Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This eventually helped make Strauss the CDU 's candidate for Chancellor in the next election , but he remained such a controversial figure in the country that his election was unlikely . |
| 2 | Dragonfire incinerated Hugin the Plaguelord , and the rotting legions of Nurgle . |
| 3 | I want Winnie the Pooh . |
| 4 | It is this abrasive commitment to this duties which , in part , has won Skinner the Whitbread Player of the Month Award . |
| 5 | Sheffield Wednesday manager Trevor Francis has rejected his first approach and told Ferguson the England striker is not available … unless the bid is one he simply ca n't refuse . |
| 6 | Not for the first time , the AI recalled Alfonso the Wise ( 1221–1284 CE ) , king of Castile , another forgotten man . |
| 7 | Lewis reached inside his breast-pocket and handed Morse the Oxford-London London-Oxford Network South-East timetable ; but apart from briefly checking the arrival time of the 13.30 from Paddington , Morse seemed less than enthusiastic . |
| 8 | Do n't you remember Larry the Lamb . |
| 9 | Meet Elvis the King Penguin , the fishy smelling superstar of Birdland . |
| 10 | A single case of her own books had survived and it was a haphazard collection , containing Winnie the Pooh and the Dr Dolittle books , which she found herself reading nostalgically over and over again . |
| 11 | In her head , Burnside remembered someone calling America the United States of Sand and Rocks . |
| 12 | Greenpeace called ICI the UK 's ‘ biggest Government-licensed water polluter ’ . |
| 13 | The man at the other end said yes , and how did Mr Dempsey like it , and I said it was wonderful but I had n't ever heard anyone call Venice the Leningrad of the South , and then there was a silence . |
| 14 | Inevitably Buddhists and Christians compare Gautama the Buddha and Jesus the Christ . |
| 15 | They called Massingham the Honjohn behind his back and occasionally to his face , and bore no malice . |
| 16 | Speaking of which , I saw Clem the Sunday before last . |
| 17 | She leads him by the hand , and from a distance they resemble those drawings of Christopher Robin dragging Winnie The Pooh along the ground . |
| 18 | Sequoia Systems Inc fault-tolerant users have banded together and formed SUG/GEST the Sequioa User Group/Group Exchange of Sequoia Topics : it 'll focus on sharing third-party technologies as well as vetting Sequoia products and future technologies . |
| 19 | ‘ Somebody tried to murder Joe the Fish earlier . ’ |
| 20 | But once he reached Stowey the Coleridges greeted him warmly at Lime Street , where the cottage had gained another new resident only a week before : on 14 May , Sara had been ‘ safely delivered of a fine boy ’ , the child being given the name Berkeley in honour of the philosopher , for whom Coleridge was developing a great admiration . |
| 21 | End of an era : Hoddle gives Swindon the Chelsea boot . |
| 22 | Which one , yeah that 's the one that erm Kim 's been trying to get Lorraine the Bennetton one . |
| 23 | A government that believes we are out of recession , but is still making Britain the Taiwan of Europe . |
| 24 | He gave Gloucester the Neville lands which formed the core of his influence , and then continued to augment his holdings of land and office . |
| 25 | He gave Gloucester the Neville lands which formed the core of his influence , and then continued to augment his holdings of land and office . |
| 26 | This in itself was unedifying , and after I left Scotland the SRU at last summoned up courage to change over to ‘ Scotland the Brave ’ . |
| 27 | After leaving China the Myanma delegation visited Singapore on Oct. 27-30 . |
| 28 | Everything is ludicrously expensive — thank God the Sunday Herald is paying my expenses . |
| 29 | But even some ofthe President 's closest supporters reckon the scandal-mongers have gone too far by trying to link Clinton the Rhodes Scholar with the Soviet secret services . |
| 30 | I got Charlotte the Mr Loops Yellow Bus . |