Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should they attempt to influence the bishops , Archbishop Felici warned them on the first day of the new session , they would lose their privileges , a threat that caused considerable resentment as much among the fathers as among their advisers . |
| 2 | One banking employee told me of the demise of her bank branch . |
| 3 | The police were called to resolve the dispute , and although Mr Levy did not make a formal complaint he contacted Arsenal Football Club to inform them of the incident . |
| 4 | I am also writing to at the South Side Association to notify her of the developments . |
| 5 | And — funny — my tender breast of chicken filled with garlic butter and herbs sauteed in sunflower oil with savoury rice and side salad reminds me of the chicken Kiev we occasionally buy in the supermarket . |
| 6 | The neck button disappeared — but not the buttonhole — and today a wedding boutonnière reminds us of the sporting ancestry of the coat . |
| 7 | Sponsors of each of the ten identical yachts have had to come up with a £220,000 entry fee to get them to the start line in September . |
| 8 | The frontier post spotted him from the photos we rushed to the western frontier . |
| 9 | On our way home via New York , some ‘ dear ’ friends ( as in generous ) , fixed us a stretch limo to take us to the airport . |
| 10 | Post-GLC and with Third Term Thatcherism staring it in the face , Labour did , in a sense , revert to type . |
| 11 | From the village , a 10-minute cable car ride delivers you to the slopes . |
| 12 | What I was trying to say was , if you 're really bored with him and he 's doing is , any form of bio-chemistry start asking him about the correct names , what are they ? |
| 13 | The same goes for diving in front of a seal pup to protect it from the sealers . |
| 14 | The movie version blows it in the first couple of minutes . |
| 15 | Wednesday there was a letter , an imprecation almost , from an investment company warning me of the dire consequences of not having a pension . |
| 16 | The Foreign Office design was for a three-storey building around three sides of a court , which had on its fourth side as arched entrance screen separating it from the new street . |
| 17 | The NatWest Hospital Income Plan covers you in the event of hospitalisation and pays out from the first day you 're admitted . |
| 18 | No baptism has been traced , though his marriage certificate records him as the son of John Crockford , schoolmaster . |
| 19 | And I can always remember it was in the middle of winter and put on the , the four that bit circular bit put it into the four wheel drive and it came up there wonderful and the , yet er going in we were and the other car was swaying all over the place . |
| 20 | Quails ( 16:13 ) : twice a year the common quail 's migration route takes it across the region where the Israelites were at this time . |
| 21 | On their return to Orkney , however , the Social Work Department put them into the Camoran Children 's Home in Kirkwall . |
| 22 | FAIR WEATHER ON THE FAIRWAYS Do n't let Britain 's winter climate deprive you of the game . |
| 23 | A sun umbrella sheltered them from the wan May sunshine . |
| 24 | The team were then treated to a meal and the mill manager presented them with the Challenge Trophy [ through gritted teeth ] and before the lads could get the lens caps off their cameras , they took it back , saying that the cup would stay at Rank 's but Rentokil 's name would be put on . |
| 25 | Ten years ago , when Davey Boy was a mere unknown moving to America and desperate to make a name for himself , the Hit Man helped him on the ladder to success . |
| 26 | The Medau Society has them by the hundred — nay , by the thousand — and they have to be kept in order . |
| 27 | His final campaign photo-opportunity took him to the North-West and the Accrington Brick and Tile Company . |
| 28 | Raised from Lock Oich in the Scottish Highlands in July , the Hurricane crashed there on August 31 , 1941 after an engine fire disabled it over the Highlands . |
| 29 | Another story — the charming Silford Hall tells of a happy visit which a little boy once paid to a country mansion , and how the kind housekeeper showed him round the picture gallery , and gave him a lovely dinner in the servants ' hall ; Crabbe had himself been that humble little boy . |
| 30 | An emerald green leather footstool stands demurely by the fire ; a fakir 's brass sideboard from northern India gleams dimly against a wall ; two porcelain skunks chase one another across the landing ; a unique collapsible divan-cum-four-seater sofa edged in cadmium velvet welcomes you to the front room ; a vast oil portrait of a nineteenth-century munitions tycoon , casts a genial glow over the hall . |