Example sentences of "[noun prp] [to-vb] [noun prp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to The Hindu of March 31 , Lal had acted in order to pre-empt a possible move by Singh to remove Chauthala from the party and also in order to convey a message to the Prime Minister that any action against his son " could not only evoke resistance but provoke counterattacks " . |
| 2 | For example , Zuwaya said they were subjected to discriminatory conscription in Ajdabiya : those youths who shouted ‘ And we killed Pasha Naiz ’ , provoked Magharba to denounce Zuwaya to the commander of the garrison at Sirte . |
| 3 | In what appears to have been a carefully stage-managed cry of unanimity , it was agreed that Edward should never rule over them again , and the Bishop of Hereford took a delegation which was headed by William Trussell to Renilworth to inform Edward of the assembly 's decision . |
| 4 | However , despite my misgivings , I plump for Swansea to face Llanelli in the final . |
| 5 | Although Donald seems to have made no attack on northern England ( the usual means by which a new king rewarded his followers ) , William II set about destabilizing his rule , first recognizing Edgar [ q.v. ] , the oldest surviving son of Malcolm III , as king-in-exile , then sending north Edgar Atheling to put Edgar on the throne ( 1097 ) . |
| 6 | Yorkshire 's Paul Jarvis also started encouragingly , with a career-best Benson & hedges Cup return against Warwickshire to comfort Yorkshire for the loss of their first-choice overseas players Craig McDermott . |
| 7 | NATWEST , Britain 's biggest bank , has been robbing Peter to pay Paul through the slump . |
| 8 | It is seven years since , at Zurich , I appealed to France to take Germany by the hand and lead her back into the European family . ’ |
| 9 | He was one of the seven magnates whose confederation in April 1258 began the revolution ; he was one of the baronial twelve who were to draw up the plans of reform ; and he was one of the council of fifteen set up by the Provisions of Oxford to govern England in the king 's name . |
| 10 | IT is probably all for the good that Alain Prost left McLaren to join Ferrari at the end of the season because I doubt his autobiography , Life in the Fast Lane , will be nestling in the McLaren chief Ron Dennis 's Christmas stocking . |
| 11 | The plan was for Michael to fetch Patsy from the hotel to spend the day with Shanti and me , then Michael would take Patsy 's husband , the boys and Chris to Manchester for the day . |