Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb -s] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spunk accepts a glass or two of firewater and is led to the sack , where he proceeds to give her the pasting of a lifetime . |
| 2 | ‘ What matters is that she has given us the most glorious production we have ever had at Hochhauser . |
| 3 | Did I say that she 's given me the diary ? ’ |
| 4 | The broad guiding principle , attested by many authorities , is that one looks to see what the taxpayer has done to earn the profit in question . |
| 5 | So continuous is this precipitation that it has earned itself the name of ‘ marine snow ’ . |
| 6 | ( So the crew would protest ) ‘ that he 's bought us the best — |
| 7 | I am sure that he has recorded what the hon. Gentleman said . |
| 8 | It does not have to be that he has conceived what the French are calling the coup de force for Miss Jonathan . ’ |
| 9 | Mr Heseltine can reasonably say that he has done what the political reality required of him . |
| 10 | Not a medium so he 's given him the small so he 's thinking if if it does n't fit he 's still made the sale . |
| 11 | Once it has decided what the text is ‘ about ’ , it queries each apparently new or discordant topic or action , and amends its database from the writer 's response . |
| 12 | The Queen has been told that she is not to summon anybody to form a Government until she has heard who the new Leader is . |
| 13 | I recently helped one of the Costain girls on some research and she has sent me the final document , which I suspect will one day be of invaluable professional use , so it was nice she remembered . |
| 14 | Little forms if anybody wants to know what the hell |
| 15 | They says , right , he says , I 've got a I 've got a problem with alcohol and he 's given us the valium to get us off the alcohol . |
| 16 | Please for god 's sake stop playing Fairclough at the back — the defence is a shambles when he 's there — quite honestly I 'm getting pretty pissed off with Wilko — i know we 've had a long unbeaten run and we 're still second and he 's won us the championship etc etc and this is defenitely over reaction to last night but get rid of the fucking bastard and find us someone who 'll pick teams that can beat the Norwich 's and Man Utd7s of the league or we 'll be perenial mid table finishers . |
| 17 | And he 's told her the whole story so Noel 's gone home and his mum 's gone , what 's that on your neck ? |
| 18 | God placed the enforcing of Satan 's defeat in the hands of His servants and He has given them the authority . |
| 19 | ‘ As far as Frank is concerned , he is entirely satisfied with what I am doing and he has given me the space to get on with it . |
| 20 | Well , these days I can reach the highest shelves of the house library , and walk into Porteneil to visit the one there , so I can check up on anything my father says , and he has to tell me the truth . |
| 21 | Eliot told me that if he misses his tea he is no good for anything until he has had it the following day . ’ |
| 22 | Well if he 's snapped it the aerial |
| 23 | He demonstrates his belief to the union that problems can be overcome , and if he fails to convince them the first time he 'll try again and again . |
| 24 | I 'm sure Anne could change him if she wanted to , but she seems to like him the way he is . |
| 25 | But he 's told me the main months . |
| 26 | As mentioned in para 3.2 above , it does not have the force of law , but it does reflect what the City considers to be best practice in the conduct of takeovers . |
| 27 | Just to add to what 's been said erm there , there have been some points raised er along the lines I 've mentioned and as a result of that erm it is felt that erm notification to members who are not on the application sub-committee of applications which affect their ward area could be improved and that is er I hope to be the subject of a report to the next meeting of the Application Sub-Committee , so that er matter i is something which is , which is being picked up and will be considered by that sub-committee but it does give me the opportunity to say that erm the definition of a complaint i is certainly not a precise one and I certainly would n't want members of this committee to feel that I was being complacent er as a result of there only being three complaints that we received . |
| 28 | Brian Smart , executive director of the British Franchise Association , adds : ‘ Franchising is not a guarantee of success , but it does give you the option of joining a business whose worth has already been proved . ’ |
| 29 | The poem is remarkable for its Gothic horrors and its energy , for example : This is not a ‘ Wordsworthian ’ view of Nature , but it helps to explain what the poet meant when he told us in The Prelude that he was haunted by mysterious ‘ presences ’ during childhood and youth ; The Vale of Esthwaite anticipates The Prelude in other ways — the interest is in the mind of the poet , and the effect of the imagination on landscape . |
| 30 | The parties have to accept the expert 's decision , unless he has asked himself the wrong question of law : Nikko Hotels ( UK ) Ltd v MEPC plc [ 1991 ] 28 EG 86 . |