Example sentences of "[det] [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that would be , that would be , so if we 're doing it this way , right , let's let's erm , forget about where we are sitting at the moment now , and just look we 're in a helicopter looking at these ships now , so this one radios you in the helicopter and says , that ship S is on a bearing of forty five degrees |
| 2 | A fully grown red tail is a massive bird , over two feet tall — this one looks me in the eye when she sits on my fist . |
| 3 | And when he had said this he placed himself at the feet of the Bishop , and there before all the people made a general confession of all his sins , and all the faults which he had committed against our Lord Jesus Christ . |
| 4 | It hurts me now to realize how much I numbed myself from the searing pains of those years . |
| 5 | Mm , I 'll go back with him and he 'll wear his bloody shoes when I go back with him , how much they charging you for the repairs ? |
| 6 | I know how much he loves everybody in the house . ’ |
| 7 | That as compared with the one you can put in that you know one at the top one at the side and . |
| 8 | Every other week after that you paid them at the end every week , |
| 9 | One explanation for this is that the two bodies constituting Pluto were originally moons of Neptune , but that something tore them from the giant planet 's grasp — the converse of what is thought to have happened to Triton ! |
| 10 | He was remembered with great affection by all who knew him in the course of his short life . |
| 11 | Jane , who had a natural feel for mood and background which complemented the clothes , swam more than competently and her black and white images of windswept models against bleak moors or stark beaches created for many who saw them on the white shop walls their indelible image of ‘ Laura Ashley ’ . |
| 12 | Pragmatism can be viewed as appealing to many who located themselves at the convergence between liberalism and socialism , since it sought to temper and transcend the positivism and empiricism associated with Fabianism and the idealism identified with New Liberalism . |
| 13 | Legal aid was provided for more than 337,000 people last year , including many who found themselves on the receiving end of a court action . |
| 14 | Her condemnation of the home and family as the source of women 's subjection and inferiority , and her assertion that ‘ any woman who is really a rebel longs to destroy the conventions which bind her in the home as much as those which bind her in the state ’ , has a modern ring , although in practice her solution , like that of Florence Nightingale , amounted to a complete rejection of family life rather than a demand for its restructuring . |
| 15 | Those who knew him in the early 1970s in Florida remember a young man who beat balls at night after working a day job . |
| 16 | To many this scene would have been unnerving and unsettling , particularly to those who knew them during the period known as the past . |
| 17 | In fact , of course , many of Japan 's new rulers shared both aspirations : modern methods and Western techniques could be embraced as wholeheartedly by those who saw them as the key to a restored ‘ traditional ’ Japanese independence based on indigenous social structure and values as by those who desired to embrace not only Western techniques but some version of Western ideology . |
| 18 | But the party fell into the hands of those who saw it as the spokesman of the organized workers in politics , a view which combined the Left and Centre . |
| 19 | Those who saw it at the time have never been able to erase the startling impact that it made when it was given its short-lived British premiere at Sadler 's Wells in 1965 . |
| 20 | Depending on the contents , the report could provide Ferranti with ammunition for legal action against those who advised it during the ISC purchase . |
| 21 | An obvious objection is that the attitude of respect is not regarded by those who display it as the source of their obligation . |
| 22 | Léon Blum , the new prime Minister , said of people like Cohn-Casson : ‘ They secretly curse those who put them in the hands of secular enemies . ’ |
| 23 | He even implies that those who sacrificed themselves in the Second World War are in danger of being betrayed . |
| 24 | At Dorchester on 20 October 1714 , the day of George 's coronation , it was the decision of the Dissenters to burn an effigy of the Pretender that provoked the wrath of the Jacobites , who armed with clubs proceeded to set about " those who carried him about the Town … |
| 25 | Once again it has been left to a recession to catch out those who overstretched themselves in the boom years . |
| 26 | For those who know nothing of the quick-step , the shake or the twist , there is a late night disco . |
| 27 | Those who know something of the Edinburgh area will find the account fascinating . |
| 28 | Those who know anything about the way in which universities and polytechnics work know that they are businesses and not merely halls of residence . |
| 29 | The Conservatives , Winston Churchill predicted , with rather more prescience than Asquith , would not ‘ act as bottle holders to those who kicked us into the street three months ago and deliberately erected this Socialist monstrosity ’ . |
| 30 | Those who briefed him on the successful Los Angeles bid — Manchester retains the same American consultants — reported similar problems . |