Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [noun prp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But nothing for Glenn the performer , who they offered on a free transfer two years ago . |
| 2 | Chelsea , the club he joined four days later , are already paying Swindon 120,000 pounds in compensation for Hoddle the manager , but they 'd offered nothing for Hoddle the player , threatening to withdraw his playing contract rather than part with any more money . |
| 3 | and he told me about Thomas the Tank engine , everywhere we went |
| 4 | He reminds me of Dennis the Menace . |
| 5 | The Dark Power had lost for ever his eternal brightness , but his strength and intelligence were derived from God and he could still disguise himself as Lucifer the angel of light . |
| 6 | When the Reeve likens himself to an " " open-ers " " he associates himself with Nicholas in the tale just passed , and can thus be attributed with the same wry self-reflection as the Miller shows in attaching himself to John the carpenter . |
| 7 | She poured out the coffee and presented it to me like John the Baptist 's head . |
| 8 | Oh , ’ the corona grinned , ‘ my apologies for not telling you about Eudo the page boy but , according to my memory , there was nothing suspicious , just a fall from a window . ’ |
| 9 | To Timothy his dear dad great mercy and peace to you from God the father and Christ Jesus our Lord I give thanks to the God of my forefathers who I worship with a clear conscience when I mention you in my prayers as I do constantly night and day . |
| 10 | I 'll drive you to Glasgow the minute the snow lets up but I 'll not hear a word about it . ’ |
| 11 | it was something about March the second , it was just a clip |
| 12 | Potatoes had become the staple food around the middle of the 18th century ( relegating the traditional oatmeal to second place ) , and the results of the outbreak of potato blight in 1846 were only slightly less terrible than those of the much better-known one in Ireland the year before . |
| 13 | As written words meant nothing to Marian the name of the man who called himself her foster-father presented no difficulties , but Allen , the boy from the dales of Yorkshire , who could read no more than she could , liked tossing words about and playing with them like pebbles , so he called Fat Watt when he was out of earshot ‘ What Fat ’ . |
| 14 | In either case he does not run the risk of being left with the goods ; if he can not find a purchaser he can return them to X. The answer is that he is X 's agent if under the terms of his contract with X he has no right himself to buy the goods but can only sell to a third party , Weiner v. Harris ( 1910 C.A. ) . |
| 15 | Presumably Billykins was telling her about Donald the Gourmet Cook , Donald the Great Fighter for Social Change , Donald the Novelist . |
| 16 | It is because Mr Gorbachev keeps his hands off Eastern Europe that a growing number of people there see him as Mikhail the Liberator . |
| 17 | Blake asked him about Jack the Ripper . |
| 18 | I have argued elsewhere that Pound was prepared to take instruction , as well as to give it ; that when he first came to London in 1908 , he was looking for masters to whom he might apprentice himself ; that he found them in the Irishman W.B. Yeats and the maverick Englishman Ford Madox Ford ( whose professionalism about writing still denies him in England the recognition that he gets abroad ) ; and ( so I have speculated , though I know it can not be proved ) that Pound sought the same relationship with another Englishman , Laurence Binyon , who was too cagey to go along with the idea . |
| 19 | To the French , Bonington brought with him from England the genius of the British school of watercolour painting , working in oils very much in the way he approached watercolours . |
| 20 | But he chose to do so by exploiting the lieutenancy offered to him by Philip the Fair in 1295 , rather than by rebellion against the crown . |
| 21 | I 'm off round the corner after it like Wally the cat ; then I pounce . |
| 22 | A single instance of B , and of B on its own , can not enable us to associate it with A. The universe as a whole , however , is just such a single instance : we have no direct experience either of other worlds or of world-designers . |
| 23 | Have you seen that advert on the telly I love it with George the boxer ? |
| 24 | Now I just buy mine from Tommy the Turfman . ’ |
| 25 | write the name of the person you 'd like to see manager on a postcard and send it to Pick the Manager … |
| 26 | write the name of the person you 'd like to see manager on a postcard and send it to Pick the Manager … |
| 27 | To the north they had obtained the county of Maine only to lose it to William the Conqueror , Duke of Normandy . |
| 28 | The point applies as much to B as to C. An example may help : A has a farm , B is his heir , and C is the beneficiary of a trust of the farm ; that is , B is asked to give it to C. The trust disposition makes neither B nor C owner of the farm . |
| 29 | The arbitrage process will ensure that the supply of security X and the demand for security Y will both be increased , thus reducing the return on Y and increasing it on X. The process will continue until there are no more profitable arbitrage opportunities . |
| 30 | In fact nobody on the entire establishment could say it except Charlie the farm foreman and he only though the could say it . |