Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | George was probably wise to kill Lennie the way he did , preserving Lennie 's dignity . |
| 2 | But he said er , and I said that I gather you 're seeing Lynda the weekend if you do find anything perhaps you could pass it on to her . |
| 3 | A visitor once asked Connie the secret of her success with begonias . |
| 4 | In the 1960s the oil boom made Venezuela the country to emigrate to , and it was a common occurrence for the emigrant who made good to hire a large American car ( Cadillac or similar ) and to return to Madeira by ship with the car . |
| 5 | Roger Alwen , the club 's joint owner , said : ‘ We have given Greenwich the opportunity to lead British football into the 21st century . |
| 6 | By policing the mental and the physical borders of the newly formed Germany the Völkisch ideologists wanted to create a new and pure German identity . |
| 7 | Coal from the valleys of south Wales made Cardiff the world 's leading coal-exporting port . |
| 8 | Brian had given Scarlet the impression that , if it had not been for his first wife and her child , and his second wife and her child , he would have been living a life of carefree splendour in a house adjacent to the park . |
| 9 | It plays Brighton the week after next , then Sheffield and after that heads straight to London to give Jenny her West End debut . |
| 10 | Samantha Mathis plays Crysta the fairy while teen heart-throb Christian Slater is her jealous boyfriend , Pips . |
| 11 | Wright struck just 52 seconds after Kevin Campbell had given Arsenal the lead in a dismal match at Highfield Road . |
| 12 | Relaxed laws make Vegas the home of quickie weddings , although Jackson himself has never had a girlfriend . |
| 13 | Laura passed Rex the gun and Rex bopped him on the head with it . |
| 14 | It was he who lent Hardy the money to go to Paris : he who decided to take Hardy 's hopeful acting career under his wing and get him an audition with ‘ my father ’ down at the Cardiff studios , where Philip 's radio play gave him an entree . |
| 15 | When Diana first consulted Penny the princess revealed that she was interested in astrology , but knew very little about it . |
| 16 | From England they go across to Brittany , where they are seen in sea cliffs and along into Normandy where they form , for example , the great escarpment at Falaise on which stands William the Conqueror 's castle . |
| 17 | A place in Saturday 's final would guarantee Wattana the title . |
| 18 | Domesday shows that they provided Edward the Confessor with a revenue of £53 a year and the three works of the king — probably the maintenance of fortresses and bridges , and service in the army . |
| 19 | Chapot added that the company is seeing a recovery in its US Pacbase sales since Computerworld printed a test result that rated Pacbase the number one software engineering system in overall functionality and user friendliness . |
| 20 | Dennis the Menace , I want Dennis the Menace on mum |
| 21 | No , he had n't forgotten Simon the carpenter , one of his more errant parishioners , a florid-faced , thickset man with an evil temper and a long Welsh dagger . |
| 22 | After August 1939 Nizan was no longer willing to grant Stalin the benefit of the doubt . |
| 23 | Suppose we say December the second , that 's a week on Monday . |
| 24 | As we approached Rijeka the weather , like the roads , took a real downward turn . |
| 25 | If he loves Silvia the way he says he does , he 'll want her to study , not skive off and waste time ! ’ |
| 26 | Vice Chancellor Sir Donald Nicholls , declining to grant Venables the injunction he sought yesterday , said that to have done so would override the majority decision of the Spurs board , which had the right to ‘ hire and fire . ’ |
| 27 | Here are the extra impulsive fire and spontaneity that transform Rubinstein the poet into something more volatile and unpredictable . |
| 28 | O'Hara reminded him that Jung had considered Liverpool the centre of the Universe . |
| 29 | As we approached Tromsø the snow grew thicker and Nathan asked , as casually as he could manage , whether they would clear the runway . |
| 30 | They were trying to catch Jack the Ripper . |