Example sentences of "the [noun] [noun prp] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Halfway through the rehearsals Arthur started to feel anxious , and after nights of floundering he concluded that he should stop trying to put aside what he knew from music hall . |
| 2 | After Lamb had blown the whistle on the Pakistanis Dexter seemed to want to wash his hands of anything Lamb was doing — suggesting that the Northants captain 's forthright comments would not just end with a fine and a suspension from his County bosses . |
| 3 | His complaint is with the attachment VR has to effect rather than content . |
| 4 | Moreover , one might predict further that had royalty in 1940 continued with the rich pageants of peacetime ( as the Prince Regent had done during the Napoleonic wars ) , the indifference might have turned to explicit criticism . |
| 5 | While his father was still alive , the Prince Regent had married secretly a Roman Catholic widow , Maria Fitzherbert , but as it was without his father 's consent , it was contrary to the Royal Marriage Act of 1772 , so in 1795 , he married his cousin , Caroline of Brunswick , and a daughter was born , Princess Charlotte , but George IV and Caroline grew to loathe one another , so from 1796 they lived apart . |
| 6 | In addition the Deutscher Kunstverlag has launched a new series on masterpieces in museums with a volume on 120 of the Dresden Old Masters : Harald Marx , Gregor Weber , photos by Jurgen Karpinski Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister Dresden ( DM19.80 ) . |
| 7 | So far the Musée Rodin has kept up a pretence of knowing nothing about the case while in reality keeping an extremely close eye on every aspect of it . |
| 8 | The Musée Rodin has published the last of six volumes cataloguing the artist 's drawings . |
| 9 | ’ He turned away and started trudging through the wet grass in the direction Lesley-Jane had specified . |
| 10 | Just a short distance away , where the Whitechapel Road has turned into the Mild End Road , was another East End concern whose name had become part of a company with national interests — Mann Crossman and Paulin of the Albion brewery . |
| 11 | But Richard Wilson says he regrets the fact that units like the Ritchie Russell have to find money from outside the NHS . |
| 12 | The art historians and restorers dealing with the St Servatius restoration are pleased with the expertise DSM has brought to the project . |
| 13 | I refer , of course , to the discreet advertisements in the quality press , people mouthing fatuously ‘ Oh Barries ’ , when they see what shirt you 're wearing , the flyers Mercer manages to insinuate on to the information desks in some of the major London hotels , and so on and so forth . |
| 14 | In fact it seems to this reviewer that Quinton 's framework offers essential support for Eccleshall 's vision of Conservatism , in that the axioms Quinton describes provide for a specifically Conservative conception of political authority and social discipline . |
| 15 | By the end of the struggle France had lost almost every single colonial possession she had , so that French imperial history had to begin all over again in the nineteenth century , but nobody in 1690 could have guessed at such a result . |
| 16 | Another required part of the explanation is the institutions Qaddafi introduced to eliminate representation . |
| 17 | After the trial Bott continued to knock around his old haunts in Stoke Newington and the East End , gaining a professional qualification in urban planning which he used in community work with the homeless and unemployed . |
| 18 | Like The Fabulous Baker Boys , the King Brothers had broken up as much because they 'd ‘ had it up to here ’ as because of the ominous advent of ‘ the group ’ . |
| 19 | By this time , The King Bees had released a second single but this time without David Jones , although George Underwood was still with the band . |
| 20 | Capricious and Lothian , two of the flotilla 's escort frigates , swung at their buoys , which could only mean that the Jan Mayen had gone out to bring the submarine in . |
| 21 | Her head throbbed and there were stupid tears in her eyes ; so it took her a while to realize that it was the shell Adam had given her . |
| 22 | Before he completed the sentence Carrie had tumbled from the bed and was limping rapidly from the room , in a state of total nakedness . |
| 23 | He sat down at the bench and picked up one of the patterns Hari had made on paper . |
| 24 | Before her , the chains Fincara had spoken of hung from a ring in the centre of the roof — three of them , faintly golden when the light blazed . |
| 25 | There seemed nothing to be done except carry on with the dinner , but in the afternoon Anne went to see Sarah . |
| 26 | Soon after ascending the throne Alexander had relaxed the constraints on higher education which his father had introduced in the wake of the European revolutions of 1848 . |
| 27 | The money Sara has received from newspapers as a result of libel actions has helped to pay for that care . |
| 28 | Not only were her savings gone , but so was Aunt Jane 's legacy and the money Mike had pressed on her as an early wedding present … |
| 29 | The book gave a list of all the money Flint had stolen from different ships during twenty years at sea . |
| 30 | Within six days the Celbes Sailfins seemed to have a fit . |