Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb -s] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | During this period she herds stray animals to her seashore cave , where she feeds them during the cold months . |
| 2 | Like when we go to the laundrette , or she takes me to the swimming baths to have a hot shower . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Or he grabs him by the hair , drags back the head , makes the first deep cut . |
| 5 | As a single woman living with her uncle , the negligent landlord Mr Brooke , Dorothea has good reason to concern herself with cottages , although she intends them for the estate of the obliging Sir James , having presumably abandoned her uncle as a hopeless case . |
| 6 | Environmental issues are also important to Alison although she believes none of the major parties have a good green record . |
| 7 | That she does it for the money , which symbolises affection , emotional security and personal achievement . |
| 8 | All Lori will tell you is that she knows nothing about the jade , ’ Paige advised him steadily . |
| 9 | But I 'm sure that once she joins you in the pool she will find it easy enough to slip into the flow of things . |
| 10 | Reg. v. Grant and Hewitt , 12 J.L.R. 585 , although it adds nothing to the established principles , is an example of inconsistent previous statements wrongly withheld by the Crown at the trial but properly , if belatedly , disclosed on appeal , so that a conviction depending on evidence of identification was quashed for want of a fair trial . |
| 11 | It is a very effective package , paperbacked with a threatening kind of picture on the cover ; it has a subtitle ( ’ The fight to save children from damage by lead in petrol ’ ) which begs the question , and although it contains nothing but the truth , it certainly does not contain the whole truth . |
| 12 | The strength of a social institutional ideal , however , is not that it always attains its stated objectives , but that it establishes itself as the desirable norm . |
| 13 | Finally , one major gap in Oakeshott 's theory is that it says nothing about the fundamental issue of how societas may be reconstituted in the modern age . |
| 14 | My view would be that it does nothing of the sort and that if we think it does we delude ourselves . |
| 15 | It is sometimes suggested that the absence of note-taking can be a help to the informant , in that it frees him from the inhibiting effects of a recorder and a notebook . |
| 16 | It is , of course , clear that the Report does not speak on behalf of working-class culture , but it should also be noted that it distances itself from the culture of the middle class ( cf. 236/256–7 ) . |
| 17 | I feel that it shows itself in the contrast between the child 's — we 're talking about children for the moment , although obviously there are dyslexic adults — it shows itself in the contrast between the person 's ability to express him or herself in words and their ability to put it down on paper and to read it off paper , and it 's this contrast which often arouses one 's suspicions that there might be some problem and , having gone into it a little , we find that it stems from a failure of the sensory motor system — the brain is n't processing the information it 's receiving through the ear and eye . |
| 18 | The matches are made of a wood so flimsy that it reminds me of the balsa with which I tried , unsuccessfully , to build model aeroplanes . |
| 19 | The fourth and most important implication of the placebo response is that it reminds us of the beneficial effect of the successful physician-patient encounter . |
| 20 | Mr President I move this special report on behalf of the C E C on the basis that it provides us with the framework to build on the excellent record that the G M B has on improving health , safety and environmental standards at the workplace . |
| 21 | The numbers attending are still disappointing but I believe that it is fully justified if for no other reason than that it provides us with the best — and most cost effective — corporate publicity we are likely to obtain . |
| 22 | The fact that he rapes her on the night that Stella 's baby is born , on their bed , and in his wedding pyjamas makes Stanley seem even more bestial . |
| 23 | The story he told was precisely the story that Lanfranc had told in 1072 , with the single exception that he says nothing about the ultimum quasi robur of the whole case in the series of documents mentioned by Lanfranc . |
| 24 | If he proposes to say something new , I hope that , as the guardian of the interests of all parts of the House , you Mr. Speaker , will make representations to try to make sure that he does it in the House rather than just making a speech or holding a press conference , even if it is in Wales . |
| 25 | But even if your romantic beau whispers ‘ I love you ’ daily in your shell-like , it does n't mean that he loves you in the way that you love him . |
| 26 | He makes it repeatedly clear that he addresses himself to the Greeks who have little knowledge of Roman institutions ; but on the other hand he refers to Roman readers ( 6.5 1 .3–8 ) and is quite obviously looking at them over his shoulder . |
| 27 | Though my son , that 's my eldest , in the Royal Navy , wrote that he has them in the Pacific . ’ |
| 28 | Does not the Prime Minister think that he owes it to the country to say exactly which other taxes he would put up to pay for his bribe ? |
| 29 | He 's mad on polo so he takes me to the Hurlingham Club to watch him play . |
| 30 | He worries that the children would be upset when they saw it , so he rubs it off the wall . |