Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [vb past] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Monsieur Saulnier informed me the other day that it was not usual in this part of Normandy to have so many mosquitoes . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's a fine idea , but Mrs. Olinton told me the other day that Mr. Olinton would n't lend any of his buildings to Scouts or Guides or Brownies or Cubs . |
| 3 | He and another left-hander , the more dashing 21-year-old Robert Samuels , provided Jamaica with the batting stability they have so often lacked and captain Courtney Walsh gave them the bowling penetration with a tournament record 36 wickets at 11.30 each that combined to regain the Cup for Jamaica from Barbados , their third success in the last five seasons . |
| 4 | So many of the stories were wild exaggerations , inflamed by a number of factors — the ‘ culture contact ’ between rural and urban society , personal resentment ( particularly if two women were forced to share the same kitchen ) , the strangeness of the whole situation at the start of a frightening new war , or simply as Angus Calder put it the English tendency to confuse manners with morals . |
| 5 | Match referee Deryck Murray confiscated the match ball after umpires John Hampshire and Ken Palmer showed him the scarred leather . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm not frightened of dying because Dr Child gave me the right attitude : Think of the future and be hopeful . ’ |
| 7 | Former technical direct Dr Nigel Mykura told us the immediate cause of his February 1991 resignation was a transfer of £350,000 from AMS1s bank account to another MacDonald company , which Mykura believed would make it impossible for AMS to continue its research . |
| 8 | Sister Marcus gave us the report with her sleeves rolled up . |
| 9 | Mme Deloche taught me the basics I needed to learn . |
| 10 | When we arrived , Helen Stoner showed us the three bedrooms . |
| 11 | That is why , when the French economy was screaming for lower interest rates , President Mitterrand increased them the other day . |
| 12 | She was gon na kill me 'cos Sister Rosario gave her the ruler for pulling me plaits . |
| 13 | He was created baronet in 1837 , but Sir Robert Peel refused him the Irish peerage promised him by Melbourne . |
| 14 | He paid his rent , and Mr Carnford gave him the name of an old servant to look after him . |
| 15 | Of this Miller writes , ‘ It grows naturally in the West Indies , whence the late Mr. Robert Miller sent me the seeds ’ , and it would seem likely that Ehret 's specimen had been raised at Chelsea . |
| 16 | ‘ I almost had the creature last night , ’ Mr Crangle told him the next day . |
| 17 | In return for all this , Sir George handed them the deeds to Maran Hill , still unmortaged ; and he assigned his heavily mortgaged lands around Stockton . |
| 18 | When Sid Boyling gave us the light and waved us on , I read my brief prepared introduction and Mr Murray began : ‘ My friends , I speak to you from Melachusetuck , the old Indian name for Moose Jaw , and it is my pleasure to visit the studios of CHAB , your own community station , which your loyal support and encouragement over the years has made possible . |
| 19 | She ran her own stable , near Newbury , Berkshire , until Yorkshire businessman Fred Brown offered her the ride on his horses just over two years ago . |
| 20 | Jo Spence gave us the courage to open our own family albums , to remember the past , to acknowledge both the pleasure and the pain , and to celebrate the sublime , scruffy , misunderstood mystery of growing up female . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't mind telling you , Doctor , Mrs Carrow gave me the creeps sometimes when I took on looking after Miss Celia . |
| 22 | Back in the mid-1970s , Philip Rowntree gave me the funds to establish the Low Pay Unit ( LPU ) to campaign on behalf of workers in Wage Council industries . |
| 23 | Dot said , ‘ Mrs Hollidaye gave me the money for a cab . ’ |
| 24 | Jarvis , who was getting out at the next station , asked where they would be the following night ; the man who said his name was Jed Lowrie told him the Metropolitan , the Hammersmith Line . |
| 25 | At a meeting , our ward councillor Mr I. Hartley informed us the reason for this decision was because it was not viable . |
| 26 | Mrs Bottomley told them the health service had to move with the times and some closures were inevitable . |
| 27 | SHAKEN Gripping stuff , but Roger Moore left it the stuntman in Octopussy |
| 28 | Ian Hay told me the lady 's last wish had been that the Colonel should scatter her ashes in the headwaters of the River Laxford : ‘ But , you see , his new young wife was not the sort of lady to enjoy much walking and the poor Colonel just did n't know how he was going to get the job done . |
| 29 | Daisy Yates showed me the postcard she had had from him that morning . |
| 30 | Derek Ferguson gave him the ball and the striker swung in a low cross which invited a diving header . |