Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [noun] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stood at the foot of the staircase which led up to the tower but even Jacqueline , so well known for her early rising that her grandfather called her the Dawn Patrol , was silent . |
| 2 | GRAHAM Finney does not mind that his hobby gives him the needle … for it helps him create textile masterpieces . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , Bob Bigg 's Palace career was greatly reduced by a badly broken leg sustained at Newport in February 1937 , which kept him out of first-team action for fully 21 months , and some of the contemporary pundits reckoned that his absence cost us the single promotion place from Division 3 South in 1938–39 . |
| 4 | Judgement means that the court agrees that your debtor owes you the money as stated on the judgement which is normally your debt , the interest and some costs . |
| 5 | The evening will be semi-business anyway , so your qualifications make you the best candidate . ’ |
| 6 | So in the end we got a mortgage from a building society , and my parents gave us the money to do it up . |
| 7 | Another , who works in a uniform all day , said how important her earrings were , and the short dreadlocks under her hat ; how she felt they were making a statement for her , something like : you may think I 'm an ordinary , boring nurse , but my hair and my earrings give you the clues ; this is what I 'm like out of my uniform , I 'm different , I 'm me . |
| 8 | Buzzcocks differ in only one way from their contemporaries : they possess a spark of originality ( that was important once , remember ? ) , and their music gives you the impression they spent longer than the customary ten minutes clutching the quill in preparation to write . |
| 9 | But the English mystics and their followers give us the other side of the picture . |
| 10 | Conrad and Philippa think they are real , and their reality gives them the right to doubt mine . |
| 11 | In 1889 a Select Committee heard another plea from a male trade unionist for the restriction of married women 's work on the grounds that ‘ when the married women turn into the domestic workshops they become competitors against their own husbands and it requires a man and his wife to earn what the man alone would earn if she were not in the shop ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's up to Foucard and his superiors to decide who the suspects are … ’ |
| 13 | He became recognised as one of the most accomplished half-backs in the Division and his displays won him the approval of the fans on many grounds besides our own . |
| 14 | Muller helped Natal beat Transvaal 14–13 in the Currie Cup final , and his display confirmed what the Springbok selectors suspected — they have a star on their hands . |
| 15 | But my classmates gave me the nickname Einstein , so presumably they saw signs of something better . |
| 16 | They not only make an income from their paintings , and the cards from them , but their work gives them the challenge to succeed despite handicap . |
| 17 | But her host saved her the trouble . |
| 18 | They did not much like Oliver Cromwell and his dangerous toleration of loose religion , but his regime gave them the chance to start again . |
| 19 | Those who liked the Prince called him Slender Billy , while his detractors called him the Young Frog . |
| 20 | A SIX-YEAR-OLD boy died in hospital after being hit by a car while his father taught him the Green Cross Code . |
| 21 | ‘ When my mother left him the topaz , Vitor vowed he would save it until he met his soulmate , ’ the older woman explained . |
| 22 | Though her mother disliked him the custom of hospitality was too strict to allow any self-expression or unpleasantness . |
| 23 | Several papers report on Goldie the goldfish which was apparently brought back from the dead when its owner gave it the kiss of life and poured whisky down its throat . |
| 24 | Matadial 's statement of 12 January 1987 , like her deposition , did not mention the conversations in 1986 but did refer to that of 9 January 1987 , but her account in the statement of her telephone call on 11 January was that , when her husband gave her the receiver , she recognised the voice of the defendant who said , ‘ I have just shot Paulette . |
| 25 | Paul Jordan from Kidlington in Oxfordshire was suffering the first pains of a heart attack , when his GP told him the agony was caused by a bad bed . |
| 26 | When his lips touched hers the tears overflowed . |
| 27 | When his ears tell him the truth , he will not listen . |
| 28 | A PILOT called Randy went into a tailspin when his girl-friend gave him the elbow . |
| 29 | Mr Lytham , however , when he called at the nursing-home to obtain Dorothy 's signature to her will , was far from happy when his client told him the content of the letter . |