Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pron] [noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the sort of agreement that you have let others know that your agent has the power to make on your behalf . |
| 2 | Test that your niche fits the hole . |
| 3 | You can easily enough slip in a clue in two quick words somewhere , but when at the end of a book you say that your detective solved the case from noticing that one briefly-stated fact , the reader will experience a sense of let-down . |
| 4 | Park specifically recommended that his team followed the methods pioneered by the anthropologists : |
| 5 | A woman at last night 's councillors ' gathering lamented that her nephew reached the age of three before seeing one . |
| 6 | ‘ Looks like your lover-boy has the same idea . ’ |
| 7 | All you can do is wait until your stepfather gets the will admitted to probate . |
| 8 | A stockbroker will qualify provided his business includes the management of trusts and any remuneration as trustee is included in his firm 's trading profits . |
| 9 | Zelaya was exonerated after his son married the daughter of the then president of Honduras . |
| 10 | I encountered the reality of a penitential pilgrimage the moment I woke and levered my stiff limbs off the hard school-room floor where we slept last night , and winced as my blister contacted the floor . |
| 11 | This has as its main thrust the idea that regulation itself is subject to economic laws . |
| 12 | He was still fuming when his mother entered the room . |
| 13 | ‘ Still , we were only just beaten here , ’ said Hastings , bitterly upset that his team had the match stolen from them when Fox landed his 47-yard penalty with only 35 seconds of normal time left . |
| 14 | Again there was silence between them , but as Mr Beecham stared at this young man , he remembered Martin hinting that his aunt kept the young boy on a tight rein ; and he also went further back and recalled Arthur 's confidence and how he had once described his sister-in-law as a frantic leech . |
| 15 | Here he accepts that his own grammatical categories may be questionable , but insists that his study confirms the belief that there exists a grammar of narrative , and moreover that there is a fundamental similarity between language and narrative which is mutually illuminating . |
| 16 | It is no cheaper per yard than permanent cattle-mesh fencing , but is so light and easy to erect that its versatility outweighs the cost . |
| 17 | Since Picasso and Braque had not exhibited for some time , and since they had not taken part in the manifestations at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d'Automne , the public were not in a position to realize that their abstention deprived the Section d'Or of much of its meaning . |
| 18 | We shall , therefore , ensure that our country has the defence capacity , the strength of alliance and the peace-making commitment necessary to safeguard the United Kingdom , to participate in international negotiations for disarmament , to deter aggression and to contribute to constructing a New World Order , now feasible through the strengthened United Nations . |
| 19 | Brook added that his analysis confirmed the importance of the proposal to submit twice-yearly forecasts to the Cabinet on the trend of future spending . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , if his discovery is less original than he claimed , he rightly says that his novel analyses the mechanism of involuntary memory in unique detail . |
| 21 | The laibon says that his father saw the sense in it . |
| 22 | He thrust into her ripe fig , obviously believing that his penis had the magic power to make her his slave forever . |
| 23 | I hope that my successor enjoys the A. S. M. Presidency as much as I have . |
| 24 | As he ran miserably out of the room , Hindley and his wife laughed loudly , delighted that their plan to separate the two young people seemed to be succeeding . |
| 25 | Seeing their Lord defeated and their standard smashed the Dark Elves fell into despair . |
| 26 | When she was seven her parents separated and her mother took the children to England . |
| 27 | Tess and her mother unloaded the waggon , and left the children and furniture near the churchyard wall , while they looked for somewhere to stay . |
| 28 | They graded each household on the basis of the ability of the mother to recall the Seven Points to Remember and her ability to make the lobon-gur solution correctly . |
| 29 | Why does it matter if your husband gets the lunch and drops the crumbs on the floor , so long as he clears up afterwards ? |
| 30 | The fear of violence was heightened in American cities last week when fans of the Montreal Canadians ice hockey team rioted in their city , causing an estimated 10 million dollars worth of damage , with 115 arrests and 160 people injured after their team won the NHL title , the Stanley Cup . |