Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Something of that strange that strangeness and that irony lies behind the famous claim ‘ I will try to express myself in some mode of life for art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can , using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use — silence , exile and cunning . |
| 32 | Quigley had sat there while the good people from the Mutual Life provident Association had come round and told my mum the news about her death benefit . |
| 33 | Oh , on Radio one listening with my mum the other day . |
| 34 | When I opened the door to my tent the sight that greeted me was unbelievable . |
| 35 | The M and M I did n't like This trick I obtained from Paul Daniels , and my sister the Amazing Avril uses it in her children 's shows . |
| 36 | Yeah , that 's my sister the upper |
| 37 | We had n't gone very far when we met up with another Lancaster returning from a Cook 's Tour , and to my horror the two aircraft then flew wing-tip to wing-tip all the way home . |
| 38 | Plus I learned that you know from from our group reading of my play the other week , I learned what the function of a director was because you know obviously I should n't have given you all your parts to read for a week to sort of work out what the inflection should have been . |
| 39 | No chance , I thought , just my luck the clocks are n't working . |
| 40 | And everybody else seemed to get on it so I thought , oh , just my luck the two five twos had broken down . |
| 41 | Although the political will has been expressed in vigorous , interesting and dramatic terms at international conferences , in my judgement the political will to follow through that policy right across the globe to a degree that will be effective does not exist . |
| 42 | my blood the tide |
| 43 | He had his hand on my neck the whole time and kept saying I would get it . |
| 44 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 45 | But Sauvignon does not come better than this and to my mind the del Cero Sauvignon has more grace , character and length than the much-vaunted Cloudy Bay Sauvignon from New Zealand , which is comparably priced . |
| 46 | To my mind the yard , foot and inch are as antiquated as the rod , pole and perch . ’ |
| 47 | To my mind the Luo are on a par with the Welsh because everyone sings . |
| 48 | In my mind the whole time there is the simple question , ‘ What is it the music is supposed to say ? ’ |
| 49 | At that moment there came into my mind the image of that little guy with a moustache and I thought , dammit . |
| 50 | Although the coverage is not comprehensive , and many reviews on various aspects of cage hydrocarbon chemistry are available , to my mind the real value of this book lies in the ideas that it generates , the insights into the chemical developments it provides , and the historical connections that it reveals . |
| 51 | I study the swim , working out in my mind the best way of tackling it . |
| 52 | I see in my mind the laughter of Ramakrishna transformed into a transcendent substance which echoes down the mystic roads . |
| 53 | To my mind the most powerful argument for having saints is that they are such a diverse bunch that among them will be at least one person that even the most eccentric believer can identify with . |
| 54 | For example , all through my service , I had in my mind the difference between ‘ false pretences ’ and ‘ stealing by trick ’ . |
| 55 | This notion is supposedly supported by the concurrent decline of major herbivore groups with that of their food plants , but to my mind the example she used in his article are naive and far from convincing . |
| 56 | This would be prefaced by asparagus , a traditional choice for weddings in my family ; and followed by raspberries , to my mind the most exquisite of summer fruits , served either pure and simple with a little cream , or combined with redcurrants and packed into a bread-lined basin to make summer pudding . |
| 57 | To my mind the SRV 's overall appearance is let down by the fingerboard . |
| 58 | A recent auction sale brought to my mind the fascinating subject of tally sticks , which could make a wonderfully interesting and historically interesting collection . |
| 59 | But I was conscious of the sexual deviancies in the story , and I had fixed in my mind the idea of making the movie asexual . |
| 60 | She had to wear a brace for many years before she was well enough to walk with two sticks , and I still carry in my mind the picture of her trying to walk around the room and on the landing , hobbling in her iron braces . |