Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [verb] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Dean put down the watering can regretfully . |
| 2 | The WEA shared both the relief and the reservations : duly expressed as a gathering of District Secretaries in September , at the National Conference in October and at meetings of the WEA Central Executive Committee which had the responsibility for formulating an official response . |
| 3 | It was from here that the Stuarts sized up the potential of the area for exploitation . |
| 4 | Early advice from the DOH set out the quality aspects that contracts should seek to ensure . |
| 5 | The RJWG formed however the basis of the first post-World War Two Act of 1962 ( Jugendwohlfahrtsgesetz , JWG ) which expanded and amended it but left its basic philosophy intact . |
| 6 | The following correspondence shows how much trouble the Wordworths took over the boy . |
| 7 | SECRET talks in London between the African National Congress and a group of liberal Afrikaners , including President FW de Klerk 's brother , ended yesterday with the ANC playing down the significance of the event and President de Klerk dissociating himself from it . |
| 8 | The North have both the motivation and the coordination behind the scrum to brush aside a rebuilt Midlands team . |
| 9 | In these circumstances , voluntary WEA members such as Rachael Evans in Bedfordshire and ( successively ) Barbara Brenchley and Margaret Bland in the Fenland took on the task of Federation secretary and , along with other enthusiasts , did their best to fulfil the non-teaching duties of a tutor-organiser . |
| 10 | The NHS picks up the tab , ’ he says . |
| 11 | In 1040 the Normans took over the area and its great cathedral churches date from the succeeding 100 years . |
| 12 | If the Mujahideen divide up the country among themselves it is likely that the big divide would be along these mountains , which would then become the new division between Central Asia and the Indian sub-continent . |
| 13 | so he just kept going , so the pick-up jammed its anchors on , there was a Rover it was coming the other way , the Rover went up the verge |
| 14 | The IMF set about the problem by devising the special drawing right ( SDR ) as a means of settlement among its members . |
| 15 | Some of the workers in Glasgow , he said , had already decided to relocate to the Midlands to take up the offer of employment there . |
| 16 | Yet in being forced to come to the Commons to tidy up the mess — though splattering egg on the faces of the Foreign Office lawyers and his colleague Tristan Garel-Jones in the process — Hurd confirmed what a few MPs have known for months . |
| 17 | A twenty-five-foot wave flung itself at the canoe from an unexpected angle and before the crew could turn to absorb the blow , the Hokule'a rose up the face of the wave at forty-five degrees , and was capsized as it flew off the peak . |
| 18 | During the next three years , the Beagle sailed down the east coast of South America , rounded Cape Horn and came north again up the coast of Chile . |
| 19 | Desert Orchid will be leading The Thurlow Foxhounds down the course . |
| 20 | On March 26 the Yugoslav government urged the UN to speed up the arrival of the full contingent of UNIPROFOR , planned for the first half of April , because of the deteriorating security situation in the Croatian border areas . |
| 21 | Only then had the BBC followed up the statement , saying baldly that the Deputy Fuhrer had parachuted into Scotland . |
| 22 | It was one in the morning when the DDA put down the phone and wiped his hands on his pyjamas . |
| 23 | She returned with the FPL to take over the town which has now been incorporated into the Chalatenango controlled zone : |
| 24 | The Torbay line has always been run as a large-scale people mover and minimalist operation since the DVR took over the line in 1973 , but this stance failed to deliver the desired profitable results in 1991 . |
| 25 | The TUC had now the dilemma of wondering how far to authorize secondary action , for instance by calling out water workers or electricity power-station personnel . |
| 26 | Mr Smith used the opening speech of Labour 's first European conference in Brighton to criticise John Major for his handling of events since the UK took over the presidency of the European Council of Ministers in July . |
| 27 | Liz , from Northern Ireland , was visiting the Wirral to pass on the art of storytelling to librarians , who had travelled from all over the country Picture : FRAZER BIRD |
| 28 | The FA turned down the request and repeated its demand to see the Leeds City books . |
| 29 | Now 7 years after the Morgans took over the site , the matter is going to a public inquiry . |
| 30 | As its name suggests , the SFA regulates both the cash market and derivatives . |