Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [subord] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Everybody hopes that we 've forgotten about that , but we have n't , and we 're reminded of it because of the courage of Lord Whitelaw and his advanced age and ill health , getting on to the T V last week and saying the Home Secretary is wrong to nationalise the police .
2 The first shape is a stack of diminishing wooden ovals , and one looks into it as through the wrong end of an extended telescope .
3 The valley was her , she moved in it as through the natural expression of her mind and feelings .
4 That your Lordship would direct , it would be in our task that that figure should n't have interest added to it because of the way in which it was approached .
5 or abilities and build on it cos at the moment everybody 's re-inventing the wheel and you 're making a lot of work in my opinion .
6 I mean that 's all it , as I say , I do n't know why I did n't think of it cos in the she well I do know why I did n't think of
7 Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey were among the first to import them into England , and the painter Hans Holbein has since had a particular type of design named after him because of the number of times it featured in his portraits of Henry and the English Court , Similarly , the Flemish painter Hans Memlinc provides ample pictorial evidence of the passion for oriental rugs in the Netherlands and the Northern Europe .
8 In actually physically up dating anything , I would suggest that at this point that Simon does n't do of them until after the next meeting when we have got all the other 's together as well because again they may attach things , just that you 've got your information and know what 's been decided and do the whole lot after the next meeting .
9 Auntie said she had never been interested in horse-racing , and disapproved of it because of the betting .
10 I imagine the family considered that my father would be better off living with him because of the atmosphere created by my grandfather 's drinking .
11 The giant predators that walked on their hind legs ( Tyrannosaurus , Allosaurus and other theropods ) share structures of the hip bones with the sauropods that show they are more closely related to them than to the rest of the dinosaurs .
12 Ideally I would like to work part-time , and have written to you as in the last few years I have seen part-time posts advertised at Prentice 's .
13 Authority were more likely to listen to them than to the DoH . ’
14 One of the beefs I have about accommodation for elderly people is the fact that by , that the purpose built , very excellent , bungalows and flats for elderly citizens are restricted to one bedroom which , to which but is by government decree to keep the cost down , but it does seem to me to be very heartless because elderly people 's children are unable to come and stay with them except to the great deal of discomfort and perhaps as society grows a little more considerate for the fact that the percentage of elderly people will get even greater as the years go on , then they should make allowance and provide them for the facilities to enable them to be visited by their children and grandchildren .
15 Since they were provided to enable the binder to collect the various gatherings or sections in the right order before putting the covers round , much more care was exercised with them than with the page numbering .
16 A military-bureaucratic oligarchy is functional to the needs of a state which requires a degree of autonomy from class interests in order to mediate between them while at the same time preserving capitalism as the dominant mode of production and private property as a fundamental institution .
17 The only one he knew that well was Rosie , who had cousins in it , brothers maybe , although she never talked of it except in the most general terms .
18 I was at one stage tempted to forgo my chance to contribute to it because of the fascinating speeches of Members representing inner and outer London constituencies as they struggled to find some fairness , justice or logic in the banding system .
19 The two-layered cameo of Augustus which has ended up in the British Museum bears tangible evidence of regard , even of awe , in the delicate circlet of gems , including a miniature cameo , affixed to it while in the hands of a medieval owner ( fig. 26 ) .
20 But I go for them cos of the bright yellow packaging !
21 After a good deal of success in his 13 years of moto cross , Zeelenberg would have gone with them but for the advice of manager Jan Huberts , who still manages Zeelenberg and the Sharp Samson team .
22 Manpower told us that its staff are attracted to it and stay with it because of the level of such fringe benefits and the level of pay it offers and not because they are given contracts which confirm them as having dependent employee Status .
23 I went over it as with the others .
24 Neither his mother nor Alice ever spoke of him except in the company of casual acquaintances who felt the need to utter embarrassed condolences from which there was no escape .
25 13–1–1877 Christmas passed off here very quietly , little notice being taken of it except by the few English residents amongst us .
26 I am arguing against it because on the one hand it brings about environmental improvements in the town centre which according to the latest published government information which as as Mr has has himself said , i is stricter th th than we had published previously .
27 going back to him just cos he 's got money , if she does n't love him any more and she ca n't live with him because of the relationship .
28 So the shock he felt now was fuelled more by the power of the deceit worked upon him than by the sex of the deceiver .
29 More Welsh homes — 72 per cent — are owned by those who live in them than in the United Kingdom as a whole .
30 Responding to the Handsworth events Douglas Hurd was moved to argue forcibly that such events were senseless and reflected more on those who participated in them than on the society in which they took place : ‘ The sound which law abiding people in Handsworth heard on Monday night , the echoes of which I picked up on Tuesday , was not a cry for help but a cry for loot ’ ( Financial Times , 13 September 1985 ) .
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