Example sentences of "[pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shew thee the tree , leafed with refin 'd gold |
| 2 | To thee the privilege is given , |
| 3 | To Ajax he says : ‘ I would thou didst itch from head to foot ; an ’ I had the scratching of thee , I would make thee the loathsomest scab in Greece' ( 27ff . ) . |
| 4 | When he speaks an aside to us , in his own person , it is in verse : He continues in their prose , but when he wants to express his respect for them and offer his services , he moves up to verse : ‘ I 'll show thee the best springs ; I 'll pluck thee berries ; /I 'll fish for thee , and get thee wood enough ’ ( 160f . ) . |
| 5 | Beautiful Swaledale I love thee the best , |
| 6 | Christ had entrusted the government of His Church to St Peter and his successors in the words , " Thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build my Church " ( Matthew 16 : 18 ) and " I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven and whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth , it shall be bound also in heaven " ( Matthew 16 : 19 ) . |
| 7 | I would thou didst itch from head to foot ; an I had the scratching of thee , I would make thee the loathsomest scab in Greece . |
| 8 | In every case , he wrote , if we had done something instead of doing nothing the consequences would have been equally disastrous . |
| 9 | All this was shorthand for a simple warning : that if the Syrians pull out of west Beirut , the militias would go to war again in its streets , and there would be nothing the Christians could do about it . |
| 10 | ‘ There 's nothing the matter with your tongue . |
| 11 | It must have begun to seem that there was nothing the British film producer could do to challenge the place of American films on the nation 's screens . |
| 12 | There was nothing the matter with him , simply that he did not thrive . |
| 13 | Nothing the Conservatives have said so far has caught my fancy , still less warmed my heart ; or , I am glad to say , shocked me to the core . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's nothing the same , ’ Rab said . |
| 15 | ‘ There 's nothing the matter with Anna that need trouble him . |
| 16 | ‘ There 's nothing the matter , is there ? |
| 17 | There is nothing the House loves so much as a personal attack , involving a personal explanation . |
| 18 | Nothing the burglar can do will silence the alarm since once the bistable has set , it will remain like that until reset . |
| 19 | If you have had more than a little alcohol you would probably become so relaxed that you fell asleep and nothing the therapist was saying would register at all . |
| 20 | Frenzied production one week gives way to nothing the next . |
| 21 | We 're happy doing nothing THE CULTURE OF CONTENTMENT J K Galbraith Sinclair-Stevenson , £14.95 William Keegan |
| 22 | For there 's nothing the Scots enjoy more than the scoring of own goals . |
| 23 | There had been no time for a cup of coffee and she 'd eaten nothing the night before , going straight to her cabin . |
| 24 | She accepted it as a convenience , like an improved system of telephones ; she did not dedicate herself to it as the expression of a moral idea of comradeship and equality , the avowal of which could leave nothing the same . |
| 25 | Apart from the obvious enjoyment of this extended honeymoon stage , it does mean that the actual hard work of the relationship can be delayed , for nothing the young lovers do could ever spoil the bliss — at least for a short while ! |
| 26 | But a Navy spokesman said : ‘ It 's nothing the crew ca n't sort out with a pot of paint . ’ |
| 27 | There 's nothing the adventurers can do to help the ‘ Zombies ’ . |
| 28 | There is nothing the adventurers can do about any of this . |
| 29 | When a stem is cut midway between nodes , there is nothing the plant can do with the stem part above the last growth or eye , and so it dies back . |
| 30 | There is nothing the matter with this , except that it ai n't so . |