's Albatross , a flying machine with seventy-six propellers , which was supposed to be modelled on the flight of a bird . |
| 19 | Dougal 's imagination presented him with images of decay . |
| 20 | Diktynna 's name links her with Mount Dikte , and she was portrayed in the classical period as a mountain mother . |
| 21 | A people 's court sentenced him to death , and put a bounty on his head . |
| 22 | Crowley 's wife divorced him on grounds of admitted adultery in 1910 . |
| 23 | And they 'd need to hold a gun to Piggott 's head to keep him in hospital a day — no an hour — longer than strictly necessary . |
| 24 | Their action was not seriously challenged until 1468 , when the king 's attorney called them into chancery to answer the charges against them . |
| 25 | Their action was not seriously challenged until 1468 , when the king 's attorney called them into chancery to answer the charges against them . |
| 26 | Brown doubts Microsoft 's pledge to reduce it to 8Mb in the final release will produce a very usable system , certainly not one that could run multiple applications concurrently . |
| 27 | Another half-hour 's walking brought me to Cow Dub where a stream thunders down from a lip of flowstone , crashing through a narrow tubular cavern to scour out a perfectly formed round pool below . |
| 28 | Speelman 's blunder leads him into trap |
| 29 | My master , preoccupied with Hopkins 's riddle drew me into discussion about its meaning , only to reach the conclusion it would tell us nothing until we had reached Glastonbury or Templecombe . |
| 30 | ‘ I thought , ’ she said , ignoring her father 's advice to treat him with kid gloves , ‘ not that it 's any business of yours , that I might potter into Nice for the day . ’ |