Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The BBC subsequently bought the broadcasting rights to the play and commissioned David Whitaker to adapt it for Television . |
| 2 | I spent the evening reading , and rang for Miss Matlock to help me to bed shortly before eleven . ’ |
| 3 | Could it be that Sun Microsystems Inc president Scott McNealy 's voice is being heard this side of the Atlantic , after he reportedly told Novell Inc 's Ray Noorda to fire everyone at Unix System Labs except a handful of marketing guys and the engineers ? |
| 4 | There were few French wars in which the de Castelnau clan had not distinguished itself ; there had been a General de Castelnau under the great Napoleon , and another had been selected by Louis Napoleon to accompany him into exile after the dismal capitulation at Sedan . |
| 5 | I may persuade Fräulein Aschmann to join me for tea at the Franz Joseph . |
| 6 | The Conference of Avon Secondary Heads use the public relations firm MPR Leedex to advise them on marketing and public relations techniques . |
| 7 | He sat gazing into space , his unblinking stare which had compelled Harold Macmillan to shift him in Cabinet so as to avoid what he took for continual rebuke , unbroken by the throng that pressed about him . |
| 8 | pretty Surrey town on the Thames near London where Estella is sent by Miss Havisham to stay with Mrs Brandley to launch her into society . |
| 9 | Britain 's longest-serving unconvicted prisoner , Lorrain Esme Osman , who has spent nearly four years in custody pending attempts by Hong Kong to extradite him on fraud charges , asked the High Court to rule that he was being held unlawfully . |
| 10 | If I could convince Bill Gates to include it with DOS ( no chance ! ) it would suddenly become a DOS command . |
| 11 | The logistics of his complicated destiny involved not only Skunk Kilo , anchored by its FBI crew in international waters , but the USS Butte , a Navy ammunitions ship that had been shadowing the yacht by radar , the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga , standing by with a Navy S-3 jet and an escort of two F-14 Phantoms to fly him to Andrews Air Force Base near Washington , D.C. , two KC-10 tanker aircraft to refuel the S-3 on the way , and 15 carloads of FBI agents to meet him on arrival . |
| 12 | Mr Major sent his chief policy adviser Sarah Hogg to represent him at No 11 while he tucked in to shepherd 's pie and Krug champagne at the Archers ' riverside flat . |
| 13 | On the Thursday night , which was to be her farewell to her public for ten days , she allowed an admirer , Frederick Calthrop to take her to supper . |
| 14 | ‘ When I returned to England , ’ he continued , ‘ I asked Bishop Thomas to recommend me for ordination to the priesthood . |
| 15 | ‘ We took the liberty of asking our friend Percy Hoskins to join us for dinner . |