Example sentences of "the [noun] in [noun prp] [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the applicant in the present case is unable to rely on the decision in Roy unless he can establish a breach of a private law right , and this , in my judgment , he has failed to do . |
| 2 | Well , let's say there is a slightly more natural way of dealing with the objects in Italy than there is here . |
| 3 | A painting of a garden at Auvers-sur-Oise by Van Gogh , finished only days before he killed himself , will become the first historical monument to go under the hammer in France when it is sold at Drouot salerooms on 6 December by Paris auctioneer Maître Jean-Claude Binoche of the firm Binoche et Godeau . |
| 4 | God , how I used to envy the Catholic girls going to the schools in Belfast when I was waiting at the bus stop like a fresh dog 's dinner to be carried off to Dothegirls Academy in me big grey interlocks with double gusset for the hockey stains . |
| 5 | • Far from displaying its ‘ import fighting ’ Saturn , GM revealed it currently has no plans to sell the car in Europe because it would probably grab sales away from Opel and Vauxhall . |
| 6 | Suppose that before he looks to the legal record he thinks it would be best to decide for the defendant in McLoughlin because it would be cheaper for the community as a whole if prospective victims insure against emotional injury than if drivers insure against causing it . |
| 7 | No half day Saturdays , half day Saturdays , yes and then er I , I used to stay waiting for mother to come and my sister er to do the shopping in Willenhall cos they would n't shop anywhere else , and then erm my brother used to come with his cycle and er I used to carry a lot of the shopping back and my brother used to push a lot on his , on his cycle and mother and my sister used to stay down and have another walk around , but we 'd got to walk it back I 'd come back on the wagonette so or just after the buses started but er I 'll never forget the first time the bus ran it was pouring with rain and my sister was standing in front of me and she 'd got a new mac on and of course we were getting very wet and there was a scramble to get on the bus and the lady in front of her had got a bag of flour and of course the bag burst and went all down her |
| 8 | Just as he had last year in the pub in Kent when he 'd glassed the landlord — when the landlord had chatted to Jo while Jack was in the bog . |
| 9 | Will the Government give an assurance that there will be a similar attempt to alter the law in Scotland if there is an emergency there ? |
| 10 | We started off just looking for a few cuddly toys and a few pounds to send them across to the folk in Roumania because we were all very touched by the need of the children there . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't know how he is supposed to have made it from Carluke to the bar in Motherwell if he did kill the girl at the time it was said he did . |
| 12 | Whether that would have been , at that time , for the benefit of the mass of the Chinese people we 're talking about erm I do n't think I , I rather think that the er turn that Mao took probably in the long run , in the long term , was to the benefit of the mass of people erm the peasantry , the workers in China because I think the alternative would have been erm international exploitation . |
| 13 | Don t go and get yourself raped , ’ Bedelia cautioned , ‘ and go in the car — you do n't want all the dogs in Claro after you . ’ |
| 14 | No I had , I had of the chemist in Chapel because it came |
| 15 | they were chased through the town in Torquay until it ran off the pier and drowned in the sea . |
| 16 | Michael Palin , top selling Christmas author with Pole to Pole ( BBC Books — see Christmas in the Bookshops , page 27 ) , played to a full house and raised nearly £3,000 for the Playhouse in Oxford when he gave a talk about his travels , organised by Blackwells in December . |
| 17 | Unless you count the occasion in Turkey when he tried to go to bed with a prostitute while suffering from the pox . |
| 18 | And he added : ‘ I 'm just going to take the ball off them at the back in Italy as I did in England . |
| 19 | More work was required on the Tri-Pacer in Singapore because it was n't producing power the way it should . |
| 20 | They were hardly , he thought , the shoes you 'd expect to find on a man who had spent the day in London unless he had walked in the parks or along the towpath of the canal . |
| 21 | Grantham Hospital chiefs were last night being asked why they did not notice symptoms of the syndrome in Allitt before she started on the children 's ward . |
| 22 | I think you know , Lincolnshire has done a dam good job for the people in Lincolnshire whether it in roads , whether it be old peoples homes , or whether it be in schools , whether it be in fire stations , police stations , I admit to where one could say across the board , they could compare , that they could compare , they might compare they might live in one area and work in another . |
| 23 | Mr Pinder said he had seen a woman in a wheelchair throw away two tickets for an evening performance at the theatre in Newcastle after she was told no-one would be available to help her on her return journey . |
| 24 | Tony , 28 , from Middlesbrough , is last year 's British welterweight champion and was awarded best fighter of the competition in Sweden after he beat the local champion in the final . |
| 25 | Steering the RCN through the gravest provocation and confrontations — over industrial action , inadequacy of resources , management reorganisations , and the latest debacle over the implementation of a new clinical grading structure — he is strategically well placed to voice a considered opinion on the future of the profession in Britain as we enter the next decade . |
| 26 | Perhaps it 's that bloke who locked the gates in Gibraltar so they could n't get into Spain . |
| 27 | She has seen the improvement in Andrew when he went to the Exeter School.If the council does n't agree to send her other two sons there she 'll take them out of school . |
| 28 | It describes the situation in Scotland as I see it and contains nothing confidential ! ’ |
| 29 | Further questioning revealed that he was only able to sell the artefacts in Gibraltar because they had been found illegally on a site in Spain . |
| 30 | ‘ This historic loco is just the attraction and boost we need in a recession , and I 'm confident it 'll be just as popular with the public in Devon as it proved to be on the Bodmin & Wenford Railway in Cornwall . ’ |