Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] of [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brian Jackson , trading director of Martins the Newsagent , with 850 branches , said : ‘ Publishers are offering us inducements , advertising support money . |
| 2 | He looked tired and drawn and her heart went out to him , but when he caught sight of Belinda the smile was back on his face . |
| 3 | Here he caught sight of Aziz the janitor , who was standing at the back of the hall with his mop and bucket . |
| 4 | Laura moved round to the side of the kiln — it was a roughly built cube of fire-bricks the colour of pale sand , with a bricked-up Norman door-arch on one side and a narrow throat at the rear which led to a tall , cast-iron stovepipe wired for support to the studio wall and a bough of a late-flowering cherry tree across the yard . |
| 5 | Richard Duke of Gloucester , the late king 's soldierly youngest brother , was at his castle of Middleham in Yorkshire when he received news of Edward the Fourth 's death . |
| 6 | Because wh when , when we were looking at , at , at the I mean sort of things the implication to me seemed to be that , that this in itself is a successful policy , rent reduction , interest rate reduction methods improving er productivity , increasing input , in themselves are satisfying the demands of the peasantry and you would not need to go beyond that , I mean well did n't need to , he is n't the ideal , but he did n't need to go and he , he was doing very well out of it . |
| 7 | The child 's greed is obstructing awareness of consequences the facing of which would cause him to refrain ; therefore to let the impulse to refrain prevail over the impulse to eat is a causally necessary condition of obeying the imperative . |
| 8 | Buy both Apollo XI and Apollo XVII videos at a specially reduced price of £18 the pair , and you will receive a free Apollo slide set worth £8.50 . |
| 9 | Where the systematic approach dictates the use of chemicals as the predominate form of energy the practical relationships with other factors extend beyond energy and time to include the equipment needed to apply the chemical if costs are to be minimised the general relationship is as follows — |
| 10 | However given the extent of monopoly ( and oligopoly ) in the NHS , the power of professional groups to win concessions , and the political need to guarantee equality of access the government has been forced to set narrow rules within which competition is allowed . |
| 11 | As long as he remained bishop of Rome the pope belonged in Rome . |