Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tragically , Jim failed to recover from the stroke he had suffered on the Saturday morning ( 28th May ) and died the following morning . |
| 2 | It could have been the extra garlic I 'd put in the Rogan Josh which woke me at 2.06 a.m. , but it was probably the noise Billy Tuckett made falling through the bathroom skylight and killing himself . |
| 3 | As an assistant in early 1643 to John Rushworth [ q.v. ] , clerk-assistant of the House of Commons , Mabbott became connected with the parliamentary army secretariat and acted as agent for the army , mainly in London , throughout the civil war and interregnum . |
| 4 | Not prone to understatement , our Michael , as witness the opening paragraph of his colourful piece on the day Tendulkar took the field for the first time : The ghost of Lord Hawke failed to rise from the grave . |
| 5 | ‘ And when does Lisabeth want to move into the annexe ? |
| 6 | WE WERE sailing from the Queensland port of Cairns to go diving on the Great Barrier Reef . |
| 7 | A truly remarkable achievement and one that demonstrates the enthusiasm with which Johnson Matthey has responded to the challenge . |
| 8 | The art historians and restorers dealing with the St Servatius restoration are pleased with the expertise DSM has brought to the project . |
| 9 | The physical and analytical chemistry department at DSM has looked at the distribution and migration of salts in limestone . |
| 10 | A child is duly conceived , but before ever it is born , there is a breakdown of relationships between Sarah and Hagar , and Hagar has to flee into the desert . |
| 11 | One of the greatest difficulties Denis has faced over the years — and it has increased as the world has turned to harassing the smoker — has been how to keep awake through the after-dinner speeches without the benefit of a cigarette . |
| 12 | Apart from Mrs Thatcher 's unqualified declaration of support , the only other comment on the events in Panama has come from the Spanish Prime Minister , Mr Felipe Gonzalez , who told the Cortes in Madrid that his government ‘ condemned outright all foreign intervention ’ . |
| 13 | On occasions Strach has played on the left — To accomodate Hendrie in the promotion year , and when Batty , Macca had a go at right-back last season . |
| 14 | Taylor promised to abide by the Yamoussoukro settlement , although on Nov. 6 he stressed that he would defend the country against outside threats . |
| 15 | Quizmaster Magnus Magnusson KBE has landed in the hot seat himself . |
| 16 | Clarence has escaped from the Tower , and is crossing the Channel with his brother Gloucester ( later to become Richard III ) . |
| 17 | Just as McBride and Doyle before him , Ciaran Fitzgerald has suffered from the Irish notion that Messiahs work . |
| 18 | Vauxhall has shrugged off the difficulties dogging other car manufacturers to bring the massive investment to its plant at Ellesmere Port . |
| 19 | Vauxhall has shrugged off the difficulties faced by other car manufacturers to bring the massive investment to its plant at Ellesmere Port . |
| 20 | Palace striker Chris Armstrong has confessed for the first time that manager Steve Coppell took a huge gamble signing him . |
| 21 | England marksman David Hirst has trained for the first time in five weeks after recovering from a cracked ankle , and is desperate to link up with Chris Waddle . |
| 22 | Moscovici has referred to the second process by which social representations are produced as objectification . |
| 23 | Steve and Stuart are just 2 of the homeless people , Dawn Walker Webb has helped over the past 20 years in Swindon . |
| 24 | CARL PREAN has written to the English Table Tennis Association asking to be omitted from future ranking lists because of the way they are determined . |
| 25 | D. B. MacDonald has speculated on the difficult question of the origin of this view in Islam and has suggested that it arose from a Muslim heresy ‘ in that dark but intense period of theological and intellectual development which stretched from the death of Muhammad for at least two and a half centuries ’ . |
| 26 | It is hard to imagine the average builder , unskilled in the repair of old buildings , recognising the significance of the two cat skeletons and the pile of old clothes that the Eastons found tucked behind the chimney in the old kitchen . |
| 27 | A farmer from Hereford has come to the aid of children at a Romanian Orphange . |
| 28 | 16 year old Mark Cross and 17 year old Paul Eversham are being brought into the side to show off the talent Hereford has to offer for the future . |
| 29 | For over three decades , Moscow has stuck to the explanation it gave in 1957 to the then Swedish Prime Minister , Tage Erlander : that 10 years before , in July 1947 , Raul Wallenberg had died in Lubyanka prison . |
| 30 | In this , the second annual report on our environmental activities , a range of examples are given to demonstrate how ICI has responded to the environmental challenge opposite each of our objectives . |