Example sentences of "[noun prp] [to-vb] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dundee defender , Steve Pittman , latched on to a defensive error by John Inglis to race down the left flank . |
| 2 | Eight years after her marriage to Robert Dudley , Amy Robsart , daughter of a Norfolk knighted gentleman , moved from Lincolnshire to Berkshire to take up the vast abode that her charming if rakish husband had provided for her . |
| 3 | The Dalek ship is programmed to return to Kembel in spite of all their efforts to divert it , and it falls to Steven to hand over the fake core to the Daleks once the Doctor and Sara are aboard the TARDIS . |
| 4 | David Newman , team leader , helps Kim to carry out the administrative aspects of the sales centre . |
| 5 | Julia Noon , aged 12 , of St Anne 's on Sea , Lancashire , took the politic and patriotic route and wrote to 10 Downing Street to find out the Prime Minister 's favourite foods . |
| 6 | There he ordered Cronus to vomit up the other children , who then became the gods of Olympus . |
| 7 | Perhaps even more importantly , the British government as now completing its announced intention to withdrew its troops from " east of Suez " and , together with the Americans , had quietly been encouragingly the Shah to take over the British role as the " Policeman of the Gulf . " |
| 8 | one young golfer who did grow up to greatness is Sandy Lyle … he 's in Thame on Sunday to open up the new Oxfordshire Golf Club we 'll be meeting up with him on Monday … |
| 9 | He makes the point that the arrival of these southerners ( and westerners ) has enabled the University of Ulster to push up the minimum entry grades for some courses . |
| 10 | Suddenly the pressure was off Mr Kaifu to take back the tainted men . |
| 11 | When Suleiman Franjieh refused to accept the growing Phalangist relationship with Israel in 1977 , Pierre Gemayel 's son Bashir — destined himself to be elected president of Lebanon — sent his gunmen to the north Lebanese town of Ehden to cut down the young man in whom Franjieh had vested all his hopes . |
| 12 | King Edward 's unpopularity was not enhanced by close relatives being created Earls , so Isabella went to Paris in 1325 to consult with her brother , by then King of France , and with the help of the Earl of March , troops were sent from France to round up the royal favourites for execution , and to depose and imprison Edward II , who was murdered by one of the Earl of March 's agents in September 1327 . |
| 13 | One could fly no higher than the signal book that young Lieutenant Pasco used at Trafalgar to send up the Immortal Signal . |
| 14 | Conservative Ministers were , then , no more able than Gaitskell to hold back the rising tide of demand for electricity , which , if the system were not to break down and new connections to be refused , the Boards had to follow up with new investment . |
| 15 | The agreement by Italy to take back the toxic waste on board the Italian ship , the Karin B [ see p. 36788 ] , was followed on Dec. 15 , 1988 , by a decision by the city council of La Spezia , Italy , to accept the return of 8,000 barrels of Italian industrial waste , which had been found in a dump north of Beirut , the Lebanese capital , in June 1988 [ see p. 36251 ] . |
| 16 | At the tender age of 23 Harry strolled out at Feethams to take on the legendary West Indian all-rounder Learie Constantine . |
| 17 | MIPS expects a number of its OEMs to pick up the new ARCsystems including CDC , Tandem and government integrator AT&T Federal Systems Advanced Technologies which will put its System V/Multi-Level Secure Unix on the boxes . |
| 18 | The following year Arthur Woods directed They Drive by Night ( 1938 ) , which makes evocative use of such ordinary English surroundings as a dance palace and the roadside cafés along the Great North Road for the story of an ex-convict hunted for a murder he did n't commit , who comes back to London to hunt down the real killer , a weirdo with books like Sex in Relation to Society and The Thrill of Evil in his briefcase . |
| 19 | John Errington , Glasgow Centre Manager , took charge of Scottish Region with Tom Torrance transferring from Inverness to be his Regional Sales Manager ; Richard Hill left Preston Centre to become Regional Manager of Northern Region in Manchester and Gordon Neal moved from Birmingham Centre to London to head up the Southern Region . |
| 20 | On leaving Wilton Park , I went to Sutton Coldfield to write up the Green Paper . |
| 21 | The collection continues to expand , mostly by donation but a very small purchase grant enables Mr Rosoman to pick up the occasional piece at auction : he recently purchased some papier mache moulds at the Christie 's Crowther sale . |
| 22 | The anticipated challenge from Ford 's Sierra Cosworths ended when all three drivers made mistakes on the first sodden day , leaving Subaru and Mazda to fill out the top placings . |