Example sentences of "[noun prp] [subord] [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel more in common with the Reverend William Paley than I do with the distinguished modern philosopher , a well-known atheist , with whom I once discussed the matter at dinner . |
| 2 | That stacks up to a quite well specified machine , and you 'll find file operations , particularly , slow on a 20MHz SX if you opt for the HPFS . |
| 3 | He was warned that he risked not being able to read Braille if he worked with the soil because it would cut his fingers and reduce their sensitivity . |
| 4 | Inchoate anger seethed on in the Weald until it exploded in the autumn of 1645 when the ‘ Clubmen ’ appeared , basically a ‘ confederacy with the vulgar multitude ’ of tenant farmers . |
| 5 | Move just now then David till I get to the cupboard . |
| 6 | He was the first high-ranking UN official to visit Taiwan since it withdrew from the UN in 1971 . |
| 7 | He had been a member of Hendon RFC since he played in the colts team . |
| 8 | At first , Stockwood seemed to prevaricate when journalists asked pointed questions about his admiration for Ceauşescu : his praise , he said , referred to Ceauşescu before he went off the rails . |
| 9 | The Doctor shone his torch on to Bernice as she returned from the darkness . |
| 10 | ‘ Those noises ! ’ gasped Edgar as he reeled into the corridor . |
| 11 | They watched Marie as she trailed down the steps by the artificial waterfall that was lit up at night with pink and green floodlights . |
| 12 | She smiled at Hari as she moved towards the stairs , there was no order book but from now on there would be one and , if today was anything to go by , it would always be full . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's the calm sea , ’ he pointed out the inlet that ran to Ballysadare as they came along the narrow twisting road into Strandhill . |
| 14 | ’ You have very similar motives in someone as charismatic as David as you do in the mute lad I played in Trapped In Silence . |
| 15 | He peered closely at Penny as she dropped to the ground . |
| 16 | Roirbak said to Tammuz as they walked to the hangar where the company rotor was housed . |
| 17 | So these are the things that are worrying Robyn Penrose as she drives through the gates of the University , with a nod and a smile to the security man in his little glass sentry box : her lecture on the Industrial Novel , her job future , and her relationship with Charles — in that order of conspicuousness rather than importance . |
| 18 | Though it was a chance meeting with Travis when he called at the apartment block , ostensibly to visit Leith and Sebastian , when the two bumped into each other . |
| 19 | I forgot to give it to Madge when she asked for the keys . |
| 20 | The Cavalier was being followed through Milton Keynes when it turned into the cul-de-sac and hit the wall at about 50 miles an hour . |
| 21 | JOHN MAJOR , the Foreign Secretary , yesterday announced the setting up of a £25m aid fund for Hungary as he set before the conference what he called a ‘ common sense ’ approach for Conservatives in Europe . |
| 22 | Remember George Seawright when you speak of the brave , |
| 23 | Remember George Seawright when you speak of the brave , |
| 24 | That was a case in which the mother of the infant , then pregnant with the infant , was being carried as a passenger in a train of the railway company in County Down when she fell by the negligence , it was said , of the railway company and the infant was thereby permanently injured and born crippled and deformed . |
| 25 | That evening we left Fort St Nogent on a coach for the Gare de Lyons where we embarked for the south of France on an overnight express . |
| 26 | It must be blummin cold in England if you come from the desert . |
| 27 | The meeting , to be followed by talks between their heads of government tomorrow , could head off a Russian threat to cut off natural gas supplies to Ukraine unless it pays for the gas it received in January . |
| 28 | An episode of the new series was banned in England because it referred to the ‘ victory of the IRA over the English in the 21st century ’ |
| 29 | His first transfer to Tottenham split two spells with Millwall before he moved to the Dell , where his no-nonsense approach and disciplinary problems earned him a hard-man reputation . |
| 30 | Complex natural ecosystems are replaced by unsustainable simple ones , with a resulting loss of biodiversity — and that applies as much in the de-natured agricultural prairies of Alberta and East Anglia as it does to the hamburger ranches of Brazil . |