Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first place , becoming a housewife impresses them by the very openness of the role [ ? ] and by the freedom they now have from constraining supervision … |
| 2 | Gregory sees her as the prime mover in this , while allowing for the importance of divine intervention in Clovis 's victory against the Alamans . |
| 3 | From time to time the press carries rumours of such enquiries , but they usually remain rumours unless legal action takes them into the public domain , because the DTI never comments or publishes the findings . |
| 4 | Here our itinerary takes us along the new section of the road , rather surprisingly signposted to Fort William , and brings us to the first railway so far seen , at Strathcarron Station . |
| 5 | It 's not a federated system , it actually , positively talks about moving forward as Professor states it in the economical situation the council is in . |
| 6 | In another case it will mean that the writer creates his own special kind of language : and it is in this sense that Halliday applies it to the Neanderthal language of The Inheritors . |
| 7 | The teaching and life style of John the Baptist identifies him with the prophetic tradition in Israel . |
| 8 | An emerald green leather footstool stands demurely by the fire ; a fakir 's brass sideboard from northern India gleams dimly against a wall ; two porcelain skunks chase one another across the landing ; a unique collapsible divan-cum-four-seater sofa edged in cadmium velvet welcomes you to the front room ; a vast oil portrait of a nineteenth-century munitions tycoon , casts a genial glow over the hall . |
| 9 | Tony Vaux follows him through the comic-horror jungle of Third World bureaucracy — and corruption . |
| 10 | Indicating one of the wider streets leading off the square , he added , ‘ A short walk down Calle Lunga brings you to the Grand Canal . ’ |
| 11 | The recipient confirms receipt of the message to the carrier , and following this confirmation the carrier provides him with the private key . |
| 12 | The species are ‘ christened ’ when a scientist describes them for the first time , illustrates their peculiarities and publishes the name in a scientific journal . |
| 13 | The current advert for the Washburn Mercury guitar revolts me to the very depths of my soul . |
| 14 | The Formula One world champion test drives it for the first time in Phoenix on January 4 and will find his sleek , high-speed T93 series chassis also longer , bigger , heavier and cheaper than any previous IndyCar or championship-winning Canon Williams Renault FW14 . |
| 15 | If a child has it for the first ten years hardly anything else matters . |
| 16 | Then as her stomach jumps in panic , Maggie sees them in the far corner , Lucy and Frieda , with Jo beside them . |
| 17 | The tigress suckles them for the first six months , by which time they will weigh 100 lb ( 45 kg ) . |
| 18 | Misha Glenny takes us through the historical background to the war , before giving us a more detailed account of the political manoeuvring and stirring from August 1990 to May 1992 . |
| 19 | The neck button disappeared — but not the buttonhole — and today a wedding boutonnière reminds us of the sporting ancestry of the coat . |
| 20 | The Ego is our internal saboteur , our own worst enemy , which con fines us to the dark cellars of our mind . |
| 21 | The what question provides us with the next guideline : |
| 22 | For example , let's say an old lady with a walking stick approaches you in the High Street and asks you the way to the nearest public toilets . |
| 23 | Analysis of the returns leads us to the following conclusions : |
| 24 | The first hundred yards ' walking up the gill leads you into the rocky vault of Lower Ease Gill Kirk . |
| 25 | In regard Angus Brown , John McVurich are in the parish of Kilvarow the presbytery refers them till the next dyet therein . " |
| 26 | In regard Angus Brown , John McVurich are in the parish of Kilvarow the presbytery refers them till the next dyet therein . " |
| 27 | This attribute separates them from the outside world and can be shared by no non-Japanese . |
| 28 | Hirtle 1975 : 37 for examples with realize , agree and understand ) , its meaning places it in the unique position of becoming the equivalent of a verb of perception when it is used in the operative sense . |
| 29 | A right-turn up Rue des Bouchers gets you to the stately Galeries Saint-Hubert , a nineteenth-century glass-roofed arcade lined with marble-fronted shops . |
| 30 | Ayer tells us in the next paragraph : |