Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I speak with Michael Odell inside ten minutes , or I raise him on the open line , ’ said Quinn carefully . |
| 2 | After breakfast at the palace all the inmates are thrown out , whatever the weather , and the only place he can take his child is outside : " Usually I take my little boy at weekends to the fair at Whitley Bay , or I take him on the metro and we sit at the front — he loves trains . |
| 3 | Who were extremely keen to locate in this county , everything was right for them , Mr Allenby 's borough had the site , my clients had the site should I say , and erm but we lost it to Humberside because it was not possible for either Harrogate or ourselves to look them in the eye and say yes we can guarantee planning consent . |
| 4 | As a former winner at Dornoch ( 1985 ) , where nobody took him beyond the 16th green , Garth has the right credentials for a marathon week 's work — sound legs and wind , a good nerve , great concentration , and all the shots for a course that will test the strong and mock the timid . |
| 5 | Most of us are labouring under beliefs which limit our potential , or create personal trauma and suffering , or which deprive us of the magic and joy of being alive . |
| 6 | During this period she herds stray animals to her seashore cave , where she feeds them during the cold months . |
| 7 | He seemed to have come to the deep , still centre of the sea : a place where you felt nothing , where you saw nothing except the coal-black atoms that danced before your face and knitted up the dark . |
| 8 | The patches can then be located where you want them among the preamp 's memory locations ( or programs ) , and then called up by a MIDI pedal . |
| 9 | Either you tip the dustmen to take it away or you take it to the tip yourself . |
| 10 | Like when we go to the laundrette , or she takes me to the swimming baths to have a hot shower . |
| 11 | The careful and precise manner in which these financial arrangements were laid down suggests that many who served saw the war as essentially a business enterprise holding out the promise of substantial rewards for those who were fortunate or who distinguished themselves in the field . |
| 12 | In addition , retinoic acid is insoluble in water and so would remain where we put it in the limb for some time ; this was important because we already knew that to exert its effect the grafted polarizing region needed more than 12 hours . |
| 13 | This kind of activity could be called the micro-politics of race , though in practice , as where we align ourselves with the struggles of our brothers and sisters in South Africa , it is more likely to prove the micro-politics of race 's overcoming . |
| 14 | At these roadshows , we introduced the Group 's Vision and Mission Statement — where we see ourselves in the future and the principals by which we intend to conduct our business . |
| 15 | ‘ Either we terrorise them into submission , or we abandon them to the vacuum of a permissive existence . |
| 16 | It spread to the Chinese around 2 , years ago and then reached Japan where they cultivated it into the art form it is today . |
| 17 | Mantack then returned to Donna 's parents house , where they told him about the message . |
| 18 | To a lesser degree they still exist nearer home ; in the Alps herdsmen take their cattle to the ‘ Alm ’ meadows where they tend them during the summer , and in Scotland and Wales the hill sheep spend half the year on the mountain commons whilst the lower , enclosed land grows winter keep . |
| 19 | Then they were both fearful for him and they took him into the cold scullery , where they hid him from the intruders . |
| 20 | The larvae then migrate through the tissue of the mouth ( cheeks , tongue , and pharynx ) to the stomach , where they attach themselves to the stomach lining . |
| 21 | Or they put them under the wrong door . |
| 22 | Mr Woodcock , 47 , of Holgate , York , grabbed the weapon with one hand and it went off , blasting a wall with pellets , but he hung on , dragging the raider into the car park outside the restaurant , where he pinned him to the ground until armed police arrived . |
| 23 | He took Ellie by her forearm , and marched her down the landing and the painted uncarpeted stairs into the living room , where he sat her in the big chair in the corner . |
| 24 | There is a delightful passage where he addresses himself to the role of dreams and faces out the difficulty inherent in medieval lore which others like Chaucer resolve through ambiguity : namely , that in a situation where some dreams were held to reveal truth and others to be the products of a disordered digestive system , it is difficult to distinguish true from false . |
| 25 | Six years on , the family moved to Ugthorpe Lodge on the Whitby moors , a hotel with caravan site and smallholding where Mr Chance also had stables and where he involved himself with the Goathland Pony Club . |
| 26 | Or he grabs him by the hair , drags back the head , makes the first deep cut . |
| 27 | or what have you in the chapel , they 'd go |
| 28 | IBM Corp started relaxing its strict accounting practices way back in 1984 , just as the company 's core mainframe business began to lose its impetus , although no-one realised it at the time . |
| 29 | and that was my Barclaycard number in case you want it although I ordered it through the thr phone I made out that so that I could read it off on the telephone I did n't even erm I did n't even assemble it I just looked and I saw it does n't chop I thought it would chop things but does n't , it only grates Looks as though it had been out before , you know , you look at this ! |
| 30 | I fundamentally disagree with his proposition , although I congratulate him on the stand that he has taken for his principles . |