Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] [noun prp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one end fast-medium bowler Hill-Wood vigorously shone the ball on his trousers , only to see Ian Peebles at the other end undo his work by rubbing the shine away in the dust . |
| 2 | That evening , I went to see King Lear at the Old Vic , but I was unable to shake off my self-pity and I could n't for the life of me see what the old git was moaning about . |
| 3 | Cliftonville are unlikely to risk Jim McFadden with the Irish Cup semi-final looming . |
| 4 | you know I 'm gon na take the kids to see Snow White at the weekend |
| 5 | All of a sudden it becomes frighteningly clear why over 40 per cent of the New Hampshire electorate were keen to see Pat Buchanan in the White House . |
| 6 | He hurried to her aid and between them they managed to half-carry Miss Merchiston from the room . |
| 7 | The financial figure turned his head slightly to include Miss Drax in the conversation . |
| 8 | ‘ Keeper Paddy Hefferman got his fingertips to the best effort and was glad to find Ian Jones on the line to hoof the ball away . |
| 9 | PROMOTER Mickey Duff last night signed up an experienced Mexican , Jesus Rojas , to box Andy Holligan in the top-liner at Everton Park Sports Centre next Thursday , writes Syd Dye . |
| 10 | The little laundry maid who came in daily from the village was dismayed to find Miss Alexandra in the laundry room asking what clear starch was and demanding to be shown how to use a goffering iron . |
| 11 | One day in the middle of February I made an appointment to meet Dr Jaffery at the Red Fort . |
| 12 | It seems to accept Saint Monday to the extent of being not only general but a " fixed arrangement " which , added to Sunday , made up a " weekend " . |
| 13 | McAllister bustled in her turn , made the tea and carried the silver tray through into the parlour , to find Dr Neil at the sideboard , looking grim , the whisky bottle in his hand . |
| 14 | Later , habit was to help me to find Aunt Louise with the assurance of a homing pigeon ; now , hesitant of asking the way ( being unable to read on the faces of those I encountered whether they were patients or helpers ) , I had great difficulty in finding the right building ; and then — up ill-lit stone staircases and along corridors — in finding the ward to which I had been directed . |
| 15 | He was quite surprised to find Roz Hatch in the room with him . |
| 16 | Killion had arranged to meet Jane Ashton outside the Chavigny canteen . |
| 17 | A perfect day for fishing , but Luke had n't been able to find Tom Carey at the usual places . |
| 18 | Sole at the heart of Scotland for many years to come Robert Armstrong on the consummate skills of the new national captain . |
| 19 | I was very nervous when I went to meet Mr Wogan for the first time but the gentleman who drove the big car to the show was very nice and friendly . |
| 20 | The chance to take your family to meet Mickey Mouse on the holiday of a lifetime |
| 21 | The first of these statements was such an insult to my intelligence that I wanted to punch Mr Kinnock on the nose , and the second so downright outrageous that I wanted to do something worse . |
| 22 | David Reynolds had arranged to meet Diane Rohmer in the Science block , because unlike the Union building it had open access and he would n't have to be signed in . |
| 23 | Although , the rule of the clock affected most people in the sixteenth century far less than it does us today , it was already sufficient to provoke Brother Jean in the Gargantua ( 1535 ) of Rabelais to complain that ‘ the hours are made for man and not man for the hours ! ’ |
| 24 | It also has ambitions to displace Hong Kong as the Hollywood of Asia . |
| 25 | So , although the events leading up to the Civil War made it seem desirable to Hobbes to write De Cive before the completion of De Homine , his finding this possible was not inconsistent with his conception of a three-part ordered system of Elements of Philosophy . |
| 26 | In fact , the Big Three continued to exclude de Gaulle from the most important inter-Allied conferences ( at Dumbarton Oaks in the autumn of 1944 and at Yalta in February 1945 ) . |
| 27 | He was due to meet de Gaulle on the 15th at Rambouillet in an attempt to soften the General 's opposition to Britain 's entry into the EEC ; and then to fly to Nassau on the 18th to meet President Kennedy for wide-ranging talks , including East-West relations , the backwash of the Cuban missile crisis , improvement of India 's defences against China , the Congo Civil War , and , most important of all , the proposed Nuclear Test Ban Treaty . |
| 28 | To escort Delia Sutherland to the main harbour he selected a navy pinstriped suit with matching waistcoat . |
| 29 | And no joy for West Brom in the northeast where a single goal separated those sides as Sunderland prepare to meet Aston Villa in the Coca Cola Cup . |
| 30 | The 39-year-old Englishman swept to a final-round 66 at Golf del Sur to add the Tenerife Open title to the Madeira Open crown he won last month , and to displace Nick Faldo at the head of the money list . |