Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] the [noun prp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I raced up the Stuart Highway at 180 kph ; there were few travellers and the only signs of wildlife were the customary dead kangaroos . |
| 2 | as I puzzle over the Manchester street-plan , |
| 3 | It was n't the only operation that went into the shredder at that time — you could figure that for yourself So Arnie went to London and closed it off wiped our prints off everything and I shut down the Langley end . |
| 4 | Then I picked up the Nescafe tin and prised the lid off . |
| 5 | And it 's this that inspired the pair of them to set up the Thomas Appeal . |
| 6 | Whichever age you encounter down the Everton trail , you come up with marvellous contributors to the club 's roll of honour . |
| 7 | She lifted out the Salperton photograph . |
| 8 | If you turn your head seawards as you drive along the Kam Highway , you will find a ribbon of water-gazers between you and the sea . |
| 9 | He nodded and she tapped out the Sheldrake practice number . |
| 10 | Former Great Britain international Violet McBride , in an unusual role as sweeper , was outstanding as she snuffed out the Pegasus threat with ease . |
| 11 | ‘ We drew out the Livesey file , this afternoon , ’ Bragg said in a neutral voice . |
| 12 | We burned up the Xerox machine . |
| 13 | As we drove up the Llanberis Pass he imparted to me , in response to my questions , something of the routine of his life . |
| 14 | So we drove up the Llanberis Pass and on the way conceived the unoriginal compromise idea of a Snowdon Horseshoe circuit . |
| 15 | Then , if we get lucky we drive over the Luxembourg frontier into Germany , head south down the Rhine for the Black Forest . |
| 16 | We closed down the Calgary office during the year as part of our planned withdrawal from thee Alberta market . |
| 17 | Portadown were firmly in the driving seat as they pegged back the Dublin side inside their 25 , with Loreto relying on the break . |
| 18 | Also , as it so happens , in August 1941 Winston Churchill had a meeting with President Roosevelt on board a British battleship , off the coast of Newfoundland , and that was followed by a further meeting at Christmas in Washington , when they agreed to send aid to Russia in the form of armaments , etc. , also they drew up the Atlantic Charter under which it was proclaimed that all peoples , in all parts of the world , would have the right to choose their own form of government . |
| 19 | Once introduced , always at the initiative of the Government , Criminal Justice Bills are rolling stones gathering accretions as they travel down the Westminster hillside towards their final destination on the statute book . |
| 20 | Though a good performance on the Gloucestershire track at any other time of the year counts for something , it 's nothing to get carried away over , while the top performers through the winter months elsewhere are often made to look ordinary as they toil up the Prestbury Park hill . |
| 21 | In 1985 French agents killed a photographer when they blew up the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour . |
| 22 | As more cars came , they took over the Fleetwood service , until on 10 March 1953 , there was a complete service by Coronations between Starr Gate and Fleetwood for the first time . |
| 23 | the little bit they gave out the Longbridge train then they said oh know the twelve O six |
| 24 | This is a delight that the creme-de-la-creme of the SNCF catering staff will find out about when they take over the London-Leeds line kitchens in October . |
| 25 | When he phoned up the Scotland Yard Press Bureau the woman who answered said it was she who had fixed up Nicola 's first contact with the Drugs Squad . |
| 26 | It was this example that the AfDB had in mind when , in 1990 , it turned down the Cameroon road project . |
| 27 | Store manager Richard Northover was dumped there by the two masked raiders who 'd kidnapped him as he locked up the Woolworths store . |
| 28 | BILL CLINTON has given a chilling warning that Britain 's cosy relationship with the United States is heading for the big freeze when he takes over the White House . |
| 29 | Should he take over the Barrington mantle , a small part of the credit will go to the ‘ old master ’ , admits Marshall . |
| 30 | By that time his feelings of resentment against his mother were fixed for life , and the imaginative intensity with which he called up the Devon landscape as a lost Eden of content had become a habit of mind . |