Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The family 's passive resistance continued right up to the last moment : Zen was not permitted to set foot on Miletti soil but had to wait for the Fiat in the street , beyond the imposing wrought-iron gates . |
| 2 | We do not need to wait for the Reeve 's Tale for a fabliau in which the Miller can be identified with a target figure : the Miller 's Tale itself links its dramatic teller , the Miller , with John the carpenter as John repeats the Miller 's axiom found in the Miller 's Prologue : in his own homespun wisdom : — a valuing of ignorance which Nicholas is able to play upon ( 3558 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ If we treated with them , we could gain valuable time — we need to wait for the Hopewell 's return . |
| 4 | We will have to wait for the Donaldson report , which covers the whole country . ’ |
| 5 | Mark Roe 's Sunningdale high point : the chance to commentate for the BBC . |
| 6 | For me the high point of the week at Sunningdale was my first chance to commentate for the BBC . |
| 7 | You only have to drive through the West Midlands to see that if we are in the Super-League of top industrial nations , somebody must be moving the goalposts . |
| 8 | On March 28 as every year , ex-servicemen of the North will gather at Morrisons in Darlington to bowl for the Roland and George Bradford trophies for the honours of their Messes . |
| 9 | A drag coefficient of just 0.30 helps the Safrane to a achieve a top speed of 129mph , which is good enough to see off the Granada ( 123mph ) , but this looks distinctly average when every other car on our rivals page can top 130mph . |
| 10 | That reminds me of the time a group of schoolgirls wrote to the newsroom to say they liked to swim off the Gower in the middle of winter . |
| 11 | The vessel was said to have been intelligence gathering and the damage it sustained caused it to release oil and form another , though smaller , slick to float about the Gulf . |
| 12 | The snow continued to fall as the Quattro clawed its way eastward towards whatever it was that they were seeking , whatever terrible things were waiting at journey 's end . |
| 13 | As I walked past my contemporary ‘ transgressors ’ , cloaked in the anonymity of the backpack , I felt strangely more at one with the old lags ' displaced condition than with the multi-hued raincoated and umbrella-ed Glaswegian families queuing to go aboard the Waverley paddle steamer for their day ‘ doon the watter ’ to Rothesay . |
| 14 | Requiring a single to go through the Malton pair collected a three . |
| 15 | The British trade is dismayed that the Open Individual Export Licence ( OIEL ) , which allowed Sotheby 's and Christie 's to issue licences for objects imported in to the UK within the last fifty years without having to go through the DNH , does not apply to objects controlled under the EC Regulation . |
| 16 | They took just over an hour to go through the Maxwell possession … some items were taken away in the boot of the officers ' car . |
| 17 | He is about to perform for the Archimage himself . |
| 18 | They were invited to court to perform for the Empress Maria Theresa and Emperor Francis I. |
| 19 | ‘ I/we request the society to arrange for a Woolwich home purchase report to be prepared and confirm I/we have read , understand and accept the conditions of engagement . |
| 20 | FURIOUS Bobby Gould was last night forced to cancel plans to appear as a BSkyB commentator at West Brom 's FA Cup second round replay against Wycombe after he was banned from The Hawthorns for his own safety . |
| 21 | Having previously written some plays and two novels — The Jesuit ( 1832 ) and The Prelate ( 1840 ) — his break came when he returned from a continental tour in 1849 to write for the London Journal . |
| 22 | An impressive range of intellectuals were persuaded to write for the UDC . |
| 23 | Gerry , born in Armagh , retired in 1987 but continued to write for the Armagh Gazette , broadcast on BBC radio and wrote a book on rural tales entitled And the Band Played On . |
| 24 | It has been subcontracted by Intermetrics Inc to define the mappings from Ada9x languages to ANDF for the UK 's Defence Research Agency ( DRA ) , whose Ten15 Distribution Format technology forms the basis of ANDF . |
| 25 | Horne had first made his name on radio in the days when most people still called it the wireless — on another wartime show which supposedly told everything you ever wanted to know about an RAF station . |
| 26 | 10 things you need to know about the EC |
| 27 | From this tiny house had flowed some at least of the immortal words that the world had come to know as The Pickwick Papers . |
| 28 | Warhurst was originally set to jump aboard the Kenny Dalglish bandwagon for £3 million last month , but the deal was put on ice when Wednesday failed to land Brian Deane from neighbours Sheffield United as replacement . |
| 29 | You are here to write about the Hacienda de Nieve , the countryside around and the horses . |
| 30 | In Kenya , though there was relatively little pressure for further alienation of Masai land after the second Masai move , what pressure there was was resisted by the administration , and R.W. Hemsted tried repeatedly to retrieve for the Masai the land alienated to Powys Cobb , which contained streams of crucial importance to Masai stock . |