Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.

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1 There are also times when we need to ensure that we understand what is being said , and this can be done by asking simple questions or making comments which help elucidate or develop what the counsellee is saying , such as , ‘ So you think that … ’ , or ‘ You mean that … ‘ , or even ‘ I 'm not sure that I follow what you mean …
2 Well leaving them a key or giving them the key to get in .
3 It was the therapy that gave me the strength to leave my girlfriend because through it I established the fact that I was prone to passivity , always waiting for other people to call the shots .
4 But it was working as a computer specialist in the insurance industry that gave him the necessary experience , most notably the motor insurance experience , he needed .
5 His smile deepened as he added , ‘ I have been told that I am a good lover and I can think of nothing in this world that would give me greater pleasure than to teach you the plaisirs d'amour .
6 Peron needed the union movement for support and , indeed , it was the labour movement who brought him back from exile and won him the presidency .
7 I got to , Benguiat 's girlfriend and told her the whole story and told her to explain to Benguiat and calm him down and he had like threatened to come to Parkinson 's speech and disrupt it and scream liar and things like that at him .
8 So we 'd got to take the card and show her the Mother , we 'd been .
9 If such an agreement can not be reached within 16 months , must the trade unions collapse and accept whatever the employer insists on ?
10 You will tell me if you find it was murder and give me the name of the murderer .
11 So Sinead O'Connor — probably our last remaining real rock star , a maverick , a 1000 per cent attack merchant constantly taking convention by the neck and shaking it the way a terrier shakes a rat , the woman who stormed into the Irish PM 's office over the abortion issue , who refused to sing the US national anthem , who correctly pointed out that George Bush leaves Saddam Hussein standing in the mass-murder stakes , who has exposed her own sad past in vivid , gory detail , whose every record has fully stretched and excited the expectations of her audience — has released a version of Loretta Lynn 's maudlin Country classic .
12 There was nothing short of taking the chap by the scruff of his neck and showing him the street that would have done the trick .
13 The prominent white clasts are fragments of anorthosites — calcium and aluminium-rich rocks that make up the bulk of the lunar highlands crust and give it the light colour that is visible from Earth .
14 The Recommendations look to the future and describe what the author of the report thinks should be done about the problem that has been the subject of so much investigation .
15 Apart from indicating the couch and offering him the wine she had done no more than sit watching him , occasionally rubbing a deep scratch on her arm .
16 The committee carried out a range of fascinating research and confirmed what the public knew already , namely that the ham sandwiches available in motorway cafeterias had a tendency to be ‘ thin , tasteless ham in soggy bread ’ .
17 You must penetrate the disguise and discover what the question is really about .
18 There they will hire a minibus and drive themselves the 1,000 kilometres overland to Bophuthatswana .
19 A brief encounter with the new range last week convinced me the changes have rejuvenated the car and made it the equal of anything from Munich or Stuttgart .
20 The young man closed the boot of the car and handed her the keys .
21 ‘ Cut the crap and show me the pics , ’ he said .
22 He was referring to the times at Achnacarry when I would on occasion meet the trainees returning from a speed march and pipe them the last two miles back to the camp .
23 ‘ Mr Lloyd George came … and informed me that he is able to form an administration and told me the proposed names of his colleagues , ’ the King wrote in his diary .
24 Tonight he had been immersed in scenes of Mafia violence and found himself the next moment slumped in the Chesterfield staring at silver snow on the screen .
25 ‘ She bit me last night , ’ he said , dragging up his trouser-leg and showing her the line of tiny red marks .
26 Hamish would take pity upon this sorry figure and give him the duffle-coat to keep himself warm .
27 They have taken a selection from their Cordillera , Appalachian , and Outback lines , adapted the harness to suit a women 's figure and called them the Nanda Devi range .
28 Let his man make his way back there , and let me have the third horse and bring you the quickest way to Ullesthorpe .
29 Only when the head of accounting ( ’ an ‘ acceptable ’ woman 's role ’ ) took her to one side and showed her the company 's payroll did she realise that while she was bringing in the most revenue , she was being paid the smallest salary .
30 Gerald Baker , a Mandan-Hidatsa Indian who is the park ranger at Fort Union Trading Post in North Dakota , once the ‘ Times Square of the plains ’ , taught Mr Frazier how to use a double-bladed throwing axe and offered him the honour of joining him in a ceremonial sweat bath .
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