Example sentences of "the local [noun pl] that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gabriel looked for his parents — even though he knew by the local accents that he was far , far away from his own countryside . |
| 2 | Further anecdotes on the fame of Champagne wines in the fourteenth century are told by Max Sutaine in his Essai sur l'histoire des vins de la Champagne ( 1845 ) ; in particular he relates how , when the German king Wenceslas arrived in Reims in 1397 to discuss with Charles VI the division within the church over the popes of Avignon ( a subject Henry Vizetelly describes in A History of Champagne ( 1882 ) as ‘ very fit for a drunkard and a madman to put their heads together about ’ ) he became so intoxicated on the local wines that he signed all the documents before him , departing without knowing what he had signed . |
| 3 | But , fifteen minutes later , it was n't the police station , but one of the local hotels that they drew up in front of . |
| 4 | The municipal police argued that the manufacturer 's expiry date was the true one , so the Jordanian asked Tripoli to intervene to tell the local police that they had no power to override the decision of a national committee . |
| 5 | Erlich , rookie Fed , had demanded of the local police that they get a man up there , up to the nests , that they get each of the nests down , that they sift each of the nests on the very long chance that the storks had lifted a fibre of torn clothing to bind a nest wall . |