Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fred Astaire still twirls Ginger Rogers and Donald Peers croons Give me the moonlight , give me the girl and leave the rest to me . |
| 2 | Or to put it another way , let us see how badly Miss Honey has taught you the three-times table . ’ |
| 3 | But now Mr Gorbachev has made himself the unpalatable alternative . |
| 4 | Kharin 's £200,000 transfer from CSKA Moscow will be completed any day now but Hitchcock wants to give him the Beasant treatment . |
| 5 | " David Fairfax came to see you the other day , " Matthew went on . |
| 6 | We had a very good time , & good weather , for the rest of our stay , & I think Richard enjoyed showing us the many attractions of his area as much as we enjoyed seeing them . |
| 7 | David offered to show me the place and … ’ |
| 8 | Just before he left , Creed had given him the date . |
| 9 | Eleanor had given him the opportunity he had needed . |
| 10 | By turning record-packers into talent scouts , magazine salesmen into managers , Branson had paid them the compliment of saying ‘ I trust you ’ . |
| 11 | Mrs Wright had given him the key to lock the door but he had n't locked it . |
| 12 | Of course , Delia Sutherland had personalised it the way women do , in her case with a trace of dog . |
| 13 | She was in some ways , a female Kenneth Williams , an eccentric who could emote facially and vocally in a way in which Ken had established himself the master . |
| 14 | ‘ We were in the lane after Sacco left , ’ said Nooty , ‘ and it was getting really cold and Dorcas said to take him the other side of the hedge and , well , it was me who said you can see rabbits in this field sometimes , and he said find a rabbit-hole . |
| 15 | Chico offered Rex the kind of comforting smile Rex had offered him the night before . |
| 16 | And then Lisabeth came to see what the noise was and he must have thought she was you for a minute — we had the curtains drawn , you see . |
| 17 | Flashman has made us the laughing stock of football . |
| 18 | Zen decided to give him the only answer he had been able to come up with . |
| 19 | Her time with Giles had cost her the equivalent of a layer of skin . |
| 20 | He ate in the canteen , spoke with some of the robots , wandered into the sitting room where Roirbak had left him the stack of films , rejected every one as boring , and decided to do a little exploring . |
| 21 | With that instinct for survival that had kept the Member for Arden in Parliament for so long , Grunte had sold him the car at a nil rate of interest . |
| 22 | Mr. Barnes ' affidavit quoted above showed beyond question , he submitted , that the Bank of England had asked themselves the right question ( paragraph 9 ) and that they did indeed require the production of the documents reasonably for the purposes of their own domestic supervision ( paragraphs 8 , 10 and 13 ) . |
| 23 | Theyll have to give us the trophy for keeps if we win it again in the next quarter century . |
| 24 | And his mum Sherie has promised him the best one ever . |
| 25 | Whatever was down there was very heavy and Endill shuddered to think what the giant eel would look like when it loomed into view . |
| 26 | They seemed annoyed to have been woken in this manner , and Stephen demanded to know what the problem was . |
| 27 | The other English Duke in Brussels , Wellington , would have been grateful had he known that Richmond had spared him the Duchess 's worries , for the Commander-in-Chief of the British and Dutch armies already had more than enough worries of his own . |
| 28 | ‘ Yes , but Winnie does tell us the truth , does n't he , even if we do n't like it ? |
| 29 | Capron had lent me the gun , and suggested the ploy of telling Graham that I had found new evidence that would clear his name of the allegations that he was a Soviet agent . |
| 30 | She was a nurse at a hospital on the other side of the village , and Killion had met her the previous evening by simply walking into the hospital and asking the first girl he saw if she would come out with him . |