Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [conj] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , when other countries wanted to make their own cloth from jute , the workers of Dundee made and sold them the textile machinery . |
| 2 | It thus becomes highly convenient to view the market , in a world of production , as if all entrepreneurial activity were in fact carried on by producers ; in other words , it now becomes convenient to think of resource owners and consumers as passive price-takers , exercising no entrepreneurial judgement of their own and simply reacting passively to the opportunities to sell and buy which the producer-entrepreneurs hold out to them directly . |
| 3 | It was the sound of voices shouting that woke me the next morning . |
| 4 | Diggs came and told us the day he broke out . ’ |
| 5 | Ward stirred and asked me the time in a voice heavy with sleep . |
| 6 | Five talented misfits from Camden form a band playing the most ridiculed form of music in the world , are picked up by the chief of the record label that brought you the Manic Street Preachers — and ZAP ! country is sincerely rehabilitated . |
| 7 | He is speaking for a Government which has been in power so long that it believes it has a God-given right to govern and denies anyone the right to criticise . |
| 8 | The latter measure made it worthwhile for the Americans to try and do what the British had failed at , making British films which would go down well in America . |
| 9 | Mourning the death of his adopted daughter in the raid , Gaddafi was inviting the world to come and see what the Americans had done to him . |
| 10 | ‘ Be my guest , ’ Trent said and handed him the eight thousand dollars from his back pocket . |
| 11 | But also there may be agency clients watching the participants from another room through a one-way screen to see and hear what the people do . |
| 12 | You 've got to give them a very specific task to do and give them the support and the materials to do it with and make sure it happens so that when they turn up at 3 o ’ clock , it 's set up to go . |
| 13 | Well Julie went and got it the other day that 's why fetched her out , to get their presents . |