Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [pers pn] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , Aunt , Leith has this afternoon done me the honour of agreeing to be my wife . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A man whose late father was a subscriber sent me the Electrophone programme for the month of May 1924 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | The villagers called it The Mansion and viewed it and its formal garden of still and silent yew trees with awe . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was his father gave him the idea . |
| 9 | A man called him the devil , some parents shouted ‘ We Want Joe ’ and the talk was all about condoms , AIDS and innocence . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 : |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The Norwegian government awarded him the Order of St Olav in 1979 . |
| 14 | The jury awarded him the libel raspberry — a halfpenny — so he was forced to pay for the whole action . |
| 15 | The ancients called it the God of the Underworld . |