Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [noun prp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Nez Perce attacked Cottonwood the following day , but reinforcements from Lapwai , under Perry , helped resist the assault . |
| 2 | Dragonfire incinerated Hugin the Plaguelord , and the rotting legions of Nurgle . |
| 3 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA top gun Elserino Piol told Unigram the real reason behind Olivetti 's embrace of Alpha was all the doubts about the wisdom of his MIPS strategy voiced to his boss Carlo di Benedetti : that caused the politically wary Piol to exert himself to come up with the Alpha alternative . |
| 4 | Rex handed Laura the gun . |
| 5 | Even after the war and the revelations of Nuremberg , Alfred Rosenberg called Hitler the ‘ driving force and untiring motor of the great achievements of the National Socialist State ’ . |
| 6 | When Ramakrishna saw Kasi the Holy City , he did not see it as a physical city but as the dreams and hopes of holy pilgrims that had fallen on the city , stratum on stratum so that it became a city of holy ideas , a spiritual city . |
| 7 | Adding to the Socialists ' embarrassment , the prosecutor 's report said Boublil gave Pelat the key tip-off at a lunch in a Paris restaurant celebrating Mr Beregovoy 's 40th wedding anniversary . |
| 8 | ‘ It would be a dreadful abuse of the sacrament , ’ she said , ‘ but I wonder if it might explain why Dersingham gave Hereward the living , which ’ — she concluded — ‘ everyone seems to agree , needs some explanation . |
| 9 | After John Wark gave Ipswich the lead Town fired back … and thoroughly deserved their equaliser … it came from new striker Keith Scott … and on this showing he could be the bargain of the season … |
| 10 | Judy told Belinda the reading , and Belinda nodded . |
| 11 | In 1889 , Queen Victoria granted Birmingham the status of a city in recognition of its commercial importance , and the municipal enterprise which swept away terrible slums , creating great thoroughfares , and made Birmingham ‘ the best governed city in the world ’ under Joseph Chamberlain . |
| 12 | Jane found Algox the hardest job to bear of any that she 'd ever had . |
| 13 | One opportunity for village planning in the north of England followed William the Conqueror 's ‘ harrying of the North ’ in the 1060s . |
| 14 | Cornelius gave Tuppe the photograph . |
| 15 | His manager Barney Eastwood gave Hodkinson the option of taking his career in another direction , rather than fight the Mexican . |
| 16 | Frank gave Norway the lead after 11 minutes and Norway had a spell of chances and a goal wrongfully disallowed ( attack on keeper according to the ref — but the slow-mo showed he was clearly wrong as Jostein Flo 's little brother Tore-Andre outjumped turk goalie for a high ball in the field ) . |
| 17 | Disaster struck for Rovers just two minutes later as a mistake by keeper Bobby Mimms handed Ipswich the points . |
| 18 | Patrick handed Stevie the 7-iron which he preferred for these pitch and run shots . |
| 19 | The result was that Teshigawara made Belfast the first priority of his UK tour for the Japan Festival — not an easy thing to do , given that the settings will take two whole days to set up , with a further day for transporting them from Britain . |
| 20 | When Hazlitt and Coleridge visited Alfoxden the following day , Wordsworth was away from home ; but Dorothy provided them with a ‘ frugal repast ’ and let them see the now-abundant manuscripts intended for the Lyrical Ballads . |
| 21 | USL president Roel Pieper told Unigram the pact will allow SCO and USL to present a common uniform environment to ISVs . |
| 22 | Since nobody else had been found , Hayling offered Thornton the Chairmanship , but the executive attached two humiliating conditions . |
| 23 | McCreery gave Keightley the authorization he had asked for , and at 1450 hrs that afternoon he sent a further signal to Gen Clark at 15th Army Group , AC/190 [ KP 102 ] , reporting " Approx 300,000 Germans and 200,000 Croats moving towards area Villach-Klagenfurt . |
| 24 | At least one Leeds player scored a goal this weekend , as Frank Strandli gave Norway the lead against USA a minute before half time . |
| 25 | It was therefore an important moment when Tolkien gave Lewis the Lay of Leithian to read in manuscript . |
| 26 | But by the end of 1978 the French had decided that the sooner the Shah left Iran the better . |
| 27 | A meeting was held in August 1948 , when Akufo Addo asked Nkrumah the question : ‘ Why do you persist in using the word Comrade as a term of address ? ’ |
| 28 | Soho 's Timothy Brinkhurst told NME the song was written after the band became privy to information concerning the alleged infidelity of a leading politician , unnamed on the track for legal reasons . |
| 29 | Aggie paid Broomhead the florin and took the kitten into her spotless home . |
| 30 | DAVID BATTY handed Leeds the European Cup verdict they wanted to hear last night : ‘ Count me in . ’ |