Example sentences of "the [noun] [noun sg] [vb base] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very cle well what does what does the manta ray do for you ? |
| 2 | I mean , I know it 's not her fault but like , every Wednesday she has all the people from the college bridge go to her house to play bridge . |
| 3 | As Reyburn observes : ‘ Sensitive females know it is no good announcing ‘ Excuse me a minute , I 'll see if the scones are done ’ merely to have the sound of the flushing toilet proclaim to everybody in the house , ‘ I have been to the loo ’ . ’ |
| 4 | So keen is manager Graham Taylor for Wright , in particular , to fulfil his international potential against Turkey that he has even asked a psychologist to help the Arsenal striker relax before his big night at Wembley . |
| 5 | With his open-necked shirt , his air of dejected exhaustion and the newspaper spread open on his knee , he might almost have been a kidnap victim waiting to have his existence confirmed by means of a Polaroid photograph . |
| 6 | To have as much money to spend as the Trustees of the Getty Museum have in their care is a grave responsibility . |
| 7 | We had to put a bloke in hospital there ; and so the owd skipper say to me : ‘ Boy , ’ he says , ‘ we ought to have another hand . |
| 8 | This second phase of INDECS will be tied in with the computerisation of the Home Office 's confidential suspects index — a list of names which officers in the immigration service carry with them to check against the names on travellers ' passports . |
| 9 | Moore 's sitting room has been reconstructed on the ground floor complete with his favourite armchair , bookcase , work table and all the works of art it used to contain , shipped over from storage in Britain plus a colour photograph reproducing the view he enjoyed out of his window . |
| 10 | And it 's most important that we the Parish Council get in our erm send our views to the , the commissioners . |
| 11 | I think it 's very interesting th that you know that has raised this point that you know why could n't the parish council come to us ? |
| 12 | The criticisms that have been levelled at the Non-Proliferation Treaty have at their base the inequality of the bargain between the major powers who have nuclear weapons and the non-nuclear powers who have accepted the undertaking not to acquire them . |
| 13 | ‘ Are you sure , Randy , that Nate and the executive committee agree with your proposals ? ’ |
| 14 | He arranged them neatly in the executive case open by his side , then concealed the banknotes with several layers of insurance magazines and four paperbacks . |
| 15 | Roycroft also claims — and many in the health authority agree with him — that relationships between the social services department and the health authority , both managerially and professionally , have long been good and have helped underpin a high level of community care . |
| 16 | She thought that she looked good , and she felt bloody good , and she was n't going to let a telephone call from the bank manager interfere with her seldom-found excitement . |
| 17 | So there was way they were going to let the standard bearer go on his own and face all these fierce fighters . |
| 18 | He claims not to remember anything of his ‘ death ’ , but various events in the death story recur in his second life : he confuses the five moon-children he fathers with his real children , and he speaks of people as though they were cosmic bodies . |
| 19 | What will the dentist man do to me ? |
| 20 | ‘ If the Mallender family hear from you just once more , directly or indirectly , by telephone , letter or in person , by any means whatsoever , we 'll come down on you so hard you 'll think a giant had stamped on your head . |