Example sentences of "the [noun] [pron] [verb] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I close this week with only seven , I may only end up with one sale , and that 's not gon na to give me the income I want and big H wants so I can take her out for a Chinese . |
| 2 | However , I think the minister had something to do with the essays I wrote and the natural history notes I kept day by day besides the almost daily entries in a general diary … |
| 3 | Nevertheless , the concept of a zone of peace continues to represent a potential significant area of shared interest between the ASEAN states and Vietnam and this ensures that it will remain on the agenda for both parties although the terminology they use and the objectives they pursue may differ . |
| 4 | It is inevitably highly selective , both in the Acts it covers and in what it includes from each Act . |
| 5 | Lydia was also faintly disgusted by tears , by the weakness they evinced and by the viscosity of their substance . |
| 6 | When a respondent , in reply to the ‘ who am I ? ’ question of the Twenty Statements Test writes ‘ I am a man ’ , ‘ I am a student ’ … it is reasonable to believe that we have far more solid knowledge of the attitudes which organize and direct his behaviour than if , on a checklist and among other questions , we had asked ‘ do you think of yourself as a man ? ’ |
| 7 | This points to the absence of reliable information ( beyond somewhat crude prevalence rates ) which indicate the circumstances in which the population of mentally handicapped people live and the support they receive and require . |
| 8 | Only by enabling those with disabilities to contribute , if they wish , through independent living and paid employment , will the increased percentage of ageing people be able to receive the support they expect and need . |
| 9 | Erm certainly I think all of our quarry , the quarry , I think we were overwhelmed with the support because it was really in our place that the dispute started and a lot of other people who I 'd spoken to you know they they were amazed at the support we received and , seemed to be the shyer the people you know the , some of the lads they never spoke much at lodge meetings , but after a while they 'd be getting up and saying their pieces and , you know I think it 's just because you knew you had backing , and people helping and urging you on , advising you , and the union helping and you know they leant over backwards in various fields to help us . |
| 10 | He had given up lecturing in 1790 , apparently due to the angina which troubled and eventually killed him . |
| 11 | The experience of faith as it is lived by another people , another culture ; the enjoyment of celebrating fiestas ( and that includes the liturgy and the party afterwards ) with the people ; the experience of living amongst a people who never give up the struggle whatever happens and so challenge my own pettiness ; the graciousness of so many of them and the great welcome they gave us . |
| 12 | Well you should save the programmes you recorded and watch them on a Saturday . |
| 13 | However , the institutions which administer and execute public sector audits are different ; this is mainly because of the effect of specific statutes . |
| 14 | At the trial he lied and lied . |
| 15 | As Dr J. A. Glover put it , ‘ though I fear the findings would be disquieting it seems to me wiser for the Board itself to discover and publish the true position rather than that others should do so ’ . |
| 16 | For anyone for whom literary education — like any other — is an exploration of the meanings we have and live by , so far as we do live by meanings , Virgil and Dante are connecting rooms … |
| 17 | At one level this meant giving each town or neighbourhood the cinema it deserved and having a range of cinemas in down-town areas . |
| 18 | Anyway our Darren came in , and I 'm gon na forget Darren came to the caravan and I was telling him about these wet sheets and beds and the mirrors done and what I was doing there and Oh he said and about the mattress he said and I said to him mattress , it 's still the same mattress . |
| 19 | In the afternoon they separated and the former again returned to Shields … |
| 20 | All through the afternoon they sat and drank and talked about the trip . |
| 21 | They take the money they go and buy videos , they buy records , they go and bu ba for fo football and all si |
| 22 | There is only one qualification : money — The money you make and the way you make it . |
| 23 | He said er we had a big hoo hah he said er I borrowed some money off him he said some time ago to do something with and I had n't got the money he said and when I sold the plot of land he said I paid him back what I owed him cos borrow the money . |
| 24 | Their relation to the totality emerges not through the form of synecdoche — the typical detail which can then be generalized as metaphor — but should , according to Lukács , be drawn out through the narrative which inscribes and extends a connection between such moments of empirical reality and the general laws of history as a totality . |
| 25 | The trade unions , trades councils and local Labour parties informed their members about the dangers it presented and energized their opposition — albeit in the form of peaceful protest . |
| 26 | Ur was amongst the cities they conquered and sacked at this time . |
| 27 | But quite contrary to their calculations , it was the growing power of the cities which prevailed and ensured the succession of the candidate who triumphed . |
| 28 | Their tangle gave Dare Say the advantage he needed and , despite jumping a path only 100 yards before the line , the nine-year-old held on to win by half a length . |
| 29 | so these demons , these fallen angels have got , you see , you 've got to serve them and , and those of the bible , but once you 're dead , you go to the grave you see and that 's it , you 're not conscious of anything at all it says |
| 30 | This reminded me of the story of how Dame Janet allegedly tried to relocate the ducks which meet and mate annually on the landscaped patch in front of the Commons and atop its underground carpark . |