Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The League ruled that the striking off of Grima from the Widnes register and an attempt to replace him with the Tongan forward , Boblyn Tuavao , was ‘ unacceptable ’ . |
| 2 | Last night Graveney confirmed that he 'd made the allegation but was ‘ obviously very disappointed ’ at the bid to veto him by the Pakistan Board . |
| 3 | He was arrested in 1983 in New York , but an attempt to extradite him to the UK as a convicted criminal failed when a judge ruled that his crime was political . |
| 4 | Mr Slovo , who learnt about the plan to kill him from the Johannesburg Star , not from the police , attributed the plot to the right 's desperation . |
| 5 | ‘ At first , yes , and he often summoned the Queen to meet him across the Forth , but in the weeks before he died , his visits became less frequent . |
| 6 | Calls for the creation of a workers ' soviet , including a summons by the Bolshevik Vyborg District Committee to form it at the Finland Station in the Vyborg district , became widespread . |
| 7 | Motif is a prime candidate for the fast track , although it will require minor work to integrate it into the X/Open Portability Guide . |
| 8 | Councillors and officials will demand that such ships should have a mandatory duty to contact the Orkney Harbour 's Department and that the Government should pay for a tug to escort them through the Pentland Firth . |
| 9 | It is pointed out in Washington that the President made a special point of ensuring that Mr Major was the first European leader to meet him in the White House . |
| 10 | Rain wondered whether she had the cheek to install her in the Antibes flat borrowed from her newspaper colleague . |
| 11 | No matter what undercurrents had passed between them last night , it had been true enough that it was la Principessa who 'd sent her grandson to collect her at the Sala dell'Arte . |
| 12 | We get our chance to see it in the Ulster Hall on Wednesday 14th April . |
| 13 | During 1941 Hillary persuaded the Air Ministry to send him to the United States on a speaking tour . |
| 14 | The Prince is also very keen on deer stalking , another pull to keep him in the Highlands for as long as he can manage . |
| 15 | His laddish image led one colleague to describe him as the Nigel Kennedy of the National . |
| 16 | David Steel , Curator of European Art at the museum expressed the opinion that Mr Humber would probably have left them to the museum had he made a will , while he himself had tried to persuade the owner to donate them to the Rembrandthuis , Amsterdam . |
| 17 | Northern Ireland are all but out of the competition , needing a miracle to make it to the US , Scotland are already out and Wales are still in with a chance . |
| 18 | There was little Coleman could do in the circumstances except fill out an IAP-66 authorization form for Syrian George and take him over to the embassy for a J-1 visa to admit him to the United States for a course of study at UAB . |
| 19 | I 've tried without success to recruit him for the CPRE and the Friends of Spaxton Theatre . |
| 20 | Tweed caught a cab , told the driver to drop him at the Piccadilly entrance to the Burlington Arcade . |
| 21 | He stalked off to find the airport bus to take them to the SNCF railway station at Roissy , leaving Matchsticks to struggle after him as best he could . |
| 22 | Newman told the cab driver to take them to the Brussels Hilton . |
| 23 | I once asked a taxi driver to take me to the Glasgow Herald offices whither I was to hand in my weekly scribblings . |
| 24 | ‘ I do feel , ’ Rune was continuing with the same reasonable approach with which he doubtless addressed a board meeting , ‘ that we need an in-depth discussion about its capabilities and design before we consider the best way to market it in the United Kingdom . ’ |
| 25 | In Dewsbury the Council got the magistrates to cooperate in reporting pubs which gave sweets to children under thirteen in order to entice them inside the Wigan Council got the Home Secretary to the local police force . |
| 26 | Then the Soviet authorities bowed to pressure and allowed the fiancée of Sakharov 's stepson to join him in the United States . |
| 27 | Some guidance was provided to teachers completing the questionnaire in order to familiarise them with the HMI eight areas of experience and to agree meanings of terms such as ‘ concept ’ and ‘ skill ’ . |
| 28 | A miserably dull , windy and cold Saturday morning beckoned for the last of my Island days and Ewen very kindly had given up his spare time to run me around the Stornoway locality before dropping me off at the airport . |
| 29 | It could be worse — you could live in the US where a would-be president must prove to be an Olympiad to make it to the White House . |