Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [vb past] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lynda Clifford did a sponsored aerobic session , Sue Tons and her family took part in the Great North Walk , Cycle Ride and Run , and Gary Bainbridge joined them for the Run . |
| 2 | But if you do n't want to hear it … ’ he made as if to go but Herr Nordern took him by the elbow . |
| 3 | Patrick Devlin regarded him as the most effective speaker of his time : |
| 4 | It 's alleged Gary Corbett held her by the legs and swung her against a wall at the flat in which they all lived at Forest Green in Nailsworth , near Stroud in Gloucestershire . |
| 5 | Mountbatten 's task was not simplified when General MacArthur saddled him with the additional responsibility of taking over Indonesia and Indo-China , previously within the American sphere . |
| 6 | The decision has caused considerable controversy and been criticized as an excessive response to the problem , but Mayor Jean Baylaucq justified it on the grounds that the bears constituted a threat to animals and humans . |
| 7 | Britain 's golden boy who lost his shine when newcomer David Grindley beat him for the final place in today 's 400 metres final is ready to take a year off from the track if it means he can beat the trouble . |
| 8 | David Beaton clapped him on the shoulder . |
| 9 | Richard Branson saved us over the boredom . |
| 10 | David Frost put it to the right hon. and learned Gentleman no less than three times that it would be an unfair burden on many people who are not rich if he were to carry out immediately his proposed taxation arrangements to pay for Beckett 's law — the abolition of the upper earnings limit for national insurance contributions and the 50 per cent . |
| 11 | Miss Liberty marched her towards the cross . |
| 12 | Lucy Lane told him about the journal . |
| 13 | Ann Williams pipped her on the line and the Sale athlete is among her rivals again , along with Yugoslav Snezana Pajkic , the European 1500 metres champion , and Gateshead Harrier Chris Cahill . |
| 14 | The captain of the Rebecca Sims described it in the ship 's log as a brownish-grey reptile at least 45 metres long . |
| 15 | Lindsay Kemp : ‘ David Bowie struck me from the very beginning as being very versatile and very ‘ up-front ’ and not in the least bit naîve . |
| 16 | So in the afternoons Anne and some of her friends stayed late at school , and Miss Stacy helped them with the special examination work . |
| 17 | As David Lodge put it in the first issue of The Birmingham Magazine : |
| 18 | Lifting the spoon from the bowl , Tuan Ti Fo placed it to the boy 's lips , tilting it gently . |
| 19 | Christian Lacroix 's C'est la Vie dress : Sylvie Guillem wore it on the night |
| 20 | On the following morning Miss Stapleton took us to the path through the marsh . |
| 21 | David Rosen centred himself between the two tall people with his arms raised , a referee weighing his introduction . |
| 22 | Signor Gismondi followed her to the door . |
| 23 | Corbett Farraday let himself into the moderately imposing Edwardian villa which he shared with his mother . |
| 24 | They never looked back after Neil Hodgson put them in the lead after 24 minutes , Joe Peel adding tow more before half time . |
| 25 | In 1979 Serjeant 's former employer Richard Sheppard recommended him for the post of Surveyor to the Royal Academy . |
| 26 | She said desperately , ‘ Miss Evans sent us for the goose . |
| 27 | On the day Colonel Hope announced himself in the yard of the Queen 's Head in Keswick , Coleridge , a few hundred yards away , was writing a letter which included the sentence ‘ I have always found a stretched and anxious frame of mind favourable to depths of pleasurable impression . ’ |
| 28 | Bernie Scholtz passed her on the iron stairs as she was hurrying out . |
| 29 | ‘ Then , late in the game , Ray Wilkins grabbed me by the shirt and threw me to the ground with a judo throw . |
| 30 | Dr Neil saw her on the bed , face swollen and unrecognisable , all her bright lustre gone . |