Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have to know that sort of thing otherwise I would n't know how hard to fire the retro-rockets to give you a gentle landing . |
| 2 | In one respect it is superior , as by staying lower down you will be constantly amazed by the ever changing scenery — higher up the views give you a good idea of the terrain you 'll be walking through the next day . |
| 3 | Now hundreds of other unhappy youngsters will be encouraged to demand that the courts grant them a similar divorce , the girl 's solicitor warned yesterday . |
| 4 | Trying to make light of it , she added , ‘ Why , even the birds think it a joke ! |
| 5 | The Russians denied him the decisive pitched battle on which he had counted . |
| 6 | separate reports of the views of each of the groups to give them the opportunity for further comment ; |
| 7 | The men times the hours gives you the man hours . |
| 8 | The Saudis give me a stretch Mercedes and a clandestine litre of Johnny Walker Black , but no girl . |
| 9 | Although rape and looting were technically crimes according to both armies rules of conduct , the commanders considered it a necessity to ‘ cleanse ’ their enemies of their women . |
| 10 | There is a statue in the village to the most endearing Pyreneeist of them all , Count Henry Russell , Irish on his father 's side and Gas con on his mother 's , who climbed obsessively and made so many ascents of Vignemale — thirty in all — that in 1889 the authorities granted him a concession to it . |
| 11 | The golden touch : Australian lock John Eales — whose domination of the line-outs earned him the Man of the Series award — steals a march on Doddie Weir as Willie Ofahengaue lends him a helping hand … |
| 12 | If you have time , pipe a little flavoured butter around the tartlets to give them a professional finish . |
| 13 | Then the war came and after the war the concert-managers offered me a chance to do all the Mahler symphonies . |
| 14 | The parentheses gave her a sense of not existing , un-being perhaps was not too strong a word . |
| 15 | The pesticides get me the pesticides . |
| 16 | ‘ I found the last 20 minutes extremely hard but the lads gave me every encouragement and I am delighted , ’ he said . |
| 17 | We 're all really close to each other , so if the lads give me a good track with some good bits that turn me on , I want to do well for them , I wan na get some lyrics out they 'd like . |
| 18 | write to him as well disgusting , as if you do n't , you do n't need that sort of aggravation from a teacher stirring up trouble like that making the kids making him a laughing stock , he does not need that , its just not on is it ? , and as he says I 'm sure she does it on purpose . |
| 19 | the stables show them the stables . |
| 20 | Tolonen was getting to his feet , one of the guards giving him a hand . |
| 21 | The guards gave us a cigarette each and then left . |
| 22 | At the end of each section there is a summary of the main events of each of the legs showing us the different problems of all 23 entries . |
| 23 | The islanders call it the Johnny rook . |
| 24 | A lucky win against Aurillac in the play-offs secured them a place among the last 32 . |
| 25 | But McGrath , who has had eight operations on his knees , revealed this could be his swansong , saying : ‘ I will decide at the end of the season , but I 'd rather quit at the top than drop down to a lower level , and the knees cause me a lot of pain . |
| 26 | Those who fought through the months to make it a much leaner , quicker body exercising true peer group pressure will be a touch disappointed . |
| 27 | Those who fought through the months to make it a much leaner , quicker body exercising true peer group pressure will be a touch disappointed . |
| 28 | His self-promotional skills combined with his love of sport and the arts made him a popular choice in his new fields . |
| 29 | The pretence that statutes merely declared existing law was dropped ; they occupied areas of national life which before they had only occasionally entered ; they became far more precisely drafted and the judges interpreted them a good deal less freely ; they were , by the reign of Elizabeth , the outcome of a definite and recognized procedure . |
| 30 | Otherwise , two detailed reports of the mid-1950s allow us a glimpse of more usual branch activity . |