Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I therefore continued to stand there awkwardly , waiting for my employer to give me permission to undertake the motoring trip . |
| 2 | PETER PEARS : We were staying in Escondido on the West Coast of America with Rae Robertson and Ethel Bartlett , the pianists for whom Ben wrote the Scottish Ballad . |
| 3 | The maid had retired , tossing her head at the thought of such low people as them gyppos having the sauce to interrupt the master at his supper . |
| 4 | Jumping on the chance of making an example of them Dalrymple issued the order to slaughter the clan Macdonald . |
| 5 | The doubts arise not from any ambiguity about whom el-Kefevi intends the statement to apply to , since it clearly relates to Molla Yegan , but simply from the suspiciously close coincidence of the circumstances of , and the wording of the statements about , the deaths of the two men . |
| 6 | Many such contracts are not sale contracts as such but are licence agreements ; this is particularly so with respect to computer software where the owner of the rights subsisting in the software grants licences to customers , giving them permission to use the software in return for a licence fee . |
| 7 | A manufacturer of products , which he sells in such a form as to show that he intends them –o reach the ultimate consumer in the form in which they left him , with no reasonable possibility of intermediate examination , and with the knowledge that the absence of reasonable care in the preparation or putting up of the products is likely to result in injury to the consumer 's life or property , owes a duty to the consumer to take reasonable care . |
| 8 | Many were ex-Servicemen whom Frankie toured the world to entertain . |
| 9 | In them Hooker discusses the Presbyterian system of government by church elders , the status of bishops , and the relationship between Church and State . |
| 10 | 45% of the respondents were non-enrollers , of whom 14% lacked the entry qualifications to get onto the courses we covered in the study . |
| 11 | So females are retained in these groups , but males are driven out by the dominant male , whom Freud called the primal father . |
| 12 | During my term as manager I have made few friends and my enemies stalk the boardroom in ever increasing numbers . |
| 13 | ON Saturday 4th January 1992 I took three of my sons to watch the Harlequins v Bath match at the Stoop Memorial Ground . |
| 14 | Well , I wo n't have any of my sons going the same way . ’ |
| 15 | I know you 're going , my heart fears the worst … |
| 16 | At this point my story becomes the introductory scene of a fiction which could be continued . |
| 17 | My story concerns the last England cricket tour of South Africa in 1964–65 , when during the first morning of the Durban Test the pitch was so utterly dead that Peter Pollock , at full pace , could hardly get the ball bail-high and England 's batsmen were obviously headed for a huge total . |
| 18 | ‘ And my dad might cut my hair to match the others . ’ |
| 19 | And I had a bit of tulle in my hair to match the dress … |
| 20 | Handwriting , I could make my handwriting neater , larger , I could try joining my handwriting have the letters joined , some people are still more comfortable printing in year seven . |
| 21 | My grant covered the school fees only , and no provision was made for other necessities . |
| 22 | ‘ It has been my privilege to see the best of England over the years , sir , within these very walls . ’ |
| 23 | It is my privilege to open the debate on the report of the Select Committee on Social Services into the financing of private residential and nursing home fees . |
| 24 | I knew he 'd fought James on it tooth and nail , and though in all honesty I felt I 'd won him round to some extent since , the prejudices remained beneath the surface of benignity , waiting only for some unwary blunder on my part to crack the surface and let them burst through . |
| 25 | I do not for my part find the objections in principle to be strong and I would certainly be prepared to agree the rule should no longer be adhered to were it not for the practical consideration to which I have referred and which my noble and learned friend agrees to be of real substance . |
| 26 | Having regard to the terms of that subsection in its substituted and current form I would for my part place the duty which it imposes on the local authority on the decision-making , as distinct from the executive , side of the line . |
| 27 | If I do not get the chance later in my response to answer the comments of the hon. Member for Caernarfon ( Mr. Wigley ) on students with special needs in further education , I say now that I attach great importance to those students . |
| 28 | I then started to put my foot to get the next rung down . |
| 29 | The hon. Gentleman may have noticed that my proposals increase the independence of Her Majesty 's chief inspector . |
| 30 | Certainly it was the view adopted , for example , when we had a 6 month interregnum in Dublin , and it was assumed it was my responsibility to hold the fort . |