Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] the royal " in BNC.
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| 1 | Douglas was glad to acknowledge Miller 's help and told the Royal Society that he had received some coconuts ‘ germinated in this country by the industrious Mr. Miller , by whose care and skill they were brought to this perfection ; and besides he very freely communicated to me for the good of the publick his own methods in management in raising them which I here desire may be read in his words . ’ |
| 2 | In the Graeco-Roman period he was worshipped at Thebes in the Ptolemaic temple of Deir el-Medina , the village for the craftsmen who had build and decorated the royal tombs of the New Kingdom , and in the sanctuary of the mortuary temple of the Eighteenth Dynasty ruler Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahri , which ad become a centre for healing . |
| 3 | In his view , the courts had no power to question the validity of any act passed by both Houses of Parliament and given the Royal Assent . |
| 4 | John Major has been told by constitutional lawyers that he could ignore Parliament and use the royal prerogative to sign the treaty bill if he faced the prospect of defeat . |
| 5 | With Albert he planned the royal children 's education and systematized the royal household . |
| 6 | One can only assume that the Roman officials exceeded their authority and treated the royal family with disrespect . |
| 7 | I had a clerk in St Paul 's write it out , then stood by Aldgate and bribed a royal messenger , carrying the white wand and wearing the royal gold-and-blue surcoat , who was travelling to King 's Lynn , to leave the message with Master Daunbey . |
| 8 | Not until October 14 , when a U-boat penetrated the defences of Britain 's ‘ safest harbour ’ at Scapa Flow and killed the Royal Oak and more than eight hundred of her sailors , did the chill of autumn begin to bite . |
| 9 | Less than 100 years later , zealots of the Reformation would have wrecked the abbey and plundered the Royal tombs and fire would have destroyed more than 200 of the 247 houses in the town . |
| 10 | There is no need for Labour to be ashamed of its defence record , although the Conservative document ’ Britain 's Defence : Unsafe in Labour 's hands ’ gives the impression that a Labour Government would destroy the Navy , devastate the Army and demolish the Royal Air Force . |
| 11 | They say they are coming to attack Your Majesty 's garden and steal the royal lettuces . |
| 12 | His favourite relaxation was to toddle down to the quay and join the Royal Navy patrol boat for a day out . |