Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Great Earth Mother Mafulke lived in the Underworld and tended the enormous fires which blazed there . |
| 2 | In 1878 she published a novel Change upon Change ( American title , A Reed Shaken by the Wind , 1873 ) and in 1872–3 made her first visit to North America . |
| 3 | William read through the article , finding two literals , while she finished the last page . |
| 4 | Gerald fought to the bar for a couple more glasses and generously shared the bottle . |
| 5 | The negative views B. S. Johnson expresses above are fairly widely shared : Malcolm Bradbury points to the existence of a general critical assumption that after the work of the modernists , the ‘ experimental tradition ’ in Britain may simply have lapsed ( Bradbury 1973 : 86 ) . |
| 6 | Mr. Occhi got into the taxi , took £1 out of his wallet and gave it to the appellant who then , the wallet being still open , took a further £6 out of it . |
| 7 | The range of options offered at Napier contributes to the breadth of course curriculum and provides a necessary flexibility in choice of subjects studied . |
| 8 | At the head of Loch Torridon , the main road coming from Kinlochewe turns along the south shore for Shieldaig , first passing through the settlement of Annat . |
| 9 | Jerome crept to the foot of the steps , and there halted , baulked , rather , like a startled horse , drew hard breath and assayed to mount , and then suddenly threw up his arms to cover his face , fell on his knees with a lamentable , choking cry , and bowed himself against the stone of the steps . |
| 10 | Thus the mental horizons of labourism ( by which Nairn refers to the tradition of independent working-class representation ) were severely circumscribed . |
| 11 | They could see Mr Flood fussing round the window of his shop as if he were still worried about what they could have found so amusing in its contents . |
| 12 | Armstrong zipped through the City with more than usual aplomb , which made me think that Duncan the Drunken had given him a tuning . |
| 13 | Alexandra plunged into the wastepaper basket to retrieve the torn envelope . |
| 14 | This obstinate refusal to be a conformist explains not only the difficulties of integration that Nizan experienced within the party , but also — and this needs stressing — underlines the extent to which he succeeded in retaining intellectual autonomy and integrity within the party itself . |
| 15 | Laquer refers to the Reformation because of certain similarities between the problems caused by the Reformation and the Cold War . |
| 16 | Jonathan charts the painful break with union which it seems remains his first love — while Corrigan delves into the psychology of a man who temporarily split up with his wife , Karen , as a result of the grinding pressures of the modern game . |
| 17 | Cynthia Iliffe shared with the Board a feeling that it could be rather ‘ a hybrid sort of degree course at first ’ , but Pocock and the Board really believed in it , understood that the Crick model of a discipline-based degree had provided it with an academic foundation , but even then ‘ we talked a lot about integration ’ . |
| 18 | The Venezuelan poet Juan Liscano sits by the sea and tells us that Europeans ‘ tend to classify us as exotic birds-parrots , or toucans … ’ |
| 19 | As well as the frequency spectrum , one can define wave number spectra — Fourier transforms of the space correlations . |
| 20 | Three years after his return from Aden , Nizan got to the heart of his dilemma when he proclaimed : I came very close to being a bourgeois … |
| 21 | In response , however , Polycarp turns to the crowd in the amphitheatre and shouts out the words which the Proconsul has invited him to repeal as if they applied to the audience in the arena . |
| 22 | Nutty rode into the warehouse to see if it was ready , and Hoomey followed her , towing Bones , who was ready to go wherever the food sacks were going . |
| 23 | The importance which Ellis laid upon the drafting and promulgation of such rules is generally regarded as one of his major contributions to the civilizing of Texas prisons . |
| 24 | On May 11 Sahnoun met with the chairman of the United Somali Congress ( USC ) , Gen. Mohammed Farah Aydid ( whose dispute with interim President Ali Mahdi Mohammed was the immediate cause of continuing instability ) , to discuss the possible deployment of UN observers and of security personnel in Mogadishu . |
| 25 | From time to time he returned to Antwerp to arrange for the shipping of his works to England . |
| 26 | Harvey checked with the photographer , the forensic expert , who both said they did n't need the body any more . |
| 27 | The original clock and watchmaker business expanded in the late 19th century and a separate clock factory was set up in Robert Street , Middlesbrough to cope with the demand . |
| 28 | Mrs Hollyoake lived at the house in Belper , Derbys , with her husband and their 16-year-old daughter . |
| 29 | What did Bill Dodds think of the Kittyhawk ? |
| 30 | Florrie gazed at the letter in her hands . |