Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [vb past] [noun prp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gary Blissett gave Brentford the lead midway through the first half , which was a bad one for the Town defence . |
| 2 | Disaster struck for Rovers just two minutes later as a mistake by keeper Bobby Mimms handed Ipswich the points . |
| 3 | The Nez Perce attacked Cottonwood the following day , but reinforcements from Lapwai , under Perry , helped resist the assault . |
| 4 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA top gun Elserino Piol told Unigram the real reason behind Olivetti 's embrace of Alpha was all the doubts about the wisdom of his MIPS strategy voiced to his boss Carlo di Benedetti : that caused the politically wary Piol to exert himself to come up with the Alpha alternative . |
| 5 | His manager Barney Eastwood gave Hodkinson the option of taking his career in another direction , rather than fight the Mexican . |
| 6 | DAVID BATTY handed Leeds the European Cup verdict they wanted to hear last night : ‘ Count me in . ’ |
| 7 | Wright burrowed busily in the loose and he and Andy Vincent gave Boro the solid platform in the scrum which produced their victory . |
| 8 | It probably dates back to The Beatles when Richard Starkey became Ringo the millionaire and Pete Best kept his real name and ended up as a civil servant . |
| 9 | Bench chairwoman Ann Middleton told Frak the offence was so serious that prison was the only way of dealing with it , because the public needed protecting from her . |
| 10 | David Manderson gave Scarborough the lead after six minutes when he intercepted an off-target Dave Logan shot and clipped the ball over keeper Andy Collett . |
| 11 | Miss Hatherby showed Constance the treasures of the house . |
| 12 | Harvard Lampoon gave Dustin the Worst Supporting Actor award and the movie received the Please-Don't-Put-Us-Through-DeMille-Again award for the film which ‘ best embodies the pretensions , extravagances , and blundering ineffectiveness of the Screen Spectacular ’ . |
| 13 | At least one Leeds player scored a goal this weekend , as Frank Strandli gave Norway the lead against USA a minute before half time . |
| 14 | Suppose that Archbishop Fisher thought Bell the best person despite his age for one of these sees , could he get Bell 's name past the prime minister ? |
| 15 | The February agreement gave ECOMOG the additional task of disarming the factions . |
| 16 | A meeting was held in August 1948 , when Akufo Addo asked Nkrumah the question : ‘ Why do you persist in using the word Comrade as a term of address ? ’ |
| 17 | Eddie Freeman gave Easington the lead , with Graham Curry cancelling that out , but Easington surged into the lead early in the second half with goals by Freeman , Micky Skirving and Allan Martin , and even though Jimmy Lagan pulled one back , Skirving wrapped up the points . |
| 18 | Graham Chapman gave Wingate the lead only for David Appleby to equalise for Cleadon to take the tie into extra time and a replay . |
| 19 | An expert on Oriental destinations , Mr Collins labelled Angkor the greatest tourist asset in South-east Asia , and the keystone of its future development . |
| 20 | Trevor Baron gave Woking the lead . |
| 21 | Blanche Glover called Christabel the Princess . |
| 22 | After being found not guilty , a member of the jury called Mrs Aimsley offered Imamu the chance to live with her and her family in Brooklyn . |
| 23 | In 1889 , Queen Victoria granted Birmingham the status of a city in recognition of its commercial importance , and the municipal enterprise which swept away terrible slums , creating great thoroughfares , and made Birmingham ‘ the best governed city in the world ’ under Joseph Chamberlain . |
| 24 | Les Armstrong gave Gretna the lead with a shot from the edge of the box midway through the first half , but Shildon levelled fifteen minutes from time through Micky Taylor after being set up by Colin Blackburn . |
| 25 | Brian Carr gave Herrington the lead when he chipped the ball over the Wolviston keeper , with Malcolm Nugent rounding off the scoring after the break . |
| 26 | Jack Charlton gave Stewart the chance to star alongside Gazza and Peter Beardsley when he signed him for Newcastle from QPR . |
| 27 | Even after the war and the revelations of Nuremberg , Alfred Rosenberg called Hitler the ‘ driving force and untiring motor of the great achievements of the National Socialist State ’ . |
| 28 | USL president Roel Pieper told Unigram the pact will allow SCO and USL to present a common uniform environment to ISVs . |
| 29 | Soho 's Timothy Brinkhurst told NME the song was written after the band became privy to information concerning the alleged infidelity of a leading politician , unnamed on the track for legal reasons . |
| 30 | Mondays ' manager Nathan McGough told NME the band 's November tour of Europe was abandoned as it clashed with the birth of guitarist Mark Day 's first child , despite rumours that Shaun Ryder 's drug problems are to blame . |