Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [noun prp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But boss Atkinson warned : ‘ We need to be on our guard after giving Oxford the lifeline of a late goal at their place in the opening leg . |
| 2 | After leaving Devon the family had gone to Lancashire for work in the mills there and later started to make a new life for themselves in South Africa . |
| 3 | After leaving Kidderminster the train ran to Bewdley where a reversal took place for the train to run onto part of the spur of the former Stourport line . |
| 4 | There was , of course , no question of denying India the freedom which had so often been promised in the irresponsibility of opposition . |
| 5 | In any plausible way of forming Jupiter the hydrogen and helium are initially well mixed at a molecular level . |
| 6 | Rory , having ducked out of meeting Rosie the night before , had said they 'd pick her up later for a meal , but his talk was all of Jessica . |
| 7 | I had but I had no intention of giving Miranda the impression I was disorganized . |
| 8 | They now have a marvellously sympathetic partnership and Veronique has no intention of giving Michael the mare back ! |
| 9 | Hendrik Scholte eyed the stranger suspiciously — hotel-keepers invariably did — and was on the point of showing Vincent the door when his wife intervened . |
| 10 | Marcellus met with opposition from conservative senators , who accused him of making Rome the object of envy , and of corrupting the populace with a taste for leisure and idle chat . |
| 11 | President Clinton has promised to present Yeltsin with ‘ an aggressive and quite specific plan ’ when the two men meet at the beginning of April ; the Group of Seven leading industrial nations is discussing ways to help ; and yesterday the EC Commission floated the idea of offering Russia the prospect of greater trade access when its political and economic circumstances allow . |
| 12 | Chelsea have offered a hundred and twenty thousand pounds compensation for loosing Glenn the manager . |
| 13 | For the Mau Maus to take up the offering was like asking Jack the Ripper to baby sit . |
| 14 | Thank you for sending CPRW the notice of this year 's AGM and the Trust 's Newsletter . |
| 15 | So , I tell you what , if , if we do end up spending Christmas at gon na give me the present I got to Di and said thank you Di for giving Stella the Christmas present . |
| 16 | The music was by Scarlatti ( ‘ Les Adieux ’ ) and the designs were by Hugh Stevenson , who was also responsible for giving John the chance to make the ballet . |
| 17 | Creating a little flurry at the entrance , in came Gharr the Gherpotean , with his Gharrgoyles . |
| 18 | In occupying Manchuria the Guandong Army effectively acted as an autonomous political decision-making body . |
| 19 | [ T ] here was no longer , in my view , any solution except to give Algeria the right to self-determination . " |
| 20 | On reaching Worsley the canal tunnelled into the sandstone cliff to reach the coal workings some three-quarters of a mile inside the hill , where it divided into channels that eventually reached a length of several miles . |
| 21 | Heart of Darkness mattered not for giving Eliot the anthropological reader a better idea of how primitive society worked , but for showing Eliot the poet that the life of the savage and that of the modern urban clerk intersected on the deepest level , the level of ‘ The Horror ’ which was , essentially for him , the realization of evil within man . |
| 22 | The new emphasis could be reflected by renaming MAFF the Ministry of Food and Farming . |