Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | A small boy gave her his wooden sword and she brandished it the way he had shown her . |
| 32 | ‘ Tell me , ’ he complained , ‘ what would be your reaction if I told you the moon just fell out of the sky ? ’ |
| 33 | Arguments in favour are that the video recording gives a more complete record because it shows what the lecturer writes on the board or displays on the Overhead Projector and it can also cover any demonstrations that are part of the lecture . |
| 34 | I 'm just one of the Star Councillors , but I was n't in the Star Room when you showed them the animal . |
| 35 | The yeuk was the Well just as you would say er Just a hook but we called it the yeuk Y E U K. |
| 36 | And er oh she says to m She could n't did n't speak Welsh but she told what the old man told her in that shop there . |
| 37 | And the last one is the pragmatist erm we 've got Mark , John and Marie who have come out quite high on the on the The pragmatist th the title that you suggest what the situations you actually learn best from and pragmatists like training its practical |
| 38 | But he was always having fun so I suppose its the imagination that counts is n't it . |
| 39 | But you can see that er for someone who has no , a wife who has no income and her husband 's paying twenty five percent or forty percent then by moving a , say er twenty thousand at erm well er whatever percentage to fill up these allowances er if you 're getting ten thousand or twenty thousand put , put it into the wife 's name that they give us the interest is then hers , if she has no other income it neatly can be swallowed up by the allowance . |
| 40 | a Chinese girl she 's living in it , in a kind of a real dive of loft thing to do her art and she gives him the odd painting instead of paying rent . |
| 41 | Surely , do we know if we receive him and believe in his name and he gave us the power to become |
| 42 | The first dance band at the Show Room was made up of people in the dale and they called themselves the Arcadians . |
| 43 | And Julius Caesar stood in France in because he was in , the place he captured in France , and he could see Britain across the water and he wondered what the land was like over there . |
| 44 | Okay , so there you are you see , you 're , you 're a first aider and you come up to the person and you hold it the way you did last time and you think ah , now that 's the wrong way round of course , there 's my elbow point , there 's my injured elbow , so I have to be that way round , mm , so you turn it round the other way , right , your elbow shape goes to the injured elbow and your long line goes straight up and down the line of the body , you arrange it so that you only just covering the forearm there , with just enough above the hand to tie your reef knot that would be too little and that would be too much just enough above the hands to tie your reef knot , the first thing you do is to tuck nice , big bit of material right under the hand and anchor it into position , just keep that resting there and all the rest of this goes under the arm up between the shoulder blades there and you tie your first half of the reef knot just above the fingers in the hollow of the neck here , now that 's important because round the back here if you press on that bit of muscle there , there 's a big band of muscle , if you 've got a knot on that it gives a great deal of discomfort very quickly so you want to get the knots round in the hollow here that does n't hurt your casualty , there , draw it up half the knot , is that tight enough ? |
| 45 | So , we toast the railway station and I tell him the only Czech joke I know . |
| 46 | But I 've I think it is a valid facility but it depends what the facilities for . |
| 47 | At once Matthew relaxed , his eyes creasing in a smile as he wondered what the old man was up to . |
| 48 | Oh , would n't I like to be a fly on the wall when you tell her the latest ! |
| 49 | And that we have an obligation to listen to noise because it shows us the grim truth of reality . |
| 50 | Frank and unremorseful about his homosexuality , he never fully resolved his attitude towards it , in part because it denied him the family he would have liked to have had . |
| 51 | Clearly it was I who should have spoken these words , but already I had a feeling that I knew what the brown paper and the ribbed cardboard concealed , and I was n't going to say a word until time or circumstance compelled me . |
| 52 | ‘ One train a week and they told me the wrong day . |
| 53 | I know my father would raise a terrific stink if I told him the Headmistress had grabbed me by the hair and slung me over the playground fence . ’ |
| 54 | As they passed through the hall , she saw him glance at the picture that was hanging there , and asked him on an impulse if he knew who the original was . |
| 55 | He was going out with a silly cow of an art student and she lent him the book . |
| 56 | United put profits before results last season and it cost them the Championship . |
| 57 | and what would happen to the programme it would be wrong at this point in time , to accept the paper before one knows what the is of the County Council as a whole will be . |
| 58 | You have won the game when you guess who the quote was from . |
| 59 | Indeed , Eleanor Rathbone condemned what she viewed as the selfishness of middle class women who , having got ‘ all they wanted for themselves out of the women 's movement when it gave them the vote , the right to stand for Parliament and the local authorities , and to enter the learned professions ’ , then sat back . |
| 60 | She drew a breath as he offered her the platter of bread , and her fingers shook as she lifted a slice from among the pile . |