Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | The blow came at a meeting on Saturday when members voted not to let him stand as an election candidate — despite a recommendation to accept him by the executive committee . |
| 32 | He had been foiled in his first attempt to reach it by the arrival of Jos , and ever since it had been impossible to get away unnoticed . |
| 33 | It was an attempt to lead him to the realization that this was something that would n't work … |
| 34 | The League ruled that the striking off of Grima from the Widnes register and an attempt to replace him with the Tongan forward , Boblyn Tuavao , was ‘ unacceptable ’ . |
| 35 | His 60-year-old wife called in police , claiming he had punched her during the early hours after the ceremony to install him as the 18th civic leader at Stockton . |
| 36 | The hotel to stay in is the Victoria , a handsome pile run by the genial Platzer family ; they send a minibus to fetch you from the little airport at Berne — one hour 's drive away — and Herr Platzer then shows you where to hire ski equipment ( roughly £24 a week ) and organise lessons . |
| 37 | The rise of this logical positivism reinforced the Enlightenment belief in science and rationality ( at the very moment that the world was in desperate need of a moral code and a spiritual light to help it through the great crisis — the Depression — of the old machine 's apparent demise ) . |
| 38 | When I arrived on tie scene there appeared to be hundreds of people there , but a civilian — the works and bricks engineer seemed — to be the boss , and even the station commander was happily taking orders from him about filling sandbags and placing them on the Bund to strengthen it against the rising tide . |
| 39 | Henry VIII was horrified by what he understood of Luther 's theology , and , in an attempt to rebut it during the early 1520s , he wrote with the help of a number of court scholars the theological tract The Assertion of the Seven Sacraments , for which he was rewarded by the pope with the title ‘ Defender of the Faith ’ . |
| 40 | A ceremony to swear him into the post was to have been held tomorrow . |
| 41 | I 'm not very sure it 's prudent if you 're indicating your own incorruptibility as a poet to put it in the future tense in the first place , and when you continue as Pope does ‘ Envy must own , I live among the great ’ as he starts to describe his own life and you realise he 's bringing in touches about himself which really have very little to do with the particular role as poet , it becomes quite clear that that depersonalisation process has not taken place in the case of Pope . |
| 42 | You 'd like that , would n't you , Leith ? ’ he had the unmitigated nerve to put her on the spot . |
| 43 | If you wish the Department to notify you of the result of the Inquiry please state this in your letter . |
| 44 | I am also writing to at the South Side Association to notify her of the developments . |
| 45 | It is not a fixed asset as there is no intention to use it in the business . |
| 46 | It is a fixed asset as there is an intention to use it in the business . |
| 47 | It is a fixed asset as there is an intention to use it in the business . |
| 48 | It is a fixed asset as there is an intention to use it in the business . |
| 49 | It is a fixed asset as there is an intention to use it in the business . |
| 50 | It is a fixed asset as there is an intention to use it in the business . |
| 51 | Fairness to his creditors demands that he should not be able to deplete his assets in this way in a deliberate attempt to put them beyond the reach of his creditors . |
| 52 | There was no intention to misinform you about the situation . ’ |
| 53 | " Frith could have killed El-ahrairah at once , but he had a mind to keep him in the world , because he needed him to sport and jest and play tricks . |
| 54 | It costs a great deal to keep him in the home , as well as your father . ’ |
| 55 | Last night Graveney confirmed that he 'd made the allegation but was ‘ obviously very disappointed ’ at the bid to veto him by the Pakistan Board . |
| 56 | He said he needed me to pretend to be his girlfriend to protect him from the bimbos . ’ |
| 57 | ‘ During the time we had the picture in our possession , in an attempt to keep it off the international art market we consulted the criminal police , and attempted to put the picture on the index of important works of art which can not leave Germany . |
| 58 | Codemasters ' director David Darling said : ‘ The fact that Sega has chosen to wait to sue until just before our commercial launch shows this is a blatant attempt to keep us from the market they control . ’ |
| 59 | But the humanities comprise a number of disciplines and subjects , of which English is only one ; the Leavisite attempt to turn it into the Queen of the Sciences never looked like succeeding . |
| 60 | He was arrested in 1983 in New York , but an attempt to extradite him to the UK as a convicted criminal failed when a judge ruled that his crime was political . |