Example sentences of "[adv] [noun prp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps Mond the chemist and highly successful businessman would approve of the mixture . |
| 2 | Not Fitzormonde , but perhaps Horne the merchant ? |
| 3 | Punctually at eight o'clock Lizzie the housemaid , apron fresh and cap on head , carried the tray , large enough to hold two cups , a charming pattern of violets scattered over them , matched by a teapot , also wreathed in violets , and a plate of bread and butter , slices cut as thin as veils , up three flights of stairs . |
| 4 | So Mrs the court will endorse your licence that means that the fact that you have these offenses er against your record now will be entered onto on your driving licence by the court , the court will then send your driving licence to the driving licence centre at Swansea so that they can er also record on your driving record . |
| 5 | They went to Morocco over the 1952 Christmas period , partly because Paul Bowles ' The Sheltering Sky had made Morocco and especially Tangiers the place to go . |
| 6 | Mr Bush had won only Indiana the home state of his Vice President Dan Quayle and Virginia . |
| 7 | So Tommy the waiter carefully hung up his yellow waistcoat with its white lining and ordered some wine from room service and in a while after a long easing shower slept for eight solid hours and did n't dream about Filmer . |
| 8 | It brings together Lewis the scholar , Lewis the voracious reader of anything from medieval schoolmen or Italian epic to modern science fiction , Lewis the Christian apologist , Lewis the Irish satirist in the savage tradition of Swift , Lewis the failed Romantic poet . |
| 9 | It 's not Roger the lodger in her case . |
| 10 | Simon Zelotes is quite patently Simon the Zealot . |
| 11 | She is no longer Ruth the Moabitess , she 's Ruth , the wife of Boaz . |
| 12 | Furthermore Madame Mattli was a Frenchwoman , an accident of birth which added to her glamour , for was not Paris the fashion capital of the world ? |
| 13 | When we went to er when we went to Austria , not Austria the year before we had a trip out to the that er big factory at that er crystal factory |
| 14 | Even worse — far worse — I was not I. The terror of wonderment , real understanding , had changed all . |
| 15 | It is therefore Mary the political animal , not Mary the female of the species , which has to be assessed . |
| 16 | ‘ He 's not God the Father , is he ? |
| 17 | Thus Mike the Italian was cleared , but Berret was still a little unsure of Candy : he fitted well the description of the man in the blue suit . |
| 18 | The man walking towards England , towards our curious eyes , and towards the warm winter overcoat that I held in my hands , was not Flaubert the writer , though he had a similar grey moustache , two double chins , and not much hair . |
| 19 | Thus A MINUS B is the set of tuples belonging to relation A and not B. The PRODUCT of two relations concatenates each pair of tuples on the original tables . |
| 20 | These implications involve not John the Baptist , but a much more elusive figure , whom later Christian tradition has been decidedly reluctant to accommodate . |
| 21 | not Thomas the Tank Engine at all , you 're just kidding me on . |
| 22 | The myth was used by early churchmen as a vehicle for expressing their horror and disgust at women 's bodies : ‘ What is the difference whether it is in a wife or in a mother , it is still Eve the temptress that we must beware of in any other woman1 , ’ wrote St Augustine in the late fourth century . |
| 23 | Thereafter Louis the German was the senior member of the family : some seventeen years older than his half-brother Charles , he lived to the ripe age of seventy . |
| 24 | And I do n't mean a bunch of Conan the Barbarians , quite often it 's more Conan the librarian . ’ |
| 25 | He looked as though he had just returned from a Chas'n Dave concert or tied up Hercules the horse in the Steptoe and Son barn . |
| 26 | Whether as a result of this criticism or not , in the year after Chernobyl the amount allocated to public relations and publicity by the CEGB almost doubled — from £6.3 million to £12.4 million . |
| 27 | The statuette of the god Amun-Re , formerly in the Carnarvon Collection and now in the Met , is one of the masterpieces of Egyptian metalwork ( dated from 1070–712 BC ) , while the large and heavy statue of a falcon-headed god , probably Horus the Elder , is one of the few examples of a cult-image to have survived from ancient Egypt . |
| 28 | Maybe Billy himself set up Freddie the Lion to clear out the opposition in his own chosen patch . |
| 29 | The next stop was Butterfield , where they picked up Morton the embalmer . |
| 30 | But now Ellen the time I have long awaited has come and I write to tell you that an Italian maidservant by name of Gigia who is travelling home to Florence having been in Scotland with a family who are friends of the Brownings is to come to you to collect Oreste and take him to Liverpool where she will be joined by Mr Ogilvy and from whence they will sail for Italy . |