Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christmas plumbing problems could leave you with double the normal bill , though most contractors said they would not turn out at any price . |
| 2 | If you over oil the skin it will be too slippery to enable you to build up the necessary friction . |
| 3 | For example , I saw you on deck the other morning struggling to open the lights from the outside , but of course all your storm fastenings must be on the inside . " |
| 4 | Were you on duty the night the King died ? ’ |
| 5 | TOTAL RECALL Ibanez Rock an PLay RP 50 For a fair grounding in the subtle art of lick-nicking , Ibanez invite you to loop-the-loop the Rock'n'Play way … |
| 6 | the sack uses the company 's Tergoflex-Light system which allows you to fine-tune the hip belt and shoulder harness position . |
| 7 | I suppose I half-hoped that he would zap me with extinction the way he had zapped June with orgasm the night before but his horrible middle finger was folded around a reeking cheroot and showed no sign of flexing . |
| 8 | And what we in fact the the reason we tell people everything on the phone Ron is that there are some things that pen I did have one here , |
| 9 | However , as Alec explained to me in detail the procedures involved I began to realise that I could be in trouble , that I could be in serious trouble . |
| 10 | This afternoon to the Commons and talked to Frank Barlow , the Secretary of the PLP , who told me in detail the arrangements that had been made in the event of Harold Wilson dying . |
| 11 | I must have kept my end up successfully , though , for just before he left Dennis sought me out and invited me to dinner the following Friday . |
| 12 | ‘ He wants me to machine-gun the observers this time . ’ |
| 13 | and it frightens me to death the way they go out . |
| 14 | when I told her about and she come running back to me on phone the other week Glenys , Glenys , she said will you tell people if they spend twenty five pound at Tescos , I thought well that wo n't be me , or is it thirty , you get a thing and to take it to school to put towards computers |
| 15 | If the house is placed in the names of outsider trustees , then a separate declaration of trust should be made by them to evidence the terms upon which they hold the property . |
| 16 | The comfortable assumption that pupils would normally being with them to school the language which would be the medium of their education was , rather suddenly , no longer tenable . |
| 17 | They had come within sight of the stables by this time , and Mrs Alderley 's coachman , seeing his mistress approaching , made haste to open the door , calling to the groom who had accompanied them to reharness the horses which had been released from the bit . |
| 18 | He told them without elaboration the content of his conversation with Jahsaxa Penumbra . |
| 19 | Finally she agreed to meet him for lunch the following week , and they agreed a time and a place . |
| 20 | No sisters until mother got married again , and me sister as I call her now , she 's me of course my half sister , Jessie , she was born I 'd be about seventeen cos she did n't get married till after the First World War , remarried me step-father was in the forces and he fought , he actually fought in the Boer War so he was a a soldier in the Boer War and in what we call the Great War , nineteen fourteen to nineteen eighteen , but er I had a misfortune to lose the brother next to me , Frank , which he had what was common in those days tubercular trouble , tubercular tuberculosis affected the bowels , see he died in , on August the fourth nineteen eighteen in the old infirmary that now classed as the Manor Hospital , but that was the old infirmary cos we there was no widow 's pension in those days , our mother was a bridle stitcher and she used to do have an old fashioned clamp , have you ever seen the clamps that are leather , th tha they held them , the leather , she used to stitch bridles at home , we used to help her with waxing the threads have a leather apron and a bit of wax and pull the wax over the thread , and then roll it round till it was strong enough to thread it , we used to make the threads for her to er stitch the bridles . |
| 21 | His green eyes pools of limpid clarity and wholly deceptive depth , but his swift grin wicked , Michele replied provocatively , ‘ I ca n't make love to a housekeeper or beat her into submission the way I could a wife , and , as I prefer my domestic arrangements to run without a hitch , I have to tread circumspectly . ’ |
| 22 | Hang around with a nobody like Scott , knowing you never dare leave him in case the mad fucker tries to kill you ? |
| 23 | He took from her in silence the passport , the international driver 's licence and Mrs Fanshawe 's letter . |
| 24 | Later , he showed her around and told her in detail the things that needed doing to the house , and she imagined her father here , sliding down the banisters or across the ballroom floor , and she felt a sentimental attachment to the place creep over her like the muffling fog . |
| 25 | When he collaborated directly with her in opera the result was of historical significance . |
| 26 | When he entered into Calpurnia an army officer came to him and tricking him and saying , sir , my manservant is laid up in the house with paralysis being terribly tormented , he said to him when I get there I will cure her in reply the army officer said sir , I am not a fit man for you to enter under my roof , but just say the word and my manservant will be healed |
| 27 | You were with him on board the Princess and before in Jamaica . |
| 28 | Saw him on telly the other day , local station , after the news . |
| 29 | And she claimed Darlington Borough Council told her to unblock the chimney herself . |
| 30 | It was his soft eyes that had put her at ease the first time she met him , when she timidly knocked at his door just a few years ago , the evening when Fred employed a helper and found his future wife . |