Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , undaunted , FitzGerald was back on the right track again last Saturday sending Trainglot out to easily win the £20,000 Tote Jackpot Hurdle at Sandown Park to add to the remarkable haul so far this year . |
| 2 | It was Brainsby 's idea for Richard Branson to arrive at the inaugural press conference wearing a brown leather aviator 's helmet , à la Biggles , in an attempt to lend the launching of an international airline something of the savour of a Boys Own adventure . |
| 3 | In the sixtieth minute he burst between Shepherd and Webb before drawing Shepherd before drawing Richardson from his goal to square the ball across the penalty area for Neil Owen to shoot into the empty net . |
| 4 | While their three sons were young , a favourite treat was being taken by their father , one by one , to Paddington Station to listen to the Great Western Railway Band which played there on Sunday mornings . |
| 5 | Northumberland had their outside-half Ian Chandler to thank for the late drop goal that led to a 13–11 victory over Alberta on a day when a freak Arctic airflow brought snow and near freezing temperatures to Calgary . |
| 6 | With no Lamb and no Gower I can see the chance for England 's batting enigma Graeme Hick to go on the senior tour , even if he has not been offered a winter retainer contract . |
| 7 | Of course , I avoided so much work , going out to the bloody square on Tower Hill to gawk at the gore-drenched platform where the Great Ones of the land had their heads cut off . |
| 8 | It was the persuasion of the Vice Society that led Lord Chancellor Campbell to push through the Obscene Publications Act of 1857 , an Act which was to remain in force for a hundred years , and this was followed by the establishment of the first ( and short-lived ) Obscene Publications police squad in London . |
| 9 | These students were allocated to the ‘ Oliver Wendell Holmes Society ’ and formed the first group of Harvard students to study under the new system . |
| 10 | If there is an approach for the Timex workers to come through the proper channels , I will recommend on behalf of the Executive for the Standing Orders Committee that we hear a Timex worker before the end of the Conference . |
| 11 | His death enabled Mr Beltrami to Apply to the Scottish Law Society for a waiver of the confidentiality he had observed in relation to McGuinness 's admissions to the Ayr crime ; and he enclosed a statement from Mrs McGuinness that her husband had also admitted the crime and Waddell 's Participation in it , to her . |
| 12 | Article 96 of the Company 's Articles of Association requires Mr Blacker , Mr Brown and Mr Walker to retire at the Annual General Meeting since they were appointed by the Board after the 1989 Annual General Meeting . |
| 13 | The company relocated its premises to Huntingdon and asked Mr Rose to move to the new premises . |
| 14 | Mr Takeshita , who subsequently wangled a meeting with Mr Bush to chat about the SII talks , has spent the past couple of weeks trying to get back into the limelight . |
| 15 | There is , to my mind , no doubt that Mr Bloch and his locksmith would not have been permitted by Mr Clayton to interfere with the existing lock if Mr Clayton had been told that that act was intended in any way to interfere with his rights under his existing sub-lease . |
| 16 | At the same time the USA pressed Saudi Arabia to cut off the vital Iraqi oil pipeline to the Red Sea outlet at Yanbu , which the Saudis did on Aug. 7 . |
| 17 | Among Tories , more than three times as many would want Mr Major to negotiate with the Liberal Democrats as with the Unionists . |
| 18 | They were collecting , they claimed , divine energies for Mr Rowse to dispense during the coming week . |
| 19 | This is a marvellous opportunity for a Strathclyde company to tap into the vast markets of North America , ’ Mr Baxter said . |
| 20 | Sometimes called the ‘ Jazz Modern ’ style , International Modern was a term coined in the United States to refer to the new architectural style of the twentieth century , which architects like Frank Lloyd Wright and Walter Gropius were creating before the First World War . |
| 21 | And fans of the Paul McCartney sound-a-like have his mum Mrs Cooper to thank for the one-off show . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm not , but I 'm sending Curnow to Carbis Bay to talk to the old man . |
| 23 | Although initially the visit revived divisions over attitudes to Garrison and his ideas , so great was antislavery enthusiasm that abolitionists of all kinds took the occasion to publicise the nature of American slavery and raise funds throughout the country for Mrs Stowe to employ against the southern system in the way she thought best . |
| 24 | The Foreign Affairs Ministers met on Nov. 24 and 25 in Abu Dhabi to prepare for the planned summit , but reports said that the session was overshadowed by the absence of Qatar , marking its continuing displeasure with Saudi Arabia following a border incident in October [ see p. 39165 ] . |
| 25 | Unlike the earlier horders who crossed the Julian region to descend upon the rich plains of Venetia , the Lombards settled , and fortified the passes through which they had invaded , to secure their eastern boundary against the infiltration of further invaders . |
| 26 | On this occasion he had , after the expenditure of many millions , built a refinery in Newfoundland , and he telephoned me to ask whether I could persuade Winston Churchill to come to the grand opening . |
| 27 | Mr Bond has pleaded not guilty to a charge he violated the Securities Code by inducing businessman Brian Coppin to contribute to the failed 1987 rescue of merchant bank Rothwells while concealing a £7 million fee . |
| 28 | Finally , in the climax to episode five , the camera pans up the colonnades of Westminster Abbey to focus on the fully-grown alien monster , its fronds and tendrils twitching . |
| 29 | The prompt action by South Pacific countries to deal with the drift-net plague provided a marked contrast to the situation in the North Pacific high seas , where the US had been dragging its heels as the Asian drift-net fleets continued to pillage the salmon , tuna , and squid resources , and kill tens of thousands of marine mammals and hundreds of thousands of sea birds , many of them in Alaskan fisheries waters . |
| 30 | Convex is building a massively parallel system out of HP 's Precision Architecture RISCs , and under the new agreement , will swap its parallelising compilers for Hewlett 's HP-UX implementation of Unix so that it should be a relatively straightforward task to adapt the 4,000 HP-UX RISC applications to run on the planned Convex machines . |