Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [pers pn] [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 | After her marriage attempts were made to unseat her from the London School Board because of the alleged illegality of her name . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He still refused to share his legitimacy with the parties , as he had refused to share it with the CNR . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | Several men , faintly sinister and grubby , have tried to approach us in the Metro or on the street . |
| 17 | The proper instrument for the purpose not being at hand , a man was sent to get it from the Bedford Infirmary . |
| 18 | The North York Moors National Park and Countryside Commission are being urged to include it in The Cleveland Way . |
| 19 | The North York Moors National Park and Countryside Commission are being urged to include it in The Cleveland Way . |