Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Father Devlin clapped him on the shoulder with a large heavy hand . |
| 2 | Devlin clapped him on the shoulder . |
| 3 | The animal began to gnaw at the ropes binding her to the altar . |
| 4 | I loved it when a whole pile of notes met me in the morning and I did not surface till lunchtime . |
| 5 | A branch whipped him in the face . |
| 6 | This uncertainty might , on the one hand , encourage social commentators in the attitude expressed by a writer in The Economist in 1848 : ‘ In our condition suffering and evil are nature 's admonitions ; they can not be got rid of ; and the impatient attempts of benevolence to banish them from the world by legislation , before benevolence has learnt their object and their end , have always been productive of more evil than good . ’ |
| 7 | He was too deeply into the part to see anything outside the stage . |
| 8 | We might conceive of the aside as occupying a zone midway between the play and the audience ; we continue to experience the play , but we do so via the new information or attitudes given us by the character or characters speaking the asides . |
| 9 | How many uplifts should I use , and do I need special adaptors to connect them to the filter ? |
| 10 | Patrick flung himself on the mattress which Sarah was to use , and jumped up and down on his knees , full of boyish energy . |
| 11 | However , the prior hypothesis led us to the finding in the rural high oil worker category ( table II , both for all ages and the 0–4 age group . |
| 12 | There is little evidence that peasant faith declined , but the authority of village priests was progressively undermined : in terms of culture and way of life they differed too little from the ordinary villagers to inspire much respect , and the miserly provision made them by the State resulted in constant friction over money matters between priest and parishioner . |
| 13 | Contemporaries distrusted them in the belief that they brought an unsavoury speculative element to the market in stocks . |
| 14 | But after three disappointing Five Nations games , Ciaran Fitzgerald drafted him into the side — as well as making him captain — for the game in Paris . |
| 15 | She said she did not want any birthday presents unless they could be enjoyed by everyone , so her friends spent £500 on young trees and got permission to plant them around the town . |
| 16 | Trent seated himself on the taffrail . |
| 17 | The Tisseran itself is now in the Bate Collection ( illus.4 ) : its painted and gilded case reminding us of the harpsichord the princess is playing in The music party . |
| 18 | Bernie Scholtz passed her on the iron stairs as she was hurrying out . |
| 19 | The web tangled and clung mawkishly around her reasoning as Fernando lowered her to the bed . |
| 20 | He quotes the view of Aristo , who produces two arguments : first , that by analogy with relegatio dotis and the stipulatio emptae hereditatis the word ‘ sums ’ should be held to include objects as well as money ; second , that intention is particularly important in trusts , and it appears to be the testator 's intention in first speaking generally of ‘ sums ’ and then mentioning certain objects to include them in the expression too . |
| 21 | A twenty-five-foot wave flung itself at the canoe from an unexpected angle and before the crew could turn to absorb the blow , the Hokule'a rose up the face of the wave at forty-five degrees , and was capsized as it flew off the peak . |
| 22 | The search for counter-examples led them to the history of the family and of the primitive local community which they saw as kinship based . |
| 23 | The Minotaur was finally slain by Theseus , who found his way out of the labyrinth by trailing a skein of thread given him by the king 's daughter , ARIADNE . |
| 24 | She confessed that the bitter jibes and over-exposure led her to the precipice . |
| 25 | I hope you will not be too disappointed and would take this opportunity to thank you for the interest which you have shown . |
| 26 | I hope you will not be too disappointed and would take this opportunity to thank you for the interest you have shown . |
| 27 | Mrs A. W. wrote : ‘ I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the time and effort you have put into compiling this diet which has made a bigger difference to my weight and dimensions than any other diet I have been on … . ‘ |
| 28 | No baptism has been traced , though his marriage certificate records him as the son of John Crockford , schoolmaster . |
| 29 | Bridhe and Seamus Ban consulted him about the amount of drink that would be needed , and were told to double it . |
| 30 | I have today won a concession from the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , in as much as he is going to give a delegation from the Southampton and district licensed victuallers an opportunity to see him at the Department to talk over some of these matters . |