Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE next leg of my journey takes me the short drive to Regensburg and from there I follow a minor road to Cham , last stop before the German-Czech border post . |
| 2 | Policemen of my generation call them the funnies . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I realised I had to stop putting it in though , ’ Kaye admits , ‘ when a friend of one of my sons told me the house looked more and more like a church every time he came round . ’ |
| 4 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , you may be amused to hear that one of my sons spotted you the other day training with Korchnoi and the Brighton and Hove Albion football team . |
| 5 | Funnily enough , it was one of my nephews brought him the message — Josh 's eldest boy , Jimmy . |
| 6 | These people now face annual medical inspection for the rest of their lives to assess what the radiation may have bequeathed to them in terms of a legacy of cancer or birth defects . |
| 7 | After a long descent the shaft widened a little , and the light of their torches showed them the interior of the mine , the southern end of the tunnellings . |
| 8 | ‘ Instead I find myself acting also in the capacity of lady 's maid and sick-nurse , for neither of which occupations have I the least experience . |
| 9 | Eleven years later the World Federation of the Deaf at the seventh Congress in Washington awarded him an International Solidarity Merit Award , and Gallaudet College , taking advantage of his presence made him the first recipient of a medallion for " outstanding international service to the deaf " , which he received at a special convention attended by the Vice-President of the United States . |
| 10 | Then the butcher goes to the church to take leave of the priest , and as a token of his gratitude sells him the sheepskin at a knock-down price of two sous . |
| 11 | The prospect of being marooned on Gullholm for days with a Heathcliff bereft of his Cathy gave her the creeps . |
| 12 | Either he was smiling , or the gaunt hollows of his face gave him the daunting appearance of a smile . |
| 13 | The IR visor of his helmet showed him the desert as if by the light of an overcast day . |
| 14 | She exposed the soles of her feet at the mouth of the oven … she drank gall and rubbed her eyes therewith … in her ardent desire for suffering she made herself a silver circlet in which she fixed three rows of sharp points in honour of the thirty-three years that the Son of God lived upon earth … she wore it underneath her veil to make it the more painful as these points being unequally long did not all pierce at the same time … so that with the least agitation these iron thorns tore her flesh in ninety-nine places … |
| 15 | Gratitude because of the unhesitating generosity with which Doreen gave him the hospitality of her body ; responsibility because he had ceased to be a passing visitor to that body , taking what he could get , and had become a guest , leaving behind something as a token of their intimacy . |
| 16 | Jacqui gurgled something incomprehensible , as Kattina 's tongue shot into her mouth to save her the embarrassment of replying . |
| 17 | He kept up the pressure with his shoulder to give himself the widest gap possible . |
| 18 | Finally he 'll decide to go and tinker with his terminal to tell him the tally to date . |
| 19 | Mayall 's mastery of technical detail and innovation optimized productivity , while the variety of mills under his control gave him the advantages of flexible specialization . |
| 20 | You may have to prove your sincerity to a judge and he may be cross enough with your behaviour to refuse you the divorce . |
| 21 | ‘ The fact that you are here in my office gives me the right to ask questions and demand answers , and you 're going to tell me what I want to know , Lissa . ’ |
| 22 | Besides which , Milada Pankracova , his secretary , expressly stated in her letter giving me the appointment that her employer had no time or inclination to repeat himself , and that this was the last communication they wanted on the subject . |
| 23 | His creditors met on the 28th and they read a letter from their debtor telling them the law was an enemy he could not conquer . |
| 24 | It is inevitable that the Evangelist made changes to the traditions in his desire to say what the events of Jesus ' life meant for his readers . |
| 25 | He never earned a degree , but an allowance from his mother gave him the financial independence to devote himself to a career as writer . |
| 26 | I mean we ought to say in our case approved our the proposals of the company , they raise no objections in which only the who raised objections , the employees did n't and in the High Court case we 've just said , how can an employee be independent , when he depends upon his employer for his future work . |
| 27 | We had intended to ask participants in our workshop to consider what the major constructive influences on their own teaching had been , whether training at college , advice from colleagues , intuitions from pupils or their own previous experience as learners . |
| 28 | If you lack confidence in your ability to give her the right kind of help and comfort , but really want to do so , you have nothing to fear , because this probably means that you are much better equipped for the task than you imagine . |
| 29 | The thought of soiled nappies and vomit on my clothes gives me the horrors . |
| 30 | The narrow chink presented to her vision showed her the spot where the prince sat . |