Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am also grateful to the Friends of St Cecilia 's Hall and the Russell Collection for a grant I received from the J. J. K. Rhodes Bursary Fund towards the research for this paper . |
| 2 | But of all I had read so far , nothing troubled me more than two notes I encountered towards the end of the seventh chapter . |
| 3 | And so we bring er a special sort of er expertise I suppose to the talks but also the experience of retirement which we think is is really good by someone who has already retired enjoying retirement to be able come to talk to people . |
| 4 | I had become interested in the Sudan itself after reading Samuel Baker 's books , but at first my interest was largely in the wild life and the big-game hunting in the Southern Sudan ; then at Eton I chanced on The River War , Winston Churchill 's vivid account of Kitchener 's campaign to reconquer the Sudan from the Khalifa . |
| 5 | As I scrubbed away at my remaining teeth I reflected upon the number of obituaries of men in their early sixties which I 'd read in The Times over the course of the past few weeks , and I wondered whether the Great Reaper was running a special line in the age group for some divine , mysterious end , and if so , I thought , I might be next , and then they 'd be sorry . |
| 6 | ‘ That was my own story I put in the column , ’ said old Eddy Moulton stubbornly . |
| 7 | I used a variant of it in a pastiche of the 1930s story I wrote for the fiftieth anniversary of Collins Crime Club in 1980 . |
| 8 | ‘ I remember the cover story I did on The Clash in 1977 , the thing that became ‘ Capital Radio ’ . |
| 9 | In this case I refer to the DG issues of Domingo ‘ Arias and Tangos ’ and the Wunderlich five-CD collection . |
| 10 | It 's , it 's the skating I got with the boots |
| 11 | Always ready for a dip I leapt into the water and grabbed hold of an elderly lady with neat little curls and bifocals on the end of her nose . |
| 12 | I have n't see you for almost a year , Victor , and you recognise me the instant I step through the door . ’ |
| 13 | MENZIESHILL secured the Division I title in the Scottish Indoor League for the third successive year when old rivals MIM beat second-placed Kelburne 7-6 at the Dick McTaggart Centre in Dundee . |
| 14 | erm There was a great deal of difficulty I think at the court , as well as the rather glamorous exterior . |
| 15 | One of the things the group in Wolverhampton I think at the Theatre Royal there is , is doing both audio descriptions by sign language I think and one of the things they 've , they , they do is meet in the bar |
| 16 | After replacing the 'phone I waited for the tingling to stop then looked at my watch . |
| 17 | I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway . |
| 18 | Er right welcome back B B C Radio York Whaley 's on until er two this afternoon and before we do anything else er a little bit I saw in the paper , Unions about turn , that 's the shop workers ' union known as USDOR erm have done an about turn and they now say because they saw the writing on the wall , that they think Sunday trading is okay , well more or less . |
| 19 | And this bit I do before the lesson and I do this , clean it up afterwards . |
| 20 | For hours I strolled through the birch and Scots pinewoods with herds of roe deer only yards in front of me . |
| 21 | And the hours I spent with the airbrush … ah , five hundred roubles was chicken feed for the work I put in . ’ |
| 22 | Because of the hours I worked at the newspaper office I hardly ever saw any television . |
| 23 | Well I was t taking piano lessons , studying for the exams I went over the top , I had to give it up and I did n't go to school then for another eighteen months . |
| 24 | By the summer of 1978 I 've lost another stone , without meaning to , and the rust-coloured cords I ordered from the catalogue only a month ago are already hanging off me . |
| 25 | it 's just some noise I heard on the tape . |
| 26 | A noise I recognized among the eternal wastes of silence . |
| 27 | As I told a couple of surveyors I met at the ground earlier today , ‘ Building on here would be like trying to wallpaper a Slumberland mattress . ’ |
| 28 | At the agreed hour I reported to the Endoscopy Unit of the London Clinic , was shown into a small room , told to undress and put on a blue shift , then lie down on a mobile bed . |
| 29 | With all my heart I hope for the failure of that first book — no , volume , of mine , from beginning to end not trash , but heartless pretence . |
| 30 | In Cardiff I went to the local elementary school and in 1939 , in the competitive scholarship examination , won a special place at Cardiff High School . |