Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] the [noun sg] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the Battle of Waterloo Howe visited the battlefield and on his return produced a panorama covering many feet of canvas which depicted incidents in the fight . |
| 2 | The road to Rimini by-passed the town and in a few moments they were out in the wilds again , labouring up a steep , tortuous medieval track on which modern civilization had done no more than slap a layer of asphalt and a road number . |
| 3 | Mikhail Gorbachev took the request as as a joke but Mr Cliburn was entirely serious . |
| 4 | Mr Beckett makes the point that before embarking on such a venture the land would need to be fully assessed to determine the stocking rate . |
| 5 | King 's Road 's Mary Quant told the conference that with the advent of the miniskirt in the sixties the crotch had been redefined as the new erogenous zone . |
| 6 | When he published Parachute Padre , Fraser McLuskey mentioned the fact that to that day no trace had been found of the missing plane . |
| 7 | The poem is egocentric both in the strictly linguistic sense in which John Lyons uses the word and in its normal sense . |
| 8 | Aitken 's fellow international midfielder Paul McStay misses the match because of suspension , while Hibs recall their international goalkeeper Andy Goram . |
| 9 | Jane took the initiative and with encouragement from other students and tutors on the scheme she set up the Achievement Group , a ‘ students supporting students ’ programme . |
| 10 | The following year Mazarin commissioned Francesco Buti , the librettist of Rossi 's Orfeo , to recruit Italian singers and write another work , Le nozze di Peleo e di Theti , for which a Roman composer Carlo Caproli supplied the music and in which the dancers included not only Lully but the 15-year-old Louis XIV who was full of admiration for him . |
| 11 | Chan makes the point that in recent times academics have fared better than the average urban worker . |
| 12 | Noble sold the mill and by 1887 it had been taken over by Moses John Mason who , at his peak , was producing up to four tons of millboard per week . |
| 13 | However , his scrap with brother Joey enthralled the crowd and at the finish they came over the line almost together . |
| 14 | The hair was black , cropped short , the mouth looked like a casket holding mighty documents , and the eyes — the eyes were blue like electric shock-waves and held Lee as the eyes of an O'Toole or Cooper hold the audience when in close-up , like magnets , obliterating backdrops , Chinese plains , crazy broads , plots , accompanying scores , Orson Welles , everything . |
| 15 | Malone absorbed the pressure and against the run of play took up a position inside their opponents 22 . |
| 16 | Theseus slew the Minotaur and with Ariadne set sail for home , stopping at Naxos , where , after a night of love , he slipped away at dawn without her . |
| 17 | Medved makes the point that in Martin Scorsese 's remake of Cape Fear , Robert De Niro 's killer is a deranged Christian fundamentalist , whereas there was no religious dimension when Robert Mitchum played the role in the Sixties . |
| 18 | Medved makes the point that in Martin Scorsese 's remake of Cape Fear , the killer is a deranged Christian fundamentalist , whereas there was no religious dimension in the Sixties |
| 19 | China regarded the sale as in breach of a 1982 Sino-US agreement . |
| 20 | However Mr Botham discounted the idea that with 15 per cent of arable land now in set aside , farmers were cutting back on their inputs to a parallel degree . |
| 21 | Sandor keyed the PDU and at once Rostov sensed the relaxation of tension which went round the bridge . |
| 22 | The government of China denounced the project and on April 29 Xinhua accused Taiwan of helping to fund the vessel , conduct which was described as an " open provocation " . |
| 23 | But the agreement has been interpreted here as a bid to stave off a likely request that Peru leave the Fund because of its violation of the rules . |
| 24 | Mr Nathan lamented the fact that for 40 years Israel had been saying it had no one to talk to and now that the other side was prepared to talk , Israel refused . |
| 25 | Austin mooted the idea that on occasion what justifies my belief that there is a pig before me is just the pig ( Austin , 1962 , pp. 115- 16 ) . |
| 26 | In late October , after the Chancellor proposed certain tax increases , the FDP left the coalition and on 30 November , without their support , Erhard was forced to resign , his party divided , his foreign policy questioned , and even his reputation as an economic wizard tarnished . |
| 27 | Mr Prescott told the court that on the fateful evening Boxing Day last year he had been in the pub with Mr Maltby and another friend . |
| 28 | Joan Collins has the glamour but with just four husbands is under-qualified . |
| 29 | The Armstrongs were a lawless lot , paying little more allegiance to Scotland than they did to England , for they straddled the borderline ; so they were not to be trusted , but Johnstone and Jardine assured the Regent that on this occasion they would not cause trouble , for although they would care nothing about Balliol one way or the other , they hated Dacre , who as English Middle March Warden had recently hanged some of their people . |
| 30 | Dr Odling-Smee told the jury that in 1983 he read about his father 's role in the repatriation of the Cossacks in Mr Nikolai Tolstoy 's book Victims of Yalta . |