Example sentences of "[pron] the [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had er , a potato scoop , she scoop me the tuna fish , a great big pile of tuna fish and a great big pile of coleslaw and it was gorgeous . |
| 2 | The brick was wrapped in two notes , the first apologised for the mess and the second , bearing Trevor Proby 's signature , offered to lend me the £250 the club are still trying to stitch me for after that car boot sale fiasco . |
| 3 | I left the FO feeling bruised and battered ; they had really given me the works . |
| 4 | Pass me the Flora again dad ? |
| 5 | If he feeds me the data he uncovers it might put us ahead in the game before the battle opens . ’ |
| 6 | If he had given me the £5000 , under the rules at the time I would have had to donate 15 per cent to the British Board — totally unfair in my view as I had had to find the sponsorship myself . |
| 7 | They simply gave me the means to share some sad , courageous and beautiful things . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , by the way , Blair , ’ I called , ‘ whilst you are there , would you mind bringing me the fish I caught in the stream ? |
| 9 | ‘ ( 1 ) Where livestock belonging to any person strays on to land in the ownership or occupation of another and — ( a ) damage is done by the livestock to the land or to any property on it which is in the ownership or possession of the other person ; or ( b ) any expenses are reasonably incurred by that other person in keeping the livestock while it can not be restored to the person to whom it belongs or while it is detained in pursuance of section 7 of [ the ] Act , or in ascertaining to whom it belongs ; the person to whom the livestock belongs is liable for the damage or expenses , except as otherwise provided by [ the ] Act . ’ |
| 10 | He has , within 48 hours of exercising the right of detention , to give notice to the police and , if he knows the person to whom the livestock belongs , to that person . |
| 11 | he has no such claim and the person to whom the livestock belongs claims it . |
| 12 | The local police , against whom the graffiti was aimed , are not hopeful of catching those responsible . |
| 13 | This contrasts with non-historians for whom the data they use are generated from the very start of the research process , either via questionnaire or some other survey method , with computer analyses in view . |
| 14 | In the Vindiciae the reply is that " when we speak of all the people , we understand by that , only those who hold their authority from the people , to wit , the magistrates … whom the people have substituted , or established … to represent the whole body of the people . |
| 15 | The 1979 and 1983 elections also witnessed an increase in the number of candidates fielded by minor parties , to whom the £150 deposit ( first set in 1918 ) no longer serves as the bar to nonserious candidates that was intended . |
| 16 | It comes perilously close to making the Attorney , in effect , a political censor , an official to whom the media can go , cap in hand , with the question " please Sir , may we publish this ? " |
| 17 | Perhaps the contributor to the " Glasgow Geography " in 1825 writing of the Scottish peasant was correct when he said , " By the time he has reached the age of ten years , he has by heart , as it is called , the whole Catechism , the metrical version of the Psalms , and is pretty well versed in the Bible … and by the time he arrives at the years of maturity , to the " big ha' Bible once his father 's pride , and the Westminster Confession of Faith , he has added Pool , Henry 's Commentary , Gillespie 's Aaron 's Rod Blossoming , the Faithful Contendings of the Church of Scotland , Boston 's Fourfold State , and if he can afford them the works of Jonathan Edwards . " |
| 18 | On the right are some rocks , and at the foot of them the sheep are feeding . |
| 19 | The 200-year-old mansion was once the home of the Balfours of Balbirnie and them the headquarters of the GDC . |
| 20 | Not for them the £120,000 customised horse-boxes around them with built-in kitchens , television and sleeping accommodation . |
| 21 | No it does n't , but it gives them the means to promote it . |
| 22 | However , for many of them the £1,500-£2,000 cost per head of attending courses can no longer be recovered by using the hours saved to boost fees . |
| 23 | ‘ But I can do an ad for a few thousand , then show them the sales figures . |
| 24 | The aim was to keep them in as long as possible , for without them the people employed to do the menial duties would have no time to relax … |
| 25 | In March 1961 the Mirror Group bought Odhams , which gave them the People and 51 per cent of the Daily Herald . |
| 26 | Identification with the masses brought them the people 's problems — tuberculosis , malnutrition , diarrhoea and dehydration . |
| 27 | Give them the dice . |
| 28 | Elsewhere , the main instrument for this capture of control by the notables — an English diplomat called them the gentry — was the election of Juntas . |
| 29 | You come up narrow and fresh ; but I the fruit |
| 30 | I the duck , it said |