Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have also had support from our colleagues in Brussels ( see article on page 21 of this issue ) and I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for taking the lead and to appeal to Johnson Matthey sites around the world to take up the challenge . |
| 2 | In summary , the sociological perspective outlined earlier in this chapter orientates us towards examining the social construction of ideas about child abuse . |
| 3 | Up to then he had respected his old friend 's command abjuring him from creating the vortex . |
| 4 | Today rebels attempted to persuade one hundred and forty workers who 'd not yet signed the agreement to battle on , but they failed in their bid to stop them from signing the deal . |
| 5 | Theda blanched even paler , a wicked flash and an ominous rumble preventing her from hearing the curse that issued from Mr Beckenham 's lips . |
| 6 | Later the European Athletic Association wrote a letter to the British team management reprimanding me for wearing the flag on the rostrum and covering my tracksuit . |
| 7 | One small technical trick to aid you in keeping the police at bay , I add , is for your corpse to be supposed to be the result of an accident , often seeming such to everybody but your incurably inquisitive heroine . |
| 8 | Considerations of security prevented us from filming the machine which puts the layers into Vienetta … or the twirls into a tangle twister . |
| 9 | None of them could disagree that it was a species of tyranny that left an unhappy debtor to the mercy of a remorseless creditor whose affluence prevented him from knowing the sorrows of adversity and who , nursed in the lap of plenty , had never heard the call of hunger or knew the cry of distress . |
| 10 | Rain congratulated him on finding the proof . |
| 11 | The Aquamassage brush is waterproof and can be used in the bath and shower : ‘ The only difficulty is keeping enough soap on the brush head to keep it from dragging the skin , ’ she says . |
| 12 | ‘ I expect it is , but it 's the truth , and you 're the last person to condemn me for telling the truth , even though it may offend you to hear it . ’ |
| 13 | I already recognised some members of the Union Jack Club , and Colonel Fawcett gave me a hearty handshake while his thin , ill-looking wife reminded me about joining the bridge games . |
| 14 | Mr. Raffan : Will my right Hon. Friend join me in congratulating the miners at Point of Air in my constituency for their dramatically increased productivity since the miners ' strike ? |
| 15 | Will my right hon. Friend join me in congratulating the chairman , trustees and staff of the Aintree national health service hospital trust on the establishment of a new £7 million project that will give it the largest accident and emergency unit in Europe ? |
| 16 | Will my right hon. Friend join me in congratulating the Secretary of State for Education and Science on devising tests for seven-year-olds which go back to the basics of reading , writing and arithmetic ? |
| 17 | Will my right hon. Friend join me in congratulating the courageous efforts of the European Community observers in Croatia ? |
| 18 | Will my right hon. Friend join me in congratulating the Prime Minister on his initiative yesterday with President Mitterrand on the Soviet Union ? |
| 19 | Will my right hon. Friend join me in welcoming the £24 billion programme for public housing over the next three years detailed by the Department of the Environment yesterday ? |
| 20 | Will my right hon. Friend join me in condemning the supermarkets that have recently been opening on Sundays ? |
| 21 | She was hysterical and distraught and I took her through for my wife to comfort her before telephoning the police . ’ |
| 22 | In a letter to Prime Minister Wilfried Martens , the King , a devout Catholic , declared that his conscience barred him from signing the abortion bill into law . |
| 23 | What chance have we of topping the Order of Merit ? " |
| 24 | These windows are very elegant and it is well worth taking the trouble to highlight them by shaping the top of the curtains to fit the curve . |
| 25 | The only thing which was missing was the recognised transport qualification , a Certificate of Professional Competence , so , determined not to let this official piece of paper prevent her from doing the job she undertook a study course and was soon legally qualified to run the fleet . |
| 26 | Ralph Gibson L.J. , in a powerful dissenting judgment , concluded that both principle and authority prevented him from reaching the same conclusion . |
| 27 | Since the catastrophic drop in attendance at the National Museum of Wales — a reduction which has largely been made up by the efforts of the museum staff — there is still bitter resentment among Welsh people that a barrier prevents them from seeing the treasures of Wales that were purchased and the national museum that was established as an expression of Welsh identity . |
| 28 | The other day , some man attacked me for using the phrase ‘ biological clock ’ . |
| 29 | The same consideration stopped me from butting the animal ; I was n't going to put my face near those teeth . |
| 30 | Illness prevented him from sitting the honours examinations and he received an aegrotat in 1849 , after which he spent a year in Scotland reading for holy orders . |