Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By continually signalling attentiveness and responsiveness to the signals of the other — it is infuriating to talk to someone who stares out of the window all the time . |
| 2 | Are you going to tell me that it was someone who came back on the train from London who gave you the key ? ’ |
| 3 | It is understandable for our staff in the offices to look at such claims in a different way from that of someone who comes in off the street . |
| 4 | Someone who comes in by the day would suit me admirably . ’ |
| 5 | We had an annual swimming display at school , and this always ended with someone pretending to fall in accidentally , fully clothed , and being rescued by someone who dived in from the side , again fully clothed . |
| 6 | At this stage the fish were all a dull brown which I put down to the new environment — the photograph I has seen showed a tan coloured upper body smothered with black patches . |
| 7 | But this would be to simplify things for , as I have argued , black kids generally come from the kind of family backgrounds which are not suited for their own educational needs — for reasons which I spelled out in the last chapter , but will summarize as ‘ neglect ’ or ‘ unattainable goals ’ . |
| 8 | We did a production of The Caretaker , which I designed , directed and in which I played on for the characters . ’ |
| 9 | Which I wrote down on the diary records side . |
| 10 | The first is a transcript taken from some ethnographic research which I carried out into the culture of racism amongst young white men living on a large council estate in South London . |
| 11 | I got out of bed and sat in my pyjama trousers and wrote a letter , quite a long letter , which I tore up at the first re-reading . |
| 12 | It is certainly not unreasonable to refuse to give up a bank note which you pick up in the street to the first stranger who alleges it to be his , if you tell him that you must make further inquiries or that he must produce evidence which will authenticate his claim . |
| 13 | Recessed ceiling lights ( eyeball spots and downlighters ) are fitted in circular holes which you cut out of the ceiling with a padsaw . |
| 14 | If it does n't then what you created on the computer screen and proofed on a page printer may well look rather different to that which you get back from the typesetter . |
| 15 | He 's gone part of the way along the r road by doing what you 've just been describing non-executive directors but erm it could be a weakness if he 's seen as a er erm a business man and cavalier as opposed to somebody who fits in with the style that the city 's always looking for . |
| 16 | The ego , which itself develops out of the id , excludes certain impressions and processes as a defensive process , which become not just preconscious , and therefore capable of being remembered easily , but repressed into the id , where powerful emotional factors keep them forgotten . |
| 17 | ‘ This is Mrs Crupp 's dish of kidneys , sir , for which she sent out to the pastrycook in David Copperfield . |
| 18 | Tilda appeared with a ball of oozing clay in her arms which she flung down on the table . |
| 19 | The locals thought she was a stuck-up bitch from Belfast , which she played up to the hilt , and the other guests — foreigners , mostly Dutch and Germans by their collar sizes — were taken by her vivacity , and the calm indulgence of the quiet , handsome man opposite her , who said little , smiled a lot , and ordered a second full fried breakfast in a way that had the waitress fit to melt into his arms . |
| 20 | From it she took a book , which she carried over to the dressing-table . |
| 21 | For the first time since Tamar had met her , the putty-coloured cheeks were flushed and the hands which she held out for the child were shaking . |
| 22 | Another friend puts all her bits and pieces like grooming brushes and fly repellent in an old door manger , which she fastened on to the door . |
| 23 | By the way — ’ She opened her bag and drew out the incriminating tape , which she put down on the round antique table which stood at the centre of the hall . |
| 24 | She dresses for the most part in a pink frilly fairy costume in which she walks down to the beach , paints , dances and collects snails . |
| 25 | As the numbers and grades of medreses increased with the passage of time , so also did the numbers and grades of mevleviyets , the term used here in the sense which would appear to have been valid , with minor qualifications , at least from the latter half of the sixteenth century , namely as comprising principally the kazaskerliks and the important kadiliks-the mevleviyet kadiliks — to which one moved on from the higher medreses and through which one moved , if one were fortunate , eventually to reach the kazaskerliks and , by the end of the sixteenth century , the Muftilik . |
| 26 | I 've talked during my presentation about each of the paradoxes which we laid out at the beginning of the morning which talked about the diverse needs of different parts of an enterprise from their information systems if we are to deliver the adv er the advantages of enterprise-wide client server . |
| 27 | Er Madam Speaker I entirely agree , I entirely agree with my ho honourable friend er the absence of the social chapter in Britain accounts in part for our higher levels of employment and the reforms which we carried out in the eighties and the figures speak for themselves , as do the er people who speak for industry for example when Black and Decker announced their intention to bring their operations er fully into Britain out of Germany , a company spokesman said anyone familiar with this sit situation in Germany will grasp that because of costs it is become very difficult to do business there . |
| 28 | I think that normally there is a cheque sent through with the notification , which we put in against the COUP 's fees code , but there is n't one this time . |
| 29 | With Batts and Speed we were extremely lucky … we now seem to have a glut which we had back in the early Revie days … the trouble is these days keeping them , with freedom of contract etc . |
| 30 | We attach great importance to the work of the Broadcasting Standards Council , which we set up under the 1990 Act . |