Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 He tried to steal my strip on the Island ? ’
2 The second place is that probably one of the reasons that physicians feel threatened by these kind of laws is that , without the law , I can cruise along and maintain my patients ' comfort and my sanity to the best of my ability .
3 This experience deepened my dread of the five fillings which awaited me .
4 As an Englishman I express my subordination to the political authority under which I live by paying a certain fraction of my money income to the appropriate official .
5 I had the Count send him my plans for the work I wanted to do on the buildings .
6 Self-doubt probably still lurks somewhere so I write down very quickly all the things which went wrong and get them out of the way by incorporating my ideas on them into my plans for the next investigative session right away .
7 Those are my plans for the future , now it 's time for you to air your views . ’
8 This episode has not changed my attitude to the job of managing Celtic and I will be going before the board at a later date to give them my plans for the immediate future . ’
9 ‘ This episode has not changed my attitude to managing Celtic and I will be going before the board to give them my plans for the future ’ Liam Brady
10 With this in mind , I sent my plans to the Special Air Service Regiment , reputedly the best collective authority in Britain on desert survival , and asked them to comment .
11 You will now release me : the resulting implication being that I bought my freedom at the expense of his .
12 And , perhaps , with this act of treachery I can finally buy my freedom from the burden of buried horror that bound me to Andy twenty years ago , so that — dispossessed of that trespass — I 'm left free to betray him again , now .
13 I keep my copies of the NI for future reference j )
14 I , William Baskerville , write this for my sons in the year 1742 .
15 What I 'll do when I 'm , if all the if signs and buts are covered , I will put the mike on it 's stand when I 'm working tomorrow , put it on the desk and put the recorder in the , in my briefcase underneath the little desk
16 While he was knocking himself off , I was preparing to make my introductions to the sidewalk .
17 I had lost my heart to the little , golden flowers that brightened the meadows like a thousand suns .
18 I liked the way Karen had picked up that my story about the wallet was in fact a message , and I liked the message she was sending back even more .
19 He did n't believe my story about the Star Zoo … until the robot told him it was all true .
20 Once we were past the village on the road up to the major , Sir Edmund , recalling my story about the ambush , ordered the soldiers to fan out before us .
21 The passage could be read as ‘ this is not my ‘ Histoire de l'oeil ’ , but a male story that I have been subjected to ’ , or as ‘ this is not ‘ L'Histoire de l'oeil ’ but my story of the eye which is not a his-story but a hystery , i.e. a female story ’ .
22 When I had told my story to the minister , he introduced me to Ivan Feigelson ( known to his friends as Ika ) , a young medical student of Russian emigré parentage .
23 The gentleman who saved me suggested I tell my story to the French authorities .
24 I told my story with the help of Joy and Alan , who arrived for coffee and contributed greatly with their humanity , humour and charm .
25 You may recall my story from the April issue , headlined No Protection .
26 My mum used to pick my hair off the pillow while I was asleep so that I would n't see how much I was losing , and at that time I was too ill to get up and go and look in the mirror .
27 At sunset , I climb back to the waterfall and wash my hair in the cold , clear water — a mundane chore elevated into sublime pleasure .
28 They did n't make me wash my hair which I was very grateful for as I hate having to wash my hair in the bath .
29 After dinner , I combed my hair in the bedroom .
30 yes , just for instance , my brother pulling my hair in the back of the car and annoying me .
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