Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [noun prp] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Dodger said nothing more but led Charley Bates into the house and up the stairs . |
| 2 | ‘ I met Roger Erikson on the beach , and he said , ‘ You 're going out ? ’ and I said , ‘ Yep , I 'm going out ’ , and he said : ‘ All right , I 'm going out too . ’ |
| 3 | I first met Ben Johnson at the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham just prior to the Commonwealth Games . |
| 4 | We have just discussed its form : let us now consider what evidence led von Frisch to the discovery . |
| 5 | They all met Lucy Jackson on the stand and the trip was a big talking point for weeks . |
| 6 | This led S. Ohno at the Sloan-Kettering Institute in New York to the rather unlikely conclusion that the mammalian ovary must be capable of inducing oestrus cycles even in the complete absence of eggs . |
| 7 | Kerry Evans said at Shrewsbury Crown Court that he asked Edward Browning about the blood , and was told that it must have come from an animal he had hit while driving to Scotland . |
| 8 | The 1500 , then the 2000 and , in 1968 , the fantastic , sports car-beating 2002 provided von Kuenheim with the building blocks for the future . |
| 9 | The Ballylumford workers eventually invited Jim Smyth of the Ulster Workers ' Council , Dr. Ian Paisley of the Democratic Unionist Party and Ernest Baird of the United Ulster Unionist Party to meet them . |
| 10 | ‘ I beat Gary Jacobs for the Commonwealth title in Glasgow but my British return was more satisfying when I beat Kirkland Laing . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ That 's right , love , ’ shouted Mrs. Hennessy over the noise , as she switched on the vacuum-cleaner . |
| 12 | The War Against Women by Marilyn French Hamish Hamilton , £9.99 Backlash : The Undeclared War Against Women by Susan Faludi Chatto & Windus , £9.99 Arcadia by Jim Crace Jonathan Cape , £14.99 ‘ THE sisterhood at the top of British publishing should be collectively ashamed of itself , ’ pronounced Richard Gott in The Guardian , in protest at the simultaneous publication of two more ‘ tendentious feminist tracts by famous American writers ’ . |
| 13 | Compliments always caught Miss Gilberd on the hop , she was so little used to them . |
| 14 | In 1915 the New South Wales Swimming Association invited Duke Kahanamoku to the Domain Baths in Sydney where he beat his own world record for the 100 yards with a time of 53.8 seconds . |
| 15 | Niki won in South Africa , Germany and Holland ; he came in second six times and beat Jody Scheckter to the championship by 17 points ; Reutemann was fourth , 30 points off the pace behind Andretti . |
| 16 | When Ransome-Wallis visited South Africa during the war , he allowed his desire to get close to the steam engine to overwhelm his awareness of South African racial niceties . |
| 17 | She stood in the hazy light cast by the bulb in the ceiling , looking uncomfortable and angry , as she phoned Eddy Russell of the Drugs Squad with the information about Della Torre and the lorry due to arrive at Dover the next day . |
| 18 | They should be aware that Mr beat Mr Brown to the punch and did exactly the same thing a few months ago . |
| 19 | ‘ He helped Mr Benson into the basket and they got him out , ’ said a national park spokeswoman . |
| 20 | Another boy helped Mr Wood on the farm while Tony practised for the competition |
| 21 | ‘ Go away ! ’ shouted Mr Crick at the cock . |
| 22 | At lunchtime she found Leon Kennedy in the morning room , dressed in a tweed jacket , soft shirt , tie , different ones from the day before . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been expecting it ever since I heard that they found Uncle Mosse underneath the floorboards . |
| 24 | Prosecutor Michael Maguire said Langton and his accomplice Joseph Lee , 24 , lured Mr Smith to the field near their homes in Blackpool in October last year . |
| 25 | ‘ Friends , Romans , countrymen , ’ shouted Fred Stokes at the top of the Forum steps , carrying Arthur Moe in his arms centre stage . |
| 26 | When Khrushchev visited President Eisenhower in the United States of America , the Chinese authorities became furious , and denounced Khrushchev , so he cut off all military and economic aid to China , although he continued to support the Communist leader of Cuba , Fidel Castro . |
| 27 | : WHEN Ian Smith caught Graham Gooch off the bowling of Danny Morrison in the first Test match last winter he broke a New Zealand wicketkeeping record which had stood for 45 years . |
| 28 | The magazine described Mr Donovan as the boy with bleached hair , although the actor told the court he had never used chemicals on his hair — ‘ just lemon juice in the sun sometimes ’ . |
| 29 | The magazine described Mr Donovan as the boy with bleached hair , although the actor told the court he had never used chemicals on his hair — ‘ just lemon juice in the sun sometimes ’ . |
| 30 | On his way home he again visited Mrs Wood at the hotel . |