Example sentences of "[pers pn] and the [noun] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the gap between the rich and the poor was perceived to be widening , students felt this was bad for them and the country as a whole . |
| 2 | Owen distrusted castles unless he had had the ordering of them and the garrisoning for a year or more ; there was infinitely more safety in the hills , because the hills were his castle and not another man 's , and could not be betrayed or easily taken by storm . |
| 3 | There is no room between him and the chariot for a groom corresponding to the one holding the reins in the opposite wing ; nor , if the girl is rightly placed , was there one at the horses ' heads . |
| 4 | Lesley Harrison , 29 , was knifed by a taxi passenger as she stepped between him and the driver during a row over the fare . |
| 5 | It appeared to him suddenly that there was a link between her flouted ambition for him and the ethic of a religion more alien to his own thought than he had ever dreamed . |
| 6 | He had been expecting a great difference , but not the extent of the hostility that had greeted him and the reality of a giant Worm wielding enormous electrical energy . |
| 7 | ‘ As for Mowbray , he had that bloody parchment on him and the fragments of a seed cake . |
| 8 | With a violence born of desperation , he swung at the bottle nearest to him and the mouth of a bottle of Tavel Rosé landed neatly in the pile of Donald 's chicken , allowing pink liquid to pulse on to the plate . |
| 9 | Besides , Cecilia had the example of poor Evelina before her and the recollection of a family rumour that a brother of that manufacturing grandfather had died in a lunatic asylum . |
| 10 | Anne Boleyn was pregnant ; the King contracted a secret marriage with her and the need for a divorce was urgent to secure a legitimate succession . |
| 11 | Tawell now found Sara Hart a nagging inconvenience , and so he shifted her and the children to a cottage at Salt Hill near Slough . |
| 12 | He found both her and the Shah in a state of shock , quite confused and uncertain what to do . |
| 13 | Golda Meir replied that ‘ if he was ready and willing to confront us and the world with a fait accompli [ i.e. annexation of Arab Palestine ] — the traditional friendship between us would continue and we would certainly find a common language in arranging matters of interest to both sides . ’ |