Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried to pray for her father at the same time , but Madeleine danced across her invocation , Madeleine provocative in yellow piqué and high-heeled sandals disrupted her holy words . |
| 2 | Our awards are renowned for their transportability across the many countries in which the Board has been recognised for more than a century . |
| 3 | I 've learned the application techniques from the most talented people in the business and I know how to make the most of my make-up with the least effort and time . |
| 4 | None of the current generation of sculptors including Cragg , Deacon , Kapoor and Flanagan , is yet sold in large enough numbers at auction to be indexed , though the rise in the retail prices of their work through the latter part of the Eighties was at least as steep as for sculptors with a saleroom record . |
| 5 | He swigged his champagne with such abandon that Ruth knew he had swallowed Maria Luisa 's explanation of their affair with the same ease as she had at first . |
| 6 | Among the men the discussion of politics , the destruction of game , or the dissipation of the ale house was substituted for the duties of their occupation during the former part of the week , and in the remaining three or four days a sufficiency was earned for defraying the current expenses . |
| 7 | Thus children in a primary school will spend most of their time with the same teacher in any one year , while secondary school pupils will be taught by a variety of different teachers . |
| 8 | Customers of Tamworth can now dispose of their rubbish at the same time as doing their shopping , as there are now recycling facilities in the car park . |
| 9 | If two groups acquiesce in the representation of their perspective through the same array of objects , which for one group is acceptable because it is bright and cheerful , while for the other is acceptable because it enshrines a sense of good design , each may project its own perspective onto the other ; in this case , the object permits the coexistence of two perspectives , rather than the dominance of either . |
| 10 | Soldiers of the Second Battalion of the Light Infantry Regiment carried the body of their colleague into the same church where he was baptised just over eighteen years ago . |
| 11 | Presumably Domark wanted to show off the abilities of their creation in the same way that demo programmers wish to make a name for themselves in the programming world . |
| 12 | That argument rests on the claim that the universe displays the hand of its Architect in the same way as a human artefact is recognisable as the work of an intelligent designer . |
| 13 | In January 1983 , the water content of reservoirs in South Africa had fallen to 50 per cent of its level at the same time last year , and the 1982 maize crop was 40 per cent lower than the record of 40 million tonnes harvested in 1981 . |
| 14 | It 's the second incident of its kind on the same stretch of motorway , in two days . |
| 15 | In 1991 , the NYOS earned nearly 60 per cent from sponsorship , compared to an average of 41 per cent for youth orchestras , while the SCO raised around 17 per cent of its income from the same source , double the national average of 8 per cent . |
| 16 | Ratners does most of its business in the few short weeks before Christmas . |
| 17 | Now the public may enjoy its stately grandeur and the magnificent flowering trees of its parkland at the same time , perhaps , pondering upon the enterprise and ethics with which the magnificent property was founded . |
| 18 | The accepted wisdom that bulk car manufacturers buy exclusive marques ( Chrysler and Lamborghini , et cetera in the hope of garnering reflected glory is misplaced : any benefit that might accrue to the Escort by dint of its coming from the same stable as the Virage would be heavily outweighed by the damage done to the Virage by the Escort . |
| 19 | If however each of the enterprises achieves more than two thirds of its turnover within the same single member state , then the merger does not come under the Regulation . |
| 20 | It is unlikely a team will get all the details of its programme at the same time as the call to the work . |
| 21 | Untrained in any art school , commencing his career in the early 1930s , a homosexual , addicted to the sleazier pleasures of Soho , living for a large portion of his life in the same seedy studio in South Kensington , eschewing all official honours , and a stranger to what used to be called the ‘ salons ’ of high society , he succeeded in expressing in frightening imagery the horrors which lie embedded below the surface of life . |
| 22 | He carried a colour photograph of his mill in the same way that others carry their wives and children . |
| 23 | His marriage in 1832 to Hannah Abbott ( a daughter of John Abbott , a flour merchant of Plymouth ) was only the ostensible reason for the vacation of his fellowship in the same year , as he had already in effect seceded . |
| 24 | The husband would appear to be liable to capital gains tax on any increase in value of his share of the former matrimonial home between the date of the transfer into settlement and the date of the deferred sale . |
| 25 | Her pulses were racing madly as he watched him tug his tie undone with a rough impatience , shrug off his jacket and begin to dispose of his shirt in the same cool , determined style . |
| 26 | It is true to say that he was almost exclusively concerned with military operations , and he spent much of his time in the latter stages of the war at a series of international conferences . |
| 27 | If he is not saying that he would repeal the increase in VAT , he is simply speaking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time . |
| 28 | And then as he turned and walked away he took the blackjack , which had come out of his pocket in the same handful , and tossed it into the first unblocked drain that he saw . |
| 29 | all well and good , but for twenty year , we should n't be talking about this , when I was in Ireland a couple of years ago the skew over overseer said he had to get rid of his television for the same reason , he er could n't turn it up |
| 30 | In other words , these licks are ‘ moves ’ which give you access to and between all areas of your fretboard in the same key . |