Example sentences of "[noun prp] the [adj] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Winterton , could you confirm the guard gave Mr Newman the normal check before he came in here ? ’ |
| 2 | Sophie had given Pascoe the bare details as they ran back from the restaurant ; now she told the rest . |
| 3 | Julia waited to give Raffaella the bad news until she had delivered her lesson , led a halting conversation in English about the future of Italy , handed out the previous week 's exercises that she had marked , and set the work for the next lesson . |
| 4 | This is Severn Trent Water International , it 's not Severn Trent the local firm as it were . |
| 5 | They 're doing another one but I think erm was talking to er Andy the other day because erm I 've been in manufacturing management meetings at |
| 6 | He tells how the Holy Spirit fell on Cornelius , and points out that God had given Cornelius the same gift as the Jewish believers . |
| 7 | It would , she saw , be perfectly possible for her and Pilade to go to England the following year if someone could be found to run her boarding house for the time it would take . |
| 8 | The England international sent goalkeeper Jan Stejskal the wrong way after he had been tripped by the keeper as he chased a weak back pass into the penalty area . |
| 9 | England has approximately the same land area as New York State , Scotland the same area as South Carolina , and Wales the same as Massachusetts . |
| 10 | I mean really look I said to Fred the other day if you knew you were depressed . |
| 11 | But Peter Shaffer himself was delighted with the public Williams the public voice as well as the Public Eye . |
| 12 | Jill handed Lindsey the last file before she led the smiling woman out . |
| 13 | In a press interview with the Reuters newsagency on Feb. 14 the Israeli ambassador to the USA , Zalman Shoval , said that Israel was being " given the run-around " by the US administration over the guarantee ; his remarks were described by Bush the following day as " outrageous " . |
| 14 | For its part , Bolivia , in return for the Peruvian sea outlet , committed itself to help Peru gain access to the Atlantic through the Bolivian town of Puerto Suárez and on through Brazil , offering Peru the same facilities as it had been offered in Ilo . |
| 15 | In 1923 , Labour won all four seats in West Ham , but lost Upton the following year as Labour members in outer London fell from fifteen to seven . |
| 16 | Riddick Bowe , who fights world champion Evander Holyfield here on Friday night , is almost certain to renege on the deal to give Lewis the first defence if he wins . |
| 17 | The Jones boys were busy preparing themselves for a whistle-stop tour of Texas , fuelled by the news from their American promoters that they 'd be playing Dallas and Houston the same nights as GENESIS , and that they were out-selling PHIL ‘ Two Houses ’ COLLINS and his Tory mates by three tickets to one . |
| 18 | The fat-coated grit , which contains a wormer , is scattered as soon as the shooting season ends in November right through until April the following year so that worm build-up is stopped . |
| 19 | She turned the pages quickly , ran her finger down a column , and said , ‘ Ah , Ian Woodall , qualified London the same year as Robert Sheldrake . |
| 20 | I understand she told John the same story before she promised to marry him , then they agreed it should never be mentioned again . |
| 21 | Forty-eight hours after the Novell-buys-Unix announcement , Microsoft was out telling folks like The Wall Street Journal that it would sell more than a million copies of Windows NT the first year after it comes out . |