Example sentences of "[noun prp] [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 | Patrick flung himself on the mattress which Sarah was to use , and jumped up and down on his knees , full of boyish energy . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Are Oxford for the drop , can Swindon make it to the premier league play-offs ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Trent seated himself on the taffrail . |
| 9 | Bernie Scholtz passed her on the iron stairs as she was hurrying out . |
| 10 | MacDonald read it to the members of the Cabinet ( imposing further conditions before a loan would be given ) . |
| 11 | The web tangled and clung mawkishly around her reasoning as Fernando lowered her to the bed . |
| 12 | Sotheby 's , determined to protect Irises ’ ‘ most expensive ’ tag , repossessed it , and in March sold it to the Getty museum , probably for $40 to $45 million . |
| 13 | Henley prides itself on the accessibility of its Faculty whose services extend well beyond the formal classroom environment . |
| 14 | Alison led me through the hall into the kitchen , a sprawling space with a flagstone floor dominated by a huge table , a Welsh dresser and rows of large cupboards . |
| 15 | Victoria met her in the hall , saying , ‘ You look frozen . |
| 16 | Biff lowered him to the ground , and untied the rope . |
| 17 | Two months later Minton visited him in the country , pale from a pub crawl in Ipswich , and seemed to Lehmann ‘ more settled with Rickie [ sic[ off the booze ’ . |
| 18 | Aswan has none of the melancholy transience of most end-of the-line towns . |
| 19 | The pyramids were already 2,000 years old when Herodotus visited them in the middle of the fifth century BC , but he found the Egyptians still told tales of misery about their construction , the horrors suffered by the populace . |
| 20 | In the morning , Punch brought a letter from Trelorne , whose contents Aunt Emily did not reveal , but Alexandra found her in the drawing-room after luncheon . |
| 21 | As you drive , this NVH manifests itself in the form of tiny vibrations fed back through the steering wheel and the gruff , uninspiring sounds from the SE-FHE engine . |
| 22 | Stewart joins us on the line now good morning Mr . |
| 23 | Trent found them on the floor and watched the old man thread the sprung arms over his ears . |
| 24 | Nine months on Mr Boulton is still waiting for the two and a half thousand pounds he claims Brit-Pol owes him for the coach . |
| 25 | When Pauline Kael reviewed him as the bloated Jake La Motta in Raging Bull , she said that what De Niro was doing was certainly something , but she 'd hesitate to call it acting . |
| 26 | She took a playful swipe at his face , but Harvey caught it on the flat of his hand , then she struck at him with the palm of the other hand and they did a pat-a-cake routine . |
| 27 | Trent caught him by the forearm . |
| 28 | This particular guitar is a bit of a video star ; Dave Stewart used it in the promo for The Eurythmics ' The City Never Sleeps . |
| 29 | In traditional manner Rolle treats the gifts of the Holy Spirit listed as Wisdom , Understanding , Counsel , Might , Knowledge Piety and Fear of the Lord in Isaiah 11 in the inverted hierarchical order Counsel , Understanding , Wisdom to relate them to the process of withdrawal from the world and achievement of that inner discretion which is the ground of contemplation ; he then deals with strength , piety , knowledge and the fear of the Lord itemised as forces which stimulate man to self-knowledge and help the soul to endure against sin , all aspects of a more active spirituality . |
| 30 | Two weeks later , to my horror , Mr Taylor stopped me in the corridor and asked me if I 'd consider doing another talk — to another class . |