Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interrupting Clarac he pointed to the screen which showed the remote spy camera . |
| 2 | Do you know Maggie who works in the paper shop ? |
| 3 | And we 'd like to find Paddy who served in the R A F police unit at R A F Hunnington in Suffolk during nineteen fifty eight to nineteen sixty . |
| 4 | But you know when you went to see Dr you went to the park , did n't they ? |
| 5 | Before she went to Navron she told Harry she felt like the well fed birds that could only fly about in their cage , but ‘ one day I set a linnet free which flew straight out of my hand towards the sun . ’ |
| 6 | She said she had been hired as a nanny by an English couple called Wilson who lived in the city . |
| 7 | The VIRUSCAN utility hunts for viruses which are described in a disk based document called VIRLIST.TXT which comes with the package . |
| 8 | The VIRUSCAN utility hunts for viruses which are described in a disk based document called VIRLIST.TXT which comes with the package . |
| 9 | You may see a guy wandering in and out groups and that 's a guy called Geoff who works for the British National Corpus and these are the people who are trying to have or produce ten million words of the written word and a hundred million erm spoken words , which is a corpus whereby , er come and look at the English language at some time in the future and identify and listen to some of your and your dialects and what you said so make sure you have lots of input as we 've got quite a broad spectrum of different dialects today but he 'll be wandering in and out er throughout today . |
| 10 | Two years later we find Datini himself writing in the same vein to one of his partners in Spain , Cristofano di Bartolo , whom he wished to persuade to come home . |
| 11 | Because of the amount involved , Mike alerted Barbara who called for the cards to be queried . |
| 12 | It used to be said that it was the attempt by the Seljuks to prevent Christians from reaching Jerusalem which led to the First Crusade . |
| 13 | The book was ‘ A Tribute to 'The Few' who flew in the Battle of Britain , and to the many who supported them ’ . |
| 14 | With Dalgliesh carrying Anthony they passed into the cottage . |
| 15 | At this point the rebel soldiers entered the prison , overpowered the guards and freed Bibit who fled from the compound by car . |
| 16 | Jacob will play Woods who shone throughout the day with wins over Peter Hunt , Peter Beatham and fellow fifth seed Nick Mills . |
| 17 | I hate it cos when I call Jones she stands on the wall like that , right . |
| 18 | He and Tasker were chosen by Bonington to be members of the 1982 British Everest Expedition , and shortly before he left Leysin he wrote for the Parents ' Association Newsletter an account of his schooldays , affectionately remembered : |
| 19 | He was watching Stella who stood at the fireplace , leaning against the armchair in which Potter now sat holding court . |
| 20 | I asked Betty who lay in the graves . |
| 21 | Bruce meanwhile had launched a lightning raid into north-west England , and after burning Lancaster he crossed into the North Riding of Yorkshire and almost succeeded in capturing Edward himself near Byland Abbey , This humiliation of the king proved too much for Andrew Harclay , whose support had been of crucial importance at Boroughbridge and who had been raised to the earldom of Carlisle a few days after the battle . |
| 22 | Following NN we allow for the possibility that the higher the wage the more competition there will be for the job ( ceteris paribus ) and make this a function of w . |