Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [noun prp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lastly , he made up his mind to see Charlie the Pigeon , who could tell him all the things happening in the neighbourhood , because he could fly so high + see so much . |
| 2 | In the 1960s the oil boom made Venezuela the country to emigrate to , and it was a common occurrence for the emigrant who made good to hire a large American car ( Cadillac or similar ) and to return to Madeira by ship with the car . |
| 3 | One glance told Rachel the pilot had sustained serious chest injuries . |
| 4 | Access to such patronage gave Gloucester the possibility of rewarding his own men from the duchy . |
| 5 | Access to such patronage gave Gloucester the possibility of rewarding his own men from the duchy . |
| 6 | When I first came across it , I applauded the honest rigour with which Auden the critic revised Auden the poet . |
| 7 | NT is a more powerful alternative to Windows For Workgroups , Brown says , and this market niche gives Microsoft the opportunity to undermine Novell from the low end rather than take it on head-to-head . |
| 8 | The result earned Coventry the vote from Graham Taylor 's panel as the Barclays ' Performance of the Week . |
| 9 | Murphy subsequently extended his advantage to 8–1 before there was temporary reprieve for Murphy but a 55 break gave Doherty the title in frame 11 . |
| 10 | The breakdown of national pay bargaining in the power industry gives NIE the opportunity to quickly reduce demarcation and improve labour efficiency and gradually bring pay rates employment market . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ We feel that the convenience of having house sales , mortgage and building society services all available under one roof makes Halifax the number one choice in the Finaghy area . ’ |
| 12 | At the caravan site , a warden told Jean the number to look for . |
| 13 | BUDAPEST STOCK EXCHANGE SHOWS LONDON THE WAY WITH NEW SYSTEM BASED ON THREE DEC VAX SERVERS |
| 14 | The central sun symbolized God the Father ; the surface of the spherical universe , God the Son ; the intermediate space , God the Holy Spirit . |
| 15 | With a circuit to race Nick The Brief was pulled up , and though Desert Orchid continued to dispute the lead with Ten Of Spades as the runners went away from the stands for the second circuit Toby Tobias and Norton 's Coin were making noticeable progress through the field . |
| 16 | The 1944 Education Act gave LEAs the right to inspect schools , indeed , some LEAs inherited inspectorates from the School Boards which preceded them . |
| 17 | Trevor Baron gave Woking the lead . |
| 18 | This has worked in the past : in 1990 the indignation of the world 's intelligentsia stopped the plan to make Venice the site of Expo 2000 when most Italians had resigned themselves to its being inevitable . |
| 19 | Stratagem enabling Flaubert the writer to sidestep a conventional career , and Flaubert the man to sidestep life . |
| 20 | There was nearly a fight when her husband heard Fred the lamplighter say to Dad that she sounded like ‘ a constipated canary ’ . |
| 21 | Her mother , Valerie , had returned to teaching after her family were off her hands , but she had been forced to give up her job to give Jennifer the care she needed . |
| 22 | The previous month , Mr Yeltsin signed a secret decree giving Promecologia the right to export red mercury , an order which was rescinded on March 20th 1993 . |
| 23 | A beautifully-measured diagonal pass to the wing gave Lennon the chance to lob Bonner , who was caught betwixt and between after coming off his line . |
| 24 | A beautifully-measured diagonal pass to the wing gave Lennon the chance to lob Bonner , who was caught betwixt and between after coming off his line . |
| 25 | The move won Gordon the heavyweight Open title and provided a much-needed lift for a British men 's team who were inevitably overshadowed by the success of the women . |
| 26 | Edgar ravaged the Isle of Thanet in 969 , and Æthelred the estates of the bishopric of Rochester in 986 , while it was Earl Godwin 's refusal to obey Edward the Confessor 's order to attack Dover which precipitated the crisis of 1051 . |
| 27 | Case White , as the invasion was codenamed , was aborted by a signal issued at about 7.30 p.m. on August 25 , because Mussolini and Ciano , when it came to it , summoned up the courage to tell Hitler the truth at last . |
| 28 | That 's why his desire to tell Pooh the truth will in fact make him tell Pooh what he believes , whether that is actually true or not . |
| 29 | Two minutes after the break , Dwight Marshall 's optimistic 25-yarder beat Dorking keeper Lee Orkney 's dive to give Plymouth the lead . |
| 30 | The MTWTV station head passed Mojo the fountain pen . |