Example sentences of "[noun prp] [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got a potential describing Inverness I met her on the train the other day , a friend of my , he says |
| 2 | I knew before I started out that , weatherwise , the end of March is not the time to plan a journey to the Islands and my misgiving proved to be well founded as on Tuesday 23 March I found myself in the lounge at Dalcross Airport , Inverness watching gale force winds sweep snow across the runways . |
| 3 | But erm when we , by the time we got into Hull I heard it on the radio what had happened and we went to the toy fair and then we came back and there was er you could see all the ambulances and everything still there . |
| 4 | Still on the subject of pets , I must n't forget Mrs. I found her under the millstone table outside the kitchen on a cold November evening . |
| 5 | Leaving aside the Prologue and the short Un-accompanied duet for Peter and Ellen which links it to the first act proper , each of the three acts is prefaced by an orchestral " interlude " , and there are three more of these interludes separating the scenes within the acts . |
| 6 | The metal was originally exploited by the Indians of Colombia and Ecuador who recovered it in the form of grains and occasional nuggets from gold-bearing alluvial deposits of rivers draining into the Pacific . |
| 7 | . Thought better by Jewry itself to withdraw him from the public gaze . |
| 8 | Of course , when we were in Bruges you told me about the hypochondriac darling you worked for , but what about before that ? ’ |
| 9 | Reid 's star began to rise with a vengeance last year when he became associated with the stable of Peter Chapple-Hyam who provided him with the horse every jockey wants to have — a Derby winner . |
| 10 | Taskopruzade 's grandfather , for example , studied under Molla Yegan , probably at some time alter 839/1435–6 , and it was Molla Yegan who recommended him for the post at Taskopru . |
| 11 | Over coffee we heard another interesting anecdote about The Kings Head which brought it to the forefront of media attention last year . |
| 12 | The first of two holidays they spent together was on a cruise ship , the SS Romantica which took them to the Greek Islands . |
| 13 | Easter Day is the most joyous in the Christian year , the day of Christ 's Resurrection , and at Beverley they proclaim it from the roof top . |
| 14 | Alexander , his third son , was educated at Harrow and Cambridge where he met , as well as Manners , Benjamin Webb who introduced him to the Cambridge Camden Society . |
| 15 | The road was owned by Mr Dalison who gave it to the parish , in 1892 and it was made up at the cost of £40 and the improvements to the cemetery cost a further £21 140 . |
| 16 | When I came across Kathleen Woodward 's Jipping Street I read it with the shocked amazement of one who had never seen what she knew written down before . |
| 17 | In Germany the privilege of driving it was handed to Mario Andretti who crashed it on the first lap . |
| 18 | In our first encounter with Satan we find him within the burning lake of Hell , having fallen from such a great height to such a great depth and now engulfed in fire , licked by flames , seemingly in pain , according to Milton 's narration , yet still able to speak with an uncanny strength and courage against ‘ the potent Victor ’ ( I. 95 ) . |
| 19 | Mrs I excluded you from the speech after you asked the question |
| 20 | At the end of the Forestry Commission car park , in front of the Forestry Commission building , you 'll see a sign marked Shepherd 's Hill Trek which directs you around the side of the building . |
| 21 | The application of the verses to Jesus himself reminds us of the pattern of life of the Master . |
| 22 | As for the Crown of Sorcery , it was recovered and taken back to Altdorf by the Grand Theogonist of Sigmar who placed it in the deepest vault of the Temple to be guarded for eternity by powerful spells and iron locks . |
| 23 | The subject is believed to be Gian Giacomo Caprotti , a pupil of da Vinci who joined him at the age of 10 , later becoming one of his lovers . |
| 24 | When it came to electing a successor to the deposed Archbishop Fitzherbert at Richmond ( North Riding ) on 24 July 1147 , Bishop William opted for Henry Murdac [ q.v. ] , favourite of the Yorkshire reformers , against King Stephen 's candidate ; presumably it was Murdac who released him from the suspension he incurred for failing to attend the Council of Reims in March 1148 . |
| 25 | According to the publicity men at Playtex she did it without the aid of pumping iron or silicone injections . |
| 26 | In Venice she had nothing beyond the one case except for learning Italian , teaching English , sightseeing and trying to be patient with , and understand , her increasingly morose husband . |
| 27 | For instance , when we did Jesus He Knows Me on the newest album , he said ‘ Live , I think we 'll want a guitar solo at the end of this , and it has to be a kind of fast , frantic type of guitar solo . ’ |
| 28 | At Liverpool he turned himself into the most powerful preacher in all England . |
| 29 | Dostoevsky underwent a spiritual transformation in Siberia which turned him into the greatest of nineteenth-century writers , but Petrashevskii died there and was buried in unconsecrated ground in 1866 . |
| 30 | ‘ Mr Fernie , Detective-Constable Edwards who interviewed you on the morning after Mrs Connon was killed , said in his very comprehensive report that you had noticed the police arrive the previous night . |