Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | DINAMO Tbilisi , as expected , have lodged their appeal against UEFA 's decision to disqualify them from the European Cup ( writes Lyle Jackson ) . |
| 2 | WEST HAM stalwart Tony Gale last night hit out at the club 's decision to place him on the transfer list . |
| 3 | But Gloucestershire 's decision to place him on the restrictive List One of available players has been initially supported by the TCCB registration committee . |
| 4 | IRAS 's orbit takes it round the Earth every 100 minutes , passing within 9o of the poles on a path 900 km high , well above the water vapour in Earth 's atmosphere which absorbs much of the infrared radiation from space . |
| 5 | Subsequent analyses of observations from that day , when the satellite was well-placed for observations , showed a short burst of gamma and X-rays followed about a minute later by energetic neutrons that kept on coming until the satellite 's orbit carried it behind the earth . |
| 6 | The convoy 's route took it along the M53 motorway through Cheshire and Wirral to Birkenhead 's East Float Dock . |
| 7 | The convoy 's route took it along the M53 motorway through Cheshire and Wirral to Birkenhead 's East Float Dock . |
| 8 | Miss Fogerty 's heart smote her at the sight of her patient 's distress . |
| 9 | Winter had to aim Mandarin for the middle course but his mount started wandering off to the left before pressure from the vice-like grip of the jockey 's thighs pointed him in the right direction . |
| 10 | Elsewhere , individual protesters were being held down while Mosley 's guards beat them over the head and about the face . |
| 11 | United almost contributed to their own downfall , but Blackpool 's finsihing let them off the hook . |
| 12 | One of Nogai 's brothers slapped him on the shoulder , but Burun shouted , ‘ Which target were you aiming at , Nogai ? ’ |
| 13 | But even though it did in a campaign where he was one of Tottenham 's top performers , Venables has been unable to keep his word because of chairman Alan Sugar 's attempt to oust him from the club . |
| 14 | The second lorry ran into the car 's side sandwiching him in the wreckage . |
| 15 | These are the leather straps you put round the bird 's legs to hold it on the glove that you have to wear when you handle birds of prey . |
| 16 | ‘ The centre 's management supplied us with the display screens , upon which we quickly pinned up posters , photographs and press-cuttings . |
| 17 | The firm 's management approached us in the summer of 1980 , asking if we could find out ‘ what had happened ’ to their former employees , and agreed to provide the names and addresses of those who had lost their jobs . |
| 18 | At 2200 the casualty refloated herself under her own power , but as the rudder was jammed the lifeboat came in again to secure a towline from the casualty 's bow to keep her off the sand . |
| 19 | For this reason above all others she had come very close to declining Philip Swallow 's proposal to nominate her for the Shadow Scheme . |
| 20 | All the tunes mentioned so far were , so to speak , rescued from the hands of ‘ folk ’ song collectors and those of ‘ refined ’ parlour performers ; Corvan 's texts articulate them to the needs of his class , at a particular moment in its history . |
| 21 | In the story of the rich man and Lazarus , the rich man 's wealth insulates him from the poverty and the suffering of Lazarus . |
| 22 | There 's little in Marshall 's CV to prepare you for the way this story , awash with sentimental pitfalls , is turned into a deeply stirring , full blooded drama . |
| 23 | Grooms took their horses whilst a pompous steward of the Prince 's household led them up the main steps into the spacious hall . |
| 24 | The belief that working class men would choose idleness if at all possible and that married women 's work provided them with the opportunity was particularly strong during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 25 | But assuming Collor 's Brazil makes it into the ranks of the developed world , it will do so at the lowest level of eligibility , on a par with the East European countries . |
| 26 | She used Rosalind 's flashlight to take her across the kitchen 's frayed linoleum to the corridor . |
| 27 | Then Edward 's papa took us on the lake in a rowing-boat . ’ |
| 28 | Yet for all its traditions the Indianapolis 500 is , again like America itself , on the cutting edge of technology , combining the latest advances in engineering and the car racer 's desire to apply them to the maximum . |
| 29 | Newley 's body ambushed him in the darkness . |
| 30 | Both safely negotiated the treacherous short 15th hole and Faldo 's putter rescued him on the 18th green . |