Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [noun sg] the " in BNC.

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1 In the first half of my drawing book the views had a fairly traditional format .
2 I had n't eaten since my snackette supper the night before and I was so hungry that I would have eaten almost anything , even a plate of my grandmother 's famously awful creamed ham and carrots , the only dish I know to have been inspired by vomit .
3 When I saw the monster from the marsh , one night , I was , I was , I was frightened , I , I , I , I was he looked liked a when I saw him I ran back to camp and I felt frightened , I hid under my sleeping bag the end
4 It was a new me who demanded locks on my bedroom door the next day .
5 I collected my clothing parcel the next morning and there were the razor blades and the tooth paste just as I had expected .
6 They remained as they were ; in some fashion they were communing , and I could sense from my vantage point the necessity that linked them .
7 They then pass the manuscripts to me , and I or my wife type the journal to a computer file .
8 Forcing back the tears , I reverse into my bolt hole the narrow gap between the cooker and the washboiler .
9 He chews up my glasses , and had my alarm clock the other night .
10 Before turning to these matters , however , I shall use as my starting point the rather more advan-tageous conditions for executive leadership that exist in the United Kingdom .
11 Many transracially adopted children are aware that the darker their skin colour the more undesirable they are to white society ; and many feel it is better to be white than black .
12 The one search will serve if you act also for a mortgagee , in which case name the mortgagee rather than the buyer , because the priority given to the mortgagee extends to the buyer , but not vice versa .
13 Concurrently with the industry-funded programme there is a BGS project to establish whether sediment mineralogy can indicate which basement massif the sediment was derived from .
14 First of all , Climber & Hill Walker readers must be wondering what he was so annoyed about , because the review did not actually appear in this magazine but its sister publication The Great Outdoors .
15 It was announced on Jan. 18 , 1990 , that the Iowa , together with its sister ship the New Jersey , was to be withdrawn from service after repairs had been completed [ see also p. 37178 ] .
16 The Daily Post , its sister paper the Liverpool Echo , the University of Liverpool and Whitbread have joined forces to stage ‘ The Question of Merseyside 's Future ’ , a TV-style forum chaired by BBC Question Time presenter Peter Sissons .
17 I do not know which gramophone company the Secretary of State works for , Mr. Speaker , but we hear the same old gramophone record every time he comes to the Dispatch Box .
18 The Fellowship , by most standards , was generous : my wife and I travelled to the U.S.A. ( with our baby son ) on the liner The Queen Elizabeth , and travelled home to England on her sister ship The Queen Mary .
19 To catch the self-employed tax-dodger , there could be a ‘ profession tax ’ — a flat rate paid by every member of the profession in question , with additions according to which income bracket the ruling body of the profession reckons he belongs to .
20 So too does Micky Steele-Bodger , who played for the England rugby team at flank forward in the 1947-48 season , and has since contributed enormously as an adminstrator , particularly in raising a team each season for the past 42 years to play Cambridge in their preparation fo the University match .
21 Our trainees always found their cooking day the biggest ordeal , and we had to put up with some unorthodox meals at times .
22 He also announced that in its referendum campaign the CP would be working with the neo-fascist Afrikaner Resistance Movement ( AWB ) which had reversed its plans for a boycott of the vote .
23 In its election manifesto the Janata Dal-led National Front had accused Congress ( I ) of eroding and devaluing institutions such as the governorship for party advantage .
24 In its majority opinion the Court found that " the mere existence of a generalized political " motive to the coercion was inadequate to qualify someone for protection under the 1980 Act , and that the law required the persecution to be motivated by the opinions of the victim rather than by those of the persecutor .
25 A year before their re-election victory the Conservatives lagged behind Labour in the opinion polls .
26 Our model predicts that such an object disrupts so close to the surface that its fragments crater the surface as if from a coherent object , consistent with the appearance of Meteor Crater .
27 Consequently , not all sociolinguistic studies of syntactic variation are quantitative , and not all take as their data base the corpora of naturally occurring speech preferred for phonological work ; elicitation techniques of various kinds are sometimes used .
28 Er , in addition if you were to walk into the headquarters there today , in their trophy case the largest and most prestigious trophy is the Moller trophy .
29 However , British Airways has acknowledged via its CADDIS programme the worth of investment in AI to engineering efficiency , cost reduction , departure safety and punctuality .
30 The accountant will need to make the policy decision as to which accounting period the invoices should be costed in , or whether the cost should be split .
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