Example sentences of "[noun prp] [pron] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Confused by her rebellious attitude , David himself had cleaned up the kitchen behind his stepfather , and so the pattern was set . |
| 2 | For the purpose of saving her , Ransom ( veteran of the journey to Malecandra in Out of the Silent Planet ) is actually made a Ransom for her , a sort of Christ figure sent to wrestle with the wicked scientist Weston who tries to bring about the Fall on the newly inhabited planet Venus . |
| 3 | Erm , under number one erm , is the Chairman aware that the er current talk in Whitehall which has given out the contracts for er new secure accommodation units in various counties that the current talk in Whitehall is that because Leicestershire does n't know its own mind because of the recent votes over secure accommodation that it 's unlikely to get one in the present er round and is n't that a damning indictment erm of the Liberal and Labour parties in this county . |
| 4 | My experience of working with other nationalities both at Wilhelmshaven and later , when with David Wheeler I had set up the German Fishery Protection Service in the Baltic , also taught me some fundamental lessons . |
| 5 | The rest of the group , all students , turned on Mr Allan who tried to fend off the blows . |
| 6 | It had been Kurt who had set up the dozens of licensing deals for menswear and toiletries , bedlinen and beachwear , soft furnishings and costume jewellery , all bearing the name of Hugo Varna , which had not only saved him from bankruptcy but also made him his first million . |
| 7 | There was the young woman and her baby who had moved into the space above the coach-house , and there was the noisy couple from Luton who had taken over the empty servants ' quarters up the back stairs . |
| 8 | But for all those like Thea Rudzinski who managed to blank out the significance of the journey there were more who shared with Helga Samuel the anticipation of worse to come . |
| 9 | Earlier , holidaying in the less exotic Yorkshire resort of Filey she had picked up the American Beat anthology Protest , one of the volumes triggered by the ‘ on the road ’ boom after 1957 . |
| 10 | The UKCC itself has tightened up the process of disclosing its financial status . |
| 11 | It was only in London they had to keep up the pretence that Buckmaster had nothing to do with his company . |
| 12 | The simultaneous news that the Commander in Chief of the Army , von Brauchitsch , had been relieved of his duties and that Hitler himself had taken over the direct military leadership of the army , together with the undeniable fact that the German advance had come to a halt and the Soviet counter-attack close to Moscow could only be staved off with partial retreats , and , not least , the entry of the United States into the war , combined to produce the first major shock to the German population during the Second World War . |
| 13 | There were still old parts of Bucharest surviving despite the bulldozers of Ceausescu which had torn down the old to build huge concrete cubes . |
| 14 | All four are , for example , victimised in different ways by the taboo of illegitimacy and the play focuses on Rose , who has been kept from the knowledge that Jackie is her mother by grandmother Margaret who has taken on the maternal role . |