Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | British tourist Stephen Profitt , who paid £200 for Lucky in Malta , was fined £100 yesterday for bringing her into the country without a licence . |
| 2 | ‘ As far as I and the society is concerned that was a warm-blooded animal that can suffer pain and starvation , just like any human being , and we will not apologise for bringing it to the court 's attention , ’ he said . |
| 3 | er Chairman thank you for inviting me to come erm here today , er particularly as Mrs who 's the other member of erm , affected by the lorry ban on the A ten eighty eight it 's unfortunate unable to come , erm and thank you for including me in the er consultation process that you 're planning with Norfolk County Council , er Chairman obviously I wish to support this , but just erm if I could make a couple of observations on your paper , erm firstly particular relation to the discussion we just had about Brandon , erm , I am aware Mr Chairman you 've just described the er highways people in Norfolk as very reasonable , but I think that members will see particular if they look at problems like four point one that we do have to handle er working relationships with some care and I would want to express regret while I wo n't be less impolite than that , but Norfolk have not even seen fit to put up signs erm warning of the lorry ban erm in Thetford , erm , which shows er not exactly the spirit of co-operation , I hope we 're going to be able to achieve in the consultations about Brandon and I thought |
| 4 | I have no compunction about seeing you in the gutter . |
| 5 | The reserve , the indifference and the blasé outlook which urbanites manifest in their relationships may thus be regarded as devices for immunizing themselves against the personal claims and expectations of others . |
| 6 | A traditional device for drawing us beyond the possibility of sweetening by sadism , right to the viewpoint of the dying man , is the death speech , at its starkest when Agamemnon cries offstage that he has been struck his mortal blow . |
| 7 | The core of Plant 's argument is a careful statement of the case for social citizenship and the reasons for preferring it to the philosophy of the New Right . |
| 8 | Nadirpur spoke to his office in Monaco and left instructions for contacting him at the IAP offices in London . |
| 9 | Suspended for a week by the club , fined £2,000 and dropped following misbehaviour at a supporters ' dinner , Merson spoke of the 89th-minute winner that restored Arsenal to the top as a personal thankyou to Arsenal 's players and staff for assisting him on the road to recovery . |
| 10 | It is worth reminding him of the fact that Japan 's economy grew by 4.5 per cent. , and ours shrank by 2.5 per cent . |
| 11 | This kind of argument reads well in Callinicos ' hands , but it is worth reminding ourselves of the unattractive reality to which it bears witness . |
| 12 | The particular question that my hon. Friend raises is for my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General , but I am grateful to him for reminding me of the precise statistics with which it is always sensible to be armed in any conference on the agreement . |
| 13 | And we also have Monsieur Tran Van Lung here to thank , do we not , for reminding us of the great and unshakable dignity of the Orient . " |
| 14 | Er I think er if the honourable gentleman checks the record he will find that my right honourable friend said that America did not have a national statutory minimum wage but I 'm most I 'm most grateful to the honourable gentleman for reminding us of the international comparisons because he will know that the country in Europe which has embraced his policy of a statutory minimum wage is Spain and Spain has twice the level of unemployment of the European average and twice the level in this country . |
| 15 | So we do have a problem and and we need to grasp that the a conclusion talking about rolling programme we are concerned about resources we 're , we 're , we 're concerned about using them to the best advantage . |
| 16 | Since the firm he works for won the contract for the Statue of Liberty , it has been responsible for protecting her from the ravages of harsh Atlantic weather . |
| 17 | It is not worth driving yourself to the major airports in the United Kingdom . |
| 18 | Severe overcrowding in the urban areas was usually cited as the reason for keeping them in the countryside , but there were probably underlying political motives . |
| 19 | The hypothesis that can explain bat navigation is a good candidate for explaining anything in the world of life , and if Paley 's explanation for any one of his examples was wrong we ca n't make it right by multiplying up examples . |
| 20 | Water management is the major part of fishkeeping — but I do have this fantasy about keeping it to the minimum and this partly explains the filtration system I am suggesting , based on a fairly standard undergravel . |
| 21 | On the Ukrainian tour , Houghton thought the band were too fervid about keeping it in the family . |
| 22 | Well they 're on about backdating it to the third . |
| 23 | The fact that she had been the ship that had sunk the Rawalpindi and killed my father did not seem to me to be a valid reason for omitting her from the series , for apart from the utter impersonality of a modern sea battle , she was by far the most successful of all the major German surface ships as well as being the happiest . |
| 24 | She answered the telephone , thanked the Martellis for thanking her for the party . |
| 25 | But Shallis argues that this is hardly surprising , because its very terms of thought are such as to exclude it from the content of all discussion , at the very outset . |
| 26 | Do n't blame yourself for that choice ; you had reasons for adopting it at the time . |
| 27 | To explain the-timidity of these people , we need look no further than the example of Arthur Jensen , who , after devoting himself to the study of educationally significant individual differences , is declared by the press to be an advocate of segregated schooling for ‘ poor and black children ’ . |
| 28 | In particular Jan had been impressed with Kylie after seeing her on The Zoo Family . |
| 29 | Even so I did not expect my feet to be trouble-free after using them for the first time on a full day 's hiking in the Purbeck Hills . |
| 30 | If the user has the authority to do so , modules may be entered into LIFESPAN after including them in the module header of a package and instructing LIFESPAN to enter them . |