Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The civil rights marches created an opportunity for Ian Paisley to put himself at the head of plebeian Protestant resistance to the civil rights movement . |
| 2 | I even went out and bought a dictionary on Sixth Avenue to assist me in the project . |
| 3 | ‘ I telephoned the coastguard and port authority on Friday night to inform them of the event , start times and which VHF frequency we would be using . |
| 4 | It would be a disservice to Denis Law to mention him in the same breath as some of Scotland 's more notorious hell-raisers . |
| 5 | According to Smith , the illness was described in the language of the day as a putrid fever with buboes on the face and body , which caused Dr Crawford to compare it to the plague . |
| 6 | The war was just over , and she was climbing aboard an RAF transport to take her to the demobilisation centre . |
| 7 | The bid failed because the estate 's value was considered to be less than the ‘ knockdown price ’ of £10 million at which the Prince had persuaded Mr Kluge to offer it to the nation , with some assessments valuing the estate at between £2 and £7 million . |
| 8 | From Hamilton came a call from Winnie Ewing to join her on the platform at her eve of poll meeting , which ( as there was no Liberal standing ) I gladly accepted . |
| 9 | By 17 October Mola 's troops were only 30 kilometres from Madrid , causing President Azaña to remove himself to the safety of Barcelona . |
| 10 | Officers had tried all day to contact Mr Maughan to tell him of the tragedy . |
| 11 | cars one at a time on horse drawn flat trucks , along Canterbury Road and Mitcham Road to dump them on the site in Aurelia Road , which the company had purchased for a depôt . |
| 12 | A SOCIAL services chief issued an appeal yesterday for the bit-part actress Yasmin Gibson to contact them about the future of her Home Alone daughter , being cared for in a children 's home . |
| 13 | These meetings were largely an opportunity for Harold Wilson to use me as the wall of a fives court against which he banged the ball . |
| 14 | Etty had her friend Dolly Murchie to assist her in the capture of the three mavericks . |
| 15 | I told Mr Kennedy to put them in the kennels last night . |
| 16 | It is only human of Mr Teicher to make himself into the hero-victim of his own narrative . |
| 17 | On March 1 , 1991 , Bolger personally telephoned US President Bush to congratulate him on the allied victory . |
| 18 | The existence of such an educational establishment aroused widespread interest amongst the intelligentsia , causing Dr Samuel Johnson to inspect it at the end of his tour of the Hebrides in 1773 . |
| 19 | Many fans believed all they had to do was hand over the ticket stub for the Latvia game to get one for the visit of Jack Charlton 's men — that plainly is not the case . |
| 20 | In disregard of this fact , Winans engaged in a scheme with certain Wall Street financiers to provide them with the contents of the column prior to its publication . |
| 21 | He also told you to ask Sir Charles to meet you at the moor gate . |
| 22 | ‘ I asked Sir John to burn it to the ground but Rachel played him like a piece of string around her finger . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'll ring Mr Pritchard to fetch me in the morning if you 'll just let me stay the night . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ That legislation has yet to be introduced to Parliament , ’ said Mr Naish adding that delays could give rise to further problems and he had urged Mr Howard to get it onto the statute books as urgently as possible . |
| 25 | She told him to tell Dora she 'd written to Auntie Flo to thank her for the cake . |
| 26 | When Major Burrows was stationed at a camp in a nearby suburb Mrs Burrows , Eva and Margaret would take a train each Sunday afternoon to help him with the evening service he conducted for the soldiers . |
| 27 | This situation , in which other countries were relying on the United States to provide them with the dollars needed to boost their reserves , seemed to leave the USA in a highly privileged position , for the only way that other countries could accumulate reserves was if the USA provided them , by spending abroad more than it received . |
| 28 | as if in a dream , I allowed Mrs Knelle to lead me to the front door . |
| 29 | The use of special juries of merchants by Lord Mansfield to guide him on the law is well known — not that he always followed their suggestions . |
| 30 | Redcar MP Mo Mowlam says she is concerned about possible health risks associated with the closure of public lavatories on the seafront and hopes to persuade Langbaurgh Council to re-open them for the summer . |