Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] the [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An agreement was reached that month under which Sihanouk became the SNC 's neutral chair or president . |
| 2 | In September 1953 Curran became the BBC 's first internally selected administrative trainee , visiting or working for a time in different departments of the BBC in and out of London and assisting in the preparation of the BBC 's first personnel manual . |
| 3 | On Nov. 17 , Lissouba announced the assembly 's dissolution , a move described by the URD chairman , Bernard Kolelas , as illegal . |
| 4 | When Pravda became the Bolsheviks ' legal mouthpiece in St Petersburg in 1912 , he suffered the frustration of having many of the articles he submitted for publication rejected by the editors in Russia ; communication between the Central Committee and local party organs was much too tenuous to admit of close supervision ; and , as we shall see , during the war and the revolution itself , Lenin 's word was by no means accepted as holy writ . |
| 5 | However , sustained demonstrations ( in the course of which two people were killed on Sept. 20-21 in indiscriminate police and army fire ) forced the Vatican to cancel the Pope 's involvement in the actual inauguration . |
| 6 | In 1971 Jack Webb became the Bondholders ' Secretary , followed by Harold Chambers in 1975 up to 1981 , from which date to their winding up Basil Peacock held the reins . |
| 7 | Now WFP insists the consumer 's views must be given more weight . |
| 8 | Joinville reported the king 's reply to his counsellors who opposed the treaty with England of 1259 : ‘ it seems to me that what I give him [ Henry III ] I am employing well , because he was not my man , and now he enters into my homage ’ . |
| 9 | On Nov. 12 , URD-PCT supporters had erected barricades in central Brazzaville , blocking the capital 's two main avenues , as the two parties called on Lissouba to accept the government 's resignation and to appoint a new prime minister from the parliamentary majority ( the URD-PCT alliance ) . |
| 10 | JERVIS say the Lord 's Prayer together . |
| 11 | Rosheen caught the Doctor 's arm . |
| 12 | Morse caught the man 's arm , and held him back as he was walking down the steps . |
| 13 | Senior Army personnel pressed Bhutto to suspend the state 's civil judicial system and to establish military courts to ensure an unbiased anti-terrorist operation ( the implication being that the state government was being unduly harsh on Muhajirs ) . |
| 14 | Ray Kipling voiced the Institution 's appreciation of the train 's name , saying : ‘ The RNLI is delighted that an InterCity 125 is to be named Storm Force after its junior club . |
| 15 | Ahead of its database announcement in the US tomorrow , IBM France SA on Friday announced the company 's first relational database effort for its RS/6000 Unix , DB2/6000 version 1 . |
| 16 | OUT ON A LIMB : Johnny massages the Duchess 's leg . |
| 17 | How would a DG affect the Institute 's present leadership structure ? |
| 18 | Ahead of its database announcement in the US last week , IBM France SA announced the company 's first relational database effort for its RS/6000 Unix , DB2/6000 version 1 . |
| 19 | He heard Thorfinn answer the Pope 's questions in Rome . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , Morley contradicted the government 's message — a form of Nancy Reagan-like intellectual reductionism : just say no . |
| 21 | Richard found the cleaner 's mop and bucket and was amateurishly wiping the floor when Murray returned with a dressing gown and some towels . |
| 22 | Speaking at the Chamber 's annual dinner , he said recent actions in Brussels applying the Community 's competition policy threatened complete chaos to the international liner trade . |
| 23 | Under it , the capital , expertise and technology of the USA and Canada would be combined with the cheap labour and resources of Mexico to establish the world 's most populous free-trade market with 360,000,000 consumers and a combined gross domestic product ( GDP ) of US$6,450,000 million . |
| 24 | Dawes blames the club 's decline in the 1980s on changing social patterns . |
| 25 | It was at that point that Edward recalled the constable 's other words and how they had troubled him even then — seeming to carry a sinister note , a warning . |
| 26 | Joyce 's epitaph on Edward Vlll recalled the King 's visit to the South Wales valleys in November 1936 , his dismay at the poverty and despair of mass unemployment , and his often-quoted words at the Bessemer Steel Works in Dowlais . |
| 27 | A portrait of Elena Ceauşescu graced the Polytechnic 's building in Central London until it disappeared during the Christmas vacation at the end of 1989 . |
| 28 | We have received a letter from PPL exempting the Society 's teachers from the need to pay any licence fees in view of our piano accompaniment , educational nature and work with the disabled . |
| 29 | Addressing a closed session of the meeting , Arafat said that the PLO rejected the USA 's conditions for a resumption , and Voice of Palestine said in a commentary on July 18 that the USA 's setting of conditions for the resumption of contacts was " a blatant act of belligerence which can not be condoned " . |
| 30 | Mr Gubb dropped the boy 's hand and looked up at Harkness . |