Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv prt] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did n't take a Freud to work out the significance of that dream , she thought dully , making her way to the tiny cabinet which the hotel proprietors chose to call a private bathroom . |
| 2 | Moving like the late Dick Emery in his ‘ Ooh , you are awful ’ guise , Standerline eats up the role of the camp gay explaining his troubled yet amusing life in brisk gag-heavy declarations . |
| 3 | The optimised X-Winserver speeds up the performance of X-Windows : DOS and Windows emulation facilities have been built into the kernel . |
| 4 | Schellenberg turned up the collar of his greatcoat and leaned back in the corner pulling the peak of his cap over his eyes . |
| 5 | At a recent meeting of the party 's Central Committee , President Gorbachev opened up the prospect of a future coalition government when he talked of ‘ equal possibilities for the Communist party and other political and social organisations . ’ |
| 6 | EDWINA CURRIE turned down the offer of a job in Mr Major 's Government yesterday , saying that someone else could do the job far better than she could . |
| 7 | It was from here that the Stuarts sized up the potential of the area for exploitation . |
| 8 | Lucy walked up the fight of steps ; the plate glass doors slid open electronically as she crossed the beam . |
| 9 | Poshekhonov ladled out the lore of the Correctional Labour Colonies . |
| 10 | Nellie pulled up the collar of her coat against the wind . |
| 11 | At the RSFSR Supreme Soviet on Aug. 23 , Yeltsin obliged Gorbachev to read out the record of the USSR Cabinet of Ministers meeting of Aug. 19 , at which Pavlov gained its endorsement of the state of emergency . |
| 12 | The government with effect from March 15 imposed restrictions at its border with Hungary to slow down the inflow of East Europeans . |
| 13 | I see him as a sort of spiritual descendant of Norman Mailer , just as Mailer took on the mantle of Lawrence — in fact I wrote an essay on that very subject in my last term at school . |
| 14 | In 1840 we find in the title deeds when William Holding took over the tenancy of the farm that an oast was on the deeds ; after this date , between 1838–47 , the name was changed to Court Farm . |
| 15 | Devon and Cornwall police last Friday took up the case of Pipe 's Her Honour , found to have been doped when flopping at Kempton in January . |
| 16 | The Loch Ness Project took on the mantle of the LNI and picked up from the Loch Morar expeditions , and we returned to Loch Ness , whose steep-walled uniformity is more favourable to sonar . |
| 17 | Deputy Premier Djamshed Karimov took on the role of acting Premier after the resignation of Prime Minister Akbar Mirzoyev on Aug. 30 . |
| 18 | Kathleen and Jack ran to meet the ambulance , Kathleen taking over the bagging of one of the victims who had arrested in the ambulance . |
| 19 | Lord Roberts carrying out the inspection of the Officer Training Corps in Bordon . |
| 20 | The Midlands leader of the pit deputies union NACODS was first to emerge from the review meeting at Edwinstowe Ray Hilton summed up the mood of the mining unions . |
| 21 | At a recent Royal Institute of British Architects ' conference , author Simon Inglis summed up the mood of many anti-relocation fans , unswayed by the clubs ' need for cash . |
| 22 | Lucy wound down the window of her car and held her face up . |
| 23 | The major significance of the Government 's changes is highlighted by the fact that , whereas SERPS held out the prospect of guaranteeing every pensioner an income above the supplementary pension level , no Government minister had felt able to give a similar guarantee for the Thatcher pension reform . |
| 24 | It also accused the Serbian and Croatian governments of collaborating with extreme Serb and Croat forces in Bosnia-Hercegovina to bring about the division of the republic between the two countries . |
| 25 | At the edge of her hearing , Bernice picked up the sound of a roaring furnace engine , overlaid with the high pitched whine of cooling heat shields . |
| 26 | In the course of the work , Hubble set up the classification of galaxies displayed in his famous ‘ tuning-fork ’ diagram , which has been used ever since . |
| 27 | On May 20 Turkish Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel ruled out the use of force in Nakhichevan , claiming that Turkish involvement would lead to a wider conflict between Christians and Moslems in the region . |
| 28 | Although Mill may have been thinking of the romantic poet speaking gloomily to himself , here Leapor holds out the prospect of good gossip , and the reader is set to overhear the conversation : |
| 29 | Zen gulped down the rest of his coffee and announced that he had to be going . |
| 30 | Outside the hotel Maggie turned up the collar of her mac . |