Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would that you were with us to hear me play the piano which I do every day and Papa declares I make good progress . |
| 2 | She said , I know you and you can not sing , I said , that 's nothing , you should hear me play the pianer . ’ |
| 3 | Fortunately for the police complaints department , skins seem to regard this as part of the normal way of life , in the same way they might get a good hiding from their old man to make them toe the line at home . |
| 4 | ( 149 ) How could he exert authority over them — make them toe the line , as he had to — if he knuckled under … |
| 5 | I needed a strong man to help me rule the country . |
| 6 | Where I 'm from , I should n't have to worry about a black cop beating me upside the head when he 's with his white partner , you know , and that happens a lot . ’ |
| 7 | Can you help me trace the history of my Land Rover ? |
| 8 | Richard Chambers , a fine caver who had helped me photograph the Yordas Cave main chamber , Jeff Clegg and Matt Kirby of the Earby Mines Research Group and myself left the road near Gunnerside Lodge and clanked our way up the old miners ' path along the west side of Gunnerside Gill one damp late September evening . |
| 9 | Jessie Young fired my imagination with her tales of warfare , politics and terror at Berwick , and fanned in my heart the first flames of a lifelong fascination with Scotland 's history . |
| 10 | All she had wanted to do was make sure her followers knew she was back on the road to recovery and fit enough to joke " the Scottish people have so amazingly walked into my heart the impact has been far more powerful than I could have imagined " . |
| 11 | One eye yet looks on thee , But with my heart the other eye doth see . |
| 12 | You know , and my story the following morning included road blocks . |
| 13 | I 've always fixed my hair the way that people had it before they came to me to have it styled and fixed . |
| 14 | I stood up , in my grey skin , stacked gut and floral wraparound , my hair the colour of London skies — under the bam , under the boo . |
| 15 | I have to pose in the Victorian dress and with my hair the way I told you . ’ |
| 16 | I went home and visited my GP the next day , and he gave me calamine lotion . |
| 17 | However , I insisted that we should get him to hospital and soon after dawn we arrived at Prome , where after considerable appeal and importunity on my part the patient was admitted to hospital . |
| 18 | Both the storm and the rarer Leach 's petrel were known to frequent Sula Sgeir , but for my part the all-pervading guano stench made any other odour indistinguishable . |
| 19 | Note : Through an omission on my part the editors did not receive these notes for inclusion in the last Journal . |
| 20 | In my case the burdens are weighted saddlebags that hang from my shoulder . |
| 21 | In my case the airport is on my doorstep so flying British Airways is usually ‘ de rigeur ’ . |
| 22 | There had been , albeit tenuously , a link between us in that we were both coached at one time by Scottish coach , Bill Moss , although in my case the association was a relatively fleeting one , of which , quite sensibly , he has no recollection . |
| 23 | In my case the question of chaperonage came up with regard to the O. U. D. S. At that time all the women 's parts in the O. U. D. S. plays were taken by professional actresses who came down from London for the rehearsals and performances — and very glamorous they were too — Peggy Ashcroft among them ! |
| 24 | In my case the third effect is that someone shouts ‘ Stop leaning forward ! ’ |
| 25 | A youth tried to sell me a Socialist Worker and seemed confused when I told him that in my experience the words were diametrically opposed . |
| 26 | In my experience the most effective way to resist his attempts to snag you is to heave at him with as much side-strain as your tackle strength will allow . |
| 27 | In my experience the affect of stressful tension and fatigue is rarely recognized by speechreaders and those he meets , and yet it is the enemy of effective communication even when hearing is perfect . |
| 28 | In my experience the best setting for groups or individuals is a comfortably furnished room , not too reverberant , with plain , unobtrusive decor and a choice of armchairs and upright chairs which are easily shifted depending on the particular grouping needed for the activity ( one-to-one discussion , four grouped round a table , two rows facing each other , a circle and so on ) . |
| 29 | In my experience the smart rejoinder to a put down usually occurs to me on the bus on the way home , but at least some of my guests were quick thinking enough to exact their revenge … |
| 30 | In my experience the crucial factor is simply one of opportunity . |