Example sentences of "[vb -s] [noun prp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It plays Brighton the week after next , then Sheffield and after that heads straight to London to give Jenny her West End debut . |
| 2 | Samantha Mathis plays Crysta the fairy while teen heart-throb Christian Slater is her jealous boyfriend , Pips . |
| 3 | From England they go across to Brittany , where they are seen in sea cliffs and along into Normandy where they form , for example , the great escarpment at Falaise on which stands William the Conqueror 's castle . |
| 4 | If he loves Silvia the way he says he does , he 'll want her to study , not skive off and waste time ! ’ |
| 5 | Officially named The Making Of Me , it is affectionately known as ‘ Shorty The Sperm Meets Ovette The Egg . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Come on , John , ’ says Andy the Mouse . |
| 7 | ‘ Learning ? [ says Meg the scullery maid ] Give you a farthing for it ! |
| 8 | She blunders into a magical forest , meets Curdie the miner 's son and together they encounter lots of gambolling hobgoblins who are planning to flood the kingdom for their own fiendish ends . |
| 9 | ‘ You 're wrong , ’ says Bill the builder sharply . |
| 10 | I FEEL FINE SAYS LAURA THE SONG AND DANCE GIRL |
| 11 | Bishop Eusebius ( c.260–340 ) quotes Papias , a Bishop in Asia Minor in about 140 AD , who in turn quotes John the Elder who says : ‘ … |
| 12 | Just as significantly , it betrays Henry the Liberal 's view of feudalism as a clearly defined contract in which the holder of a specified fief of land performed a set amount of military service for the privilege ; and , in cases where he had fiefs of several lords , had the obligation to recognize one homage as overriding . |
| 13 | Soma the father pursues Nianakoro the son across the landscape with the help of a stout magic pole borne on the shoulders of a couple of servants . |
| 14 | And when Rabbit shows Pooh the honey , again the inference is direct : a honey pot , therefore honey . |
| 15 | BUDAPEST STOCK EXCHANGE SHOWS LONDON THE WAY WITH NEW SYSTEM BASED ON THREE DEC VAX SERVERS |
| 16 | He hands John the envelope . |
| 17 | In the drama Kristian plays Adam the leader of a new generation of youngsters who discover they have special powers . |
| 18 | ‘ Winter in Majorca is a one-man show portraying the composer Frederick Chopin , written and performed by Michael Lunts , who not only plays Chopin the man but also , quite superbly , plays Chopin 's music ! ’ |
| 19 | He calls McHarg the factor ‘ his man ’ . |
| 20 | When he phones Tony the transport manager about delivery schedules , he strives for success . |
| 21 | The plot , such as it is , involves Billy The Kid ( Emilio Estevez — cardboard characters a speciality ) being given a pardon by the Governor , shafted by politicians , springing his old mates from the nick , and making a run for the border pursued by another old mate who 's sold out to the law . |
| 22 | The plot , such as it is , involves Billy The Kid ( Emilio Estevez — cardboard characters a speciality ) being given a pardon by the Governor , shafted by politicians , springing his old mates from the nick , and making a run for the border pursued by another old mate who 's sold out to the law . |
| 23 | He throws Iain the paper . |
| 24 | Paul offers Bill the window seat . |
| 25 | However , the way it reads COSE the Unix people are ‘ not saying they are going to unify ’ and dismisses it as ‘ just a bunch of hype . ’ |
| 26 | Which tells Rose the kind of terms he is on with Phil . |
| 27 | ‘ Samantha , ’ announces Dave the psychiatrist , as if he 's spent the night evaluating , analyzing and concluding , ‘ is absolutely marvellous . |
| 28 | But £2.5 million of extra work booked in May — with no dithering — gives Foden the sense that , now the initial shock of the slump has worn off , business is returning to its normal rhythms , albeit in a lower key . |
| 29 | This gives IBM the ability — and responsibility — to provide the system software users see as well as platforms to support it . |
| 30 | Aware that Brando had enjoyed his 1979 comedy The In-Laws , Bergman reworked the same basic plot around the star 's mythic bulk , casting him as the manipulative mafia don Carmine Sabatini , who gives Broderick the job of minding a komodo dragon , and adopts him as one of the ‘ family ’ . |