Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun prp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Before the end of the year , he was also prepared to make a concession to Philip Augustus and legitimize his heirs — Philip 's bigamous wife had conveniently died — to encourage Philip towards the support of Otto . |
| 32 | He reserved two rooms in the name James Gage and arranged to meet Paula in the dining-room . |
| 33 | Molly and Mary both had things to do that evening , so Yanto had arranged to meet Billy in the Boar to round off a good weekend . |
| 34 | Others include Willard Metcalf , Theodore Butler , Carroll Beckwith , Lila Cabbot Perry and less eminent idolators , who eventually were to irritate Monet beyond the point of endurance . |
| 35 | He still however was in a sufficient bad temper to punch Jocelyn in the mouth as she brought him tea . |
| 36 | That evening a knock — furtive and hasty , telling Alice who it was — brought her out to find Monica on the path near the gate , not outside the door , for the girl had been afraid that Faye might open the door . |
| 37 | Relations with Brian Clough hit rock bottom , you might remember , when the manager called the police in to escort Fashanu from the club 's training ground . |
| 38 | After a brief , appalled glance at Lydia , Mrs Molesworth ( Lil ) sat down on a corner of the sofa and asked the doctor a question about the imminent agricultural show designed to exclude Lydia from the conversation , to reveal her close knowledge of this event and therefore to illustrate her important position in the local community . |
| 39 | Continuing anti-US feeling in Iran and the associated strength of the radical Islamic political forces resulted from the US refusal to make a more comprehensive effort to compensate Iran for the shooting down of an Iranian airbus in the Gulf by the USS Vincennes warship in July 1988 [ see pp. 36169-70 ] , and from the fact that it continued to hold , according to official Iranian estimates , some $12,000 million in assets frozen since the 1979 Iranian revolution [ for agreement in November 1989 to release assets see p. 37053 ] . |
| 40 | One evening Anders Osterlind was astonished to find Modi in the nude , spitting on the white walls of his room . |
| 41 | For centuries young bloods had been sent off by indulgent parents to tour Europe in the hope that they would return cultured , educated , their manners refined and their address books packed with useful contacts , but Cook 's was the first group tour of European countries organized by an excursion agent . |
| 42 | Bowe was stripped of his title for refusing to meet Lewis in the ring . |
| 43 | The plan is to launch Delgado onto the world senior circuit at 16 to continue his learning process . |
| 44 | The first from play and the second from a penalty and both combined to provide Monaghan with the incentive they needed after Cavan had threatened to overrun them . |
| 45 | But that 's just the point — it 's dismal and bleak and they 're frozen stiff , hoping to catch Ramirez in the stake- out and barely able to express anything , but what they do express is infinitely lugubrious and despondent . |
| 46 | She turned to catch Archie in the act of trying to vanish upstairs . |
| 47 | Mountbatten tried to tempt Bogyoke with the post of Deputy Inspector-General and the British rank of Brigadier : he was too shrewd to be side-tracked in that way . |
| 48 | Elisabeth did , but shook her head in order to provide Mitzi with the opportunity to inform her . |
| 49 | She had arranged to meet Luke in the bar for a drink , and she hoped that he had a dinner engagement so that she would be left to her own devices afterwards . |
| 50 | French league president Noel Le Graet had urged Tapie to withdraw his civil court action to reinstate Marseille in the competition after world soccer 's governing body FIFA threatened to suspend France from international competition . |
| 51 | ‘ Listen , my dear , ’ she said to Alexandra , summoned flushed and impatient from the orchard where she had been settling her new charges in and attempting , as tactfully as possible , to exclude Murphy from the process , ‘ Mrs Langley says George is heartened beyond anything by your visit . |
| 52 | Cuba replied to the Declaration of San José with the First Declaration of Havana which welcomed the Soviet Union 's ‘ offer to support Cuba with the aid of rockets ’ ( Obra Revolucionaria , 6 September 1960 , in Clissold : 1970 , p. 259 ) . |
| 53 | When it 's daylight in Leningrad and the buses and lorries are roaring along the wide Nevsky , and African delegates are being toasted at multi-course lunches at the Astoria , then it 's easy to see Leningrad as the birthplace of Communism . |
| 54 | They kissed , briefly , and made a date for about eleven the same morning , to see Karen onto the ferry . |
| 55 | ‘ If we do n't do well in the exam , if we do n't get anything here , ’ Sheila blurted out , as they said goodbye outside the front garden while Moran waited with the engine running to drive Maggie to the station , ‘ you may see us in London soon enough . ’ |
| 56 | But Flanagan said : ‘ I had no hesitation in advising the board to promote Nigel to the job — and his results have proved me right . |
| 57 | George was already phrasing his call to Culliman ; perhaps the request should be for Maxim to ‘ make himself available ’ to the Study group a suggestion of staying several days give the chap a chance to see Washington in the fall … and make a quick trip to St Louis and back . |
| 58 | This time the supervision was stricter , and it became more difficult for me to pass my butter ration on to someone else , to pour Ovaltine down the sink behind the matron 's back , or to dispose of extra food by means of the lavatory . |
| 59 | The 1958 war is remembered now not so much for the vicious sectarian battles that occurred in Beirut but for the arrival of the US Marines , who stormed ashore only to find the beaches occupied not by militiamen but by bikini-clad ladies and street urchins who were merely waiting to sell Coca-Cola to the country 's latest rescuers . |
| 60 | BAD play stopped light as the Selhurst Park floodlights blew a fuse and Robert Fleck blew the chance to shoot Chelsea into the title race . |