Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1 the kitchen 's awful , I hate that kitchen its awful with that kitchen with the back door in the middle of it , why have they got a back door in the middle of their kitchen ? its right in the middle of it
2 She lost her job after a few weeks and what little money my Dad had left quickly went on drugs and booze .
3 This would also give each Park its own authority , independent of local councils ( thereby extending a system applying presently in the Lakes and the Peak ) .
4 In each case their representative raised the question of the lack of medical evidence , and said the authorities should not have rushed to take children into care on the basis of unchecked statements from other children .
5 The first of the lists published by Turan ( base date 849 ) records that sixteen years have passed since the death of , among others " Mevlana Shams al-Din [ -i ? ] " ulema-i sultan Fenari-oglu " ; the two lists reproduced in part by Menage ( base dates 856 and 858 ) likewise show the death of " Mevlana Shams al-Din sultan al- " ulema Fenari-oglu " to have occurred in 833 ; and Nesri records the death of " Shams al- " ulema Shams al-Din ibn Fenari " as having occurred in 832 : in each case his death is at least implicitly associated with a great plague occurring in Bursa in that year .
6 In that case their Lordships placed much emphasis upon the fact that the local authority had a virtual mandate to retain certain grammar schools in the area .
7 Right in that case its probably a better idea if we go out after the exams , if you want , I mean , do n't you do n't have
8 In that case her relatives would have enquired for her , raised a hue and cry at the time of the accident . ’
9 John Magee said that when he told Mr Cranley that if IBM tried to drill , it ‘ will be over my dead body ’ , Mr Cranley replied ‘ in that case your body will be under the mud ’ .
10 erm , this is a , a case which er deals with er the issue of the suspension of a measure based upon community law , whether a national court , when a measure has been based upon community law has power to suspend it , now my Lord the er issue in was erm involved er the er decision of er the German government er to give effect to er a community regulation in the sugar sector which er required er that levies should be er obtained from sugar companies , so it was a very direct er implementation of community law erm in that sense different to the matter before your Lordship , but we rely on it by analogy and in , in this case my Lord er you will see it 's in the supplementary bundle of authorities , the extra bundle because , before your Lordship , in that case your Lordship will see er between paragraphs fifteen and thirty three er the er European court indicating that where a measure that has been based upon a community er , er law is challenged before a national court that the national court er should er only er engage in the er , er suspension of such a measure , erm if there is serious doubt er this is erm my Lord er at er paragraph twenty three of the case er and we say that er if you look at the criterions they are not dissimilar from those that have been adopted by the House of Lords as a matter of English law in the case
11 They can hardly avoid suggesting death and life ; in that case his song says there can be no defeat — even if the wanderers die in the dark wood , the real Old Forest , they will in death break through to sunlight and out of a hampering shade .
12 But in that case his words lose their meaning and become empty .
13 If he cut it above himself he presumably fell , and in that case his life was evidently saved by something approaching a miracle — at any rate , we know that he was saved because otherwise he would be beyond the jurisdiction and the question would have no legal interest .
14 In that case his damages are assessed on the principles already given ( sections 50 and 51 above , paragraphs 14–03 and 14–04 ) .
15 And in that instant her heart seemed to burst with love inside her and simultaneously shrivel with grief and helplessness .
16 As he said it for the first time a smile flickered across his face , and in that instant his features were totally transformed .
17 While I was doing that sentence my other case for running a brothel and living off immoral earnings came up .
18 The gap between the ride and the swamp was a different matter , for if the children were attempting that route their progress was bound to be slow .
19 Some of those on the left have assumed that there is an inherent socialist majority in Britain which has failed to surface only because successive Labour governments , in pursuing a policy of managing rather than opposing capitalism , have never given that majority its political cue .
20 The architect had sited the house on the slope of a hill commanding a great variety of scenery and had given each bedroom its own special view .
21 Claudia explains how little maintenance her town garden needs .
22 The first two parts of Alan Sharp 's extraordinary trilogy , A Green Tree in Gedde and The Wind Shifts , gave that opposition its densest and most historically self-conscious elaboration .
23 ‘ I was upset over that telegram my beloved son sent .
24 [ reading ] " When you read this letter you will be far on your way to your father and mother where you have so long desired to be , and I hope I shall forbear thinking of you with the least shadow of that fondness my foolish heart had entertained for you .
25 Thereafter , she became a statutory tenant under section 2(1) ( a ) , and giving the words of that subsection their natural meaning , it would appear that she was by the Act to remain a statutory tenant so long as she continued in occupation of the dwelling-house .
26 And by that criterion his shows were highly successful .
27 Watching one of them wobble through a developpe in glazed desperation or another sickle his foot in an over-extended arabesque , you feel how cruelly Hall 's ambitions tax his company .
28 For purposes of this kind his revenue , though comparatively small by continental standards , was adequate .
29 In this story its collective , guiding and creative powers were all drawn upon ; it is a myth , true in principle , perhaps in literal fact , of how a group of women changed the course of history .
30 As you read this story your ideas about the four characters develop and change .
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