Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another time , I had arranged to meet him in the Naafi , a popular meeting place on the camp , at 5pm . |
| 2 | They held him in a detention camp for three months , the Germans , and then the officers had come to see him from the SS . |
| 3 | Dougal had arranged to hire it for the Sunday and the Monday , just to be on the safe side . |
| 4 | They were written to proclaim him as the Christ , the anointed of God , the revealer of the Father , and to elicit the appropriate response of faith and trust in him . |
| 5 | The EC Monitor Mission ( ECMM ) had decided to base itself in the RSK town of Knin , having withdrawn from Sarajevo in May . |
| 6 | By Christmas 1985 the DoE publicly sought to distance itself from the CEGB video , acknowledging that ‘ the film attempts to minimise the British contribution to acid deposition in Norway when it is much the largest . ’ |
| 7 | After her marriage attempts were made to unseat her from the London School Board because of the alleged illegality of her name . |
| 8 | IBM Corp was scheduled to make an ‘ operational announcement ’ on its Adstar storage business in San Jose just after we closed on Friday , but we have to assume that it was not anything sufficiently dramatic that it would move the share price , otherwise the company would have had to announce it on the New York Stock Exchange before the market opened to prevent a false market operating in the shares ; the announcement was to be made by vice-chairman Jack Kuehler , and was also to include some personnel news ; IBM has been studying ways to separate Adstar from the rest of the company , Dow Jones & Co notes , and earlier this year , it hired Morgan Stanley & Co and the Boston Consulting Group to recommend ways to speed up the process , which could involve outside investors or a new class of IBM share — and those advisors were scheduled to be done with the preliminary work by now ; a first step would likely be the creation of Adstar as a wholly-owned subsidiary — it has kept separate books since last year ; but the IBM spokesman said some observers might be surprised by the announcement , which was to be concerned with Adstar 's ‘ operations as an IBM business unit and its future direction . ’ |
| 9 | I used to bring them home and then , well father and me used to slaughter them on the Monday , you see and perhaps a bullock on the Monday and every Wedn every Monday morning the men from the farm , cos he had a farm , you see , used to bring perhaps twenty bullocks up through the street and he used to pick one out to kill , every Monday . |
| 10 | To this day it is nearly impossible to find a Canadian movie screened ; in any of our cities , or investment capital which would allow a cutting edge industry to develop in Saskatchewan rather than Idaho , or a cultural figure who has not had to make it in the US ( Bryan Adams ) or the UK ( Conrad Black ) before the person is taken seriously at home . |
| 11 | And I remembered our last day together when I 'd promised to bring you to the Peacock theatre and robbed you of your heart 's desire by forcing you into my bed instead . |
| 12 | It was announced on Sept. 23 that the Eagle Party had agreed to subsume itself within the NDC in support of the candidacy of Rawlings ( the national congress of the Eagle Party having itself asked Rawlings on Sept. 13 to be its presidential candidate ) . |
| 13 | He still refused to share his legitimacy with the parties , as he had refused to share it with the CNR . |
| 14 | For she had had vivid dreams — dreams in which he was dead and she had gone to see him in the T'ang 's Great Hall , laid out in state , clothed from head to foot in the white cloth of death . |
| 15 | The show will coincide with an international congress of archaeologists , and it is hoped to tour it to the US , France , Japan and Germany before converting it into permanent museum . |
| 16 | This time Holy Foley faces the John Upson-trained course and distance winner Some Obligation and will be hard pressed to overturn him in the Ludlow Hunters ' Chase today . |
| 17 | Anon she was not placed in the royal vault ; rather the opportunity was taken to put her in the Villiers vault in 1776 when the neighbouring Percy vault was opened for the reception of the remains of the First Duchess of Northumberland . |
| 18 | Have you ever tried to install software that refuses to use anything but the A : drive even though you are forced to use it in the B : drive because of the size of the diskettes ? |
| 19 | The new committee , reportedly dominated by political figures close to the military establishment , was believed to reflect the army 's growing alienation from the policies of the Ghozali government ; although Ghozali remained a member of the FLN central committee he was considered as having tried to distance himself from the FLN as much as possible . |
| 20 | Several men , faintly sinister and grubby , have tried to approach us in the Metro or on the street . |
| 21 | The Texas Department of Corrections ( TDC ) has continued to build big , and presumably Howard could not even have begun to imagine something like the Ellis I Unit , of over 2,000 beds . |
| 22 | Melot 's Arab spy was engaged to guide everyone to the Wadi Fetilia which was the only practical route down the escarpment on to the coastal plain . |
| 23 | The proper instrument for the purpose not being at hand , a man was sent to get it from the Bedford Infirmary . |
| 24 | The North York Moors National Park and Countryside Commission are being urged to include it in The Cleveland Way . |
| 25 | The North York Moors National Park and Countryside Commission are being urged to include it in The Cleveland Way . |
| 26 | Twenty-ninth August — the German Army has managed to get itself across the Seine and , according to the news at the Brigade H.Q , 4th Commando Brigade has joined in the pursuit . |