Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun prp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had arranged March for the wedding . |
| 2 | Mr Beaton had been dumped by a road-side and picked up by police who had been alerted to the hijack and had eventually stopped MacIver in the lorry at Doune . |
| 3 | She had been christened Nicandra on the insistence of her father who , in his luckier years , had bred and trained and ridden an outstanding winner of that name . |
| 4 | I have included Equuleus in the map with Delphinus . |
| 5 | I 'd parked Armstrong around the side of Sedgeley House in one of the diagonal streets that run off to the Edgware Road . |
| 6 | Having lifted Hector into the vehicle , where he sat on the floorboards , panting with his tongue lolling out , and wagging a satisfied tail , Benedict swung himself up and grinned down at her as he took the reins into his hand . |
| 7 | In the great days of Suleiman the Magnificent the sultan 's armies reached the gates of Vienna in 1529 , having already subdued Hungary at the battle of Mohács three years earlier . |
| 8 | I have included Norma in the map with Ara . |
| 9 | Both men had served in the Prince of Wales 's Own Volunteers where d'Alembord had succeeded Sharpe to the command of the first battalion 's light company . |
| 10 | The attention has catapulted Singleton to the fore of the newwave of black film-makers and he has been taking full advantage of the limelight , running off his mouth on issues of Black America and the worldwide struggles of the oppressed , with a revolutionary fervour that threatens to eclipse even his hero and mentor , Spike Lee . |
| 11 | Over 40 years ' experience of the nuclear industry has installed AEA at the forefront of decommissioning technology in the UK and worldwide . |
| 12 | Herodotus ' History can be seen as a sermon on the text that Spartans and Persians , even in their great period of conflict , gradually came to value each other 's qualities:2 at first ( Hdt. i.153 ) Cyrus the Great scoffs at the Greeks who come together in a market-place to cheat each other ; by the end , the exiled Spartan king Demaratos is shown ( vii.104 ) lecturing a clearly impressed Xerxes on the subject of Spartan deference to law . |
| 13 | There was no evidence that Berowne had started his own meal — that in itself might be of some help in deciding on the approximate time of death — but he had apparently either cajoled Harry into the church with the promise of a meal or , more likely , had supplied an obvious and immediate need before he was ready for his own share of the supper . |
| 14 | After Gerald Williams had caught Pontypool on the hop with a 16th minute try , converted by Mark Wyatt , the Kiwi import changed the whole course of events . |
| 15 | The duke 's campaign of the previous season , which had won Berwick for the crown , may have whipped up enthusiasm for future conquests , but it had also been a lesson in the expense and difficulty of winning a small piece of land and the cost of keeping it thereafter . |
| 16 | The duke 's campaign of the previous season , which had won Berwick for the crown , may have whipped up enthusiasm for future conquests , but it had also been a lesson in the expense and difficulty of winning a small piece of land and the cost of keeping it thereafter . |
| 17 | It was opposed , on the French side , by virtually the same principle which , for all the emotional resurgence of Jacobin principles that may have suffused France at the end of the war , had faded by comparison with the raw and remorseless nationalism that was waiting to engulf the French from one end of Vietnam to the other . |
| 18 | Significantly , on one occasion he was supposed to have wounded Hera in the breast . |
| 19 | Actually , it 's all theoretical stuff , as frankly it 's too cold to do much motorcycling on my wonderfully rebuilt MZ with the chrome mudguard . |
| 20 | The only big centres to have outperformed Edinburgh in the research rankings were Cambridge , Oxford and University College London . |
| 21 | White had rescued Brown from the nose but Ainley was dead when they managed to get him out . |
| 22 | Prima facie either the settlor has made a chargeable transfer which has attracted CTT on the value transferred ( unless his death before the passing of the Finance Act , 1975 , has prevented his disposition from being a chargeable transfer by giving rise to liability to estate duty under Section 2 ( 1 ) ( c ) of the Finance Act , 1894 ) or , in the case of a mortis causa settlement , either estate duty or CTT has been paid on his testamentary estate . |
| 23 | Skelton had partnered Florida in the knockout event and just shaded Whitaker and Fonda in a thrilling dash to the finishing line . |
| 24 | The banks financing the huge project have given Eurotunnel until the end of the year to come up with an agreed costing for completion of the tunnel sufficient to enable them to release fresh loans . |
| 25 | The banks have given Eurotunnel until the end of the year to come up with an agreed costing for completion of the Channel Tunnel . |
| 26 | I 've seen Swindon on the television in Holland . |
| 27 | Members of the royal family have visited Napier in the past but this was the first visit since the title ‘ Napier University ’ , was adopted . |
| 28 | He went into the downstairs room where he had seen Marcus through the window . |
| 29 | This cash financed a buying spree that has turned Televisa into the world 's biggest Spanish-language media group : its reach extends from Connecticut to Chile . |
| 30 | His subsequent progress inside the Corporation was rapid and distinctive — from the external services in Bush House to Canada again , this time as BBC representative from 1956 to 1959 ; back to Bush House as head of external broadcasting administration ; on to Broadcasting House as the BBC 's secretary ( 1963–6 ) , a post of varying status and influence at different times in the history of the BBC , but during the regime of the director-general , Sir Hugh Greene , who had personally selected Curran for the job , a key post drawing him into discussions of policy , often highly controversial policy , as well as of administration ; back again to Bush House as director of external services ( 1967–9 ) , which brought him into close touch with government ; and on Greene 's retirement , becoming , to his considerable surprise , director-general himself in April 1969 . |