Example sentences of "[noun prp] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In traditional manner Rolle treats the gifts of the Holy Spirit listed as Wisdom , Understanding , Counsel , Might , Knowledge Piety and Fear of the Lord in Isaiah 11 in the inverted hierarchical order Counsel , Understanding , Wisdom to relate them to the process of withdrawal from the world and achievement of that inner discretion which is the ground of contemplation ; he then deals with strength , piety , knowledge and the fear of the Lord itemised as forces which stimulate man to self-knowledge and help the soul to endure against sin , all aspects of a more active spirituality . |
| 2 | Medau teachers invited Patricia McCall to instruct them in the principles of Laban Movement at their September Training Day ; in St Andrews , Rosalind Garton follows her evening Medau class immediately with a Yoga session , and is delighted by the enthusiasm shown for the idea . |
| 3 | She did n't care about anything ; she just wanted Meredith to see her on the back of the Prince 's white charger . |
| 4 | Had he gone to Glastonbury or come back by a secret route to Templecombe to hide himself in the church ? |
| 5 | This situation , in which other countries were relying on the United States to provide them with the dollars needed to boost their reserves , seemed to leave the USA in a highly privileged position , for the only way that other countries could accumulate reserves was if the USA provided them , by spending abroad more than it received . |
| 6 | He asked Ken to walk him along the Rue Dante . |
| 7 | The use of special juries of merchants by Lord Mansfield to guide him on the law is well known — not that he always followed their suggestions . |
| 8 | The civil rights marches created an opportunity for Ian Paisley to put himself at the head of plebeian Protestant resistance to the civil rights movement . |
| 9 | By 17 October Mola 's troops were only 30 kilometres from Madrid , causing President Azaña to remove himself to the safety of Barcelona . |
| 10 | I even went out and bought a dictionary on Sixth Avenue to assist me in the project . |
| 11 | He was awakened just before noon by the Master of Novices who announced that a message had come from John Benstede asking for Corbett to present himself at the castle immediately . |
| 12 | Holberg asked Marie to take him across the water and he left a note about that meeting in his eighty-seventh Epistle . |
| 13 | Lifting his arms high , he called upon Baron Samedi to admit them to the cemetery . |
| 14 | He allowed Jane to sit him by the table and then damp down his hair with water — ice cold and brackish ! — from the ewer . |
| 15 | It had not been lessened when William of Ypres , the surly Flemish commander of the royalist army , had begun to question her extensively about the size and strength of the garrisons at Gloucester and Bristol , the state of the Empress 's exchequer , the loyalty of her supporters , and whether Geoffrey of Anjou was planning an invasion of England to help himself to the throne by right of his wife . |
| 16 | Her friend Angela , who worked for Tiller every year in pantomime , asked Jane to accompany her to the stage door of the Hippodrome Theatre , Manchester , to pick up a contract . |
| 17 | October saw the ‘ classroom ’ move along the road ( or the M4 ) to Swindon for John Lye and Richard Long of Nationwide Anglia to educate us on the mysteries of behavioural scoring on current accounts . |
| 18 | I see thank you , yes that 's very helpful that clarifies the position on that and finally I 'll ask Michael Colgan to take us into the question of the management systems for the contract . |
| 19 | And is that why you invited him and Heather to join you in the evening ? |
| 20 | She did n't need Maggie to remind her of the odds against a baby 's survival in the alleys , and she loved this one enough to make the ultimate sacrifice . |
| 21 | Officers had tried all day to contact Mr Maughan to tell him of the tragedy . |
| 22 | He made two crossings through Andersonstown to familiarise them with the work which they would have to do . |
| 23 | She gave Victoria a banana whenever she saw her and would tell Melanie to help herself from the baskets of nuts . |
| 24 | On Sunday , after leaving my suitcase with the hall porter who was to see that it was in the Land Rover to meet me after the shooting , I enjoyed brunch in the Gleneagles restaurant sitting at the same table as the Princess Royal . |
| 25 | Despite this , the new president of the CSIC , José Mato , decided in November to exclude me from the examination and to cancel the competition . |
| 26 | Lambert came to Stamford to exhibit himself during the horse races which took place on Wittering Heath to the south of the town . |
| 27 | These meetings were largely an opportunity for Harold Wilson to use me as the wall of a fives court against which he banged the ball . |
| 28 | A SOCIAL services chief issued an appeal yesterday for the bit-part actress Yasmin Gibson to contact them about the future of her Home Alone daughter , being cared for in a children 's home . |
| 29 | cars one at a time on horse drawn flat trucks , along Canterbury Road and Mitcham Road to dump them on the site in Aurelia Road , which the company had purchased for a depôt . |
| 30 | ‘ Ask your mother and Gwen to join us in the garden , will you Andrew ? ’ |