Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [pron] [vb -s] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The wave is my lover and she gives me the ultimate orgasm . ’ |
| 2 | David Walton , 40 , who received the aircraft today from Air Commodore David Hurrell , said : ‘ The likelihood of the aircraft taking to the sky again is fairly remote but it will be preserved in its current condition and who knows what the long term future holds . |
| 3 | In what seems a somewhat specious argument , she urges Leo to bathe with her in the fire so that their mortal sins may be purged : but although the fire at first seems to do her no harm as she shows him the way into it , the self-seeking nature of her love becomes evident as her ageless beauty is destroyed : |
| 4 | On tonight 's match , Cooper said : ‘ There 's a lot at stake and it gives us the opportunity to put things right . ’ |
| 5 | To mark his disapproval of my doing so he gives me the wrong ticket and some change , of which the amount , as far as I can see , bears no relation to any previous transaction between us . |
| 6 | Arguments in favour are that the video recording gives a more complete record because it shows what the lecturer writes on the board or displays on the Overhead Projector and it can also cover any demonstrations that are part of the lecture . |
| 7 | a Chinese girl she 's living in it , in a kind of a real dive of loft thing to do her art and she gives him the odd painting instead of paying rent . |
| 8 | But I 've I think it is a valid facility but it depends what the facilities for . |
| 9 | And that we have an obligation to listen to noise because it shows us the grim truth of reality . |
| 10 | and what would happen to the programme it would be wrong at this point in time , to accept the paper before one knows what the is of the County Council as a whole will be . |
| 11 | Your task is to tell them about your life and what makes you the person you are today . |
| 12 | It is in fact something called Mad Meg 's Cairn and nobody knows what the hell it 's doing there . |
| 13 | ‘ Arnold left her all the money in the world and she gives us the sort of barbecue we threw for our friends in Haywards Heath . ’ |
| 14 | Obviously he can create a better model if he knows what the interviewee looks like , how he dresses , talks and responds non-verbally . |
| 15 | She plays the elderly Dame Lettie Colston , a committee lady and general busybody who starts what develops into a witchhunt when she finds herself the telephone caller 's first target . |
| 16 | Even so , one can almost forgive such visual austerity when one realises what the book represents : it is the most comprehensive and stimulating anthology of twentieth-century ideas about art that has yet appeared . |
| 17 | Moreover , the notion of corrigibility is itself suspect : strictly speaking , one can only correct an utterance when one knows what the speaker intended to say , and this is not the case with the specially constructed sentences used in semantic analysis . |