Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have you seen a f have you heard of a film called The Unborn ? |
| 2 | The best non-human example that I know has recently been described by P. F. Jenkins in the song of a bird called the saddleback which lives on islands off New Zealand . |
| 3 | The silence of the night brought a feeling of unease ; the normal rustlings of nocturnal creatures were absent and not even the hoot of an owl nor the choughing call of a pheasant disturbed the stillness . |
| 4 | An example was a private prosecution brought by Mrs Mary Whitehouse against a National Theatre director on charges of gross indecency in the staging of a play titled The Romans in Britain . |
| 5 | hero of a novel called The Hermit , written in imitation of Robinson Crusoe and published in 1727 ; attributed to Edward Dorrington . |
| 6 | Afterwards I learned that the three men were actors , part of a company called The Theatre of the Tube . |
| 7 | Furthermore , some of the best producers are members of a consortium called the Consorzio di Chianti Classico — the bottles are sealed with a black rooster symbol . |
| 8 | Eight members of a group called The Prophet Mohammed 's Army were sentenced to death on Nov. 25 by a special tribunal composed of three military judges for crimes " against state security " [ see also p. 38457 ] . |
| 9 | Now if the matter arises on taxation in this way , it seems that a loan , the trial judgment was given on the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one , a minute of order was prepared and signed by counsel for both the plaintiff and for the defendants and that was forwarded by the defendant 's solicitors to the plaintiff 's solicitors under cover of a letter dated the twenty third of April nineteen ninety one , er Mr who is the defendant 's solicitor in the third paragraph , had a letter wrote as follows I enclose a copy of the draft minute board , approved by Mr , he of course was counsel for the defendant , you are now , you , you were presumably now attend a sealed order . |
| 10 | On 27 May of that year , John Martyn read to the Royal Society an account of a book entitled The Gardeners Dictionary , introducing it as follows : |
| 11 | This normativist concern came to a head with the publication in 1929 by Lord Hewart , the Lord Chief Justice , of a book entitled The New Despotism . |
| 12 | If you are still greedy for high , pastoral places to spend the day in , there is one other exhilarating excursion you can make from Saint-Jean , to the south-east , up the valley of a stream called the Laurhibar . |
| 13 | It was to the north west of the village about one and a half kilometres away , on the banks of a stream called the Rovacchia , behind a grass embankment . |
| 14 | One of my favourite presidents , Theodore Roosevelt , president from the early part of the twentieth century and known as the damned cowboy erm you might be interested to know how people become president erm Theodore Roosevelt was an arch imperialist and got very excited about the er war with Spain er America had a s little brief war with Spain at the end of the nineteenth century erm over the possession of Cuba , and erm in eighteen ninety eight , and this aroused great patriotic feelings in all red blooded Americans and especially in Theodore Roosevelt and er er Roosevelt formed his own company of cavalry called the Rough Riders and erm Roosevelt wore glasses and was asthmatic but he had this group called the Rough Riders , sort of early kind of Clint Eastwood stuff , and erm anyway he g he was engaged in the war with Spain er and there was one wonderful moment in the war Spain in which the Spaniards were at the top of a hill called the San Juan hill er and er Teddy , as he was known , of course he gave his name to the teddy bear , did you know that did you ? |
| 15 | We usually park about 5mins walk from the ground near a pub called the Imperial . |
| 16 | There was a Post Office on the corner opposite the Post Office chapel , Post er opposite the Baptist chapel and er up the back yard there , there was this premise , it was behind a pub called the Beehive and erm I rented it out there and er that was nextdoor to and the castings was a shilling a pound and er |
| 17 | Returning to America he began to write features for a newspaper called the Toronto Star Weekly in 1919 , and in 1921 was married of his own free will to a woman he had met and fallen in love with earlier . |
| 18 | Spirits dashed , Fonda and Hopper came up with another idea for a picture called The Queen , starring themselves and Jack Nicholson as Robert McNamara , Dean Rusk and Lyndon Johnson apparently plotting the assassination of John F. Kennedy . |
| 19 | Writs were issued at the end of January against the Sunday Express and Neville Hodgkinson , who wrote an article about Halcion and its possible side-effects , and the BBC 's Panorama programme and its presenter Tom Mangold for a programme entitled The Halcion nightmare . |
| 20 | But the organisational nightmare and sundry fall-out fade into insignificance next to Hendrix , though he 'd ditched his experience for a conglomerate called The Gypsy Sun And Rainbows Band , Hendrix was n't really looking to flesh out his playing . |
| 21 | for example , the earlier work of the E C Commission appeared to proceed on the untested assumption that any differences in national laws of member States within the field identified as potentially suitable for a Directive distorted the Common Market and justified the proposed Directive , without any fieldwork being undertaken to see whether there was in fact a problem . |
| 22 | Though before she could get in with a quick plea for an interview , Vendelin Gajdusek revealed that he had not for a moment forgotten the way in which the Dobermann had attached himself to her ankle , by decreeing , ‘ You 'd better come into the house and have some antiseptic put on that wound . ’ |
| 23 | Ministers agreed , however reluctantly , that Britain 's own condition and the international environment as a whole required the continuance of Atlanticist policies . |
| 24 | It 's a way of as a Council taken the position that we ought to be spending your money effectively , right . |
| 25 | Their collection of paintings of local flowers was produced as a book called the Frampton Flora . |
| 26 | How it got its name is not a documented fact , but it is believed to have come about when the tailors of London congregated at the Haymarket Theatre to protest about a play called The Tailors : A Tragedy For Warm Weather . |
| 27 | In 1905 , the same year he wrote his paper on the special theory of relativity , Einstein also wrote about a phenomenon called the photoelectric effect . |
| 28 | After watching a screening of the Walt Disney film , Chitty , Chitty , Bang , Bang in the private cinema , Charles had nightmares about a character called the Children Catcher . |
| 29 | I do n't know whether you 've seen anything in the paper about a mountain called the Matterhorn … ? ’ |
| 30 | His lawyer , Tom Shields , told a High Court judge that last year , when the late Robert Maxwell owned the papers , Mr Galloway tabled a Commons motion about a book called The Samson Option . |