Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [noun] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I 'm a Summer Exhibition veteran , my heart sinks when the letter from the Royal Academy arrives . |
| 2 | I knew he was trying to cheer me up but I was determined to go back to my knitting lessons when the vultures had gone . |
| 3 | Er well there are still , come back to the county , can we now round off on the question of keep losing my crib sheet here the effect what effect if any will the proposed scale of provision have on adjoining areas in West Yorkshire . |
| 4 | If it helps the hon. Gentleman , I shall try to wear my tie upside down the next time I am at the Dispatch Box . |
| 5 | The NZRFU did not follow Otago 's cancellation line , but a special meeting of available councillors met in Wellington and virtually demanded that South Africa clean up its drug act otherwise the All Black tour was in jeopardy . |
| 6 | In their Election manifestos both the Labour and Alliance parties produced specific programmes to deal with poverty : The Anti-Poverty Programme and Ending Poverty respectively . |
| 7 | The WRVS aim to run their tea bar whenever the court is sitting , usually three times a week , but provided the rota is working well ( ‘ which it does ’ , Mrs. Rooney said ) the organiser needs only to call in once a week . |
| 8 | There is a package holiday that runs steam trains up and down the line during the summer , carrying rich tourists dressed in dinner-jackets and gowns , who scowl sternly from their carriage windows when the train is stranded at obscure little Scottish stations . |
| 9 | Why are their eating habits much the same as ever ? |
| 10 | Census-takers have already trudged across Alaskan snow to count the Aleuts and Eskimos who quit their winter villages when the spring comes . |
| 11 | A couple of new songs had a few ideas ‘ borrowed ’ from The Mission and New Model Army and could give a few clues as to which market Echo & The Bunnymen see themselves operating in during their climb back up the ladder to fame and fortune . |
| 12 | They are a mix of ordinary working-class people and affluent business families who were trapped in their town flats when the fighting started and now know they have lost their country homes for ever . |
| 13 | The two standby men would then take their rest days when the main body of the crew returned and the cutter operated during their absence . |
| 14 | Soon after the war ended it trebled its student members when the Ministry of Education issued grants to ex-servicemen in an attempt to prevent a recurrence of the disillusionment that had set in after the First World War . |
| 15 | Barrister David Ashton , acting for the liquidators of the Isle of Man Savings and Investment Bank , told the court that good news was on the way for the mostly small depositors , many of whom lost their life savings when the Douglas-based bank collapsed seven years ago . |
| 16 | A typical Feiffer couple , solemnly offering each other elaborate explanations of why they could not hit it off , are asking in their thought balloons why the other partner ca n't , for Pete 's sake , make a straight pass . |
| 17 | What Teller hopes the West will do will be to develop its inter-dependence , eradicate secrecy between its constituent parts so the defence and the knowledge thereto is shared , and behind its nuclear shield build up a society that will prove the point about the superiority of its system . |
| 18 | Nansen , an excellent scientist , had realised that the polar ice drifted from east to west and reasoned that if he chose his entry point correctly the ice would tow his ship over the pole and release it near Canada . |
| 19 | If the Claimant was unable to use his return ticket then the cost of returning to the U.K. would be covered . |
| 20 | Goldstein and colleagues also argued for the cessation of contact between a child and his birth parents once the child was with new carers such as in adoption or long-term foster care . |
| 21 | The Postmaster was referring to his retailing competitors not the tourists . |
| 22 | He lifted one foot , then the other , stepped out of his leather casuals then the clothes and socks . |
| 23 | IN his Autumn Statement tomorrow the Chancellor is expected to give the go-ahead to several multi-million pound projects that would provide British industry with the boost it needs . |
| 24 | If you roll a misfire on your bounce roll then the cannon is unharmed , the Misfire result merely indicates that the cannon ball sticks in the ground where it hits . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , the experiments presented in our paper point out the role of the L-arginine-NO pathway among the mechanisms that modulate the compliance of the gall bladder wall . |
| 26 | If you have made your queries part of the interview and done your background research thoroughly the answer to the interviewer 's question may well be ‘ No , you have already explained everything very thoroughly thank you ’ . |
| 27 | Going that way and er so you 've already booked your holiday time up the hospital then or not ? |
| 28 | Where will you keep your house deeds when the building society returns them ? |