Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [prep] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He recommended to them lists of books for the better understanding of their religion , and the advice was excellent . |
| 2 | However , if the hon. Gentleman had attended the seminar at which I made my remarks last Monday — I greatly regret that he was not there to hear me talk about delegation to the regional arts boards — he would have known that I made the point that if such delegation is fully successful — if the regional arts boards are progressing well — the question whether the five major national companies should continue to be funded by the Arts Council or be funded directly will arise . |
| 3 | She left them side by side on the sofa , intent on a cartoon , and hurried out to the garden . |
| 4 | Fold each side of the rectangle into four or five pleats , and pin them side by side along the top edge of the board so that each pleat falls into a soft fold across the swag , forming a gentle curve ( fig. 46 ) . |
| 5 | That 's my response on behalf of the C E C. |
| 6 | I will perhaps call it a constipation in glass , wrote Harsnet , not a delay in glass , but an advance , he wrote , on my last readymade , the hard stool , my present to Goldberg on the occasion of his third wedding . |
| 7 | In all my experience of homicide in the courts … ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I expect England to revert to the front row that has done so well for so long , which means I must play out of my skin against Moore for the chance to face the guy again next week . |
| 9 | And that was the purpose of my digression from anthropology to the sociology of monetary exchange . |
| 10 | ‘ Your mum 's asked my mum to dinner on the sixth , ’ said Sam , ‘ so we 'll do it then , when we know where they all are . ’ |
| 11 | When I lock along my collection of phrenology books , including titles such as The Brain and How to Read It , and run my fingers with affection over the porcelain phrenological head that stands on my filing cabinet , I often wonder what future generations will make of today 's psychologists . |
| 12 | Many thanks for your letter of 5 April acknowledging my cheque for £100 for the charities for the benefit of which the Swimathon was run . |
| 13 | After all I did know through my discussions with Pasha regarding the plausibility of King Lear 's plot that the Earl of Gloucester was really the Earl of Gloster . |
| 14 | The barman took my watch in payment by the way . ’ |
| 15 | Of course , I think if , if , if Freud were here , he would defend himself , by saying I was quite open about my prejudice against Wilson at the beginning of the book , as reminds us , Freud says quite clearly , how he felt about all this . |
| 16 | Did you not talk the back of my mind about change to the report system ? |
| 17 | Indeed , my research on images of the gene in popular culture is revealing trends that make me wonder about the results of public participation . |
| 18 | Since my episode with Moustaine during the first week of training , I had taken due care with my backside ; but others had n't got the point . |
| 19 | Then he gives up puzzling over it , and returns to my talk with Richardson on the phone . |
| 20 | So , too , may seem my characterization of physics as the study of simplicity . |
| 21 | Thus it was that I decided to give Edward Young a greater part to play in At Home in Thrush Green for , having burnt down the rectory in an earlier book , it seemed only right that I should hand over the job of replacing my act of arson to the architect I had created . |
| 22 | What she wo n't want to hear is that I am cured of the madness which kept me from sleeping at night and the imagination which played havoc with my peace of mind during the day . |
| 23 | And when she 'd driven Billy , a pimply second-year , up to my hall of residence at the start of his fourth or fifth term , I 'd been on hand to help them unload her Mercedes estate car . |
| 24 | Being another only child , and as my father 's job had kept my parents in Singapore for the last two years , I now spent most of my holidays with my aunt and cousin , timing them to come in Dickie 's school holidays . |
| 25 | I know how they 're supposed to work , I know all about the importance attached to establishing a rapport and initiating trust and building confidence and all that shit ( and I 'm almost flattered they have n't done the old good-cop bad-cop routine , though maybe they just do n't do that at all any more because everybody knows about it from the TV ) , but I really do feel something for McDunn : he 's like my lifeline back to reality , my ray of sanity in the nightmare . |
| 26 | I like to keep my eye on Pratesi at the sausage factory . ’ |
| 27 | My expectations from analogy with the past , like a dog 's , are sometimes realized , sometimes disappointed ; if the mechanism were not often effective it would not as it evolved have been spared by natural selection ; but I , as a rational being , want to be able to judge when it is reliable . |
| 28 | It is therefore natural to speak of my desire for coffee as the cause of my going to the kitchen ; a quite different kind of cause would be operating if someone twisted my arm behind my back and forced me to go . |
| 29 | Sometimes 1 would try to withhold my gift of words as the only way I could convey to him that he was withholding something I needed as badly as he needed my poetic ability . |
| 30 | Not then — to recall my point of departure in the previous chapter — knowing thyself , so much as knowing thy discursive formations — knowing them in the process of living but also inverting them ; reinscribing oneself within , succumbing to , and demystifying them . |