Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun prp] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm glad he was n't at the dress-run last night when , in my most imperious Dame Edith voice , I commanded , ‘ Send for Hedward the Hugly ! ’ and Edward the Ugly fell off the stage laughing . |
| 2 | This dog was then mated to Rintelna the Fatale , who had been a puppy purchased from Capt. Roy-Smith . |
| 3 | Still , even after signing to EMI The Smiths had to maintain a further year 's recording schedule with Rough Trade . |
| 4 | Speak for Scotland THE CROW ROAD Iain Banks Scribners , £15.99 Brian Morton |
| 5 | According to Walvin the Anti-Slavery Society alone published nearly 3 million copies of tracts in the campaigning years 1823–31 . |
| 6 | According to Notker the Stammerer ( whose Deeds of Charlemagne , written at St-Gall in the 880s , reveals much of the workings of ninth-century government ) , " Charlemagne was very prudent … he never gave any count more than one estate at a time … unless there were special reasons for doing so . |
| 7 | I want every possible penny spent on the national health service , they do n't want to be thought like Attila the Hun , yeah well , something like that |
| 8 | The same tide washed round Colley the Mason and swallowed him up . |
| 9 | Winnie the Pooh , heard of Winnie the Pooh ? |
| 10 | It was pouring with rain , so we dolled ourselves up in wet-weather gear and swayed like Michelin men back down the lakeside path nicknamed by Stuart the Yellow Brick Road . |
| 11 | Known as Mick the Bruiser , he is a big man with a reputation for an autocratic , direct management style and strong views on just about everything . |
| 12 | CP is certainly not protesting about Benny the Butcher . |
| 13 | ‘ So there you have it , ’ said the sprout that several hundred well-armed revolutionaries knew as BAH-REAH the All-Knower . |
| 14 | ( Under a preliminary agreement reached in February the IMF was to provide over $2,000 million for Poland 's restructuring programme . ) |
| 15 | A B B C Radio Nottingham Sports Special , hearing from Mick the Notts County manager shortly and also getting the news on Notts against Pisa with Colin . |
| 16 | one of the giants slain by Jack the Giant-Killer . |
| 17 | The Princess Margaret , Countess of Snowdon was represented by Major The Lord Napier and Ettrick at the Funeral of Field Marshal Sir Richard Hull KG , which was held in St George 's Chapel , Windsor Castle , this morning . |
| 18 | There are also citations of Peter Lombard 's Sentences , of Peter of Poitiers ' Sentences , and of Ovid 's Ars Amatoria ( possibly taken from Peter the Chanter 's Verbum Abbreviatum ) , perhaps showing the influence of his teachers . |
| 19 | Whatever social class we ascribe to Benjamin the Silversmith will be open to some degree of misinterpretation ; it has been said that ‘ The sixty years of Queen Victoria 's reign were above all the sixty years of the middle-class man ’ , and we could apply that statement to our man 's ability to consolidate and improve upon his standing in society . |
| 20 | America 's Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger said in Geneva the US is determined to put Serbian leaders into the dock for war crimes . |
| 21 | Aquileia was a Roman centre and the original basilican cathedral was erected early in the fourth century but was destroyed by Attila the Hun a few years later . |
| 22 | There is still a wonderful tolerance about a place that has spawned the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence headed by Sadie the Rabbi Lady ; Dykes on Bikes ; the Pagan Drumming Circle ; the prostitutes ' rights group COYOTE ; and the Ethel Merman Memorial Choir . |