Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alison met him in the same bar . |
| 2 | Father Devlin clapped him on the shoulder with a large heavy hand . |
| 3 | Devlin clapped him on the shoulder . |
| 4 | He said he only needed to do two or three locums at these school clinics to see him round the other half of the world and he went off . |
| 5 | The animal began to gnaw at the ropes binding her to the altar . |
| 6 | I loved it when a whole pile of notes met me in the morning and I did not surface till lunchtime . |
| 7 | A branch whipped him in the face . |
| 8 | This uncertainty might , on the one hand , encourage social commentators in the attitude expressed by a writer in The Economist in 1848 : ‘ In our condition suffering and evil are nature 's admonitions ; they can not be got rid of ; and the impatient attempts of benevolence to banish them from the world by legislation , before benevolence has learnt their object and their end , have always been productive of more evil than good . ’ |
| 9 | He was too deeply into the part to see anything outside the stage . |
| 10 | We might conceive of the aside as occupying a zone midway between the play and the audience ; we continue to experience the play , but we do so via the new information or attitudes given us by the character or characters speaking the asides . |
| 11 | How many uplifts should I use , and do I need special adaptors to connect them to the filter ? |
| 12 | Patrick flung himself on the mattress which Sarah was to use , and jumped up and down on his knees , full of boyish energy . |
| 13 | Nor does it seem to be the case that the notorious reluctance of the Masai to accommodate themselves to the modern world was to any significant extent the result of administrative protection from it . |
| 14 | Data could pop up in boxes around the screen , and in due course graphics , mice and icons led us into the wimps era ( window , icon , menu , pointer ) . |
| 15 | However , the prior hypothesis led us to the finding in the rural high oil worker category ( table II , both for all ages and the 0–4 age group . |
| 16 | There is little evidence that peasant faith declined , but the authority of village priests was progressively undermined : in terms of culture and way of life they differed too little from the ordinary villagers to inspire much respect , and the miserly provision made them by the State resulted in constant friction over money matters between priest and parishioner . |
| 17 | Are Oxford for the drop , can Swindon make it to the premier league play-offs ? |
| 18 | Contemporaries distrusted them in the belief that they brought an unsavoury speculative element to the market in stocks . |
| 19 | During the two shorts months that it took to draft the White Paper , opposition could be quelled , using the new powers and wholehearted support given him by the Prime Minister . |
| 20 | But after three disappointing Five Nations games , Ciaran Fitzgerald drafted him into the side — as well as making him captain — for the game in Paris . |
| 21 | It may take several releases and many months before the company starts to see a return on its investments , so it is essential for an indie to have a relatively solid financial base to see it through the difficult early stages and to sustain the levels of promotion until an act on the label breaks . |
| 22 | She said she did not want any birthday presents unless they could be enjoyed by everyone , so her friends spent £500 on young trees and got permission to plant them around the town . |
| 23 | Trent seated himself on the taffrail . |
| 24 | The Tisseran itself is now in the Bate Collection ( illus.4 ) : its painted and gilded case reminding us of the harpsichord the princess is playing in The music party . |
| 25 | Bernie Scholtz passed her on the iron stairs as she was hurrying out . |
| 26 | In the first place , becoming a housewife impresses them by the very openness of the role [ ? ] and by the freedom they now have from constraining supervision … |
| 27 | MacDonald read it to the members of the Cabinet ( imposing further conditions before a loan would be given ) . |
| 28 | The web tangled and clung mawkishly around her reasoning as Fernando lowered her to the bed . |
| 29 | His talents , his wealth , and the changing times raised him to the court of assistants of the Levant Company from 1644 to 1648 , and in 1645 Parliament appointed him to the Goldsmiths ' Hall committee , through which Royalists redeemed their sequestrated estates by paying compositions . |
| 30 | He quotes the view of Aristo , who produces two arguments : first , that by analogy with relegatio dotis and the stipulatio emptae hereditatis the word ‘ sums ’ should be held to include objects as well as money ; second , that intention is particularly important in trusts , and it appears to be the testator 's intention in first speaking generally of ‘ sums ’ and then mentioning certain objects to include them in the expression too . |