Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [vb past] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even if Patrick Milligan had known the size of ‘ Buck ’ O'Hara 's munificence , he would not have raised any objections . |
| 2 | Having lost her mother the moment she was born , the baby needed a nursemaid , so Patrick Milligan had hired the rat-faced Mrs MacDonagh who lived opposite . |
| 3 | It came just when we thought the powerful combination of Horan and Jason Little had produced the try of the day , the latter making a typically powerful break to send Horan gliding between the posts with the Baa-Baas defence dismantled . |
| 4 | The Prime Minister and Pakistan People 's Party ( PPP ) leader Benazir Bhutto had ordered the Army to assist Sind 's PPP government in suppressing the violence . |
| 5 | We expected to get a variety of other interesting specimens in the highlands of Arussi , where Ivor Buxton had discovered the mountain nyala in 1910 ; this large buck , resembling a greater kudu , was known only from the highlands of Arussi and Bale . |
| 6 | Miss Honey had heard the sound of Matilda 's feet racing over the gravel and now she straightened up and turned and stepped out of the rose-bed as the child came running up . |
| 7 | His cousin David Linley had designed the only modern piece in the room , a small marquetry desk of English fruit woods which held Richard 's private correspondence . |
| 8 | Napoleon Ill had threatened the independence of Luxembourg , thereby awakening long-established concerns about the preservation of Belgium 's territorial integrity . |
| 9 | Just before they sailed , word reached Berwick from Sir Simon Fraser that Edward Balliol had crossed the Border in strength , in the Middle March , by the Note o' the Gate pass , and installed himself in his old base of Roxburgh Castle . |
| 10 | FOOTNOTE Rumours that Johnny Dawes had redpointed The Meltdown on Quarryman wall in the Llanberis slate quarries have proved premature . |
| 11 | As I remember it was one morning a little while after my father and Miss Kenton had joined the staff , I had been in my pantry , sitting at the table going through my paperwork , when I heard a knock on my door . |
| 12 | At Eachuinn Odhar 's order , David Beaton had kept the lad well dosed with poppy , till he slept himself all unwitting and unwilling back to health . |
| 13 | institute , I heard that erm that John Taylor out of Duran Duran had bought the institute |
| 14 | It was February 3 : on Feb 4 , two years before , Richard Hadlee had become the first to reach this once-unthinkable total . |
| 15 | David Payne had supported the Palace from the Whitehorse Lane terraces as a boy and joined the club as an apprentice on 1 January 1964 . |
| 16 | In the first round of the championship , Miss Minoprio had frightened the life out of one , Miss Summerville , who later explained to the press that she had felt as if she were playing " a supernatural being " . |
| 17 | And at 0800 BST , a mere 19 minutes after Rebecca Stephens had made the summit and secured her place in history , the Press Association flashed the news — ‘ Rebecca Stevens reached summit of Everest ’ — to the world . |
| 18 | President Elias Hrawi had ordered the militias to leave greater Beirut ( an area comprising a belt running roughly 25 km around the city , from the Kelb River in the north to the Damour River in the south ) on Oct. 24 , in order to allow the government to press ahead with its " Greater Beirut Security Plan " . |
| 19 | Mrs. Hammond had taken the document out to California for Mr. Steed to execute . |
| 20 | Ilie Dumitrescu had given the Romanians the lead with a close-range shot in the 19th minute . |
| 21 | Ike Nwachukwu had chaired the tribunal which ordered the execution of 42 coup plotters in July [ see p. 37602 ] . |
| 22 | Ike Nwachukwu had chaired the tribunal which ordered the execution of 42 coup plotters in July [ see p. 37602 ] . |
| 23 | Gen. Chaovalit had entered the Cabinet on March 28 , a day after resigning as Army C.-in-C. [ see p. 37317 ] . |
| 24 | Maybe what I was saying was n't so very different from what Old Mother Walsh had given the troops all those years ago . |
| 25 | Was it possible that the grasping Miss P had meant the gesture kindly ? |
| 26 | And Miss Wharton had assured the police that her key had n't left her handbag . |
| 27 | Perhaps Miss Fergusson had instructed the guide to lead her companion to a place of safety , and then desert . |
| 28 | According to the extracted deposition of one pupil , Doris Harrison , Miss Outram had told the older girls about the forced feeding of suffragettes in prison . |
| 29 | If Edward Carrington had assumed the process would be quick or easy , he was quickly disabused . |
| 30 | Allen 's success was noted by Terry Yorath , the Wales manager , who also commented favourably on Mark Bowen , who notched the 88th-minute consolation goal after Graeme Rutjes and Johnny Bosman had put The Netherlands two goals up . |