Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The figure called himself the devil and declared that he had come for Gary 's life . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , Aunt , Leith has this afternoon done me the honour of agreeing to be my wife . ’ |
| 3 | First of all , I think that it it 's difficult to be sure of this because of the way in which the County Council prepared their the evidence on which I relayed relied and like Mr I did n't come here prepared to talks in detail about the inner northern . |
| 4 | Dunwoody was surprised when the judge called him the winner on Remittance Man in the opening Bristol Novice Hurdle , believing Peter Scudamore had got back in the final strides on the favourite Regal Ambition after being headed halfway up the run-in . |
| 5 | Governments were weak , ideological divisions great : in the press apparent pluralism masked what the left termed ‘ a financial oligarchy ’ ; banks and industry and other ‘ forces of capitalism ’ controlled newspapers , including titles that in the inter-war years veered to the right ; press barons diversified into radio — as did their successors , often illegally , a half-century later . |
| 6 | A man whose late father was a subscriber sent me the Electrophone programme for the month of May 1924 . |
| 7 | My father who was a er a clergyman taught me the piano from an early age and er I first became interested in the organ purely for money purposes in fact , when at the age of fifteen a local methodist church in Durham where we lived at the time said er , We need an organist . |
| 8 | ‘ It is partly the recession , and partly that extra costs affected what the company could afford in-house . |
| 9 | Early writers called it the battle of Branxton , but Flodden came to be preferred , probably because of balladeers like Sir Walter Scott and Jane Elliott ( The Flowers of the Forest ) . |
| 10 | A press of bodies developed which the guard were unable or unwilling to clear . |
| 11 | The villagers called it The Mansion and viewed it and its formal garden of still and silent yew trees with awe . |
| 12 | Being a Governor gave him the right to know details of any child 's parentage , but in his case the necessity to study the books had never arisen . |
| 13 | It was his father gave him the idea . |
| 14 | If it works with just the Master drive in the system and will not work with the slave drive connected whatever the orientation of the cable. , change the configuration to make the Slave drive the Master and the Master the Slave . |
| 15 | A man called him the devil , some parents shouted ‘ We Want Joe ’ and the talk was all about condoms , AIDS and innocence . |
| 16 | The blame for syphilis was invariably ascribed to foreigners , with the result that the English called it the French disease , the French called it the Italian disease , the Italians , unable to make up their minds , called it both the French disease and the Spanish disease , while the Spanish called it the disease of Hispaniola ( Haiti ) . |
| 17 | The driving force behind the Plazas was undoubtedly Ethel ; to some extent she relished knowing that the Girls called her the slave driver behind her back : |
| 18 | Jonas called it the family-room , where there were plenty of comfortable chairs and couches and it did n't matter if you put your feet up . |
| 19 | The Norwegian government awarded him the Order of St Olav in 1979 . |
| 20 | The jury awarded him the libel raspberry — a halfpenny — so he was forced to pay for the whole action . |
| 21 | The ancients called it the God of the Underworld . |
| 22 | Now , having no doubt asked themselves the question , ‘ How can we make a Japanese ‘ 62 re-issue Strat even more appealing ? ’ |