Example sentences of "[pron] [subord] [pron] [vb -s] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man who receives an electric shock does not ask himself whether he believes in the form of energy known as electricity . |
| 2 | Sacked three times from the county football manager post , McEniff can be forgiven the odd pinch of himself as he takes in the widespread adulation accorded to him now everywhere he goes . |
| 3 | I 'm not that bad but Stuart can beat me if he gets in the cooking mood , . |
| 4 | Geoffrey Moorhouse uses Bury as his pivot : he explores it fact by fact , family by family ; this little town in the moors bore a hideous amount of the slaughter in the Dardanelles , no matter what your Australian neighbour may tell you as he leans on the bar and his legend . |
| 5 | Claris 's state of unreadiness manifests itself when it comes to the selection of features . |
| 6 | This provides the framework for a theory of why some areas are regulated and some not , albeit a partial one since it depends on the pattern of interests . |
| 7 | It is not merely the gracious bow they give each other before they begin , nor the even more gracious one when she submits to the prince , sinking to the ground with head bent low . |
| 8 | Mind you , I do n't think they 're married either of them because she comes under the name Miss and well her name 's Estelle and he 's Paul , but she 's known as because I 've had two or three people ask me about her because she , she deals in insurance . |
| 9 | How can I make him see his colleagues will look down on him if he says in the same old rut ? |
| 10 | His latest play , David Henry Hwang 's M. Butterfly , which began its national tour in Bath this week , attracted him because it deals with the questions of sexual roles and masculine/feminine identity which he has been exploring through his men 's group for the past 18 months . |
| 11 | He walks off and I watch him till he disappears round the corner . |
| 12 | I chat with her while she waits for the tub to fill . |
| 13 | No , wait a minute , I 've a better idea ; she might be able to get Paul to bring them if she can catch him before he leaves for the airport . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ About 30,000 fans will see her as she travels around the country . |
| 15 | We follow her as she continues towards the Odeon Leicester Square . |
| 16 | We sometimes stroll out that way , in the evenings , and wait , and then discreetly precede her when she walks to the villa ; she never turns , but she knows we 're there . |
| 17 | They follow him as he goes through the sky and when he leaves the sky they look for him all night . |
| 18 | An infra-red scanner winks its inflamed eye at him as he goes into the lounge in search of reading matter . |
| 19 | Wearing a chic black costume and white fur wrap , she is seen waving to him as he departs for the colony before walking away to a smart car beside which stands a chauffeur . |
| 20 | His disciples coalesce around him as he lurches towards the inevitable . |
| 21 | checks him when he gets in the door |
| 22 | We did n't definitely know that when we had the meeting , but he is coming and I will write to him when he arrives in the country . |
| 23 | ‘ Does your husband take the paper with him when he leaves in the morning ? ’ |
| 24 | I hope today we can get rid of this issue we can put it where it belongs in the House Of Commons , we can get rid of it and make sure that Leicestershire helps that and I am still willing to talk to the hunt . |
| 25 | For example the owner of a motor vehicle can be said to use it where he sits at the side of the driver , who is not his employee and the vehicle is being used for his purpose ( Cobb v Williams [ 1973 ] RTR 1 13 ) . |
| 26 | The cricket periodically tests the size of its acoustic horn and adjusts it until it resonates at the frequency produced by its wings — a remarkable feat since it can only gauge the efficiency of its amplifier by detecting the changes in pressure waves within the chamber . |
| 27 | So if you think about it a therapeutic group could certainly use suggestive therapy like hypnosis and my guess is that most successful groups like Alcoholics Anonymous or groups of people who wan na stop smoking or do slimming and things like that succeed for that reason , cos every member of the group reinforces every other member with a kind of group super ego and says look , you must n't smoke , you must n't drink , you must n't put on weight and it , it reinforces every individual 's erm super ego by means of identification with the shared value of the group and similarly reduces feelings of shame and guilt if the individual fails the group , cos next week when they come back they say oh dear , I 've put on five pounds , erm that they 're gon na feel bad about it because it offends against the ideal of the of the group if it 's Weight Watchers or something . |
| 28 | Walk along this and stay on it till it disappears at the top ridge . |
| 29 | So you 're filtering it before it goes in the machine and still we 're saying , why do n't we filter it as it comes out the machine , before it goes back in the tank . |
| 30 | I think we might even wash it before it goes in the David 's mug is quiet compared to Oh have you bitten your mouth again ? |