Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Depressed production , costly for Leyland at the time , is good news for investors now because it has endowed the Stag with scarcity appeal . |
| 2 | Anne came back with cigarettes and chocolate and magazines and said goodbye to Terry , then she said she would wait for Sarah at the entrance and left them together . |
| 3 | Someone sent somebody out to kill two hens ; a local gentleman , knowing the lie of the land , sent his servant to the inn with rum and sugar and an apology for not knowing of their arrival in sufficient time to put them up , and he had to leave for Inverness at the crack of dawn ; Boswell still had some bread despite the amount he had doled out to the Macraes . |
| 4 | According to Air Vice Marshall Peter Howard , who is in charge of selecting the astronaut , the Soviets can choose four ‘ finalists ’ but the British then decide on the two people who will leave for Moscow at the beginning of December . |
| 5 | We cycled down through Vigo to the port , where we jostled with the locals to get the bikes aboard a ferry across the Ria de Vigo to Cangas on the Peninsula de Morazo , before cycling to the little sleepy fishing village of Bueu , which was quiet and unspoilt . |
| 6 | No , I 'm going to fill in for Jim on the Canal project . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Hearing about Clydebank on the radio , ’ replied Fireman Bill , blowing out a cloud of smoke that would have done credit to the Queen Mary . |
| 8 | The name Grisedale , meaning ‘ the valley of the pigs ’ is consistently spelt wrongly as Grisdale by the Ordnance Survey . |
| 9 | The Director is also Commissioner for Mines , and vice-chairman and national representative for Vanuatu in the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission ( SOPAC ) . |
| 10 | Talks continued during March between the government and trade unions , against a background of escalating protests . |
| 11 | The US Congress had since early 1990 withheld $84,000,000 of aid for Panama pending the signing of an agreement . |
| 12 | Hunt became a national motor racing hero in 1976 when he lifted the world formula one championship driving for McLaren at the age of 28 . |
| 13 | This file is stored as RDBI.DAT in the LIFESPAN process directory ( i.e. where the 59 . |
| 14 | Although this potential does exist , actual examples of abuse of parent power through PTAs in the quarter of a century or so since the publication of the report are few and far between . |
| 15 | We need some more meat for Ben from the pet shop . |
| 16 | and then he kept , he was on , will you come and work for me will you come , I was working for Holmes at the time |
| 17 | The waitress who had been covering for Doyle behind the bar eyed the baseball bat questioningly when he returned . |
| 18 | Very much the same story as I conjectured for Nosema in the flour beetle and for the fluke in the snail . |
| 19 | When the crowd sang Flower Of Scotland deep into the final quarter of the match , Hastings responded with a brilliant diagonal run off a dummy scissors which would have brought a try for Reed in the corner but for courageous defending from Davies . |
| 20 | and like , we were just flicking through Ceefax on the telly and it was like one of these luxury six berth ones and it was ninety nine quid for a week and , and |
| 21 | But it was n't all gloom for Cauthen over the week-end and a brilliant ride landed the Irish St Leger on Mashaallah . |
| 22 | Despite all the evidence against her , despite her own words , her betraying silences , had he been wrong about Isabel from the start ? |
| 23 | Final preparations are underway for an Oxfordshire convoy heading for Roumania at the weekend . |
| 24 | Neil Packham is pictured as Colin in the stage version . |
| 25 | The consultative group for Bolivia of the Group of Eight ( Western ) countries , in association with the major multilateral agencies , met in Paris on Nov. 8 and agreed to a total of US$926,000,000 in economic and development loans , reportedly on " very advantageous terms " , to cover the period 1991-93 . |
| 26 | Stephen Doey gave the Duns a first half lead , but that was cancelled out through Holmes after the break from virtually Armoy 's first chance of the match . |
| 27 | Among the other contributors are José Marques de Melo , President of the Latin American Association of Communication Researchers ; Fátima Fernandez , Professor of Communication at the National Autonomous University of Mexico ; Hernán Uribe , Vice President of the Latin American Federation of Journalists , and Guido Grooscors , Ambassador for Venezuela to the Organisation of American States . |
| 28 | With the appointment of Shearman as the Board 's resident tutor in Bedfordshire and Baker 's appointment to a similar post for Cambridgeshire for the development of rural adult education , the Board 's rural areas sub-committee had emerged as a de facto permanent committee of the Board — a position constitutionally confirmed in 1932 through its formal designation as the Board 's Rural Areas Committee with Professor Barker as its chairman . |
| 29 | Allegorical portrait by Levitsky of the empress as Lawgiver in the temple of Justice . |
| 30 | The invitation to address this Congress on behalf of " the deaf of Great Britain " had been sent to him as Secretary-Treasurer of the BDDA . |