Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almut Suerbaum , of the university of Munster , has joined us as the new Fellow in German ; as a specialist in Medieval German literature she continues the tradition of her predecessor . |
| 2 | In America , where they have a fondness for creating lists of the greatest ever people , his Plight of English has placed him among the very top writers on the English language . |
| 3 | I for one value the friendship that he has given me in the eight and a half years that I have been a Member of the House , despite the fact that we are in different parties and disagree on many issues . |
| 4 | It has carried me from the comfortable Salisbury suburb where a kind Scottish family have made me a home , to a rough Bulawayo farmstead . |
| 5 | He has educated me in the best sense of the word and I have trusted him as I think I would trust no one else of my own sex . |
| 6 | The reason for this is that ( in many cases ) the client becomes aware of the proposed legislation either because he has been served under the General Orders with a notice as being directly affected , or because he has seen it in the local newspaper or Gazette advertisement . |
| 7 | Henry Porter doubtless spoke for many when he wrote recently in the Guardian : ‘ Little in the post-war years of decline in Britain has prepared us for the deep sense of unease now being experienced by its people . |
| 8 | Professor Black 's TGAT report , for all its expensive complexity , has saved us from the test-led teaching that seemed at one time inevitable . |
| 9 | Apple Computer Inc chairman and chief executive officer John Sculley 's name has made it to the short list to be Secretary of Commerce in the Clinton Administration : if he takes the cabinet post , Apple 's likely to look outside for a replacement . |
| 10 | ‘ Ah yes , ’ Leon turned to Mrs Yaxlee , ‘ your George has told me of the great days . |
| 11 | It 's strange the way Chinese Whispers start about certain guitars ; by the time the umpteenth person has told you about the amazing instrument that they 've seen , you begin to be very sceptical about whether anything can be as outrageous as described … |
| 12 | The ‘ fine boy ’ with the grim destiny is Thomas Fox , a boy of fifteen whose father , a small farmer , has entrusted him for the first time with a flock of sheep for Portsmouth market . |
| 13 | Years ago I used to think this was a fun sport but the reason for thinking this has escaped me for the last 2 weeks . |
| 14 | There 's Roger ( Hugh Laurie ) and Mary ( Staunton ) , big noises in the world of advertising jingles trying vainly to repress the scars of a cot death tragedy , good-hearted but batty cat-loving loner Maggie ( Emma Thompson ) gagging for ‘ it ’ but a victim of the very self-help manuals she publishes and sexy Sarah , whose predilection for married men has landed her with the overgrown child that is Brian ( Tony Slattery doing his worst ) . |
| 15 | Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ . |
| 16 | It has been referred to only rarely in official Soviet and Afghan statements in the 1980s since the Soviet-Afghan Friendship and Cooperation Treaty of December 1978 has replaced it as the contractual charter determining the relations between the two states . |
| 17 | Our body clock has woken us for the next day after only a minimal opportunity for extra sleep . |
| 18 | As for their laying the birch on my pocket , I compute that my support of Lewis and Brzeska has cost me at the lowest estimate about £20 per year , from one source alone since that regrettable occurrence , since I dared to discern a great sculptor and a great painter in the midst of England 's artistic desolaton . |
| 19 | It has led him from the brooding atmosphere of his early novels to the limpid clarity of his last . |
| 20 | Our discussion of the evolution of the logogen model has led us to the following view of the organisation of the mental lexicon . |
| 21 | This discussion has led us into the third and perhaps most important question : since the assumptions will generally be untrue , how robust are the results to minor modifications of the assumptions of the model ? |
| 22 | ‘ Story of my life , ’ he growls when a red declines to go into a pocket for the simple reason that he has hit it at the wrong angle . |
| 23 | His research has taken him through the alpine and arid zones of Australia ; botanical history is one of his many interests , and he specialises in the ‘ Compositae ’ family . |
| 24 | His American tour kicked off on day one at the Tournament of Champions in Southern California and has taken him to the two major Pro-Ams — the Bob Hope and the Crosby ( aforementioned Pebble Beach National Pro-Am ) — a trio of Florida events — Doral , the Honda Classic and the Players ' Championship — as well as The Masters , the Colonial , the Memorial , the season-ending Nabisco Championship and a slew of less-hallowed events in between . |
| 25 | Nicholson 's new boy Adrian Maguire has thirty four winners already … but a double from Richard Dunwoody has taken him into the twenties |
| 26 | The Renaissance was a rebirth of the Alexandrian-Roman spirit , and it has taken us on the same path . |
| 27 | ‘ The Mirror has taken it from the limited audience it has had right out into the open . |
| 28 | ‘ Whoever tried to kill us in the plane , whoever that was , has put us on the same side . ’ |
| 29 | But the local council has put it in the highest council tax band — for houses worth at least three hundred thousand pounds . |
| 30 | Trading in these securities has been sparse since the crash in October 1987 , and the recent withdrawals of marketmakers such as Warburg Securities , UBS Phillips & Drew and County NatWest from dealing in the securities of many smaller companies has left them without the mandatory two marketmakers for inclusion in the SEAQ system of continuously updated two-way prices . |