Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Did your grandfather have any favourite hymns ? ’ the priest asked William before the service . |
| 2 | Their views might have attracted wider sympathy if the regime had been engaging in repression across the board , but although the tsar appeared to move to the right when he appointed Valuev to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Admiral Putiatin to the Ministry of Education , he was very far from abandoning the cause of reform . |
| 3 | But it does seem possible that Georgina purposely waylaid Arabella on the day before she died , and that the two of them had a row . |
| 4 | ‘ The question is , what do we do about it ? ’ asked Reed of the Treasury . |
| 5 | Unfortunately having the son of the most powerful man in the world did n't seem to do the Eagles much good — they stumbled against Argentina and finally fell flat on their faces when they met Tonga in the Plate quarter-final . |
| 6 | Then they led Linkworth to the hanging-shed to punish him for his crime . |
| 7 | I wanted the sugar and rather than wait for the waiter to return or ask this boy to get it , I asked Harvey for the sugar . |
| 8 | ‘ I am heterosexual , ’ announced Jason outside the court . |
| 9 | And somebody knew about that telephone call , and met Kemp at the railway station , doubtless informing the taxi-driver who had been hired that he was no longer required . ’ |
| 10 | When Arsenal met Hull in the Cup semi-final in 1930 , and were 2–0 down with ten minutes to go , Chapman 's ordeal on the bench grew to a fever-pitch of intensity . |
| 11 | During the next few months a violent fascist backlash , an orchestrated campaign of civil disorder and terrorism culminating in armed insurrection , led Nizan to the conclusion that very firm Republican counter-measures were necessary . |
| 12 | On Friday at school he passed Nutty in the corridor and gave her a fierce stare to remind her about their appointment and she said , ‘ I have n't forgotten , ’ in an aggrieved voice . |
| 13 | He asked Sarah for the photo and he was doing his usual stuff , you know , hand on heart . |
| 14 | I see that Wetherall got MOTM for the game on Saturday from one of the tabloids , so much for me saying he was at fault for the goals . |
| 15 | The Hong Kong Rugby Football Union , in a shock move — one which stems from desperation — saddled Simpkin with the post of national coach at the last meeting of its executive committee in March . |
| 16 | A few minutes later Silas led Lucy into the office , where he checked the telephone 's answering device for messages , then , having unhooked it from the phone , he said , ‘ There you are — it 's all yours . ’ |
| 17 | Mary Finnigan : ‘ I first met David in the summer of 1968 when I was living with my two children in a ground floor flat in an old house in Beckenham . |
| 18 | Nigel asked Eleanor into the TV lounge and they drank weak coffee from the machine . |
| 19 | They met Colebrooke in the passageway outside , thanked him for his attentions and went down the outside steps into the Tower bailey . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've done an awful lot of work , ’ admitted Faldo at the course where Jack Nicklaus won in 1967 and ‘ 80 . |
| 21 | In 1986 , on their first tour to Britain for years , the Bolshoi 's artistic director , Yuri Grigorovich , revealed Mukhamedov to the ballet world , and it gasped with astonishment . |
| 22 | Her name was Penelope but she quickly became Penny in the factory . |
| 23 | Athelstan sketched a blessing in the air at his tormentor , dismounted and led Philomel past the church of St Magnus on the corner of Bridge Street . |
| 24 | Sally left her bag in the cloakroom and met Edward in the balcony milk bar where he had a strawberry milk shake waiting for her . |
| 25 | He alleged that when he asked Scott about the planning , he received only an off-hand reply . |
| 26 | As Nancy led Molly into the garden she said , ‘ There are a whole lot of English people here , the local inhabitants . |
| 27 | After a time , the girl returned and , with obvious reluctance , led Hari into the sitting-room . |
| 28 | She met Dickie by the coconut shy . |
| 29 | There was general agreement that , although he never led Surrey to the title , their placings of second , third , fourth , third and second between 1921 and 1925 were little short of miraculous given the glorious lopsidedness of the team — brilliant batting ( led by Hobbs ) totally unmatched by workaday bowling . |
| 30 | WHEN Stuart Surridge led Surrey to the County Championship in 1952 , his first season of captaincy , Wisden , in choosing him alongside Tom Graveney , Fred Trueman , David Sheppard and Harold Gimblett as a Cricketer of the year , captured his salient qualities in a sentence : ‘ Though not always free from criticism as regards tactics and the manner in which he handled the bowling , he brought to Surrey a spirit of consistent enterprise and aggression such as they had not known since the days of P. G. H. Fender 's captaincy 20-odd years previously . ’ |