Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | British Champion Colin McRae pushing everything to the limits … it requires rapid changes through the gear box … even when cornering … now in the Banbury factory of Prodrive engineers have spent 18 months developing a semi-automatic gear box … they 're already becoming common in Formula One … now for the first time they 've been successfully introduced in a rally car … with just a touch of a button the driver can change gear without having to take his hand off the steering wheel . |
| 2 | They played , slowly at first , then faster , Tuan Ti Fo giving nothing to the boy , punishing him for every mistake he made . |
| 3 | South Africa had no-one of the athletic calibre of John Eales , Ian Jones or Michael Jones . |
| 4 | HEART-THROB Patrick Swayze gets one in the eye from a small boy in the forthcoming heat-and-dust saga City Of Joy . |
| 5 | No doubt , repeated election victories under the leadership of Mr Hawke owe something to the disunity of Right-wing forces in Australia , but the fresh emphases in Labour thinking are also very significant . |
| 6 | Mr. Ennals got one from the Prime Minister 's son during his visit here on behalf of the British Government . |
| 7 | It is possible that the character and appearance of Stephen Maturin owe something to the friendship between Captain M. in Marryat 's The King 's Own and the surgeon MacAllen , a dedicated amateur naturalist who used the ships on which he served as convenient repositories for live and dead specimens from their ports of call . |
| 8 | The Blues ' Graham Marshall gets one in the eye as McIntosh of the Reds goes for broke during his impressive Scottish Trial performance . |
| 9 | Mr H knew nothing about the new law when he arrived in the UK . |
| 10 | I could have understood Prince Charles watching something about the environment , but not that . |
| 11 | But Singer omits the ‘ all ’ in the two concluding sentences of the quotation which gives the misleading impression that Prince Charles has none of the rights of a king . |
| 12 | Mr Carter said nothing in the Bible prohibited worship in a pub . |
| 13 | PRINCESS Diana knows nothing about the lives of ordinary , everyday people and of inner city deprivation and squalor . |
| 14 | West Country Living : Houses with a clubhouse attached Roy White finds plenty in the area to attract the golfer , including homes a chip shot away from a course . |
| 15 | Mr. Steed knew nothing of the sale . |
| 16 | Australia , Canada , the Republic of Ireland , and the United States have nothing like the same concentration of unqualified power at the centre of government as this country has . |
| 17 | Mrs Thatcher sees nothing in the single market which cuts against the grain of her policies over the past decade , since it should promote the free enterprise culture within the EC . |
| 18 | never heard anything about Charlton chasing him ( although on the Video of the FA Cup Final you can see Wor Jackie saying something along the lines of ‘ What the f*** was that ? ’ ) . |
| 19 | It seems that many of the communities trading with Minoan Crete caught something of the flavour of its culture , whether material or spiritual , and developed it in their own way . |
| 20 | Botha dropped an early goal , Ian Hunter thundered over for an unforgettable try , and Drikus Hattingh scored one for the tourists just before the break . |
| 21 | Liz Spalding looked anything but the fighter that she was ; she could get people off their guard , get their defences down , just by looking at them . |
| 22 | Certainly Hannah Mitchell wished something of the kind had existed to give her advice on childrearing . |
| 23 | Lewis Edwards located one in the Pumpsaint area of Wales , and others followed : Kingston , Nuthampstead , Stanley , and Holderness . |
| 24 | Old Ma Grace had nothing on the lass from Junagadh . |
| 25 | In a couple of cases ‘ stock ’ -looking P–51 Mustangs reminded everyone of the lasting tribute of the marriage between a British engine and an American airframe . |
| 26 | For Saints , Tommy Turner is clearly enjoying his new role as sweeper , while Paul Deas looks one for the future at left-back . |
| 27 | Javier Lòpez left everyone in the shade with this snap — the winning entry in BPXColombia 's photography contest . |
| 28 | On Sunday in his General Secretary 's address , John Edmunds reminded everyone in the labour movement that we need to , need to express our arguments simply if we want to get the message across . |
| 29 | He said if anyone thought Michael Fallon knew nothing of the possible move ‘ they are absolutely out of their minds ’ . |