Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sir I take this libertey to aske the favour for my sister Smith the widow if you have the goodness to recommend her to be the patron for the infurmarey , as her incombe is so very scant , to live on . |
| 2 | Years later , I still discuss with my university students the important lessons I learned from the forest while a young boy . |
| 3 | In the first half of my drawing book the views had a fairly traditional format . |
| 4 | I had n't eaten since my snackette supper the night before and I was so hungry that I would have eaten almost anything , even a plate of my grandmother 's famously awful creamed ham and carrots , the only dish I know to have been inspired by vomit . |
| 5 | When I saw the monster from the marsh , one night , I was , I was , I was frightened , I , I , I , I was he looked liked a when I saw him I ran back to camp and I felt frightened , I hid under my sleeping bag the end |
| 6 | It was a new me who demanded locks on my bedroom door the next day . |
| 7 | My bedroom flanks the street , it is on street level . |
| 8 | I collected my clothing parcel the next morning and there were the razor blades and the tooth paste just as I had expected . |
| 9 | They remained as they were ; in some fashion they were communing , and I could sense from my vantage point the necessity that linked them . |
| 10 | P P G three , the revised P P G three when it came out clearly , in my opinion changes the emphasis from the draft P P G three from the draft P P G three , paragraphs thirty two and thirty three which I would emphasize should to be read together , clearly indicates that new settlements are as someone said this morning , sorry , earlier in the discussion today , an issue of last resort . |
| 11 | We 're always well off for salmon and trout because my friend Chris the Stuffer keeps us liberally supplied . |
| 12 | ‘ Wait just a minute , ’ Meg said as Hari moved towards the door , ‘ next week , my friend Benny the Clown is appearing here in Swansea , he wears these enormous shoes for his act , he could be a very good customer for you . ’ |
| 13 | They then pass the manuscripts to me , and I or my wife type the journal to a computer file . |
| 14 | Forcing back the tears , I reverse into my bolt hole the narrow gap between the cooker and the washboiler . |
| 15 | I have a bogus copy of Hugh Brogan 's History of the United States which has been turned into a fireproof combination lock safe , but that was a professional job done by my mate Lenny the Lathe in return for a favour . |
| 16 | On the way , all my sisters talked about was the murder and when , on reaching the corner of Fair View Road and Kelsey Road , we met my cousin Violet the gossip was renewed with interest . |
| 17 | He chews up my glasses , and had my alarm clock the other night . |
| 18 | Before turning to these matters , however , I shall use as my starting point the rather more advan-tageous conditions for executive leadership that exist in the United Kingdom . |
| 19 | On Thursday , my brother Dick the doctor visits me . |
| 20 | It is an integral part of modern culture that it is simply not possible to envisage a model of freedom , including that abstraction needed for the achievement of equality , which would not have as one of its component parts the tendency towards alienation . |
| 21 | Many transracially adopted children are aware that the darker their skin colour the more undesirable they are to white society ; and many feel it is better to be white than black . |
| 22 | First of all , Climber & Hill Walker readers must be wondering what he was so annoyed about , because the review did not actually appear in this magazine but its sister publication The Great Outdoors . |
| 23 | It was announced on Jan. 18 , 1990 , that the Iowa , together with its sister ship the New Jersey , was to be withdrawn from service after repairs had been completed [ see also p. 37178 ] . |
| 24 | The Daily Post , its sister paper the Liverpool Echo , the University of Liverpool and Whitbread have joined forces to stage ‘ The Question of Merseyside 's Future ’ , a TV-style forum chaired by BBC Question Time presenter Peter Sissons . |
| 25 | The Fellowship , by most standards , was generous : my wife and I travelled to the U.S.A. ( with our baby son ) on the liner The Queen Elizabeth , and travelled home to England on her sister ship The Queen Mary . |
| 26 | So too does Micky Steele-Bodger , who played for the England rugby team at flank forward in the 1947-48 season , and has since contributed enormously as an adminstrator , particularly in raising a team each season for the past 42 years to play Cambridge in their preparation fo the University match . |
| 27 | Our trainees always found their cooking day the biggest ordeal , and we had to put up with some unorthodox meals at times . |
| 28 | He also announced that in its referendum campaign the CP would be working with the neo-fascist Afrikaner Resistance Movement ( AWB ) which had reversed its plans for a boycott of the vote . |
| 29 | The head of an agency can not typically ensure that his subordinates behave in a way that is exactly specified ; he can only design a policy to which they respond , and his perception of their response shapes the design . |
| 30 | In its election manifesto the Janata Dal-led National Front had accused Congress ( I ) of eroding and devaluing institutions such as the governorship for party advantage . |