Example sentences of "[noun prp] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For centuries , the Clan Campbell had been the enemies of Clan Macdonald and to ensure that no mercy was shown to the Macdonalds of Glencoe , the Campbells of Glen Lyon were instructed by Dalrymple to enforce the orders . |
| 2 | AN ATTEMPT by management at Devonport to poach the refitting of a destroyer from Rosyth Royal Dockyard has failed , but the unsolicited bid has caused two weeks ' delay to work on HMS Gloucester . |
| 3 | And we then took the Housing Committee down to Lambeth to see the benefits of what they had done . |
| 4 | After the successful tour of Japan and the trip on the Trans Siberian Express across Russia , stopping off in Moscow to see the May Day Parade , Bowie travelled overland to Paris and met up with Angie . |
| 5 | Not long afterwards came another request , this time in a slightly more orthodox fashion , for John Ward to paint the Princess . |
| 6 | She has recently returned from a journey in Romania to see the conditions of at least 1,000 children under the age of one , who had contracted AIDS through injections with dirty needles or contaminated blood . |
| 7 | Such criticisms forced President Jaime Paz Zamora to cancel the sale of two state-owned hotels in La Paz , the capital , when irregularities were discovered on the opening of sealed tenders . |
| 8 | So far fears that West Germany will be too distracted by the rebuilding of East Germany to continue the building of the European Community have been exaggerated . |
| 9 | A few , those who had been last in the line , turned their horses in time and rode for Ruthyn to carry the news , and were not hindered in their going . |
| 10 | The track record of the CAP raises serious questions over the ability of the organs of the EEC to wield the powers which they have gained . |
| 11 | The playhouse in the Harlow is about the people in Harlow and about the people that come in from outside of Harlow I 'm very conscious that we do serve a very wide community and I am pleased that people with other sounds come and support the theatre has been rightly said if they did n't come in to Harlow to support the theatre we would have major problems . |
| 12 | The Prince was in Swindon to see the work of local youngsters taking part in the Duke of Edinburgh 's Award Scheme . |
| 13 | I enjoyed the February issue of Canoeist , especially the account and photographs of Lakefield Canoe Club 's recent visit to Costa Rica to enjoy the challenge of some magnificent rivers . |
| 14 | For this , Abbot J. Svitavský commissioned Rubens in 1673 in Antwerp to paint the Death of St Thomas and St Augustus . |
| 15 | And David Lee , spokesman for the Football Supporters ' Association said : ‘ We have asked the PFA to support the protest by asking their members to sit down for one minute on Saturday . ’ |
| 16 | For example the National Concorde , launched by the millionaire Chief Abiola to support the NPN government , took to printing stories alleging that Chief Obafemi Awolowo and his UPN supporters had hatched a plot to subvert the constitution and were about to launch this plan over the radio by courtesy of a foreign radio station . |
| 17 | Later in 1054 the king sent him to Germany to arrange the return from Hungary of Edward Atheling [ q.v . ] . |
| 18 | However , sustained demonstrations ( in the course of which two people were killed on Sept. 20-21 in indiscriminate police and army fire ) forced the Vatican to cancel the Pope 's involvement in the actual inauguration . |
| 19 | The Mugen-Honda V10 engine , currently used by Footwork , is an evolution of the Honda power-unit which helped McLaren to claim the world championships in 1989 and 1990 . |
| 20 | When Lou 's dead , the law will work it out he made some deal with Rico and the Battler to unload the girl . |
| 21 | The advantage of using d'Compress as the launch pad for other programs is that you can use the facilities of d'Compress to gather the files together , a stage that would otherwise have to be done in the DOS window . |
| 22 | Brynulf Ottar told him the organization , known as XU , involved a secret network based in Oslo , a courier line to Stockholm , and Swedes , Germans and Norwegians in Germany to provide the information from source . |
| 23 | In 1849 a second works was built at Bordeaux-La Bastide to meet the locomotive and rolling-stock requirements of the Midi ( Southern ) railway . |
| 24 | The company also backed Sunrise Television — which outbid TV-am to secure the breakfast franchise — where it has a 20 p.c. stake . |
| 25 | Recep Demir , a 42-year-old Munich-based Turk , admitted at his trial last year that like many of his associates he had used Germany to hide the origins of his drug money by inventing a string of fake businesses . |
| 26 | The aim of the 1990 Report was to establish a programme of works improvements within an agreed timescale to allow the River Almond to meet the objective of salmonid fishing quality ie Class 1 . |
| 27 | He was the great great grandson of Sir Randall Mac Donnell , the first of that branch of the Mac Donnells to bear the title Earl of Antrim . |
| 28 | In times gone by Dutch cattle were dual-purpose types , as meat was required from the dairy herd as well as milk , but since the early 1970s there has been an increasing use of American Holstein-Friesians in the Netherlands to increase the milk yields of the Dutch Friesian ( which has lower yields than the Holstein type but a higher proportion of solids in the milk ) . |
| 29 | Nicholson teamed up with his friend and former flatmate Don Devlin to write the script for a film called Thunder Island , a thriller which was to be shot with a tiny budget on a Caribbean island . |
| 30 | In a well-known passage , Alcuin laments the blood shed by Offa to secure the kingdom for Ecgfrith as the kingdom 's ruination . |