Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] the [noun sg] " 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 | Laura passed Rex the gun and Rex bopped him on the head with it . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | As we approached Rijeka the weather , like the roads , took a real downward turn . |
9 | As we approached Tromsø the snow grew thicker and Nathan asked , as casually as he could manage , whether they would clear the runway . |
10 | Under the bonnet he found Sparky the cat scrambling across the battery . |
11 | ‘ He phoned Ursula the day Maurice 's murder was . |
12 | Thus passed Caledor the Conqueror . |
13 | At first he was only thought likely to miss a game or two but as April became May the injury persisted worryingly . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 ? ’ |
16 | She passed Loretta the paper . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | She told Deval the newsagent all about her problem . |
20 | At the caravan site , a warden told Jean the number to look for . |
21 | He noticed Schellenberg the moment he entered , not because he recognized him , only the kind of man he was . |
22 | Once the Church had decided that Mabel was illegitimate , the king 's court granted Richard the inheritance . |
23 | And then , stagily delayed till it was almost too late , came Gharr the Gherpotean , with Gharrgoyles . |
24 | Creating a little flurry at the entrance , in came Gharr the Gherpotean , with his Gharrgoyles . |
25 | He knew that , if he ever told Creed the story of the radios , Creed would understand . |
26 | On marched the pipers , up came Scotland the brave to welcome . |
27 | Miss Kavner , 41 , who played Brenda the sister in Rhoda , also appeared in Woody Allen 's Hannah And Her Sisters . |
28 | Bench chairwoman Ann Middleton told Frak the offence was so serious that prison was the only way of dealing with it , because the public needed protecting from her . |
29 | USL president Roel Pieper told Unigram the pact will allow SCO and USL to present a common uniform environment to ISVs . |
30 | In return for this support the king granted Stamford the permission to use the royal coat of arms on the borough shield . |