Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had come to Uganda to observe how the women use music to give advice , support each other and express their need for political identity . |
| 2 | Describing in today 's Sunday Times of Johannesburg how he found Stompie 's body in Mrs Mandela 's house , Morgan said : ‘ One morning I got to the house early and I was told by Winnie to pick up the dog and dump him . |
| 3 | A further important lesson conveyed by Donaldson concerns both the necessity and difficulty of formal education for the young child . |
| 4 | Instead they managed both by using the County Homesearch Company based in Truro to take over the housing negotiations , reports of which chased them round Australia on fax . |
| 5 | There are men who have been in prison for ten years and more for claiming their liberty ; men who have slipped away to struggle overseas ; men who have escaped to Europe to carry on the fight there — they are hounded and they are imprisoned , but their views are heard . |
| 6 | A union organizer has travelled from Santiago to explain how the new union , El Libertador , is co-ordinating a plan to enable seasonal workers to qualify for government-subsidized housing . |
| 7 | The Treat negotiated at Maastricht laid down the process under which the Community can , if its members meet certain economic conditions , create a monetary union with a single currency for some or all of them . |
| 8 | Upstairs , over the Moon , there is now a large new gallery sponsored by STC to mark both the company 's centenary and World Communications Year . |
| 9 | An NVQ co-ordinator , Gill Murdoch , was appointed in May to carry forward the challenging work of developing assessment strategies for level 4 qualifications and informing and helping potential centresand candidates in implementing the new qualification system . |
| 10 | It was left for Garvey to explain how the village came to be deserted and why it no longer offered cosy prospects for a snug winter . |
| 11 | Lizzy would be allowed to get away with blue murder while her father was around , it was always the same , then when he swanned off again , it would be left to Kate to pick up the pieces and get back some kind of equilibrium . |
| 12 | This last symbol , however , is much narrower than the pencil lines inserted by Michell to pick out the alignments , and about 0.25 mm is probably nearer the mark for the lower limit of alignment tolerance . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In the spring of 1705 Colonel Nathaniel Hooke [ or Hookes ] , an Englishman who commanded a regiment in the French army , was sent to Scotland to spy out the land . |
| 15 | The double bed where she had lain with Johnny occupied much the same position as did her own . |
| 16 | From a liberal perspective , the subsequent history of the regime established in October bore out the ruthless , doctrinaire and fundamentally undemocratic nature of the Bolshevik party . |
| 17 | In the one , Cornelius , a Roman centurion , is prompted by God to seek out the Apostle Peter . |