Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] the [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WITH the forthcoming visit by the South Africans looming large , the RFU have taken the opportunity given them by the All Black and Wallaby tours to South Africa to get in some early homework on the Boks . |
| 2 | This makes them rather like Health Maintenance Organisations ( HMOs ) in the United States , which receive a fixed annual sum of money to provide health care for enrolled patients ; the system subjects them to the same financial incentives and may lead to the same adverse effects . |
| 3 | The women I spoke to who had been through the whole procedure told me of the many exhausting visits they had had to make to the British Embassies and High Commissions , of the atmosphere of contempt at these places , of the pettiness of the Entry Clearance Officers ( ECOs ) and interpreters , and the rude and unreasonable questions they had had to answer . |
| 4 | Cover the tubes with muslin , held in place by two rubber bands , and put them in the same warm place as the stocks . |
| 5 | Vasquez argues that the work carried out by Behaviouralists was based on three central assumptions of Realism , which together put them in the same broad camp . |
| 6 | ‘ You will not be coming back , ’ he assured her in the same arrogant tone . |
| 7 | The arrangement would bring him into the same stable as Hackett menswear , and people who mix in such circles believe that Lagerfeld , who designs for Chanel and Fendi , will also work for Chloe , Dunhill 's fashion label . |
| 8 | Dada came in ; Hunt evening coat , waistcoat fitting him with the same exact pinch as waistcoats had when he was twenty . |
| 9 | His writing , prose and poetry demanded rigorous attention , and received it with the same daily routine that he had established earlier : three pages a day , writing and rewriting , creative and self-critical . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ I will keep her on the same round but I will keep an eye on her and may switch the rounds . |
| 11 | The Israelite army greets it with the same great shout as bounced off the walls of Jericho and heralded their demolition . |
| 12 | It is possible that supplies may have reached them by the same inner Asian route by which they imported jade and turquoise and exported silk . |
| 13 | The question is whether the institutions will adopt the same rather altruistic attitude that they did then now that their income from even the best-performing companies will shrink permanently unless action is taken by the companies to leave them with the same net effect . |
| 14 | She wanted to say no , to go on treating him and everything that surrounded him with the same nonchalant air she 'd managed thus far . |
| 15 | She regards me with the same bright smile as her child 's , but tears are rolling down her face and her eyes say , ‘ I 'm losing her . ’ |
| 16 | She wants to send them to the same private boarding school as her other partially sighted son , but her local council has refused . |
| 17 | All the time Frodo and Sam are spinning another , and doing it with the same chronological overlapping . |
| 18 | This they have plainly not been able to do and yet they still try and bounce us along the same old route through their friends in the media . |
| 19 | Why could n't she treat him with the same cool indifference as he showed her ? |
| 20 | Johan Cruyff , one foot perched on a football , regarded her with the same emotionless expression as the rest . |
| 21 | They viewed me with the same puzzled look as I later saw on the faces of nomads miles from civilization . |
| 22 | He was not looking forward to the events which he knew lay ahead of him that morning , but he dismissed all such thoughts from his mind : pleasant and unpleasant , most tasks were equal to him now : he viewed them with the same cold dispassion — so many tasks in each day , so many days in each week , so many weeks in each year . |
| 23 | That being so , it is also likely that they were building it for the same military purpose . |
| 24 | All things considered , however , the film does n't exactly fly so much as hope from one gag to the next , relying on the awe of Brando and affection for the Kellog character to carry it over the many black spots . |
| 25 | All things considered , however , the film does n't exactly fly so much as hope from one gag to the next , relying on the awe of Brando and affection for the Kellog character to carry it over the many black spots . |
| 26 | They do not even have to be alike at all beyond some minimum range of conditions which puts them into the same political category . |
| 27 | It was for Couples , already top of the world rankings , his first major championship and he did it in the same accomplished manner that has already marked two earlier victories on the American tour . |
| 28 | Its position beside Musgrave Street police station puts it in the same difficult position as many old buildings beside security installations . |
| 29 | The main quibble about classing us in the same generic clade is that Homo sapiens was named before the chimpanzee genus , Pan ; in fact chimps should properly be called the other two kinds of human . |
| 30 | Your occupational therapist or physiotherapist will advise you about the many ingenious gadgets available which might be useful . |