Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] [noun prp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the Prime Minister immediately offered the use of British military camps in West Germany to help cope with the current surge of refugees , her Foreign Secretary , Mr Douglas Hurd , promised East Germany the kind of practical help in creating a more market-orientated economy which Britain has given Poland — some £25 million of ‘ Know How ’ funds over 25 years and is pledged to give to ex-Communist Hungary . |
| 2 | The man , claiming to be a detective , told Nellie Fleetwood the girl had tried to con her way into her Sheffield home . |
| 3 | Then she told Miss Hatherby the news . |
| 4 | Radio Norfolk interviewed Molly Scrutton the day before and a week previously , the ‘ Body Talk ’ page of The Eastern Evening News featured Medau . |
| 5 | Gaynor Harris told Julia Irvine the firm 's story , in the hope that others will learn from its experience |
| 6 | Above all , advised Viscount Haldane the War Secretary in 1911 , the scope of national education must be enlarged to include moral instruction and physical training ‘ if you want to eliminate the hooligan ’ . |
| 7 | She told Susan Coltman the friendship had started while Paula was living with her parents and Gilfoyle was staying at their new home in Grafton Drive , Upton , as it was being renovated . |
| 8 | She told Susan Coltman the friendship had started while Paula was living with her parents and Gilfoyle was staying at their new home in Grafton Drive , Upton , as it was being renovated . |
| 9 | ‘ The wiseacres of the village ’ , so Joseph Cottle heard from Coleridge , ‘ had … made Mr. W. the subject of their serious conversation ’ and concluded that a man so given to wandering the hills at late hours ‘ like a partridge ’ , and looking strangely at the moon , must either be a conjuror , a smuggler , or worst of all ‘ a desperd French jacobin ’ who was spying out the ground for a French invasion . |
| 10 | She passed Mr Bumble the tea-cup , and as he took it , he managed to give her hand a little stroke . |
| 11 | In the New England Journal of Medicine article which incensed Dr Mumby the validity of provocation of symptoms by intracutaneous tests to identify food sensitivities was evaluated under double blind conditions . |
| 12 | At least Morse spared Cedric Downes the charade of a cordial re-greeting ; he even forbore to express the hope that conditions were satisfactory and that the prisoner was being well treated . |
| 13 | MIRACLE man John Salako last night showed Paul Gascoigne the way to bounce back from serious injury . |
| 14 | But England 's funereal approach handed New Zealand the initiative in the first part of the day , with Reeve 's 167-minute 18 leading the retreat to the trenches . |
| 15 | ALAN McMANUS last night showed Jimmy White the exit door at Goffs , Co Kildare , as he marched into the Benson & Hedges Irish Masters semi-finals . |
| 16 | When the putative revolutionaries of the TUC and Labour Party met Lloyd George the day after their threat of direct action , it became clear that there was no real disagreement . |
| 17 | The spot marks the place where where hundreds and thousands gathered in February 1986 for a popular uprising that overthrew the late President Ferdinand Marcos , and made Mrs Aquino the President . |
| 18 | The spot marks the place where where hundreds and thousands gathered in February 1986 for a popular uprising that overthrew the late President Ferdinand Marcos , and made Mrs Aquino the President . |
| 19 | ‘ Would your friend like a nice hot kipper ? ’ asked Mrs Burbanks the landlady solicitously , on the grounds that foreigners , however well they spoke English , would never understand it . |
| 20 | ‘ I asked Mrs Gracie the housekeeper what to do , ’ she said , and a sudden grin , like that of an urchin , showed on her face . |
| 21 | She took the lift up to the sixth floor and came to the room one O nine , which was her room , as she entered she noticed cobwebs and dampness on the walls , she flung her bed , bags on the bed and went downstairs to supper , after her supper she went to report , she went to the reception desk to report the cobwebs and dampness , she rang the bell a few times but no one answered , she was just about to go back to her room when she heard Mr Sandy the receptionist in the back room talking to her assistant , I put the body in Miss Hall 's wardrobe , Jane ran upstairs and sure enough there was a body , Jane rang the police then straight away , please could you come to the Riverside Hotel , there 's something I think you should see , there was a knock at the door and Mr Sandy answered it , hello , oh hello we 've just had phone call from here , are you sure this is the right hotel ? |
| 22 | It was in Mr Dunn 's interests to return the summons with his answers , because if he did not he would never know of judgement made against him in court declaring he owed Mr Rich the sum he claimed . |
| 23 | When news of this double disaster reached Addis Ababa the town was panic stricken with the German and the Turkish Legations spreading rumours and adding to the confusion . |
| 24 | As she reached Starr Hills the sun was a misty red disc over the sea , and there was rain in the air . |
| 25 | He sent Mr Leventis the weigh bill and the Cypriot embassy in Bonn picked them up and sent them to Cyprus . |
| 26 | In return for a book of her own — God Persists — Lewis sent Sister Penelope The Pilgrim 's Regress , and she noted his acerbic satire on High Anglicans . |
| 27 | ‘ You knew Adam Horne the merchant ? ’ |
| 28 | At the civic receptions they still sang God Dave the King , but we were no longer Jolly Good Fellows . |
| 29 | Looking out of the bedroom window , Elizabeth saw Bob Lamb the shepherd walking with his dog down the track from the high moor . |
| 30 | ‘ Why did you not tell me how you were placed ? ’ demanded Lady Merchiston the moment she walked through the door . |