Example sentences of "and [verb] [noun prp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That same Spirit , of course , empowered Jesus for his rich ministry and led John the Baptist to tell others of the One who would baptize people with the Holy Spirit and with ‘ fire ’ . |
| 2 | She saw him take the envelope from his pocket and show Ursula the letter inside . |
| 3 | ‘ Instead of going straight back , why not drive up into the hills and show Ashley the view ? ’ |
| 4 | Go and show Clara the garden . " |
| 5 | C. S. Lewis offered the most daring statement in the final volume of the ‘ Narnia ’ series , The Last Battle ( 1956 ) , in which we come across a young ( dead ) virtuous pagan , Emeth , who explains that all his life he has served Tash and scorned Aslan the Lion — earlier on it has been made clear that Tash is a bloody demon , Aslan , one might as well say , the ‘ Narnian ’ Christ . |
| 6 | It was this ‘ nature ’ that caused Nathan to act as the factory supervisor — ‘ a good guy ’ so far as the workers were concerned ; and allowed Horace the seniority , as ‘ a front-office man . ’ |
| 7 | He wrote it down and handed Brownlow the slip of paper . |
| 8 | But she only said , ‘ Have fun then , ’ and showed Oliver the lantern she had finished . |
| 9 | After she had a hot rum toddy in a steaming , warm tub and showed Josh the trap marks on her leg , they all sat around the wooden kitchen table to eat vegetable soup , local Stilton cheese , and a salad of walnuts and chicory , followed by gingerbread that Clare had made with Mrs Gooden 's special recipe . |
| 10 | One poet wrote a poem called the Hound of Hell in which he pictures Francis Thompson , the na name of the poet , in which he he pictures Je , er God pursuing men and women down through the corridors and labyrinths of time , down throughout their life , relentlessly pursuing and no matter how much you try and give God the slip , there he is , he will pursue you , he will seek you out , he desires to ca , for you to come to know him , and you can not get rid of God that easily ! |
| 11 | The Reverend W Awdry has lived and breathed Thomas the Tank engine ever since he wrote the first book about the lovable locomotive in 1945. 25 more books about Thomas and his friends followed Mas well as popular TV series . |
| 12 | He narrowed his eyes and saw Hope the Merchant Prince , the aristocrat at large on the Rialtos of the world , feared , admired , dipping silkenly between caskets of treasure , tranches of land , ships , silver mines , paintings , furniture , the collector , the connoisseur , and sending all back to the lonely Scottish estate which burgeoned with those foreign infusions of antique wealth , material goods … |
| 13 | Having spent the last decade appearing in television mini-series and narrating Thomas the Tank Engine , Starr has rediscovered his musical roots . |
| 14 | Editor Malcolm Barker agreed to overlook the qualification requirement and offered Clayton the job . |
| 15 | The black-eyebrowed albatross was a frequent visitor to the Parsee , and gave Gould the chance to try out a crude but innovative experiment — one of the first attempts to tag and monitor a live sea bird . |
| 16 | The only classy Lions ' back move of the second half came when Tony Underwood and Gibbs made sharp breaks and gave Clement the chance to burst through tackles for a converted try . |
| 17 | Oxford old boy John Aldridge was looking for his 40th goal of the season … it came just two minutes after Durnin 's … and gave Aldridge the eclub record he was looking for . |
| 18 | Charles resolved to travel to Rome to settle the feud , and gave Leo the protection of Frankish warriors to return home in the meantime . |
| 19 | After Oldsmobile 's factory burned down in 1901 , Ransom E Olds was forced to turn to contractors for the assembly of his single cylinder engine , and gave Leland the opportunity to prove his theory . |
| 20 | Mr McQueen joined them at table , and gave Johnson the kind of local knowledge he loved — the economics , way of life , problems of such an existence . |
| 21 | The 102nd Russian submarine fleet at Petropavlovsk has been alert ever since the international courts overruled the Soviet appeals and gave GenTech the right to conduct its surveys in the area . |
| 22 | Otto was counselled by his supporters to return to Germany to maintain his position and to marry Beatrice the daughter of Philip of Swabia to whom he had been betrothed . |
| 23 | A variation on Mamet 's last directional effort , Things Change , it creates a predictable but effective comedy from the convicts ' progress to ‘ salvation ’ , as real priests and ordinary folk take Penn 's stumbling idiocies and de Niro 's low-rent growls for down-to-earth spiritual lessons , and gives Jordan the space to pump up the religious allegory the film opens in prison Hell and ends with a life saving plunge into regenerative waters . |
| 24 | That is a matter on which I should be wise to seek the advice of my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney General and the Lord Chancellor . |
| 25 | My right hon. and learned Friend the Solicitor-General will be dealing with the question of contempt . |
| 26 | I look forward to a positive and enthusiastic response from my right hon. and learned Friend the Solicitor-General . |
| 27 | I know that my right hon. and learned Friend the Solicitor-General is giving urgent consideration to the matter . |
| 28 | If future arrangements were inadequate , my right Hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State would undoubtedly use those powers . |
| 29 | At that time the Hon. Gentleman expressed the hope that between then and Report his Hon. Friend the Minister would look into the matter , talk to his right Hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State and decide that it was more logical to have one body looking after all transport issues in Scotland . |
| 30 | Can he assure me that , if he has not already done so , he will send a copy of that report to our right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Employment ? |