Example sentences of "that [noun prp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They said that Kabir the weaver was favoured of God , and the crowds flocked round him for medicines and miracles . |
| 2 | The only two dates I have ever been able to remember are the date of my birth and 1066 , the year that William the Conqueror first visited England . |
| 3 | It is here that William the Conqueror is said to have bribed two friars to help him gain access to the City of York after he had besieged it unsuccessfully . |
| 4 | It was at the capture of Mantes that William the Conqueror fell from his horse and received the injury from which he later died in Rouen . |
| 5 | Via the half-reliable morsels of intelligence that pass from continent to continent along this jungle-drummed , smoke-signalled messageway , it appeared that William the Choco of Santa Fé in Darién was possessed of an unusual link with a great historical moment . |
| 6 | In all the yelling and argument that followed Jo concluded that Andy the gardener was a starfucker in the literal sense of the term , for what else could her mother have been doing in the pool house at that time of day and why else would she have over-reacted the way she did ? |
| 7 | A guide to London public sculpture described the monument as ‘ A masterpiece by the much-advertised apostle of Ugliness ’ , a view shared by those who felt that Hudson the nature lover was ill commemorated by a sculpture which showed nature in so raw a state . |
| 8 | all that proved to me is , is that Helen the board , the examination board that Helen did at the college , she said it was a much , a much better exam to do than it was at |
| 9 | It was soon after that that Tom the cabin boy 's Aunt Clarabel asked him to put the cat out . |
| 10 | One , application could be made to the court that Mr the landlord is unreasonably withholding consent to the lease , if the court finds that this is in fact the case they will permit the assignment of the lease to you , not withstanding the landlord 's objection . |
| 11 | ‘ I wonder if it 's that Jack the Ripper , ’ she laughed , and followed Dad out to the shed , leaving me with Liza who had just come in . |
| 12 | I had heard rumours that Jack the Ripper was about in the night , but that did n't stop me launching into the fog . |
| 13 | We saw that Jack the Ripper did n't we ? |
| 14 | Especially we remember those who served on this airfield and we pray that the peace they fought to obtain may not be lost to us , but as we may live and work to bring it to thy world , that Christ the Prince of Peace may reign in the affairs of men . |
| 15 | At that time they maintained that Christ the son of God descended on Jesus but left him before his suffering on the cross . |
| 16 | It leaves me speculating that Havel the artist is unlikely to be displaced by Havel the politican . |
| 17 | Actually , he , he knows that Paul the bloke who looks after the place he goes to St. Andrews . |
| 18 | Since Karajan was first and foremost a great musician , it follows that Karajan the film-maker is a man who helps transform our aural sensibilities . |
| 19 | But Luke also makes it plain that John the Baptist , through his mother , was descended from the priestly dynastic succession of Aaron — which would mean , of course , that Jesus was too . |
| 20 | And are you inferring that Thomas the Tank Engine is a video nasty . |
| 21 | I could be bathing the children , watching that Thomas the Tank Engine video for the 100th time … |