Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [conj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My uncle in the evening had read aloud something where the line was quoted The child is father to the man and these words insinuated themselves not into the stony ground and thistles of my mind but into the dark rich soil that brings forth a hundred fold . |
| 2 | ‘ I was absolutely taken aback by my result and by the national result , ’ he admitted . |
| 3 | Oh he was on the river he he was always connected with the river my father and in the First World War they towed the dredger from here to Ramsgate and er he was , he was in the Army but he was connected to the Inland Water Transport and cos they were dredging out the harbour at Ramsgate . |
| 4 | With a peremptory jerk of her head , and a wordless signal of command , Rainbow 's dancing partner orders me out of my subject and into the nearest dark comer . |
| 5 | Although there is nothing in the measurements to suggest it , the sound comes to my ear as on the warm side of strick neutrality — perhaps rich would be a better description . |
| 6 | I can not , it seems , both be aware of my hand and at the same time aware of that awareness . |
| 7 | I was certainly to do with feeling that I would have to be a little bit slimmer , that I would have to be acceptable to other people , that I would have to change my shape and at the same time , I could not resist consuming large amounts of food . |
| 8 | My mind was n't on my driving and for the first time I almost collided with another taxi . |
| 9 | I have already put forward my view that in the foreseeable future there is unlikely to be a sufficiency of common purpose or tradition to create out of a federal Parliament the necessary cohesion for it to control , or even to have much influence over , the unelected central bodies , especially the Commission and the Court of Justice . |
| 10 | The smaller the animal the more heat proportionately it loses from its skin because of the increased area:volume ratio . |
| 11 | When Ramond de Carbonnières came to Campan , in the later eighteenth century , he saw it as an Arcadia , both for the excellence of its pasture and for the independent spirit of its peasantry , whose self-sufficiency seemed a model to this fundamentally democratic man . |
| 12 | Refusing to let even this distorted version of myth lie still , the next lines confirm the evolutionary idea , lowering its level while at the same time raising the domestic temperature to the tropical : |
| 13 | I believe that means the US government has a role in its funding and in the contractual arrangements for the sale . ’ |
| 14 | ( 1630–1714 ) , princess of the Palatinate and mother of George I , was born 14 October 1630 in The Hague , the youngest of five daughters and the youngest but one of the thirteen children of Frederick V ( 1596–1632 ) , elector Palatine ( 1610–32 ) and the ‘ winter king ’ of Bohemia ( 1619–21 ) , and his wife Elizabeth ( 1596–1622 ) , the daughter of James I. Born in exile , because of Frederick 's expulsion from Bohemia and the Palatinate , Sophia 's importance in history was derived from her parentage and from the unpredictable fate of the Stuarts . |
| 15 | I tried to show pleasure at their decision and at the same time annoyance that our contract simply would n't permit it . |
| 16 | Seeing her as innately beautiful , especially after she gave birth to the child she was bearing , was to applaud her regeneration and at the same time redeem his own unattractiveness . |
| 17 | Their alternative name , Vlah ( Wallachian ) , suggests their origin but by the nineteenth century most had become Hellenised , speaking and acting as intermediaries between the Greek clergy and their Serbian parish priests . |
| 18 | When the dragon had flighted across the market place of Antioch , and Margaret had found herself swept up between the huge teeth , she had laughed like a child at the brief glance she had had of the panic around her ; she had laughed from the pure unexpectedness of her escape and at the terrified way the mighty Olybrius had nearly swallowed his moustaches . |
| 19 | The history of its formation and of the first hundred years fills the following pages . |
| 20 | To begin with , they thought that the Robemaker had injured him in some unimaginable way , for the crimson mask still had him in its grip and in the flickering light , it looked for a moment as if the lower part of his face was covered in blood . |
| 21 | If , in addition , the judiciary then substitute their opinion as to the precise meaning that each of these terms should bear for that of the initial decision-maker , the result will be a very extensive form of review . |
| 22 | After three quarters of an hour the advocates were informed that they had decided to defer any statement of their reasons and their conclusion as to the appropriate orders for a period of approximately 10 days until 3 February 1992 . |
| 23 | Secret messages were left in her room and in the ruined oak tree between the priory church and the wall . |
| 24 | It was much quieter in her room because of the strong stone walls . |
| 25 | Sharon Cann was forced to quit her job because of the daily torrent of abuse from John Wilson , an industrial tribunal heard . |
| 26 | Summer Holiday Courses : This course is designed for younger students who want to improve their German and at the same time enjoy a good holiday . |
| 27 | It was a pleasure that she wanted to press into her body while at the same time throw it off as far away from her as possible . |
| 28 | It seems likely that both the concern of political parties and of the public at the activities of the BUF was totally out of all proportion to its importance and to the political challenge which it presented ; as John Stevenson and Chris Cook wrote ‘ British fascism was almost a non-starter ’ . |
| 29 | Mr Wolski knew already that the old eagle had been ailing for months now and that three weeks ago they had finally taken her out of her cage and into the veterinary block to see if there was anything they could do for her . |
| 30 | She stuffed her handkerchief into her mouth ; it was large enough to cover her nose and for the faint scent of lavender-water to obliterate the worst of the putrefaction . |