Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bann face Garvey at Blaris on Wednesday night ( 8pm ) and Holywood at Olympia next Saturday , needing two outright wins to secure them the honours . |
| 2 | ‘ It is the agency 's responsibility to find you the type of work you have indicated that you are interested in . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's not on at all for a brother-in-law to treat me the way you treat me . |
| 4 | The frictions grew steadily worse , and in an attempt to accommodate them the 1897 Vienna Congress resolved that the party become a federation of six national parties . |
| 5 | A note from Bartram in 1745 seems to imply a slight difference of opinion as his account of some American pines had been questioned : ‘ But as I have great opinion of Miller 's learning and judgement , I am engaged in duty and friendship to inform him the best I can . ’ |
| 6 | Foreman agreed to link up with Stafford to give him the chance to attract another League club . |
| 7 | And the dam is turf Ed on the land ward side to give it the appearance of a gently sloping field . |
| 8 | The report , for the local authorities reports mentioned in the committee item is an attempt to give me the subject of car boot sales a fairly wide airing . |
| 9 | The Chancellor of the Exchequer , Kenneth Clarke tells the programme how she once asked : ‘ Why do I have to do everything in this Government ? ’ and no-one had the nerve to give her the obvious answer — she did n't have to do everything . |
| 10 | Can the hon. Gentleman prevail on his right hon. and learned Friend to give us the assurance that there will be funds — public funds if necessary — to ensure that the King 's Cross scheme goes ahead ? |
| 11 | All you have to do is answer five questions and write a short tie-breaker to give you the opportunity of winning the title and prize of Sainsbury 's Wine Taste Challenge Winner . |
| 12 | The Discovery is the first ever gas cooker to have a hotplate with ‘ Gas Powered Discs ’ a revolutionary new concept developed by Moffat that actually places a Disc above the flame to give you the controllability you expect from gas plus an unheard of level of cleanability . |
| 13 | The Syrian foreign minister who , after meeting Douglas Hurd , evoked the Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916 in which the British and the French secretly carved up the Middle East between them ( later using the League of Nations to give them the so-called Mandates as a cover ) , was not making some arcane and irrelevant allusion . |
| 14 | He bought groceries to last him the week , then popped next door to the frame shop to pick up the stainless steel frame he 'd ordered for a James Barker black and white print he 'd obtained in an auction some weeks before . |
| 15 | Back in 1936 Frank Hawks asked the Granville Brothers to build him the ‘ fastest landplane ever ’ . |
| 16 | Jacqui gurgled something incomprehensible , as Kattina 's tongue shot into her mouth to save her the embarrassment of replying . |
| 17 | Young people differ in their interests and aptitudes , and we need a range of schools to offer them the best opportunities . |
| 18 | But when he had leapt off his horse to approach it the chest had sprouted legs and had gone trotting off into the forest , stopping again a few hundred yards away . |
| 19 | Three are commonly identified i.e. national , local and school , and in an attempt to clarify them the following paragraphs examine each in turn . |
| 20 | In Luxor we hired a felucca with two crewmen to take us the 120 miles by river to Aswan . |
| 21 | Ask your parish priest to show you the scale of charges and to explain the fees to you . |
| 22 | And we have more plans for the future to make it the ultimate private leisure club . |
| 23 | Well , rightly or wrongly we 've come to arrangements with the Liberals , not because we like the Liberals , not because we wanted to , but we , we were fed up with be being in opposition to tell you the truth . |
| 24 | Montag 's speech is a desperate attempt to show her the reality of her life . |
| 25 | It would n't do any good to tell her the truth — if it was the truth . |
| 26 | Finally he 'll decide to go and tinker with his terminal to tell him the tally to date . |
| 27 | He drew out a sturdy transparent plastic inner bag and held it up to the light to show me the contents . |
| 28 | Mum followed them and I too decided to find Frankie to tell him the news after I had cleared away the crocks . |
| 29 | We are committed to it and it is our intention to make it the centre of a big programme of tennis in the city . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ My husband is n't well , ’ I said , having no mind to hand him the truth at that moment . |