Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [noun prp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His enemies are not the fearsome ape Donkey Kong or King Bowser the dragon — though they can be as deadly . |
| 2 | So neither he , nor even that nice Mr Smith could , under the present system , give more to hospitals or Mr O'Malley the builder . |
| 3 | Does this : A Create silhouette effects ; B Allow additional light through the lens ; C Activate the fill-in flash mode ; or D Lock the exposure settings while recomposing the picture ? |
| 4 | This method of analysis works on the assumption that demand patterns in country or region B will follow demand patterns that have already been experienced in country or region A. The demand in country A can therefore be used to predict how demand will change in country B. |
| 5 | Catering facilities were provided in two original Great Western coaches , where Margaret Radway the Catering Manager , assisted other volunteers in preparing and serving of excellent luncheons . |
| 6 | From the chapel they 've taken the thing that we 're sorriest about , which is the cockfighting chair that Alexander Pope the poet used the two summers that he spent working here in what 's now called Pope 's Tower , translating the fifth volume of Homer 's Iliad . |
| 7 | That building in the corner housed the old portable steam-engine that Mr Webster the miller later bought : he used to grind the corn there when there was no wind . |
| 8 | Word went round in the seventh century that St James the Apostle had visited Spain , and in the early ninth century a bishop of Padron discovered what he took to be his body . |
| 9 | CONCERN is growing in the art world over the news that Charles Saatchi the advertising agency millionaire has sold between 10 and 12 per cent of his art collection in the past six months . |
| 10 | Alton lost only one of their pool matches , beating Peter Symonds 2–0 , Farnborough 2–1 and Totton 2–0 , with first year student Matt Cook scoring five of the goals and Ben Southall the other . |
| 11 | You could almost see Colin and Mister C developing the same kind of double act as Flavor Flav and Chuck D. The prof and the prat . |
| 12 | Colin is the first to acknowledge that he really needs Mister C. It might sound a little ridiculous , but you could almost see them developing the same kind of double act as Flavor Flav and Chuck D. The prof and the prat . |
| 13 | I 'm thinking of people like Jean Krell who co-ran Granny Takes A Trip the painter Humphrey Ocean and Bernard Rhodes the friend of Malcolm 's who went on to manage The Clash . |
| 14 | Just as Teddy itself was a diminutive of Theodore as in Roosevelt ( or was it Edward , King of England ? ) , so we began to hear of Charles Lindbear and Wilbear Wright the pioneer bearaviators . |
| 15 | The tenancy conferred on Mr Villiers and Miss Bridger the right to occupy the whole flat as their dwelling . |
| 16 | Speyside , Orkney and Powys all had a 95% ownership figure but in North Wales and Wester Ross the land owned amounted to only 16% and 6% respectively . |
| 17 | Don Shay and Jody Duncan The Making of Jurassic Park June , £9.99 Promotional spend : £10,000 First printing : 65,000 P.o.s. 24-copy dumpbin ; colour poster PR : competitions in film magazines and national press ; limited number of preview tickets available to trade . |
| 18 | Erm other places to watch out for in Baysford the work is continuing on David Lane and Southwick Street the crossing there is closed diversions are in place and there have been long delays in the area there so unless you have to I would n't . |
| 19 | Harragin topping the first-class batting and R.C. Ollivierre the bowling . |
| 20 | In Italy , Austria and south Germany the baroque style went wild , but in England it was short-lived and remained terrifically reserved and in character with the nobility and gentry who were to live with it . |
| 21 | In spite of the work of Noel O'Sullivan , W. H. Greenleaf , and Anthony Quinton the notion has persisted that Conservatism is not an ideology . |
| 22 | The Ministry of Labour and Government Administration , previously held by Tove Strand Gerhardsen , was split into two , with Gunnar Berge taking over the new Ministry of Local Government and Labour and Oddny Alexandersen the Ministry of Government Administration . |
| 23 | With fresh violence breaking out in Natal and Cape Town the government on Sept. 9 declared four of Johannesburg 's black townships " unrest areas " . |
| 24 | Andrea Rosen shows new prints by Ken Lum ( through 16 January ) and Robert Miller the work of David Seidner . |
| 25 | Now Michael White and John Gribbin have given us Stephen Hawking : a Life in Science , or rather Mr White has given us the life and Mr Gribbin the science ; the latter is awash with black holes , white dwarfs , protons , pulsars , quasars and quarks and is therefore no more comprehensible than Brief History ; also , what is one to make of a writer who speaks at one moment of ‘ tiny black holes ’ and the next of ‘ black holes which could eat solar systems for breakfast ’ ? |
| 26 | When Churchill gave his first broadcast , suggesting that the Labour Party might have to resort to ‘ some form of Gestapo , no doubt very humanely directed in the first instance ’ , the electors were bound to regard it as a gross exaggeration ; Attlee , following the next night , could readily ask his audience to distinguish between ‘ Winston Churchill , the great leader in war of a united nation , and Mr Churchill the party leader of the Conservatives ’ . |
| 27 | Instead of Mr Bun the Baker , there is Master Steamer the football hooligan and Mr Poll the politician ( Edward Heath ) . |
| 28 | That night , Sunday , Mr Grant , the well-bred reverend gentleman they met at Cawdor manse , joined them , and Mr Keith the excise man , and they ate roasted kid ‘ which Dr Johnson had never tasted before . |
| 29 | This was readily agreed , and Mr. Ball the elder held the post efficiently throughout the remainder of the war . |
| 30 | If Mr Dunn the debtor refused to be cowed by this threat , Mr Rich the creditor would tell the bailiffs to take the belongings out of the house — and for that service he paid the bailiffs a fixed fee . |