Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [vb pp] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within the last hour , chairman Kevin Kelly has introduced the former Parkhead player he hopes can turn the club around . |
| 2 | Taylor has given the former Nottingham Forest midfielder 10 caps in his three years without ever finding a niche for the 26-year-old . |
| 3 | Notts County manager Mick Walker has named the same fourteen that were on duty at the City ground on Saturday for tonight 's journey to Wolves . |
| 4 | The event , last sponsored by Harp in the mid 1980s , was staged at Wembley Arena and by the end of the televised evening tournament , Watford had scored the most goals to win the top award of the event . |
| 5 | David had said the same sort of thing , thought Juliet , and a deep feeling of sadness washed over her . |
| 6 | She just waited until the storm was over , when she pulled a clean handkerchief from her sleeve and handed it to Annunziata , remembering with a tiny moment of irrepressible pleasure the time when David had done the same for her . |
| 7 | Edward had made the same objection . |
| 8 | His support for the idea of sending a US special envoy to Northern Ireland has attracted the most attention during his three-day visit , which ends today . |
| 9 | The agreement in Washington has muffled the many disagreements encountered along this road by limiting the West 's aims . |
| 10 | His friend , Helen Woodruff had admitted the same charge , and already been banned from keeping dogs for 7 years . |
| 11 | She felt a sudden uncomfortable twist in her stomach , and she could sense that Jake had felt the same . |
| 12 | Given the fundamental importance of demography for any assessment of a pre-industrial economy , it is not surprising that economic historians have pressed the surveys into service ( historians of medieval England have done the same sort of thing with Domesday Book ) as sources of demographic data . |
| 13 | Saddam Hussein has made the most of it , has n't he really ? |
| 14 | Alexander Wilson has called the latter the ‘ theatre of recorded entertainment ’ . |
| 15 | At a time when English officialdom has been worrying about the fact that some among their top youngsters are playing more golf than is good for them , Stevely has had the same feelings where his own pupils are concerned . |
| 16 | Ronni shook her head at Guido , remembering how Silvia had said the same thing to her . |
| 17 | Councillor Bellamy had asked the same question , Carolyn recalled . |
| 18 | But , I mean Rover have done the same I know for a fact that Rover have done the same to some of their blokes , |
| 19 | But , I mean Rover have done the same I know for a fact that Rover have done the same to some of their blokes , |
| 20 | He is such fun , the intelligent person 's humorous read à la David Lodge ( Penguin has used the same cover illustrator , Paul Cox ) . |
| 21 | Defries had had the same idea . |
| 22 | Twenty years earlier , R. A. Butler had shared the same fate , recalling the ‘ blood curdling demands ’ made annually at the Conservative Party Conference for the restoration of corporal punishment which had ‘ quite clouded ’ his time as Chairman of the Party . |
| 23 | Kate and Diane have booked the same venue with its easy access just minutes off the M5 motorway and superb views across the Somerset countryside . |
| 24 | Latvia , Lithuania and now Kirgizstan have done the same . |
| 25 | His friend David Lodge has explored the same theme in farcical vein in Changing Places ( 1975 ) , Small World ( 1984 ) and Nice Work ( 1988 ) , where farce is sophisticated by literary allusion and softened by the hint that humane values , however easily forgotten in the contest of fashion and the struggle for careers , may yet be of intrinsic worth . |
| 26 | For the past two years Brand has seen the same sports psychologist , John Allsop , who helped Peter Baker earn a cup debut this month . |
| 27 | As soon as he 'd switched the light off , Zeno had taken the same route through the yard as Sophie had done a little earlier . |
| 28 | If Neil Kinnock had won the same level of support from manual workers and their families as Harold Wilson achieved in the 1960s , he would be in Downing Street today . |
| 29 | I began to imagine that the landlord , being about to emigrate , might murder us to get our money … ’ and claims that Johnson had entertained the same fears , although Johnson never mentions such thoughts . |
| 30 | In Germany , Peter Malinski has done the same , except that , whereas the Italian kites fly in the vertical plane , Peter 's are very wide span horizontal designs . |