Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is because of that commitment and my understanding of the values and decent opinions of the Province that I have placed my resignation at the Prime Minister 's disposal . |
| 2 | You have dismissed my Master of the Inner Chambers ? ’ |
| 3 | I had forgotten my quest on the previous day in the pleasure of the poets ' company . |
| 4 | In his unobtrusive way he had shown his interest in my faltering attempts to climb the golfing ladder , and had even carried my bag in the Amateur Championship . |
| 5 | The Malthusian League had addressed its message to the working class , emphasising birth control as the only remedy for poverty , and had met with understandable hostility from leading ( male ) socialists . |
| 6 | The fact that the thieves confined their attention to the Early Cycladic display case , ignoring many other important works , suggests that they may have been stealing to order something which is a matter of concern to museum staff and archaeologists in Greece . |
| 7 | He and his four fellow sixth formers at Barnard Castle School have won their way to the regional final of a music contest in Newcastle . |
| 8 | Was it too much to think that that dying little creature with the last of her strength had carried her kitten to the only haven of comfort and warmth she had ever known in the hope that it would be cared for there ? |
| 9 | or , Thomas ( c. 1784–1818 ) , prizefighter , was born a Virginia slave , and is reputed to have won his freedom in the American prize-ring . |
| 10 | We first meet Richard Faucenbois as a boy approaching his twelfth birthday in The Black Riders ; The Stormy Petrel and The House of the Paladin return to the boy at fourteen and fifteen , when he has already earned his nickname of the Stormy Petrel , and in The Betrayer he moves into his sixteenth year with agonising decisions to make ; in three later books ( Richard and the Golden Horseshoe , The Red Rose of Ruvina and The Secret of the White Peacock , he is in his mid-twenties and the chases and escapes of youth have been put aside for the role of diplomat and teacher . |
| 11 | Gomez had earned his status through the calm weight of his personality as much as by his physical strength and the inevitable accuracy of his firepower . |
| 12 | Kelly has enjoyed his return to the national spotlight after earning his nickname during Leatherhead 's FA Cup exploits of the mid-70s . |
| 13 | I have already reported his interchange with the prime minister , Margaret Thatcher , on the subject in a different context . |
| 14 | Kim Bailey 's gelding , a promising runner-up to Remittance Man at Wincanton recently , booked his place for the big race with a satisfactory two mile gallop after racing at Newbury yesterday . |
| 15 | Even so , dismissal should never come as a bolt from the blue , however exalted your place in the corporate hierarchy . |
| 16 | ‘ You have recanted your allegiance to the Great Criminal ? ’ |
| 17 | Hoylake claimed that : ‘ BAT 's urge to conglomerate has diverted its attention from the traditional core business , tobacco towards ill-conceived diversification ’ . |
| 18 | She says , ‘ How am I going to get round all these people phoning me up saying , ‘ Why am I not getting calls , it 's all your fault ’ , you know , all the rest of it ’ , when they have n't diverted their telephone to the right extension number . |
| 19 | On Saturday Mrs Totteridge had ridden in the morning and then at lunchtime had checked her goat with the attendant events from which the whole enquiry had followed . |
| 20 | The bridges , they say , have not been painted regularly and this penny-pinching has exposed their steelwork to the corroding effects of salt , pollution , water and debris . |
| 21 | Repeal feminists justified their entry into the political arena on the grounds that the issues raised by the acts touched on all the great trusts of their womanhood — the questions of virtue , purity , decency and social welfare . |
| 22 | This was the journal Jewry Ueber Alles which had just been published in February 1920 , and had altered its name to The Hidden Hand in September 1920 and to the British Guardian in May 1924 . |
| 23 | Cleo had never , to her knowledge , seen a ghost , although she had often sensed their presence in the shadowed , tragedy-haunted alleys of the Burrows . |
| 24 | Syria , having given its support to the United States-led anti-Iraq coalition in the Gulf crisis , was currently enjoying the consequent improvement in its image in the West , and it was noticeable that there was hardly any international condemnation of its action in Lebanon . |
| 25 | One is Delta Cephei , which has given its name to the whole class of short-period variables . |
| 26 | Each leaf on the Lemande Tree , given its name after the Old English word for shining and glittering , will represent a donation towards the appeal to build a glass-walled community centre for the elderly and mentally ill within an old church in Morningside , Edinburgh . |
| 27 | The ruling body of the International Tropical Timber Organisation ( ITTO ) has given its approval to the continued logging of key tropical forests in Malaysia and the Amazon . |
| 28 | It is submitted that it would be ill-advised to treat such statements made in one House after the Bill had completed its passage in the other House as an expression of the intention of , in the words of Lord Browne-Wilkinson , ‘ Parliament as a whole ’ . |
| 29 | An Estonian history professor , Arnold Palm , said Balts regarded their status within the Soviet Union as ‘ political , not juridical ’ , and ‘ by no means definitely established ’ . |
| 30 | To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the 1916 Rising , the National Museum of Ireland has revised its exhibition on the vital period of modern Irish history between 1900 and 1921 and called it ‘ The Road to Independence ’ . |