Example sentences of "[noun prp] [pron] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his last year at Devonport High School in Plymouth he set himself the aim of finding a job which would earn him £5 a week , because up to that time , his father , a Westcountryman , had never achieved such a princely sum . |
| 2 | Mr Ward told The Independent : ‘ Mr Rowland himself telephoned me the next day , said he was appalled at what had happened to my daughter , and gave me his direct line telephone number , saying he would be there every day from 9 to 6 . |
| 3 | Eight years later , Paul was sitting in a bloke 's house in Wrexham who told him the very same joke ! |
| 4 | I 'm just sorry the whole thing happened and the man who must be embarrassed about this most of all is sponsor Matt Laverty who lent me the bike on Thursday night at practice . ’ |
| 5 | It was an early example of her sensitivity to the needs of others , a quality noticed by her headmistress , Miss Rudge who awarded her the Miss Clark Lawrence Award for service to the school in her last term in 1977 . |
| 6 | It was Wilde who christened her the ‘ Sphinx ’ , the name by which she was thereafter known to her friends . |
| 7 | Robin Reid , a betting shop manager from Runcorn who calls himself the Grim Reaper , guaranteed his country 's first boxing medal . |
| 8 | One hundred and twenty years after Nehemiah and Pericles Greeks and Jews found themselves under the control of Alexander the Great — a Greek-speaking Macedonian who considered himself the heir of the Persian kings . |
| 9 | Seven years later it was Meg who got him the audition on TV 's Opportunity Knocks which was to give him his big break . |
| 10 | Why we was paying the bill actually we paid to Sunday us connect us the following Friday |
| 11 | Debbie Raymond who called herself the Princess of Porn was one of Britain 's richest women and had been groomed to take over her father 's £80m-a-year business . |
| 12 | Evelyn took up the pen and wrote her name quickly , then looked up at Miss Harker who gave her the briefest of nods and immediately turned her attention back to the rest of the company . |
| 13 | gets past but he ca n't get past and Shrewsbury are breaking with it but they 're still inside their own half at the moment with Kevin who gave them the fighting chance with the original equalizer inside the first half . |
| 14 | It was Virginia who gave me the clue . |
| 15 | chat with Chris Symonds who says its the biggest adrenalin rush you can get … it is sometime scary |
| 16 | It was De Gaulle who asked me the dumb question in the van-his condescension brought him down to what he imagined was my level . |
| 17 | In Japan they call it the Paul Smith Classic . ’ |
| 18 | It was the overly loquacious Lord Macaulay who called him the Smith of Smiths . |
| 19 | According to President Clinton , quoted in the Wall Street Journal , Vice-President Al Gore is ‘ the only person to hold national office in America who knows what the gestalt of a Gigabit is ’ : the only person in any other post for that matter . |
| 20 | There are people , wholesalers coming from London who supply us the goods and er there are some goods which are manufactured in this country , some are imported . |
| 21 | ‘ Remember , Alec , the doctor in London who gave me the job did say Koraloona was a living laboratory for the treatment of polio . |
| 22 | Are you going to tell me that it was someone who came back on the train from London who gave you the key ? ’ |
| 23 | Beautiful Swaledale I love thee the best , |
| 24 | All systems based on the ideal of equality break down in action : that is a point that might be expected of Waugh , but it is Orwell who makes it the more forcefully : ‘ Some animals are more equal than others ’ , as the pigs decree in Animal Farm , symbolising the easy self-justifications of Leninists in taking and keeping power . |
| 25 | Although they are cross with themselves for being so soft , in the end they discover that they did the right thing because it is Gollum who shows them the way to Mount Doom , and Gollum who finally disposes of the Ring . |
| 26 | What about wee James who give you the wo ring ? |