Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wish that Deane was scoring 3 a match — but I have nt had the opportunity to see him in action recently . |
| 2 | Of course ! she could see it all now : Luke had suggested this date to give him the opportunity to warn her off Rob ! |
| 3 | The Court of Appeal stated that the Board did have a duty to act fairly which entailed granting B and K the opportunity to satisfy them of matters in the statute , and to let B and K know the impressions of the Board so that they might be dispelled ; but the Board did not have to quote ‘ chapter and verse , ’ nor did it have to disclose the source of its information if it would be contrary to the public interest , nor did the reasons for the refusal have to be given . |
| 4 | ‘ The majority revere him in spite of all he 's done , ’ said a US official . |
| 5 | When the Sutton route was replaced by trolleybuses , the remainder joined them at Brixton in December 1935 , but the contract with Cohens for their scrapping had already been signed on 12 October . |
| 6 | One of these took Venturous to the Bristol Channel and the South Wales ' ports , and a later one was made to the north of Scotland with the Board joining us at Aberdeen . |
| 7 | Yet a couple of features in the sentence push it towards Orientation : it contains an explicit temporal signal in the form of " when " and , more significantly , contains a past progressive verb phrase ( " he was sitting " ) . |
| 8 | Rain thanked her , not having the heart to tell her about Georgie 's other little joke . |
| 9 | The archbishop of Besançon was summoned through the bishop of Langres ( an intentional slight ) for allowing papal messengers to be captured ; the bishop of Speyer on the same grounds and also for sending one messenger to the gallows ; the archbishop of Tarentaise for crowning Philip ; and the bishop of Passau , who had probably been the draughtsman of the Staufen protest , had a long series of charges brought against him — he had not delivered two million marks to the king of Hungary , he had not paid back the money given him by Richard I for his release — indeed , his crimes were so great , the letter said , that he could have been punished without trial . |
| 10 | Graham 's father actually gave him the money to buy it from Brixton , after we 'd been there to see it . |
| 11 | To allow the solicitor who has prepared the case to take it in court would not be a perfect solution , but might be some improvement . |
| 12 | Between late July and early October 1936 the rebels drove home the advantage given them by Franco 's agreements with Mussolini and Hitler . |
| 13 | In order to keep the sorted list , the school librarian or teacher would have to ask the computer to save it on disk i.e. copy it on to the floppy disk . |
| 14 | I think for a very small company this perhaps might be more complicated in computing terms than would be worthwhile , but as soon as you 're getting to the point of many orders in a week , then it can be exceedingly useful to be able to ask the computer to tell you for example what are all the outstanding orders , what are all the overdue orders , what is the stock position bearing in mind that some stock is committed for certain orders , what orders have we got with suppliers to us which are still outstanding , and questions of this sort , can make your business much more efficient . |
| 15 | People were very angry when Admiral Byng failed to attack the French at Minorca , and the decision to execute him for cowardice was exactly what the public wanted . |
| 16 | Tommy Gilmour , Clinton 's manager , said last night : ‘ Pat had tried to go through the pain barrier and keep his injury from me but I have taken the decision to withdraw him after consultation with an orthopaedic surgeon . ’ |
| 17 | The Excess Profits Duty was widely regarded as a concession to mounting concern over profiteering ( Maguire 1987 ) , but the decision to levy it on societies posed fundamental questions about the nature of the cooperative enterprise . |
| 18 | To avoid the album selling for ludicrous amounts on import , Rough Trade took the decision to issue it in Britain . |
| 19 | The centre-right Popular Action ( AP ) party , led by former President Fernando Belaúnde Terry ( 1980-1985 ) , which rejected Fujimori 's new date for municipal elections , now set for Jan. 29 , 1993 , and stated that " more than 17 political parties " demanded that he reverse the decision to postpone them from November 1992 [ see p. 38959 ] . |
| 20 | Another young man in nothing but a tan lay on the deck watching her through sunglasses . |
| 21 | Clearly the subtle substructure of theological argument in the negative tradition which underlies the experiential theology of the Cloud-author distinguishes him from Julian of Norwich whose vibrant sense of the reality of the being of God at work in human nature was born out of her visionary meditative experience focused on Christ 's Passion . |
| 22 | The mare took it for affection and pushed her face into Mrs Totteridge 's stomach . |
| 23 | The last section of the trail takes you from Bickleywood , on past Barhill Farm and across country to reach the Shropshire Union Canal . |
| 24 | Turning right along the lane brought you to Southampton Road by Dairyhouse Bridge , another right turn and along the main road to another footpath opposite Waterloo Gardens — this led into the churchyard and so to home . |
| 25 | A friend of Watt 's at the University introduced him to John Roebuck , an industrialist who was involved with coal mines and iron works in Scotland . |
| 26 | And so they had sent him North , not to win , of course , perhaps not even to poll a single vote , but to lay the Charter once again before the people , to let them know what could be done in a land where every man had his vote and the freedom to use it without intimidation , as he and he alone thought best . |
| 27 | Thinking quickly , I asked the driver to take me to Clonmacnoise instead , a famous holy city that stood in ruins scattered over a sloping river bank . |
| 28 | ‘ He says , ‘ Sir Jaq 's correct in his supposition that all the slaughter brought it to life — exactly like a conjuration . ’ |
| 29 | The play takes him to New York , where he does some more drifting , before returning to London , older but still young , wiser but still carefree . |
| 30 | If the claim is presented late , the tribunal has a discretion to allow a late claim to be submitted if it was ‘ not reasonably practicable ’ for the Applicant to present it in time ( EPCA 1978 section 67(2) ) . |