Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She slowly regained her strength in the latter part of the year , just in time to cope with a winter season and no designer . |
| 32 | One project that Warnke has had in mind since he came to Hamburg in 1982 , has been finding more space for the art history department , and to this end he has had his eye on the former Warburg house with its famous oval reading room , conceived by Aby Warburg and opened to readers in 1926 , one year after his death . |
| 33 | If the court has ordered the husband ( or the husband has agreed ) to convey or transfer his interest in the former matrimonial home to the wife , there is no reason why he should agree , at the request of the wife , to convey or transfer it to herself and her new husband . |
| 34 | But the prime minister failed to broaden his alliance as the former Communists of the Democratic party of the Left and the small Republican Party refused to join his administration . |
| 35 | The Chairmaster shrugged his shoulders and shook his head at the same time , finally dislodging the reluctant wig . |
| 36 | Now Earle Kirton , the former Otago and All Black fly-half who regained his place on the All Black selection panel late last year , has bee picked as Mains ' assistant coach for the coming season . |
| 37 | Your letter was a great joy to me , a message from another human being who approaches his work with the same seriousness as I do mine , and who has consequently suffered as much under the insanities of our time … |
| 38 | Disillusion me and get my sympathy at the same time . |
| 39 | I am sure that the House wished to join him in sending its sympathy to the many victims , some of whom may have suffered irreparable damage . |
| 40 | Erm in the American system of government the state governments draw their authority from the same source as the federal government , that is the constitution of the United States . |
| 41 | And Harriet Shakespeare , stumbling over the rough ground towards them , raised her voice at the same moment and yelled , ‘ Tug darling , it 's all right . |
| 42 | She knew herself well enough to know that if he challenged her account in the latter mode she 'd almost certainly lose her temper with him , and then the atmosphere between them , which had been ( with the exception of his overtures ) so easy and undemanding , would be spoiled . |
| 43 | Oliver Napier of the Alliance party thereupon wrote an open letter to the people of the Republic calling their attention to the same matters . |
| 44 | Both wanted to extend their influence in the same region . |
| 45 | Gozitan legend says that a giantess built the temples single-handed , suckling her baby at the same time . |
| 46 | Dinah thanked her salary for the latter 's white-painted existence , and the fact that she had thrashed Lilian enough to ensure silence among the rest . |
| 47 | A voice tells them to put their hand into the half pint through the special openings . |
| 48 | Now that he had arrived at the wildest part of Britain , he wished to use his adventure in the same spirit as that in which Montaigne wrote his famous Essais — as trials of himself , as investigations of the ideas that arose in the non-stop chatter of his mind . |
| 49 | The conclusion is irresistible that Mr Mandela is exploiting the government 's growing dependence on him to extend his influence to the many black organisations whose adoptive leader he is . |
| 50 | And Goldberg , pushing the hair out of his eyes and wiping his face at the same time with his sleeve , pushed away the typewriter , pulled the pad towards him , seized the felt-tip pen , and wrote : He later admitted that he had merely said between seventeen and eighteen as a manner of speaking . |
| 51 | As class sizes will be limited , the earlier you get your entry in the more chance you have of being included in your preferred classes . |
| 52 | I saw that he was examining my face during the same silence . |
| 53 | In my opinion , this empty disputation will eventually take its place with the many other myths of human evolution . |
| 54 | and she was having her drink at the same time |
| 55 | So a wild horse will learn to ask for food in the same way as a domestic horse that it may be stabled with , and older foals learn to copy their mothers , and demand their oats with the same imperious neigh . |
| 56 | Because the advisory service was so deeply enmeshed in PNP , it is difficult to divorce its contribution from the many aspects and contexts of the programme which are discussed elsewhere in this report . |
| 57 | The constable grabbed it from him and grabbed his arm at the same time . |
| 58 | Mr Lamont delivered his punch from the same seat from which Lord Howe , in his resignation speech in 1990 , fatally wounded Lady Thatcher . |
| 59 | Mr Lamont delivered his punch from the same seat from which Lord Howe , in his resignation speech in 1990 , fatally wounded Lady Thatcher . |
| 60 | Although he came to Parliaments regularly enough , he spent his last twenty years running his diocese with the same competent mediocrity by which he had come by it . |