Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The question is , what do we do about it ? ’ asked Reed of the Treasury . |
| 2 | In what appears to have been a carefully stage-managed cry of unanimity , it was agreed that Edward should never rule over them again , and the Bishop of Hereford took a delegation which was headed by William Trussell to Renilworth to inform Edward of the assembly 's decision . |
| 3 | MacLean later took the unusual step of amending his original statement to parliament , describing BNFL 's failure to inform Cunningham of the leak as " a rather extraordinary discourtesy " . |
| 4 | Describing conventional education as a ‘ conveyor belt ’ and noting ‘ the dullness of the eldest pupils compared with the brightness and self-sufficiency of the infants ’ , Denys Thompson of the Scrutiny group thought in 1932 that while education was ‘ very busy mass-producing interchangeable little components for the industrial machine ’ the concern of education ‘ should be to turn out ‘ misfits ’ ’ , not spare parts ' . |
| 5 | When I told Robins of the effort it must have required to transport the heavy materials by hand he just laughed . |
| 6 | As the drinks were being distributed , Seb told Jacob of the attitude of the landlord of the Swan Inn . |
| 7 | She felt unclean and unworthy , rather as she hoped that her mother , in her dark moments , must feel about Mr Stacey — and she never told Nora of the incident . |
| 8 | He told Elizabeth of the meal in the dining room , with the butler and maids serving on and made her giggle at his father 's summing up of the Dowager Lady Lassiter . |
| 9 | I have n't seen Leeds of the Day , and it 's always better to hear from the fans on the spot in any case . |
| 10 | For , by Monday 10 December , on the same day that Birkenhead told Derby of the plot , Baldwin saw the King and told him that he had decided not to resign . |
| 11 | We could see Jane Russell again at the Empire , or walk up to the Arcadian to see Sanders of the River . |
| 12 | Allan had scratched , annoying the team management by informing ITN of the fact before he informed them . |
| 13 | Campaigners against the project point out that a mixture of economic recession and growing enthusiasm for energy efficiency may deprive Hydro-Quebec of the bulk of its potential revenue from the scheme , in the form of orders from US power supply companies , who are believed to be reconsidering the need to import power from Canada . |
| 14 | Dorothy had already told Isobel of the conversation that afternoon , so she was prepared ; but he found it difficult to get round to the real object of the visit . |
| 15 | We had n't issued a certificate because the school or college had n't told SCOTVEC of the outcome of the module by filling in a Form NC6 . ’ |
| 16 | As discussed above , the high currency of the group awards of HNC and HND has been built upon in the Advanced Courses Development Programme and the expressed need for analogous awards in the National Certificate has convinced SCOTVEC of the desirability of having group awards at all levels . |
| 17 | Carolyn found her most difficult task was persuading Laura of the necessity for such schedules . |
| 18 | ‘ What have we got here ? ’ asked Joe of the salt cellar . |
| 19 | From her sensible shoes to her practical haircut , her appearance proclaims her membership of that generation of British women who survived the privations of wartime and went on to spend their lives in ungrumbling toil creating the now tarnished Jerusalem of the Welfare State . |
| 20 | He warned Ramsey of the burden of administration and how he would need advisers . |
| 21 | The earliest steps in this direction were taken by David Watson , the first permanently appointed Dean of the Course . |
| 22 | One visit in 1948–49 persuaded Arlott of the rightness of multiracialism and wrongness of apartheid . |
| 23 | [ Public Record Office , Memoranda Rolls ( E 159 ) and Common Pleas Plea Rolls ( CP 40 ) ; Calendars of Patent and Close Rolls of the reign of Edward I. ] |
| 24 | I. 40 ; British Library , MS Cotton Tiberius C ix , ff. 241r , 253r ; Historical Manuscripts Commission 9th Report , pp. 35 , 41 ; Close Rolls of the reign of Henry III ; Calendars of Patent and Calendars of Liberate Rolls of the reign of Henry III ; Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem , vol. ii , 1906 , nos. 214–15 ; Diana E. Greenway ( ed . ) , |
| 25 | [ Public Record Office , JUST 1/540B ; mainly unprinted law reports ; David Crook , Records of the General Eyre , 1982 ; Calendars of Patent and Close Rolls of the reign of Edward I. ] |
| 26 | Markandey Singh was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the Union Territory of Delhi and Har Sarup Singh as Lieutenant-Governor of the Union Territory of Pondicherry . |
| 27 | ‘ Sir — You are an Anti-Reformer — and therefore we have a few words to say to you — When the news reached Glasgow of the defeat of the Reform Bill , did you attend the Royal Exchange Rooms ? |
| 28 | Defeat also robbed Edberg of the chance of regaining his world No 1 ranking — which he would have done if he had won this final major tournament of the year . |
| 29 | It reminded Isabel of the dungeon . |
| 30 | This vista painfully reminded Ruth of the lakeside restaurants at the Seville Expo … |