Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ … we were both pulling in opposite directions , and I felt Brian was siding with his mother rather than standing up for me or remaining in the middle . |
| 2 | Er then election day we were out all day with , with a driver of a car getting people out and for them or going through the motions . |
| 3 | To prevent starvation on more plebeian trains , passengers had to take all their food with them or leap from the train the moment it drew into a station and rush for the buffet . |
| 4 | Gina could crawl in beside them or sleep on the sofa downstairs if she preferred . |
| 5 | Small peasant farmers can not compete with capitalist concerns , with the result that they often lose their land to them and end up working for them or migrating to the towns in search of wage labour . |
| 6 | Neighbourhood Watches is organized er in the , there 's , we have a head coordinator i of each scheme which is er someone that lives in the area . |
| 7 | No doubt those whom we so recently persuaded to seek their bread elsewhere are hungry because they are idle , vicious , and ill-conditioned and think it easier to rob such innocent and harmless passers-by as I than to toil in the fields . ’ |
| 8 | She tore her eyes away from his and pushed through the crowd , wanting only to put a great distance between herself and Lucenzo . |
| 9 | Here a question may be raised as to just what we mean when we think of ourselves as plunged by the twentieth century into a chaos of relativism . |
| 10 | Looking forward , and viewing ourselves as contributing to the development of provisionally held theories , it seems to offer no more than the hope that we might make a contributions even if we do not really understand what , how , or to what . |
| 11 | There 's nothing that happens on the estate which I do n't know about . |
| 12 | News film of the General Assembly disturbance shows much shouting and placard waving but nothing that comes near the sort of heckling and barracking to which present-day government ministers are regularly subjected in visits to the north of England ! |
| 13 | There are three themes which stand out to me that run throughout the book that are all in some way or other interlinked . |
| 14 | By Nov. 1 1943 the German C-in-C Southeast had concluded ‘ that Tito 's forces had to be treated as a full military threat and not merely as insurgents and that it was more important to defeat them than to prepare against the less likely threat of an Allied landing ’ . |
| 15 | A lot of them that came to the g to the gathering To the sports they would stay over just for the sake of getting the dance . |
| 16 | But they they always come and knock for me and you know they kicked that , you it was them that kicked down the walls ? |
| 17 | Yes , as a as a as a porter or a a a erm what they what used to call them that worked on the line , there was a special name for the li the people that read repaired the lines . |
| 18 | He was not , it appears , in any way responsible for the Montagu declaration — though he anticipated its thinking-but came on the scene shortly afterwards as one of the chief architects of the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms . |
| 19 | The city was dominated by material problems like unemployment and housing , which although related to the issue of discrimination , were more obviously tackled by campaigns that focused on the issues themselves . |
| 20 | These rules were subsequently amended by the CMI , which although affiliated with the ILA acted as an independent entity . |
| 21 | The best bit 's when the light 's out , and I can listen to her breathing , and if I want to say summat — you know , summat that happened in the day — I can just speak soft and she 'll hear me . |
| 22 | He was not in any sense a vain man , but he had a conceit of himself that came from the knowledge that he dominated every quarter that he occupied . |
| 23 | It is , however , Falstaff himself that lies at the heart of the opera and Colin Rees proved a master of the role . |
| 24 | Oh there 's somebody that lived in the house in |
| 25 | But whereas the long version refers only to the words in Lamentations 1:12 ( O all ye that pass by the way , attend , and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow ) , the short version incorporates all the references to focus more sharply on the organic relationship between man and Christ whose natural growth is blasted by sin : And only in the short version does the meditator acknowledge this by identifying himself with the penitent thief pleading for pardon to be extended to him , and confessing his failure to acknowledge Christ as the true source of his integrity : In both versions the meditator admits that the very ability to recognise the life-giving power in Christ is a sign that he in fact has the love of God even if he does not feel it : And in both , as the meditator sees his betrayal and sense of deprivation borne by Christ in His words : " My god , my dere god , why hastow al forsakyn me … ( 89. cf.102 ) he imagines himself lying down among the bones of dead men on mount Calvary , taking the foot of the Cross in his arms , the stench of death in his nostrils . |
| 26 | If this was the case the caveman 's body would need to be ready to run away very quickly , or enable him to try to defend himself if caught by the tiger . |
| 27 | He stopped and had a cup of tea himself and explained to the Covent Garden porters , who wanted to know what he 'd got in the back , that it was the Sleeping Beauty . |
| 28 | Constance detected a change in the atmosphere as Giancarlo excused himself and walked down the steps to greet his last guest . |
| 29 | • Announcing his decision to ‘ unretire ’ himself and return to the Williams team next year , Nigel Mansell issued a wordy statement which posed many more questions than it answered . |
| 30 | In such a case , the State will pay the owner the value he has established himself and presented to the Federal National Heritage Service or Custom Officers . |