Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun prp] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every day , she went to the Casa Guidi and collected any letters for the Brownings to redirect them to Rome but she no longer envied the recipients their voluminous correspondence . |
| 2 | Complain about the time it takes for the Beano to reach me . |
| 3 | ‘ When I beat Nick for the Barcelona Open it gave me a three-year exemption on the tour but it turned out to be a £90,000 exemption — that 's what it cost me to keep playing until I lost it in 1991 . ’ |
| 4 | Well for the Birmingham branch it meant a reasonable sized job in cleaning up the ‘ bungalow ’ . |
| 5 | Harry looked round desperately for the O'Hanlons to assist him , but the O'Hanlons had fainted at the very outset and had been dragged clear by Ram , who was now trying to fan them back to consciousness with a copy of the Illustrated London News . |
| 6 | A spokesperson for the Halifax says they got involved because ’ … the Oxfordshire Debtline was an ideal project to help people in financial difficulties , especially when the recession was deepening . ’ |
| 7 | A spokesman for the FA said they would investigate any complaints , and added : ‘ We shall look at what happens closely before we say one way or the other whether this would be allowed or not . ’ |
| 8 | The idea , according to one report , was for the capital 's defenders to surrender their arms to the UN , for the Serbs to keep theirs but to pull back from the city , and for the UN to create a ‘ security belt ’ between . |
| 9 | Inevitably , writing for the Cornhill gave him a first experience of the restrictions imposed on authors by the readers of quality magazines , but for the time being he was happy to compromise in the interests of his career . |
| 10 | The Secretary General recommends that earmarked forces should be provided for the UN to give it a permanent rapid deployment force with all the requisite logistic and technical support and air and sea lift capabilities . |
| 11 | He lifted a strong hand , signalled brusquely for the Mercedes to pick them up , and pushed her into the rear seats , sliding in next to her . |
| 12 | It has never been used for that purpose , although Sir Anthony Eden contemplated invoking it for government propaganda during the Suez crisis , and during the Falklands recapture it provided the legal basis for the Government 's use of BBC transmitters on Ascension Island to beam propaganda broadcasts at Argentina . |
| 13 | As the RNO put it , ‘ Friern had been on the rack ’ . |
| 14 | As the Danzigers saw it , Gdynia was just a very expensive way of ruining them ; it proved just how hard-hearted and merciless the Poles could be , and that feeling helped to foster the growth of the Nazi Party in the Free City . |
| 15 | Having said that , though , there is undoubtedly something wild and magnificent about an institution quite as cussed , mercurial and downright weird as the NME making it through four decades of turbulent cultural and commercial waters . |
| 16 | I still had no idea where we were going , but I kept the A-Z up against my face as the Sierra overtook me . |
| 17 | It seems from this that the way this prophet learnt to prophesy was as the Lord wakened him morning by morning . |
| 18 | Forgive as the Lord forgave you . |
| 19 | As the LSCA put it : ‘ If the momentum of consultation and communication is not maintained , members will not have confidence in the leaders of the Institute nor in the future proposals for financing its activities . ’ |
| 20 | In order to see things as the Trobrianders saw them , he joined their communities , learned their language , and lived among them as a member , noting and recording his observations in preparation for writing about them later : |
| 21 | I watched in disbelief as the Con-Sec paid her , counting out the notes and thumbing them from a pile on to the table in front of her so that all could witness his honesty . |
| 22 | As the Examiner put it : |
| 23 | As the Galks led them into the desert , the travellers could see the Cun arguing with the skull people , trying to reclaim their raw meat . |
| 24 | He could have told her about the IRA kidnapping him , but that would have alarmed her and the whole household . |
| 25 | When I went through the Blackfriars underpass I felt as though I had been hit by a brick , ’ she said . |
| 26 | Instead the Kette , led by the intrepid Müncheberg , dived after the Sunderland strafing it as it taxied to its moorings , and sinking it . |
| 27 | The mark also edged higher against the dollar after the Bundesbank announced it would allow market forces to set the rate for the weekly cash injection today , signalling a potential rise in the ‘ repo ’ rate . |
| 28 | The move came just 24 hours after the BBC announced it was axing Russ Abbot after audience ratings fell . |
| 29 | Four days after the Ralembergs told me about the Luciferi , I was in the Golden Turk carousing by myself . |
| 30 | RSVP was formed soon after the NRA announced it was considering building the reservoir in spring 1991 . |