Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Innocent III employed mercenaries in January 1199 and in 1199 – 1200 , as the Gesta tells us . |
| 2 | Building societies are a bit naughty in that they 're regularly advertising rates at over fifty thousand pounds , the Loughborough do it for one , in er my local paper . |
| 3 | Afterwards the RSPCA said it was an approriate sentence . |
| 4 | The RSPCA took him on because his owners could n't afford the vet 's bill . |
| 5 | The two owners were aged 84 and 71 and , after the chewing incident , the RSPCA swapped it for a smaller dog . |
| 6 | Instead his owner , 18-year-old Helen Woodruff from Walcot in Swindon , ignored advice to have him treated , and when the RSPCA found him 6 weeks later the wound was so swollen that Capri was in agony . |
| 7 | But when the RSPCA found him in January , he was in a starved condition , his ribs and hip bones showing through , and his back legs hardly able to support him . |
| 8 | When the RSPCA found him , he had to be destroyed . |
| 9 | The RSPCA decided he had abandoned the fish when he left his home in Alwyn Road , Maidenhead , Berkshire to run a pub for a friend . |
| 10 | However , many callers to the NME claim they have been ‘ fobbed off ’ with ‘ insulting ’ letters stating that the original tickets , rather than photocopies or credit card receipts , were required for the exchange . |
| 11 | Having said that , though , there is undoubtedly something wild and magnificent about an institution quite as cussed , mercurial and downright weird as the NME making it through four decades of turbulent cultural and commercial waters . |
| 12 | The NME called it ‘ a bright , entertaining and catchy sample of the Mersey sound . ’ |
| 13 | Having recently spent a day at the Whitechapel Open I would strongly urge that some consideration for selection should be introduced . |
| 14 | The Pentagon said it knew of 59 dead and 66 wounded , and of 1,500 prisoners from the 6,000-strong Panamanian Defence Force . |
| 15 | General Dynamics and McDonnell Douglas , builders of the super-expensive A-12 fighter for the United States Navy , want the Pentagon to bail them out of a possible $2.7 billion overrun on the development and production of A-12s . |
| 16 | As Noel Koch of the Pentagon described it , talking about Iran : |
| 17 | Our carpenter is aboard the Angelina , building a cradle for the bomb according to the specifications the Pentagon gave us . |
| 18 | Certainly the Pentagon knows it 's already under investigation , but Hawkins did n't want anyone to know that he was pointing fingers in certain directions . |
| 19 | Around 1580 , the Lord of the Manor rebuilt it , the result being two corn mills under the same roof . |
| 20 | At the Manor Ground they 'll remember ; remember the 3rd of November for some time . |
| 21 | But the lingering memory of the ghostly horse and a nervousness which could n't be denied at the thought of meeting the Danbys made her feel more than a little awkward . |
| 22 | This was obviously the Jason liked it . |
| 23 | Being in neither carpet nor the RAF left me out of the conversation , until the tea trolley came round . |
| 24 | Tonight the RAF said it was n't prepared to comment on speculation . |
| 25 | The RAF says it ca n't comment until a board of inquiry reports back . |
| 26 | The RAF says it 's continuing tests and have decribed the helicopter as a ’ very reliable aircraft . ’ |
| 27 | In what can only be regarded as the ultimate pilot 's ‘ Jim 'll fix it ’ fantasy come true , he persuaded the RAF to let him go through key parts of the four-year course that ends with a posting to an operational fighter squadron . |
| 28 | There they will find spare parts for all manner of aircraft , in fact if the RAF flew it , PAS have got spares for it . |
| 29 | The RAF say they 're sorry to leave . |
| 30 | When the Abwehr sent me to Ireland in forty-one I met a friend of his in Dublin . |