Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | And having noticed that there is nothing whatever in this ‘ I think , therefore I am ’ which assures me that I say the truth , other than that I see very clearly [ je vois très clairement ] that to think it is necessary to be , I judged that I could take it as a general rule that the things which we conceive very clearly and very distinctly [ que nous concevons fort clairement et fort distinctement ] are all true … |
| 32 | Daniel 's story certainly confirmed to me that I did the right thing — and that I should have done it years ago , if only for my children 's sake . |
| 33 | ‘ And your aunt tells me that she spent the whole evening in her room . |
| 34 | I remember that the very day that the surgeon told me that he thought the cancer was incurable , I saw the swifts returning to their annual nesting-place . |
| 35 | But one of them is a copy-editor , I think that is what he is called , and he told me that he thought the item had come in from a friend of Leila 's . ’ |
| 36 | That suggests to me that he supports the policy of sector policing that my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary has put his weight behind . |
| 37 | It seems to me that he tries the Bible before the bar of his own mind rather than the other way around . |
| 38 | It was gratifying to me that he approved the political and economic articles I was writing for the New English Weekly . |
| 39 | ‘ You — you mean to tell me that you left the area to come to our aid ? ’ |
| 40 | ‘ Do n't tell me that you trust the whole world , ’ Alyssia could n't resist rejoining . |
| 41 | ‘ Friar Tuck told me of you , ’ he said ; and then as though it might be a password to their confidence he added : ‘ He told me that you hunt the unicorn . ’ |
| 42 | It was in these very multi-ethnic areas with their myriad problems that ‘ political agitators exploit civil liberties issues , and play down the issue of communal security … individual liberties are important , but we must not become so obsessed with them that we overlook the importance of communal freedom . ’ |
| 43 | Imagine the situation where employers are now obliged to notify employee members of that rise in contribution and also reminding them that they have the right to withdraw their authorization . |
| 44 | I tell them that I have the heart of a small boy and I keep it in a jar on my desk ’ |
| 45 | ‘ But it was very obvious to me once he began the questioning what he was doing , ’ said Richardson . |
| 46 | The Marshal planted himself where he filled the exit and asked without preliminaries : ‘ Cipolla ? ’ |
| 47 | How could they have known he was going to that cinema when he had n't known himself until he saw the name at the station ? |
| 48 | He simply absents himself if he feels the programme to be wrong , and his self-discipline is unswerving about doing his homework , and knowing his own way forward . |
| 49 | They heard of course from the child himself and they had the advantage of a very full report prepared at short notice from the guardian ad litem and the guardian ad litem was present and assisted the justices at the hearing . |
| 50 | Modigliani needed encouragement himself and he enjoyed the admiration of the two and gave them his ageing clothes when he could . |
| 51 | I mean Jim 's a civil engineer himself and he knows the skills and disciplines that that that we work to . |
| 52 | He had the best for himself and he wanted the best for his Mollie . |
| 53 | When 40-year-old Australian Jack Brabham won the World Championship in 1966 , he became the first man to win the title in a car manufactured by himself and it reaped the rewards of a gamble he took five years earlier when he left Cooper to develop his own Grand Prix car . |
| 54 | It is the theory that linguistic communication consists in conveying mental things — ideas — from one person 's mind to another person 's mind by means of things that can be heard or seen , things which if one accepts the theory , are called ‘ signs ’ or ‘ symbols ‘ . |
| 55 | theirs if they put the bypass in . |
| 56 | ‘ Yes , each Neapolitan is out for himself but he recognises the need to live as harmoniously as possible with everyone else . ’ |
| 57 | He found out himself because he read the note Barbara asked him to deliver to you . |
| 58 | An " optimum " rate of population growth could be considered one which while it increases the labour supply , is not so fast as to outgrow the supportive powers of the economy and prevent income per head from rising . |
| 59 | In the progress of the Mirror the meditations ( which this text also calls contemplation ) on the Passion are one part of the process by which man sees God in himself since it activates the trinitarian structure of the soul and is the means by which the Incarnation is realised and man becomes holy . |
| 60 | Anyway , he rang himself before he got the message to say he |