Example sentences of "the [noun] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ College men ’ or ‘ academics ’ are considered to be potentially dangerous and polluting because of their limited understanding of the ‘ polis 's ’ real world ; for they never stay long enough to experience the depth and complexities of the activities which lend him his ‘ special knowledge ’ . |
| 2 | If you are not happy with the response you receive you should use this leaflet , or write a letter to the Head of Service Quality Development at the Freepost address shown on the leaflet . |
| 3 | She spent little and even caring for her lodgers generously she did not need half the income she found she earned . |
| 4 | ‘ There 's only one good thing about that society , ’ says Howard , ‘ and that 's the opportunity it offers you to reject it . ’ |
| 5 | In his later years he recalled with pride the opportunity it gave him to lecture such eminent men as Sir Henry Stanley on the correct procedure for expedition photography . |
| 6 | He is engaged in conversation by McKendrick , another participant in the Colloquium , but does not reveal to him that what attracts him to the conference is the opportunity it affords him to go to the World Cup qualifying match between England and Czechoslovakia ( scene one ) . |
| 7 | I therefore completed to his satisfaction all the forms he gave me , and I gave him a detailed written description of our proposal , and a revised working drawing showing greater detail , with both of which he seemed satisfied . |
| 8 | Now the authority of the community was carried by the Sanhedrin they brought him to what is what they accepted as a trial erm they 'd assessed that something was going against their structures , and as I 've already said religious life was the most important thing he 'd broken it seems a religious law and the council the court the gathering together of the seventy members of the Sanhedrin were going to in a serious sort of way check this out , check this accusation out . |
| 9 | Now usually in the exams they work it so you ca n't do that cos they give you a graph already drawn and they 'll have sort of erm two squares is equal to one unit along the bottom but only one square equals one unit |
| 10 | I mean I mean obviously the it may be that erm there 's very little these days I 'm afraid which is an absolutely copper bottomed guarantee you know but if if if they were able to say well you know yes we do take people who 've got the exams you know we took somebody last year or whatever . |
| 11 | examples like these can not possibly be politically neutral if they are rooted in an economic system and the ideology which supports it ; |
| 12 | ‘ But she revived old memories , and sometimes memories hurt more than the acts which created them . ’ |
| 13 | But the experts who examined him afterwards almost certainly thought he had been infected by female chiggoe fleas , which attach themselves between the toes or on the soles of the feet . |
| 14 | The ones who served on the Organising Committee and the embryo Central Authority , and the remainder who joined them on appointment later in 1947 , were quite clear that they would not give up their statutorily entrenched independence to Citrine and Self . |
| 15 | But it is undoubtedly dangerous and often cruel , stirring not so much the boxers but the crowds who watch them to a pitch of savagery quite incompatible with the notion that boxing is ‘ the noble art of self-defence ’ . |
| 16 | I have to disagree with Adrian Thrills in the NME who labelled them as weak and below par . |
| 17 | And you get so much time taking the strips one running them down . |
| 18 | " I deny " , wrote the most important eighteenth-century commentator on the subject , " that anyone can reach a decision through duly constituted judicial procedure in regard to the life , property , and reputation of the ambassador except the prince who sent him or the magistrate to whose jurisdiction he was formerly subject " . |
| 19 | Maybe the bullet will go somewhere near the direction you aimed it . |
| 20 | Now the others she 's referring to there must be God , but she can not immediately go on and so bluntly say , in the very next line anyway , you know , it was only the serpent who showed it to me , God is going to be envious of me . |
| 21 | Give me the mike you Leave it ! |
| 22 | From the handwriting he knew it was from his mother , and he ran to his workshop to read it . |
| 23 | When finally he grabbed the ropes which secured her , and shot his load deep inside her pulsing jewel , she screamed a combination of thankful relief and dark ecstasy . |
| 24 | would like to thank managers and staff at the branch for the support they gave him during his recent illness . |
| 25 | Obviously the way in which powers are used by different agencies , such as the Inland Revenue , DSS or the police , depend largely to the support they feel they will receive from the media , the Government and the public . |
| 26 | The same is true of free , fit , apt , able , etc. , all of which denote a quality in the person designated as the support which predisposes him to realize the action referred to by the infinitive in a certain way . |
| 27 | They are a model of administrative efficiency in making known the terms on which Henry had received the support which allowed him to be crowned . |
| 28 | But before doing so , he contacted the solicitors who represented him in 1981 and they arranged for the crown court appearance . |
| 29 | The solicitors who gave him the court order for them to release all the details on that . |
| 30 | I mean , after all the shit I gave them they 've really stood by me and me girlfriend as well . |