Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] [coord] " in BNC.

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1 The point dogs catch him and one of them nips him on the leg — take that for being more popular with the boss .
2 Can Mr Mitterrand , even as the opinion polls condemn him and the press mock him as a king on the eve of his dethronement , be about to try one last grand jeu before he really ‘ quits ’ .
3 I , I certainly do n't erm propose to go through the service requirements to approve it but I did say that to start with , I just wanted to clarify that all the policies have been
4 Insp Andy Street:It was a marvellous efforts by the army personnel to resuscitate them and the ambulance arrived very quickly .
5 He asked the Church Commissioners to do it but would not wait to see whether they consented .
6 This was originally posed by David Singer in 1961 as the problem of whether to account for the behaviour of the international system in terms of the behaviour of the nation states comprising it or vice versa .
7 Q. Why do some people do everything the food experts tell them and still have high cholesterol levels ?
8 The actions of the pupil in the above example will depend in part on his or her interpretation of the way others see him or her .
9 He stood against the wall as sixteen pairs of eyes from faces pressed up against the office windows scrutinised him and saw , he knew only too well , a small , scrawny creature with spots breaking out over his face .
10 Most of the time the class members understand me and sometimes I even understand myself !
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