Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some were corporation housing estates , reservations for thee rehabilitation of the working class . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , back in the ‘ bar area ’ the deadly serious cinephiles for whom going to the cinema had as much magic as attending evening class droned endlessly on . |
| 3 | In the following year , however , a plot was hatched by the English and their supporters , which regained for them control of the city . |
| 4 | Differences between them centre on the covering of the disk , numbers of tentacle scales , arm spine number and shape . |
| 5 | Between them life at the Minoa is never boring ! |
| 6 | There was summat about my head in the stars and walking on clouds in it . |
| 7 | I do not need the hon. Member for Gordon to lecture me about my affinity with the mining industry . |
| 8 | Their plight made me feel rather guilty about my concern over the mosquito bites on my face . |
| 9 | What about my pen in the coat pocket ? |
| 10 | ‘ My superiors would have dismissed Graham 's allegations about my past as the ramblings of a broken man . |
| 11 | I might even have griped about my existence with the Gorengs and thought wistfully of alternatives . |
| 12 | After the hearing , Miss Lamplugh said : ‘ I did not actually think about my sister at the time . |
| 13 | Having by then disposed of public affairs , he asked me about my work at the LCC school . |
| 14 | I have been enabled to think seriously and deeply about my approach to the subject . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , ’ he said , ‘ I was damned if I was going to have people going around talking about my system as the Cherkin shit experiment . ’ |
| 16 | Erm the point that both the others raised about my objection with the large document and my objection regarding what you were going to do with the information you could have apacked and come out with a stronger result . |
| 17 | Indeed this ‘ gender neutral ’ definition of sexism has become so prevalent even since the first edition of this book was written , it is necessary in this revised edition to be much more explicit about my use of the term . |
| 18 | In Chapter 12 I give additional clarifications about my use of the word " structure " and try to explain why a structural approach is incompatible with a description of the world in terms of objects and attributes . |
| 19 | ‘ The only blessing about my absence from the side recently is that owner Sam Hammam has not had to pay me my goal bonuses ! ’ |
| 20 | I knew you 'd get to know about my legacy in the will , the fact I was short of money , the row — and the whole thing just blew up in my mind . |
| 21 | I spotted a critical piece about my department in the Economist and drafted a letter to the editor for Mellowes to send but he did n't use it . |
| 22 | I had not told her about my summons to the Palace , but when I appeared in a tail coat , this unusual costume , combined with the insistence on punctuality , led her to make an accurate deduction . |
| 23 | But I still have twinges of uncertainty about my place within the wider Black women 's struggle . |
| 24 | ‘ Only the other day I was at the vicarage , seeing Mrs Ainger about my stall at the bazaar-I 'm doing the fancy work this year , you know — and there was pussy , bold as brass , if you please , walking into the lounge as if she owned it . ’ |
| 25 | I think a lot of the thoughts of Donald Steel have commonsense logic , and I have been much impressed by the work of Bob Cupp , the designer of East Sussex National and whose new courses , Settindown Creek and Reynolds Plantation , I was able to play during my trip to the U.S. These courses can be long but they are of generous width and , from forward tees , are playable for players of all standards . |
| 26 | ‘ This is one of the Australian birds ’ , noted Gould in his Handbook , ‘ which particularly attracted the notice of the earlier voyagers to that country , by nearly every one of whom it is mentioned as being very plentiful on all the islands in Bass 's Straits , and so tame that it might be easily knocked down with sticks or even captured by hand ; during my sojourn in the country I visited many of the localities above mentioned , and found that , so far from being still numerous , it is almost extirpated ; I killed a pair on Isabella Island , one of a small group near Flinder 's Island , on the 12th January 1839 . ’ |
| 27 | I explained that I worked during the winter for a golf-mad stockbroker called Andrew Buccleuth whom I had met during my year on the amateur circuit . |
| 28 | He was the young player who had made such an impression on me during my year on the amateur tour . |
| 29 | During my spell on the late desk I went out on no fewer than eleven murders . |
| 30 | I used to get very sentimental during my period with the Territorial Army about the exploits of the British Parachute Regiment , despite the fact that my sole contribution to their reputation had been made in Aldershot discos . |