Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I did wonder , after a year or more , how it was that he and Mme G expected me to use the public baths rather than offer me the convenience of the bathroom in the pavillon . |
| 2 | It has never been used for that purpose , although Sir Anthony Eden contemplated invoking it for government propaganda during the Suez crisis , and during the Falklands recapture it provided the legal basis for the Government 's use of BBC transmitters on Ascension Island to beam propaganda broadcasts at Argentina . |
| 3 | Their solitary life meant that they were in the forefront of the new mystical spirit of the fourteenth century , and through The Ladder of Perfection Hilton helped them to graft the new spirituality onto the old Benedictine pieties . |
| 4 | Ma Madge said she had the real flu because she ached all over and really weak . |
| 5 | Manager Edward Stein admits he fears the worst after Barnet 's company secretary Stanley Beller warned him that the club would be put into liquidation inside 24 hours unless ‘ things are sorted out . ’ |
| 6 | Mr Clay said he saw the second article on the plane flying home . |
| 7 | Tory Bill Walker said it showed the German nation in its true colours . |
| 8 | Owen Jelf says he won the first heat ; his brother the second . |
| 9 | American and Australian warships joined with British forces in a combined operation to intercept the Iraqis , and Defence Secretary , Tom King says it shows the multi-national force is working well as a unit . |
| 10 | Conservative MP Warren Hawksley says it gives the wrong message to young people . |
| 11 | When Dong returned he found the dead man was not heavy . |
| 12 | The navigator had survived with head injuries but the third crew member was O.K. I signalled to Athens asking them to designate the nearest airfield where I could pick up Brown and White in a Maryland . |
| 13 | DeVore watched him place the sealed slide back into the padded , shocksafe case and draw another out . |
| 14 | Maggie felt she had the upper hand to some extent and this had to be talked out . |
| 15 | Only when , in April , Elizabeth made it clear that he was the one Marian exile who would not be welcomed back to England did he accept the inevitable and come to Scotland . |
| 16 | ‘ Do n't forget that John Bonnard said he thought the Kamalian teams had been despatched on their missions . ’ |
| 17 | That morning , just after Sullivan had received a cable form Washington telling him to inform the new government that the United States would continue diplomatic relations with Iran , machine guns mounted on the surrounding buildings all opened up in a pre-arranged barrage . |
| 18 | A 2pc cut in base rates coinciding with the Chancellor 's Autumn Statement next week has been widely anticipated and Mr Bootle said he believed the downward trend would continue through to next year and stabilise at 5pc . |
| 19 | Coghill allowed him to understudy the leading part , ‘ the complicated sex-driven Puritan ’ , Angelo . |
| 20 | I gave similar advice when Harold Wilson asked me to advise the Labour Party about their behaviour in the matter . |
| 21 | When Deutsche Grammophon asked me to record the Alpine Symphony , I warned them that it would be very expensive . |
| 22 | ‘ Mr Newley told me to do the RTI expense sheet this morning . ’ |
| 23 | Mr Maginess added he believed the only answer was to tighten security measures and provide a stable political situation where problems could be solved . |
| 24 | ARSENAL boss George Graham reckons he has the best job in football — but he knows even he could suffer a Brian Clough-like backlash if the Gunners fail to win a trophy for the second year running . |
| 25 | Robert thought he recognized the fat boy . |
| 26 | Jensen insisted he relished the hostile atmosphere , but joined his manager 's condemnation of Buksch , saying : ‘ The ref lost control from the very first minute . |
| 27 | Candidate Ian Cameron said he had the best chance of overturning Labour 's majority . |
| 28 | Candidate Ian Cameron said he had the best chance of overturning Labour 's majority . |
| 29 | Mr Jarrett said she saw the four defendants go for Mr Johnson , holding knives and stabbing at him uttering threat of drawing blood.It was a fatal single stab wound to the neck that caused his death . |
| 30 | The Shah said he wanted the French to keep Khomeini ; if he went to Syria or Lybia he would be even more dangerous . |