Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A visitor once asked Connie the secret of her success with begonias . |
| 2 | In the 1960s the oil boom made Venezuela the country to emigrate to , and it was a common occurrence for the emigrant who made good to hire a large American car ( Cadillac or similar ) and to return to Madeira by ship with the car . |
| 3 | Coal from the valleys of south Wales made Cardiff the world 's leading coal-exporting port . |
| 4 | But Chapman 's team-building made Arsenal the favourites . |
| 5 | Laura passed Rex the gun and Rex bopped him on the head with it . |
| 6 | It was he who lent Hardy the money to go to Paris : he who decided to take Hardy 's hopeful acting career under his wing and get him an audition with ‘ my father ’ down at the Cardiff studios , where Philip 's radio play gave him an entree . |
| 7 | Dragonfire incinerated Hugin the Plaguelord , and the rotting legions of Nurgle . |
| 8 | Domesday shows that they provided Edward the Confessor with a revenue of £53 a year and the three works of the king — probably the maintenance of fortresses and bridges , and service in the army . |
| 9 | Chapot added that the company is seeing a recovery in its US Pacbase sales since Computerworld printed a test result that rated Pacbase the number one software engineering system in overall functionality and user friendliness . |
| 10 | As we approached Rijeka the weather , like the roads , took a real downward turn . |
| 11 | As we approached Tromsø the snow grew thicker and Nathan asked , as casually as he could manage , whether they would clear the runway . |
| 12 | Under the bonnet he found Sparky the cat scrambling across the battery . |
| 13 | ‘ He phoned Ursula the day Maurice 's murder was . |
| 14 | Thus passed Caledor the Conqueror . |
| 15 | At first he was only thought likely to miss a game or two but as April became May the injury persisted worryingly . |
| 16 | We know that another Jewish Egyptian historian of the second century B.C. , Artapanus , made Moses the originator of the Egyptian cult of animals ( Eus . |
| 17 | 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 ? ’ |
| 18 | She passed Loretta the paper . |
| 19 | Sheffield Wednesday manager Trevor Francis has rejected his first approach and told Ferguson the England striker is not available … unless the bid is one he simply ca n't refuse . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Mondays ' manager Nathan McGough told NME the band 's November tour of Europe was abandoned as it clashed with the birth of guitarist Mark Day 's first child , despite rumours that Shaun Ryder 's drug problems are to blame . |
| 22 | As Dickon pushed the wheelchair all round the garden , he told Colin the names of all the plants . |
| 23 | She told Deval the newsagent all about her problem . |
| 24 | At the caravan site , a warden told Jean the number to look for . |
| 25 | He noticed Schellenberg the moment he entered , not because he recognized him , only the kind of man he was . |
| 26 | Once the Church had decided that Mabel was illegitimate , the king 's court granted Richard the inheritance . |
| 27 | Not for the first time , the AI recalled Alfonso the Wise ( 1221–1284 CE ) , king of Castile , another forgotten man . |
| 28 | And then , stagily delayed till it was almost too late , came Gharr the Gherpotean , with Gharrgoyles . |
| 29 | Creating a little flurry at the entrance , in came Gharr the Gherpotean , with his Gharrgoyles . |
| 30 | He knew that , if he ever told Creed the story of the radios , Creed would understand . |