Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun prp] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , terrible though it might be to imagine , Mistress Philippa had the cool nerve and composure to be a murderess , and Parchmeiner might well be her accomplice . |
| 2 | After a great struggle Blair landed the fish and brought it over to where I was standing , mouth agape . |
| 3 | What I am saying most specifically is take all of me — and here of course Gary began the melody on the piano and we all smiled and then she sang , sang her song , and believe me we did all listen to the words that night , we knew that the man who had been attacked was there , and we knew that O and Boy were standing shoulder to shoulder in our midst , we saw them in the centre of the mirror , saw ourselves standing beside them and standing by them and give me a drink now because I had such hopes of a lover of my own on that evening and here I am . |
| 4 | At the same instant Luce heard the voices . |
| 5 | In line with the 1992 Further and Higher Education Act , colleges will now be responsible for managing their own budgets and the Government will hold the purse strings , funding them directly through a national FE Funding Council.Once considered the Cinderella of education , further education is now being promoted as the fairy godmother with the ability to improve post-16 education and training , stem the drop-out and failure rates and make Britain economically competitive once more . |
| 6 | Back in the saloon Trent cut the rope into four lengths and made one fast to each corner of the folded bedsheets . |
| 7 | He was gentle enough about it , but of course Lisabeth got the hump . |
| 8 | John Ross , formerly from Fast Drains , and Kevin Stone from the Hygiene branch at West Hoathly braved the bitterly cold and freezing rain to operate the high pressure Rota blast jetter which has a rotating head that produces 10,000 lb per square inch of water pressure . |
| 9 | In contrast Kuwait wished the GCC to remain neutral . |
| 10 | When they reached the kitchen Lucy collected the cups and saucers while Jean rinsed the crumbs off them and stacked them in the dishwasher . |
| 11 | Blanche sat motionless , afraid to move in case Swod understood the value of the information he was giving her . |
| 12 | With difficulty Shiona resisted the urge to phone him up at home and demand an explanation . |
| 13 | Bowe said Holyfield had the heart of a lion but his manager Rock Newman provided the most eloquent valedictory when he described Holyfield as ‘ this wonderful , spiritual , over-achiever who got more out of his ability than was there ’ . |
| 14 | And this issue he had been hard put to it to find a couple of intelligent letters for the correspondence page ; sometimes it seemed that every crackbrain in north-east Norfolk read the PANUP newsletter but that no one else did . |
| 15 | Closer to home , BARNEY from NEW ORDER and long-time girlfriend SARAH became the proud parents of a very healthy baby boy called Dylan . |
| 16 | Eliot noted that in Australian religion Durkheim found the essential elements of all religion , and that for Durkheim communion , not worship , was the essential sentiment . |
| 17 | With this assumption in mind Gorbachev told the Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in May 1985 that ‘ the newly independent countries do not want to be regarded any longer as objects for profit-making and for installing military bases and strongpoints in their territories ’ . |
| 18 | From the start of his personal rule Edward showed the qualities of leadership , affability and sympathy with the aspirations of the nobility which were to characterize his reign until its last decade , and which underlay the domestic political harmony of the ensuing years . |
| 19 | At the closing ceremony Mitterrand expressed the hope that the conference would act as an impulse for ideas to become concrete steps . |
| 20 | George Orwell put these characteristics to imaginative use in his book Animal Farm , in which top pig Napoleon became the Stalin of the muckyard . |
| 21 | Addressing the Commons environmental committee , Mr Rupert Grantham , the NRA tidal water officer for south-west England said the absence of salmonella , stipulated by the EC Blue Flag scheme , could not be guaranteed . |
| 22 | In the country 's first multiparty elections in January 1991 [ see p. 37949 ] , the opposition PCD defeated the MLSTP and formed an interim government pending the presidential elections scheduled for March 3 . |
| 23 | Fourth Division bottom club Doncaster completed the double over Wrexham by winning 2–1 at the Racecourse Ground and have now won three in a row . |
| 24 | BGS seismographs in Northern Ireland and south-west Scotland recorded the collapse , which was magnitude 2.5 . |
| 25 | While the men put on their gear Turner checked the position of the 17th green on his map of the course and pin-pointed the target area on his OS map . |
| 26 | Well I I think its , the way that the plaintiff puts the case on that point my Lord is that even if the defendant Mr took the view er that it would not have been proper for such a notice to be served , in view of what the plaintiff was saying to him about his wish to get out of the contract , the fact that it was available to him should have been brought to his attention and then as Mr was saying that I sorry I do n't feel I can do this on your behalf because it 's not proper in the circumstances or whatever erm , should then have gone on to advise the plaintiff either to do it himself or to go and seek independent advice . |
| 27 | In his mind Cameron continued the argument throughout the meal . |
| 28 | In November 1991 the conflict between Laurel , Eduardo Cojuangco and Juan Ponce Enrile caused the NP to disintegrate into competing factions amidst a series of coups and mutual expulsions . |
| 29 | In 1830 the poet Southey edited the first high-quality edition , including a substantial biography of Bunyan . |
| 30 | The poet Emerson expressed the difficulty in remembering dreams most eloquently : Dreams are jealous of being remembered ; they dissipate instantly and angrily if you try to hold them . |