Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What do we have to do to convince people that this is n't a dangerous place ? ’ asked Alasdair MacLaughlin the CBI 's regional director in the Province , pointing out that London suffers from a worse violent crime rate . |
| 2 | There he married and became King Rudolf the Third . |
| 3 | Such are the mysteries and such is the music which made Detroit techno the most innovative musical event of the last decade . |
| 4 | LAST September Paddy Ashdown dismissively described David Alton the Liberal Democrat MP for Mossley Hill thus : ‘ It is true that David has not played a large national part in the Liberal Democrats since our reform in 1988 . ’ |
| 5 | His preparations for carrying out work at Arundel Castle , Sussex — a project curtailed by his death — were reported by a correspondent of the antiquary Richard Gough [ q.v. ] in 1787 : ‘ At Greystoke Castle I found Mr. Hiorne the gothic architect , whom the Duke of Norfolk had invited there to consult with relative to his intended repairs at Arundel Castle ; and we made a party to see Alnwick Castle , etc. in Northumberland , for Mr. Hiorne 's information . ’ |
| 6 | While the Prime Minister immediately offered the use of British military camps in West Germany to help cope with the current surge of refugees , her Foreign Secretary , Mr Douglas Hurd , promised East Germany the kind of practical help in creating a more market-orientated economy which Britain has given Poland — some £25 million of ‘ Know How ’ funds over 25 years and is pledged to give to ex-Communist Hungary . |
| 7 | ‘ I helped Jack Wards the horse-slaughterer on that Sunday : the old man gave me a quid , a gold sovereign at that . |
| 8 | We made PNP coordinators the object of a detailed study , but in addition we gathered data on the managerial and professional contexts within which coordinators and other PNP appointees worked , so that we could identify those contextual factors which bore most heavily on how , and with what success , schools implemented the programme 's goals . |
| 9 | The man , claiming to be a detective , told Nellie Fleetwood the girl had tried to con her way into her Sheffield home . |
| 10 | Then she told Miss Hatherby the news . |
| 11 | He told Miss Smart the girls she drilled so magnificently ought to be included in the Royal Tournament at Earl 's Court , he , for one , being heartily sick of sailors dismantling and reassembling guns . |
| 12 | Radio Norfolk interviewed Molly Scrutton the day before and a week previously , the ‘ Body Talk ’ page of The Eastern Evening News featured Medau . |
| 13 | Gaynor Harris told Julia Irvine the firm 's story , in the hope that others will learn from its experience |
| 14 | Above all , advised Viscount Haldane the War Secretary in 1911 , the scope of national education must be enlarged to include moral instruction and physical training ‘ if you want to eliminate the hooligan ’ . |
| 15 | A vet told Stroud magistrates the birds died a slow agonising death . |
| 16 | Lisburn Council 's deputy chief executive Norman Davidson told Sunday Life the council welcomed the DPP 's decision not to press any criminal charges . |
| 17 | A reliable source told Sunday Life the Government was ‘ deeply concerned ’ at the rising tide in loyalist violence . |
| 18 | In June the UVF in Belfast told Sunday Life the organisation was prepared to wait until the checkpoints were removed before stepping up its campaign . |
| 19 | Ian Walker , prosecuting , told Darlington magistrates the man had been followed by a member of staff and had been seen to drop a bag containing the jeans . |
| 20 | She told Susan Coltman the friendship had started while Paula was living with her parents and Gilfoyle was staying at their new home in Grafton Drive , Upton , as it was being renovated . |
| 21 | She told Susan Coltman the friendship had started while Paula was living with her parents and Gilfoyle was staying at their new home in Grafton Drive , Upton , as it was being renovated . |
| 22 | Jane Rodin , prosecuting , yesterday told Kirkby magistrates the trouble started two days before the Sunday incident in which a 16-year-old girl innocently enjoying a drink was shot in the side . |
| 23 | ‘ The wiseacres of the village ’ , so Joseph Cottle heard from Coleridge , ‘ had … made Mr. W. the subject of their serious conversation ’ and concluded that a man so given to wandering the hills at late hours ‘ like a partridge ’ , and looking strangely at the moon , must either be a conjuror , a smuggler , or worst of all ‘ a desperd French jacobin ’ who was spying out the ground for a French invasion . |
| 24 | Tough-talking Deryck Maughan ( above ) , the former British Treasury official who made Salomon Brothers the most profitable foreign brokerage in Tokyo , has been made vice-chairman at the firm 's New York HQ . |
| 25 | She passed Mr Bumble the tea-cup , and as he took it , he managed to give her hand a little stroke . |
| 26 | In the New England Journal of Medicine article which incensed Dr Mumby the validity of provocation of symptoms by intracutaneous tests to identify food sensitivities was evaluated under double blind conditions . |
| 27 | He handed Ray Doyle the crumpled note , which Doyle accepted and read , before passing it to Bodie . |
| 28 | He showed Mr Utterson the broken stick and told him the servant girl 's story . |
| 29 | At least Morse spared Cedric Downes the charade of a cordial re-greeting ; he even forbore to express the hope that conditions were satisfactory and that the prisoner was being well treated . |
| 30 | As outsiders , Carter and his staff seem not to have fully appreciated that , Of the other presidents who had served in his lifetime , Carter admired Harry Truman the most — an unlikely choice in a number of respects . |