Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [noun prp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Flanagan said : ‘ I had no hesitation in advising the board to promote Nigel to the job — and his results have proved me right . |
| 2 | A special international award was given to Alexey Yablokov , Russian President Boris Yeltsin 's special environmental adviser , for his willingness to alert Yeltsin to the extent of Russia 's ecological problems . |
| 3 | Loretta decided she would have to abandon her attempt to see Veronica for the rest of the day . |
| 4 | French league president Noel Le Graet had urged Tapie to withdraw his civil court action to reinstate Marseille in the competition after world soccer 's governing body FIFA threatened to suspend France from international competition . |
| 5 | It is not yet possible to expect any therapy to eliminate HIV from the body and anti-viral therapies will have to be taken for long periods , maybe for life . |
| 6 | During the long drawn out hostage crisis the American people had watched impotently , wondering how it was that a nation with the supposed military capability to wipe Russia off the map at the push of a button could do nothing . |
| 7 | French successes faltered , however , when the maid of Orleans , failing in her attempt to wrest Paris from the English in 1430 , was captured and burned at the stake in Rouen on 30 May 1431 . |
| 8 | In what was widely seen as an attempt to draw Israel into the conflict , Iraq had launched a number of missile attacks on Tel Aviv and Haifa [ see pp. 37936-37 ; 37984 ] . |
| 9 | The King , however , was disinclined to anything other than an exchange of courtesies , once again making it quite clear that any attempt to detach Prussia from the rest of Germany was a fruitless exercise . |
| 10 | Melissa was shocked at the lack of sensitivity and promptly made up her mind to use Eleanor as the model for a future victim . |
| 11 | After an abortive attempt to force Shamil into the open in 1845 , Vorontsov combined a policy of gradually strangling the rebellious highlanders with an approach to civil administration which allowed natives a little room for manoeuvre . |
| 12 | With Forster supporting his legs , Delaney used the forward motion of the boat to haul Nell from the water , finally landing her like a slippery black sea creature . |
| 13 | Cardiff bay has a great deal to offer Wales in the way of prestige projects , for example . |
| 14 | Bath are now title favourites ; they won 21–13 at Rosslyn Park to replace Northampton at the top . |
| 15 | ZEUS was , however , unimpressed by Bellerophon 's temerity and sent a gadfly to sting Pegasus on the rump . |
| 16 | I next plan to visit Cyprus for the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in 1993 . |
| 17 | ‘ No one 's suggesting , do you see , a full-scale plot to undermine Winston on the spot . |
| 18 | The FO 's assessor will have a say in how the BAS spends its money and will report back to the Foreign secretary on how useful the BAS is as a political presence in the Antarctic and the south Atlantic , This move , which clearly follows from Britain 's determination to outface Argentina in the region , brings a new political backdrop to the activities of scientists in the Antarctic . |
| 19 | We support the campaign to keep Eldorado on the TV . |
| 20 | The Thirty Years Peace meant , for Athens , the end of the central Greek land empire , the end of the plan to control Delphi through the Amphictyony , the end of the Athenian outposts in the Peloponnese . |
| 21 | Ferguson marked his return by latching on to an Alan Main clearance to beat Murdoch to the jump on the edge of the box , and head in the fourth . |
| 22 | On this aspect of the story Mr Sale is an invaluable guide and teacher , but he goes well over the top in his determination to present Columbus as the representative of a devilish western world driven only by the desire to rape , grab and despoil a land of innocence . |
| 23 | There is no obvious Hershiser figures in the Giants ' pitching ranks this time , but in Clark they do have a man — like Gibson — in the mood to burn Oakland with the bat . |
| 24 | * Try to buy Cheddar on the rind — it makes a tremendous difference to the flavour ( like cooking meat on the bone ) , and instantly shows that the cheese has been cut from a truckle and not from a block . |
| 25 | Henceforth , of course , there would be a need to promote Vietnam to the position of an established , legitimate and more or less popular state deserving of US assistance . |
| 26 | MacLean later took the unusual step of amending his original statement to parliament , describing BNFL 's failure to inform Cunningham of the leak as " a rather extraordinary discourtesy " . |
| 27 | For the time being , western governments are voicing outrage over the threats to church and Chihana , and are threatening to use the aid weapon to open Malawi to the region 's wind of change . |
| 28 | Without doing much more he found himself in the Scotland ‘ B ’ team to play Ireland at the end of December and the Scottish trial a week later . |
| 29 | ‘ I was playing in a particular game and did not think I had done anything spectacular at all when I was approached by Heffernan who told me that he wanted me for the Ireland team to play Australia in the Compromise Rules series , ’ recalls McGilligan . |
| 30 | Like most of the peripheral regions Wales and the South West are acutely aware of the transport bottleneck represented by the need to cross London from the Channel Tunnel rail terminals to other major railway stations . |