Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [noun prp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my room I fell to my knees to thank God for the sign he had sent me , and waited eagerly for daylight . |
| 2 | All the time , I was straining my ears to hear Tom through the wall . |
| 3 | For centuries young bloods had been sent off by indulgent parents to tour Europe in the hope that they would return cultured , educated , their manners refined and their address books packed with useful contacts , but Cook 's was the first group tour of European countries organized by an excursion agent . |
| 4 | If you have previously run BBCBASIC(Z80) , you can return to it by using the cursor keys to select BASIC from the list of suspended activities in the index . |
| 5 | The disappointing slowness of the pitch allowed both openers to play Malcolm off the back foot , and therefore to drive his attempted yorkers . |
| 6 | Hoeveler 's decision appeared to make it almost impossible for the US authorities to imprison Noriega in the type of high security facility as expected , without violating his prisoner of war rights . |
| 7 | At the Conservative Party conference in October 1988 Mrs Thatcher stated : ‘ We have n't worked all these years to free Britain from the paralysis of socialism only to see it creep in through the back door of central control and bureaucracy from Brussels ’ . |
| 8 | The tendency was reinforced by the subsequent efforts of Japanese governments and of the US authorities to incorporate Japan into the framework of the Western camp . |
| 9 | Iraqi attempts to draw Israel into the conflict through the launching of Scud missile attacks on Tel Aviv and Haifa failed . |
| 10 | He made great efforts to include Dexter in the conversation , the sergeant noticed , embracing him in his replies . |
| 11 | Our efforts to provide Cuba with the petroleum products it needed put a heavy burden on our own shipping system and forced us to order extra tankers from Italy . |
| 12 | She helped monks to resettle Iona in the west , and in the east contributed lavishly towards the religious houses of St Andrews on their breezy promontory above the North Sea . |
| 13 | Having accepted that previous attempts to build a comprehensive Western Europe had failed through the efforts to incorporate Britain into the design , there was now a widespread conviction that a multi-purpose unit could be fashioned by the little Europe of the Six . |
| 14 | It was almost a carbon copy of Kiwomya 's matchwinner in last week 's Coca-Cola Cup encounter with Aston Villa — the bookies ' favourites to overhaul Norwich for the Championship . |
| 15 | NEEDING four points from the six singles to beat Scotland on the opening day of the Womens Home Internationals at Hermitage Ireland could not quite bring it off and lost in the end by 5–4 . |
| 16 | It 's estimated the repair budget needs around two million pounds to take Gloucestershire off the road to ruin |
| 17 | The Republican militias were assisted in their efforts to defend Madrid by the discovery of a copy of the Nationalist plan of attack on the body of an Italian soldier ; a substantial delivery of Soviet arms , munitions and aircraft ; the arrival of the first contingent of International Brigade volunteers ; and the tenacity of the civilian population . |
| 18 | No , but I have been stoically quoting your figures to defend Leeds against the baiting I 've had on the basis of the MOTD footage that everyone seems to have seen . |
| 19 | Sources who have gotten wind of the project claim it is important to Microsoft 's efforts to push NT into the enterprise . |
| 20 | Geoffrey had a fine company of knights with him at Limoges and had also mustered mercenaries in Brittany with orders to attack Poitou from the north-west . |
| 21 | His plans to merge Hachette with the cash rich Matra were formulated after Hachette 's debacle with the failed television station La Cinq . |
| 22 | He held up his arms to swing Leonora to the jetty . |
| 23 | The Financial Times of June 18 reported that GCC states along with Egypt and Syria had finalized an agreement based on the Damascus Declaration [ see pp. 38116-17 ] to supply ground forces to protect Kuwait after the withdrawal of Western troops [ see p. 38213 ] . |
| 24 | Ukraine planned to introduce its own circulating coupons for food and essential goods purchases if Russia failed to deliver extra roubles to safeguard Ukraine against the freeing of consumer prices in Russia from Jan. 2 ( a measure already delayed by two weeks ) . |
| 25 | One can not , of course , say from this description how rigorously each SBU was evaluated , or how well devised the strategies to move SBUs around the matrix were . |
| 26 | An examination of Soviet attitudes to Western schemes to neutralise Afghanistan in the wake of Soviet military intervention in that country is particularly revealing since such Soviet attitudes are sharply at variance with those expressed in connection with the Soviet-sponsored Persian Gulf plan . |
| 27 | Javed beats boo boys to put England on the rack |
| 28 | Mr Smith scorned Mr Major 's claims to put Britain at the heart of Europe . |
| 29 | He therefore called on the other three republics to accept Russia as the successor state to the Soviet Union in this regard , and to delegate it to represent them over the START treaty and future negotiations . |