Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Did your grandfather have any favourite hymns ? ’ the priest asked William before the service . |
| 2 | Their views might have attracted wider sympathy if the regime had been engaging in repression across the board , but although the tsar appeared to move to the right when he appointed Valuev to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Admiral Putiatin to the Ministry of Education , he was very far from abandoning the cause of reform . |
| 3 | Once the police got into the van , they found plenty of evidence to connect Charley with the murders . |
| 4 | Rohmer tried to hit Cardiff in the face with his other free fist , but Cardiff was expecting it . |
| 5 | Grimsby frustrated Middlesbrough in the early stages with their sweeper system and repeated back passes to their goalkeeper . |
| 6 | Strange to see Swindon in the snow and Sweden in bright sunshine . |
| 7 | They had arranged March for the wedding . |
| 8 | Ybreska reached out with both arms to embrace Kirov by the shoulders , his face wreathed in a rapturous smile . |
| 9 | I have always understood , and believed , that you just can not " dance at two weddings ' , but I admired and respected Cochrane as the most efficient serving officer I had encountered in my short 33 years in uniform . |
| 10 | But it does seem possible that Georgina purposely waylaid Arabella on the day before she died , and that the two of them had a row . |
| 11 | The brilliant incandescence of heated lime led Welsbach in the 1880s to experiment with fabrics impregnated with nitrates of the lanthanides and actinides ; on ignition a fragile skeleton of oxides was left . |
| 12 | ‘ The question is , what do we do about it ? ’ asked Reed of the Treasury . |
| 13 | Stone shook his head grimly , reminding Doyle about the cat the day before . |
| 14 | Instead , the finger of doom is pointing at Malcolm Crosby , a Wearside hero when he led Sunderland to the FA Cup final last season , but perilously close to getting his P45 if the players that love him let him down again today at Derby . |
| 15 | France , under-rated by many , has outgrown Germany throughout the postwar period . |
| 16 | Unfortunately having the son of the most powerful man in the world did n't seem to do the Eagles much good — they stumbled against Argentina and finally fell flat on their faces when they met Tonga in the Plate quarter-final . |
| 17 | Mr Beaton had been dumped by a road-side and picked up by police who had been alerted to the hijack and had eventually stopped MacIver in the lorry at Doune . |
| 18 | " It might be too late then , " Joseph said slapping Patrick on the shoulder , before turning back into the shop and closing the door . |
| 19 | Then they led Linkworth to the hanging-shed to punish him for his crime . |
| 20 | From an old book of local walks I read of a route up the Remarkables , the jagged range of peaks which overshadow Queenstown across the lake , and which rise to nearly 8,000 feet . |
| 21 | I wanted the sugar and rather than wait for the waiter to return or ask this boy to get it , I asked Harvey for the sugar . |
| 22 | Give me about ten minutes , then bring Isabel into the hall , will you ? ’ |
| 23 | The Don canal was made to connect Sheffield with the Humber estuary , and various branches and inter-connections were made to the system before the coming of the railways , to make those canals serving the coal-mining and iron and steel industries some of the busiest commercial waterways in the country . |
| 24 | The result was urban chaos but a richness of building styles which redeemed Brighton from the overbearing formality of its more classical contemporaries . |
| 25 | I think I played my part in helping Middlesbrough into the Premier League . ’ |
| 26 | She had been christened Nicandra on the insistence of her father who , in his luckier years , had bred and trained and ridden an outstanding winner of that name . |
| 27 | In the August 1949 election the German people favoured the CDU ( 31 per cent ) over the SPD ( 29 per cent ) , and other parties too proved willing to support Adenauer for the Chancellorship . |
| 28 | ‘ I am heterosexual , ’ announced Jason outside the court . |
| 29 | The advantage of using d'Compress as the launch pad for other programs is that you can use the facilities of d'Compress to gather the files together , a stage that would otherwise have to be done in the DOS window . |
| 30 | And somebody knew about that telephone call , and met Kemp at the railway station , doubtless informing the taxi-driver who had been hired that he was no longer required . ’ |