Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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1 | In Spain the struggle over the succession in 1702–13 had seen a prolonged effort by Catalonia and much of Aragon to throw off Castilian rule , an effort which drove them to support the Habsburg Archduke Charles against the eventually victorious Bourbon claimant to the throne , Philip V , grandson of Louis XIV . |
2 | The supporters were happy , the players were happy and everyone agreed the Everton board had pulled off a coup in tempting their most successful manager back to Merseyside . |
3 | Now , three weeks later , here is where I was advised to begin-with them bringing the McLaren girl over from Fort Thomas in an ambulance wagon and the lieutenant taking her right into the Alamosa Hotel . |
4 | MAUD Smyth has asked me to thank the Rev Grindle and all who helped to make the memorial service for her brother Thomas , who had died in Canada , so beautiful and moving . |
5 | A lot of them concerned the Arsenal team and what I thought about them . ’ |
6 | Let me introduce the Bovril Babe . |
7 | When I was asking them which was their favourite area , not unsurprisingly a couple of them mentioned the Lake District — anytime except in the summer holidays . |
8 | ‘ START 2 is not going anywhere until START 1 is ratified by everyone and everyone joins the NPT as a non-nuclear state , ’ laments an American official . |
9 | For this review I asked the PR firm promoting FAXgrabber to send me a fax so I could demonstrate the program in operation . |
10 | When I asked the DRM , |
11 | I asked the I Ching one more question . |
12 | The Commissioner states in his report : ‘ Because it seemed to me that the Minister 's letter implied that the NHS had an absolute duty to provide care for the complainant 's father once it became clear that he could no longer meet the nursing home fees , I asked the DoH for clarification of the legal position and invited their general views . ’ |
13 | Well it seems like that 's hoping for pie in the sky , though , because there 's first of all not enough money , and I do n't think that teachers are that good at well talking about their own emotions , and I asked the Oxfordshire County Council Education Department to send someone along to this programme , and they said ‘ I 'm sorry , there 's no-one to send ’ . |
14 | I asked the Sheikha . |
15 | I asked the Sheikha . |
16 | In view of my deficiencies , I avoided the NV and stuck to the library ; but little I read remained in my mind . |
17 | ( With some products , like the bathroom suite , there is a further question — within the Armitage Shanks range , do I want the Sandringham-Envoy with Silverspa taps , or some higher specification ? |
18 | It would be a great way to repay them if I made the England side and contributed to its success . ’ |
19 | I mean the Newfoundland |
20 | I mean the Dunmow Road , Hockerill |
21 | I mean the Sierra , it 's a good offer on the Sierra but it 's , it 's like the basic engine and I do like a car that you know , you can put your foot down and it |
22 | I mean the Bradford Dukes always win at Bradford because I 've heard on the grapevine , not from me , that they 've got little bumps round the bends and they fill them in and only the Bradford riders know whereabouts they are , so they skirt round them . |
23 | Erm and she was from the Pentiford area I think , erm oh quite a well educated girl , erm there was nothing to stop them from joining , I mean the London Fire Brigade there are , are fire fighters who are girls , erm and the er they do very well erm there are problems of course , with , with women on fire stations , but nevertheless there 's no reason why they should n't be there , providing they can do the job and I 'm sure those who read the papers and see the news know that in Russia and places like that , women do the , do the job very well . |
24 | I mean the Matawa who are the religious police |
25 | I mean the Queen Elizabeth , Q E two never even went into that like an average steamer , thirty five knots or something |
26 | I mean the Cheltenham and Gloucester , the Britannia , erm the erm Bristol and West , they 've all got no staff , they just have a computer and er and erm they send you er everything through the post . |
27 | These , these were , these were comparatively small er wars , I mean the Falklands was an absolute I mean farce really , it was n't a serious |
28 | But my feeling is that the sort of run-of-the-mill , solid English composer , I say solid — they are not actually solid — but I mean the Harrison Birtwhistles , the Maxwell Davises of this world are some of the most interesting people in the world at the moment . |
29 | I mean the Burlington 's a little bit out . |
30 | I mean the Halifax charged me three hundred pounds for this and I 've already got a mortgage with them , so they do n't need to do any sort of er er in depth surveys , or , or , or assessments on the house . |