Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the two shorts months that it took to draft the White Paper , opposition could be quelled , using the new powers and wholehearted support given him by the Prime Minister . |
| 2 | The Minotaur was finally slain by Theseus , who found his way out of the labyrinth by trailing a skein of thread given him by the king 's daughter , ARIADNE . |
| 3 | WITH the forthcoming visit by the South Africans looming large , the RFU have taken the opportunity given them by the All Black and Wallaby tours to South Africa to get in some early homework on the Boks . |
| 4 | On 26 March , back in Chicago , Coleman applied for a US passport in the name of Thomas J. Leavy , using the birth certificate given him by the CIA in 1982 and the documents issued in Washington . |
| 5 | Part of the confusion came from the unworthy pleasure given him by the prospect of holding onto his ward a little longer . |
| 6 | The President called him into the room . |
| 7 | The barman fixed me with the kind of stare you could roast weenies on . |
| 8 | His unflappability deserted him in the face of by-election reverses . |
| 9 | My mum washed mine at the weekend and they 're in a pile on my floor and I have n't been arsed so I 'm just sleeping on the mattress with the bare duvet . |
| 10 | David looked down at her as she lay against the white pillows , pale and thinner than ever , and thought how much easier it would be to keep himself in check if her husband treated her with the gentleness she deserved . |
| 11 | However , for the third time this season , Wantage could not hold on to a lead given them in the last five minutes , and allowed Andy Martin to shoot home for the equaliser for Bicester . |
| 12 | She recovered the parish file given her by the diocesan office and spread the meagre contents out on Bishop Julian 's desk . |
| 13 | On the evening of Jan. 12 it was announced that the existing six-member High Security Council had that day , by virtue of a mandate to preserve continuity given it by the Constitutional Council , resolved " that it is impossible to continue the election process until the necessary conditions are fulfilled for the normal functioning of institutions " . |
| 14 | Almost all the murders that the police solve in real life are either dealt with in a matter of hours ( the husband done it with the kitchen knife ) or as a result of long , long , tedious inquiries , mostly house-to-house , the taking of fingerprints and the elimination of perhaps thousands of marginal suspects . |
| 15 | The marquis pinned her to the ground by her shoulders , sitting astride her so that she could n't move . |
| 16 | The neon striped it in the air . |
| 17 | Had my Pop passed me in the street , he would n't have recognised me . |
| 18 | But JUSt as it IS proper for me to look back to my wedding day as assurance that I am really married , so it is proper to look back to my baptism as a mark given me by the Holy Spirit that I am really born again in Christ , and to the eucharist as a pledge that I do partake of his life , feed on him , and shall in the last day share his resurrection . |
| 19 | It certainly did n't merit the name given it by the Danes , who invented it . |
| 20 | The element of time-saving is seen as significant by many employers , and one respondent identified it as the main motive for taking a recruiting problem to a search consultant in the first place . |
| 21 | Against the advice given me at the Centre , quite deliberately I decided to have neither a counsellor nor a healer . |
| 22 | But it echoes an example given us by the Consumer Credit Association ( an amalgamation of the Retail Credit Federation and National Personal Finance Association , representing some 900 companies involved in personal loans and retail credit ) . |
| 23 | The profession has managed to offer CPD on a shoestring up until the mid-1980s but henceforth some funding will have to be found if it is to fulfil the role given it by the membership . |
| 24 | This chapter is intended to illustrate the operation of community policing in Easton , and in the process to assess the commitment given it by the ordinary policemen and women who carry it out , looking separately at the units responsible for community relations and neighbourhood policing . |
| 25 | The Franciscan friars of Reading found it necessary in 1234 to obtain from the king a letter ordering the warden of Windsor Forest not to exact cheminage in respect of the timber given them in the forest for their buildings at Reading . |
| 26 | Had Dane told him about the weekend in Glenshee ? |
| 27 | In retrospect , it seemed that the Lord protected her for the first few days , and then … |
| 28 | Had Hendrique warned him at the beginning about the current intensifying when crossing the colour boundary the game might already have been over . |
| 29 | Miss Belle 's stature placed her between the two sisters , but whereas the other two were thin , her body was well padded and tightly laced . |
| 30 | CD modelled it on the SS Britannia on which he and his wife made the crossing in 1842 . |