Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Minotaur was finally slain by Theseus , who found his way out of the labyrinth by trailing a skein of thread given him by the king 's daughter , ARIADNE . |
| 2 | Part of the confusion came from the unworthy pleasure given him by the prospect of holding onto his ward a little longer . |
| 3 | The President called him into the room . |
| 4 | The barman fixed me with the kind of stare you could roast weenies on . |
| 5 | His unflappability deserted him in the face of by-election reverses . |
| 6 | My mum washed mine at the weekend and they 're in a pile on my floor and I have n't been arsed so I 'm just sleeping on the mattress with the bare duvet . |
| 7 | David looked down at her as she lay against the white pillows , pale and thinner than ever , and thought how much easier it would be to keep himself in check if her husband treated her with the gentleness she deserved . |
| 8 | Almost all the murders that the police solve in real life are either dealt with in a matter of hours ( the husband done it with the kitchen knife ) or as a result of long , long , tedious inquiries , mostly house-to-house , the taking of fingerprints and the elimination of perhaps thousands of marginal suspects . |
| 9 | The marquis pinned her to the ground by her shoulders , sitting astride her so that she could n't move . |
| 10 | The neon striped it in the air . |
| 11 | Had my Pop passed me in the street , he would n't have recognised me . |
| 12 | Against the advice given me at the Centre , quite deliberately I decided to have neither a counsellor nor a healer . |
| 13 | But it echoes an example given us by the Consumer Credit Association ( an amalgamation of the Retail Credit Federation and National Personal Finance Association , representing some 900 companies involved in personal loans and retail credit ) . |
| 14 | The profession has managed to offer CPD on a shoestring up until the mid-1980s but henceforth some funding will have to be found if it is to fulfil the role given it by the membership . |
| 15 | The Franciscan friars of Reading found it necessary in 1234 to obtain from the king a letter ordering the warden of Windsor Forest not to exact cheminage in respect of the timber given them in the forest for their buildings at Reading . |
| 16 | Had Dane told him about the weekend in Glenshee ? |
| 17 | Had Hendrique warned him at the beginning about the current intensifying when crossing the colour boundary the game might already have been over . |
| 18 | Their contribution is perceived as threefold : they were long-standing rivals of Gloucester , which virtually guaranteed a power struggle in 1483 ; the favour shown them by the king had made them unpopular with the rest of the Yorkist establishment ; and they were so closely identified with the young king , Edward V , that any limitation of their power could only be made permanent by his deposition . |
| 19 | Their contribution is perceived as threefold : they were long-standing rivals of Gloucester , which virtually guaranteed a power struggle in 1483 ; the favour shown them by the king had made them unpopular with the rest of the Yorkist establishment ; and they were so closely identified with the young king , Edward V , that any limitation of their power could only be made permanent by his deposition . |
| 20 | He found him , or was found by him , on the 22nd of June , in the valley of the river Lugg , near Pilleth , where the steep slopes of Bryn Glas hurtled down to the track on one hand , and the flats and meadows of the river hemmed it on the other . |
| 21 | The amount of serum given had to balance with the amount given me by the Pharmacist from the records she kept of that given to Ward Sisters for use on the wards . |
| 22 | As for Jessie herself , she had held her in her arms and reassured her that her Robbie would be all right , even though , from the scanty information given her by the nurse , she could n't know for sure if he would be . |
| 23 | The very prospect of her life being picked over like some succulent titbit chilled her to the bone . |
| 24 | The possibility fascinated him from the beginning , from the moment Mr Evans walked into the kitchen while they were having breakfast their first morning and bared those loose teeth in what he probably thought was a smile . |
| 25 | The cool threat chilled her to the bone . |
| 26 | Oh , hell , she had no doubt hotfooted it to the store after seeing her with Leo . |