Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] the [noun prp] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though he did not know it the San Antonio had turned tail and was even now on her way back to Spain , ‘ bearing a cargo of falsehood against Magellan ’ . |
| 2 | Told me the Emma Bates got a direct hit . |
| 3 | Give me the Lady Fand , that I may bear her to a fitting place . ’ |
| 4 | Eloise Brückner handed him the Munich Zeitung , open at the second page . |
| 5 | On this occasion the Star goes one stage further not only by stressing the similarities with The Fox but also by giving this new phenomenon an identity of his own — ‘ police have nicknamed him The White Fox ’ . |
| 6 | It was an early example of her sensitivity to the needs of others , a quality noticed by her headmistress , Miss Rudge who awarded her the Miss Clark Lawrence Award for service to the school in her last term in 1977 . |
| 7 | The Economist called it the Consumer-Credit Snowball and pronounced it well and truly rolling . |
| 8 | The bus stops again at the Kensington Hilton , a hotel so much on the edge of Kensington that had it been built 10 feet to the west , they should have called it the Shepherds Bush Hilton . |
| 9 | Roddick calls it the Marcel Proust questionnaire and it asks such unlikely questions as : How would you like to die ? |
| 10 | In this hope I name it the Mar Pacifico . ’ |
| 11 | British Rail tell us the London Paddington to Liverpool train service which is , is due at Oxford at six fifty-five tonight 's going to be starting from Reading instead ; that 's going to confuse a few people . |
| 12 | They have taken a selection from their Cordillera , Appalachian , and Outback lines , adapted the harness to suit a women 's figure and called them the Nanda Devi range . |
| 13 | Brown Owl had put all three into the same Six and called them the Ghillie Dhu . |
| 14 | The Government are always making predictions , and in that sense the Chancellor may be described as the Mother Shipton — perhaps I should call him the Brother Shipton — of economics . |
| 15 | We might just as well call it the Non-R RE model . |
| 16 | My husband and the boys cleared a path through the undergrowth when we first came here , and they called it the Burma Road . ’ |
| 17 | And a performance that helped make him the Queen Mum 's favourite . |
| 18 | They wanted to call them the Milton Keynes or the Ipswich , but this was thought too cheeky a dig at Marshall and Celestion . |
| 19 | They wanted to call them the Milton Keynes or the Ipswich , but this was thought too cheeky a dig at Marshall and Celestion . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh , I 've got something for you , ’ she said , handing him the FN FAL magazine clip now sealed in a plastic bag . |
| 21 | And the idea they gave him the Sammy Davis Jr Award just infuriates me . |
| 22 | Lesley Robertson , 18 , from Aberdeen , took the overall women 's championship , while Graham Bell 's consistent results in all four disciplines gave him the Victor Ludorum title . |
| 23 | Paris bound : Paul Williamson , a chef at the Stormont Hotel , Belfast with his mouth-watering pork Craigantlet Creel dish which won him the Hastings Ulster Pork Challenge title at a competition held in the Belfast Institute of Further and Higher Education . |
| 24 | In Japan they call it the Paul Smith Classic . ’ |
| 25 | They remind themselves that it is all linked , one body of water , one mass of 329 million cubic miles of brine , and with unaffected simplicity they call it the World Ocean . |