Example sentences of "[noun sg] the [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time of the contract the parties know which particular car is being sold and bought . |
| 2 | With her milky complexion set off by chestnut hair the artists nicknamed her ‘ coconut ’ . |
| 3 | We approached it cautiously , in case the cops had it staked out . |
| 4 | In this case the incomers had their homes bought for them . |
| 5 | In the present case the assignors declared themselves to be trustees of the assigned parts of the deposits if B.C.C.I. was unable to designate separate deposit accounts in the assignees ' names . |
| 6 | I had to cancel a live radio performance and head for Stornoway , home of the Calvinist hits , where the black puddings come in square boxes in case the ministers think they 're too phallic . |
| 7 | in our case the unions approved our proposals of the company , they raised no objections it was only the who raised objections , the employees did n't and in the High Court case , we 've just said , how can an employee be independent when he depends upon his employer for his future work . |
| 8 | We wasted days and days dancing in the Pink Pussy Club , yawning at Fat Mattress at the Croydon Greyhound , ogling strippers on Sunday mornings in a pub , sleeping through Godard and Antonioni films , and enjoying the fighting at Millwall Football Ground , where I forced Changez to wear a bobble-hat over his face in case the lads saw he was a Paki and imagined I was one too . |
| 9 | Naturally such a prolonged absence was a little worrying , especially in view of , well , the circumstances ; and in fact an anxious Ashenden had rung Kidlington a few minutes previously , just in case the police knew anything . |
| 10 | We talked of Partition and the how the old princess had thrown the last family heirlooms — a series of beautiful inlaid jade daggers down the haveli well , in case the police arrested them for possessing offensive weapons . |
| 11 | Mr Didier , just in case the police think it 's me , ’ Angelina declared honestly . |
| 12 | The normally staid Independent cleared its front page for a graphic , reminiscent of a medieval woodcut , depicting all stages in the evolution of the Cosmos , while the Sun announced that ‘ We Find the Secret of the Creation ’ and showed a mysterious egg-shaped blob with the caption ‘ AMAZING … the universe with ripples shown in the patchy areas ’ , presumably in case the readers thought they were patches in the rippled areas . |
| 13 | It is at work in all relationships that are called symbiotic — for instance the ants milking their aphid ‘ cattle ’ ( page 181 ) . |
| 14 | The result of the partnership will be an Electronic Software Licensing NetWare Loadable Module , but in addition the companies say they are working on developer tools that will give software authors access to the services needed to build licence-enabled NetWare applications . |
| 15 | Although both these patterns of results are consistent with Easterbrook 's hypothesis the differences make it hard to actually predict an expected pattern of results for any new experimental manipulation of arousal . |
| 16 | ‘ In the mutual look the participants express their involvement with one another . |
| 17 | All the rest of the staff knew that , and of course the boys knew it too . |
| 18 | In fact some of them swore that they saw a phantom train roaring into or out of Box Hill Tunnel ; of course the sceptics laughed their heads off at such a far-fetched tale but the more psychic were inclined to accept the men 's story . |
| 19 | There is so much ripe fruit that I just ask people to come in and help themselves , also I get to see everyone that way and hear all the news and of course the children love it . |
| 20 | Feminists who are not linguists also have strong folklinguistic beliefs about women 's speech , and they are — once again — reminiscent of the beliefs of anti-feminists , though of course the feminists interpret them differently . |
| 21 | ‘ Now then , ’ the magistrate continued smoothly , ‘ I understand that in the course of a telephone call yesterday afternoon the kidnappers informed you of the whereabouts of a letter from them , and that this letter was subsequently recovered . |
| 22 | To the east of that line the dominant religions belong to the Christian-Hebraic schools ; to its west the societies have their roots in Confucian-Buddhist beliefs . |
| 23 | As a result the police treat them as something to be overcome rather than respected . |
| 24 | As a result the banks found themselves in a quandary — they had lent vast sums of money which could neither be repaid nor return interest . |
| 25 | Clinging to Mayne 's jeep the men made their way safely back to camp . |
| 26 | ‘ Round the pond the martins flit/ their snowy breasts bedaubed with dirt/ while the mason ‘ neath the slates/ each mortar-bearing bird awaits/ untaught by art each labouring spouse/ curious daubs his hanging house . ’ |
| 27 | Mr Cairns , a former Ulster teacher now lecturing in Japan who is home on a study project , said : ‘ They went for a meal to McDonalds and when the girls said they would take a taxi back to the Young Women 's Christian Association the boys told them not to take a black taxi because they were too expensive . |
| 28 | Mr Adams made his offer to meet the four church leaders in a letter last August , but in their reply the churchmen said they would not talk until Sinn Fein publicly called for an end to violence . |
| 29 | They had all been working at stone-gathering , keeping their pageant money out of sight for fear the constables mark them as robbers or miracle-workers . |
| 30 | Having made such a set at London and subdued any important resistance on the continent the Germans turned their attention to the total destruction of Britain . |