Example sentences of "[pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To thee the privilege is given , |
| 2 | Shew thee the tree , leafed with refin 'd gold |
| 3 | We 're happy doing nothing THE CULTURE OF CONTENTMENT J K Galbraith Sinclair-Stevenson , £14.95 William Keegan |
| 4 | He had to be airlifted to hospital , but his teacher says the accident was a total freak , and there was nothing the school could have done to prevent it . |
| 5 | If you have had more than a little alcohol you would probably become so relaxed that you fell asleep and nothing the therapist was saying would register at all . |
| 6 | If we do nothing the badger is doomed to suffer , and terrible suffering goes on all the time . |
| 7 | It may be said that the Financial Secretary 's reference to the taxpayers being liable to tax as under the pre-existing law ( i.e. , under the Finance Act 1948 , section 39 as re-enacted by the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970 ) shows that he was saying that the position was unchanged : nothing the Minister said could effect the proper construction of legislation already on the statute book . |
| 8 | Nothing the burglar can do will silence the alarm since once the bistable has set , it will remain like that until reset . |
| 9 | There had been no time for a cup of coffee and she 'd eaten nothing the night before , going straight to her cabin . |
| 10 | I know what I need , to put my head down for half an hour this afternoon I wo n't be fit for nothing the night . |
| 11 | The wife , we learn , is the one who is about to be tried for the crime , and nothing the narrator has been able to say has convinced the police he himself is the guilty man . |
| 12 | There 's nothing the council can legally do . |
| 13 | But a Navy spokesman said : ‘ It 's nothing the crew ca n't sort out with a pot of paint . ’ |
| 14 | There was nothing the English or the French could do to save Poland . |
| 15 | And there 's nothing the county can say about it . |
| 16 | And I remind this council of something I said a few years ago of an incident , incident concerning the Atherstone hunt in my ward where the hounds attacked the dogs of , a couple of dogs of a constituent of mine in his back garden totally uncontrolled , they were running amuck right across land in Ellistown this is nothing the hunt could do nothing the hunt tried to do they were too busy off still dashing ahead chasing the fox or what they thought was a fox . |
| 17 | And I remind this council of something I said a few years ago of an incident , incident concerning the Atherstone hunt in my ward where the hounds attacked the dogs of , a couple of dogs of a constituent of mine in his back garden totally uncontrolled , they were running amuck right across land in Ellistown this is nothing the hunt could do nothing the hunt tried to do they were too busy off still dashing ahead chasing the fox or what they thought was a fox . |
| 18 | When a stem is cut midway between nodes , there is nothing the plant can do with the stem part above the last growth or eye , and so it dies back . |
| 19 | Er i it was alright if the man took precautions but if the woman did n't take precautions there was er I mean the man did n't , there was nothing the woman could do at all about it . |
| 20 | A remedy was refused , the court holding that nothing the student could have said could have affected the decision reached . |
| 21 | There was no money , no pocket book or wallet , no bunch of keys , no watch , no Penknife — nothing The Inspector next examined the clothes themselves . |
| 22 | There is nothing the House loves so much as a personal attack , involving a personal explanation . |
| 23 | Now she saved her animus largely for the council , which seemed unfair , since it had permitted her to buy for almost nothing the house which her mother had rented and given her a grant for improvements . |
| 24 | ‘ There 's nothing the matter with your tongue . |
| 25 | There was nothing the matter with him , simply that he did not thrive . |
| 26 | ‘ There 's nothing the matter with Anna that need trouble him . |
| 27 | ‘ There 's nothing the matter , is there ? |
| 28 | There is nothing the matter with this , except that it ai n't so . |
| 29 | " There 's nothing the matter with me . " |
| 30 | Having read the transcript of evidence and having reviewed the findings of fact made by the deputy judge , I can find nothing the matter with his conclusion that the onus of establishing testamentary capacity had not been discharged . |