Example sentences of "the [noun] [pron] [vb mod] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pity the faith he will hand on to his child . |
| 2 | Among those it failed to deter was a predatory heron which discovered that by activating the light it could purloin a splendid fish supper from among the transfixed koi carp in the garden pond below . |
| 3 | It 's true that there are plenty of YDO 's , but without the help of teachers in the schools they could fighting a losing battle to take advantage of the favourite publicity emanating from the World Cup . |
| 4 | To resolve the dilemma they must piece together the sort of documentary and pictorial evidence that is usually plentifully available for the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | The girl who could Dream was remote , a fantastical character . |
| 6 | the question what could lilies mean |
| 7 | However , the areas he must address do not concern the first team alone . |
| 8 | And I mean over the years you can sort of pick a sample out and say ‘ It 's pretty close , this one ’ ; or , y'know , ‘ Do something about it ’ , there and then , if you think there is anything that can be done . |
| 9 | So long as he speaks the truth it can t be folly — that 's what you 're going to say , is n't it ? |
| 10 | No do it tomorrow , take everything off tomorrow and when we pull the beds out , strip the beds you can vac all behind the beds , right ? |
| 11 | Mind you , it 's always the sa like it 's the work th getting on with the machines I can sort of work through the |
| 12 | Last night was really the night I must value — the night when I was aware of all the gifts Amantani has borne me . |
| 13 | Coming down from the Col de la Pierre-Saint-Martin there is no need to drive back the way you came , through Arette , because five miles from the top you can fork off to the right and come down in sylvan splendour through the very heart of the Forêt d'lssaux , before either turning sharp left down the valley of the Lourdios and a not very good road to Issor , or carrying straight on to follow one of two better , more or less interchangeable roads back into the valley of the Aspe near Bedous . |
| 14 | His style of preaching contrasted greatly with the average clergyman of the day who would discourse drowsily on the virtues of doing good . |
| 15 | When we have the chance we will camp Lappish style , with lavvus , the wigwam tents made of birch poles and reindeer skins , but tonight we are using a modern lavvu of canvas and aluminium poles . |
| 16 | As she plodded through her notes she decided that at the end of the month she would hand in her notice , and on the day she left she would brandish Elise 's diary before his eyes . |
| 17 | at the nippers I 'll shit on your |
| 18 | Listed in Chapter 13 are the meals you can calorie count by guesswork when eating out in restaurants . |
| 19 | And that way when you analyze the results you can sort of say , Well we found that say Birmingham was very disliked erm but you can say that was n't I mean if everybody in the whole sample |
| 20 | Er we 're going to take questions at the end er the camera there is for internal use only and at the end we 'll hand out copies of the slides to anyone who wants them . |
| 21 | The access group wants a new law by the end of the century which would enshrine the freedom to roam , providing no significant damage was done to land management or conservation . |
| 22 | She knew from her first meeting with him that he could n't always understand written languages the way he could speech , but if he visited Earth so often it was probably reasonable to assume that he would know languages other than English . |
| 23 | In the meantime she must Plan . |
| 24 | Its difficulties have meant that while the CAB workload expands , the services it can offer have had to be cut . |
| 25 | Against this , as we saw , the existentialists argued that rather than making futile attempts to " eliminate " the problem one should subject it to a different type of treatment that would help place it in a proper philosophical perspective , and this was correct as far as it went . |