Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christy O'Connor Jnr played on the second morning and Jose Maria Canizares in the afternoon and although they did n't give me any points I felt it was important that they got a chance to taste the atmosphere and feel a part of the proceedings , as I thought that it would help them going into the singles . |
| 2 | William Temple came at the age of 28 and was headmaster from 1911 to 1914 . |
| 3 | Now yesterday Alison MacDonald looked at the lot of parents struggling around Glasgow in the first of her series on child friendly Scotland . |
| 4 | Allan Stewart went to the door . |
| 5 | Sarah Huntley trained at the Drama Centre and has since been working constantly , in television , in the West End , at the National Theatre , at Stratford East , Northampton and for the Kent Theatre Company . |
| 6 | And as a mark of their respect for their aviator comrade , a lone bugler played The Last Post and Reveille before an RAF Hercules flew over the graveside at Frankby Cemetery in a special salute to the man who had given the last six years of his life to his country . |
| 7 | By the end of the congress , which approved a revised party statute and electoral platform , former Prime Minister Michel Rocard emerged as the party 's most likely candidate for the 1995 presidential elections . |
| 8 | A fast and furious encounter between Aldenham and King Edward School , Witley , had yielded no goals when , with just minutes to go , Aldenham 's Jason Clemow tried a long-range shot , the goalkeeper parried , and Kazeem Abimbola poked in the rebound . |
| 9 | Gary Mills crossed from the left . |
| 10 | But City hit the woodwork three times and defender Kevin Ashley cleared a Gary Mills shot off the line . |
| 11 | Patrick Lundy stood on the street for a few moments , staring unseeing into the windows , and then he turned away and headed back up to Mayfair . |
| 12 | Trevor Steven went close with a volley from the edge of the box while Dusan Vrto kicked an Ian Ferguson shot off the line . |
| 13 | Herr Nordern heaved on the steering-wheel and swung the Lada into the relative safety of a narrow street shadowed by the bulk of a church where he pulled up , although wisely keeping the engine running . |
| 14 | Herr Nordern looked around the table , exuberant , dizzy with happiness , and then , remembering the toast he had been about to make , raised his glass . |
| 15 | Herr Nordern went through the sitting-room to the front door . |
| 16 | Herr Nordern staggered as the night air hit him and Bodo held his elbow as they lurched back to the flats . |
| 17 | Herr Nordern turned to the door . |
| 18 | The family had finished their supper when she got home , but her temper was soothed by her reception : Herr Nordern coming from the bedroom to greet her , Omi fussing , Erika getting her meal , even Paul helping her off with her coat , although he rather spoiled his effect by then chucking it over the back of a chair instead of hanging it up . |
| 19 | Herr Nordern jumped from the sofa , exultant . |
| 20 | Ellis Island lies off the tip of Manhattan , almost adjacent to the Statue of Liberty , and was known as the ‘ Gateway to Americas ’ — the land of fortune and freedom . |
| 21 | Teller did not succeed in attracting more than a handful of Oppenheimer 's brilliant team back to Los Alamos to work on the H-bomb . |
| 22 | Charles van Engen deals with the issue of the relationship of the Kingdom to the Church in a sensitive and scholarly way in his book The Growth of the True Church . |
| 23 | But he acted as if he remembered the phrase that Dean Acheson used in the spring of 1947 , in those days of little sleep and many martinis when Acheson , George Marshall and Harry Truman had to convince a sceptical Congress to back containment . |
| 24 | ARSENAL striker Ian Wright said after the game he thought he had snatched a late winner for Arsenal before Woods made a superb 89th minute save . |
| 25 | The dancing girls needed thermals , Bart Simpson was man-of-the-pre-match and Ian Wright competed with the crew from Fantastic Fireworks for the title of Britain 's premier firepower . |
| 26 | 4–6–0 King Edward prepares for the Bulmer Railway Centre Gala Day this weekend . |
| 27 | The marriage of John Donaldson and Frances Thornycroft resulted in the birth of a son , who was named Thornycroft Donaldson , who — together with John Isaac Thornycroft 's eldest son , John Edward , continued the business into the twentieth century , although it removed to Southampton in 1900 . |
| 28 | Sentencing Fisher Mr Justice Judge said of the rape of the pahrmacist ’ No one who saw her give evidence will forget her visible revulsion as she described what happened . ’ |
| 29 | In this situation , the bomb placed by Oberst Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg exploded in the Führer Headquarters near Rastenburg in East Prussia at 12.45 p.m. on 20 July 1944 . |
| 30 | I remember thinking on the Sunday , as Ian Paisley stood outside the ground and tried to bring the wrath of God down upon us for violation of the Sabbath , that maybe he was succeeding . |