Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cries could be heard from the stairs as the policemen tried to make their way up to the landing , the remaining boys making it as difficult as possible for them in the hope that their brother would get away . |
| 2 | So briefly , it was started in the er , late sixties early seventies , companies with over a thousand employees which had their member states er , at least nine hundred of them at the moment that particular covering at least thirteen point six million people . |
| 3 | You know er you see some of them with the apron that just goes round the waist . |
| 4 | Just be a bit er bit , bit er wary of them in the sense that you do n't know who 's managing the fund , er because it 's their money , it 's not your money , they do n't actually invest the money from you , it 's their money they 're investing . |
| 5 | When McMahon received a letter from the Archbishop of Canterbury in answer to one of his to the effect that God Almighty still loved him , he replied that a certain quotation always stayed with him : ‘ I rage , I melt , I burn . |
| 6 | He had not seen her all day and badly wanted to say goodbye , but there was no sign of her in the crowd that had gathered to see them off . |
| 7 | She subscribed on the face of it to the proposition that we are not put here to be happy , although she was the first to complain if she , or the few people she loved , were not . |
| 8 | And it 's important for me to clear that side of it on the basis that you have no responsibility for setting the assignments up . |
| 9 | The proposition that they sprinted up the hill is not equivalent to the proposition that they ran up the hill , but it is an interpretation of it in the sense that it shares certain contextual implications . |
| 10 | Morgan found confirmation of it in the fact that the people he had studied in most detail — the Iroquois — happened to be matrilineal . |
| 11 | In recent years , the Shetland summer season has been tainted for many of us by the knowledge that thousands of our sea-birds have failed to raise any young . |
| 12 | It is entirely clear from the documents in front of us in the treaty that we are enabling ourselves to have the option to opt in . |
| 13 | ‘ So you thought I would sell to another vet and that might make things worse for you on the principle that the devil you know is better than the devil you do n't know . ’ |
| 14 | Should you decide that you would prefer to knit your design in jacquard rather than Fair Isle , DesignaKnit can automatically separate all the colours for you in the way that is required for your particular knitting machine . |
| 15 | But if you believe that there is a God then they are working for you in the sense that , for them , to pray is to work . |
| 16 | We 've just finished the first round of waivers for people receiving the Home Care Service , and the criteria that I was giving you reflected those , and so when you get your letter , if you feel that you 've got particular financial problems or particular family situations we should take into account , erm then do get in touch with us and we 'll process it and we 'll set out a procedure for you in the letter that we send . |
| 17 | I mean I 've filled in a few forms for them but I mean probably you 're a passive owner like me in the sense that I do n't go and actively trade them , er I keep them in a long term investment , and that 's it . |
| 18 | By a summons dated 15 March 1991 the third , fourth and fifth defendants ( ‘ the solicitors ’ ) sought an order pursuant to R.S.C. , Ord. 18 , r. 19 that the amended statement of claim , alternatively that paragraphs 11 and 13 of the prayer to the amended statement of claim , be struck out as against them on the ground that they disclosed no reasonable cause of action ; alternatively , an order pursuant to R.S.C. , Ord. 14A that the court had no power under section 6(2) of the Financial Services Act 1986 to make the order sought in paragraph 11 of the prayer to the amended statement of claim and that the court had no power under section 61(1) of the Act of 1986 to make the order sought in paragraph 13 of the prayer to the amended statement of claim . |
| 19 | By summons , issued on 15 March 1991 , the third , fourth and fifth defendants asked , first , for an order that the action be struck out against them on the ground that it disclosed no reasonable cause of action or , alternatively , that paragraphs 11 and 13 of the prayer be struck out . |
| 20 | We voted against it on the ground that it seemed absurd to respond to a crisis in the beef sector simply by throwing yet more money into a system which has not been reformed . |
| 21 | During the time I knew him , he never took acid as he was very much afraid of it , and counselled other people against it in the sense that he felt it might disturb them psychologically , and felt that 's what might happen to him |
| 22 | Come back with me to the place that was and is yours , be to me as you were before . |
| 23 | Please do not hesitate to make contact with me in the event that this letter leaves unanswered any questions you might have . |
| 24 | erm Now , perhaps we come back to what can we do at this end , and I think Friends of the Earth has done an excellent job in bringing it to peoples ' attention that large areas of tropical forest are being destroyed at roughly the rate of 0.7 or 0.8 percent of the forest each year , erm and they , you know I 'm in agreement with them on the fact that forest is disappearing , it 's dangerous in many places , it 's catastrophic in some , for instance , particularly in West Africa , the clearing that 's gone on in the Ivory Coast is pretty disastrous , and erm there are indications that the West African strip of forest along the strip of the West African Coast by removing that you 're going to make not only that area slightly drier , but mainly the northern areas of those countries , and the drier , so it may well affect climate . |
| 25 | Thank you very much , Sir Leonard for that , in th in the beginning of your address you posed the question , what does a company like I B M have to do with a community and then proceeded to answer your question , I think in a most , er , comprehensive way , and I I speak as someone who lives in a county , Hampshire , where I B M has a strong er , base , and I know from personal experience as a volunteer in that county , how much we value the contacts that we have with I B M and the way in which we work together with them in the way that you have described . |
| 26 | That 's one of the things , I think , that the Roman Catholics who hanker after the old Latin Mass and its ritual miss the most , and I sympathize with them in the sense that there is n't a great deal of mystery about most of the worship in most of our churches any more , and whilst it 's very right and proper for us to be very busy on practical matters , we must n't forget that there are very mysterious questions about our purpose here , about death and life , which are n't answered simply by doing things and being very busy — in fact , that may be a form of escapism — we need both , and I would hope that there will be room again in Christianity in Europe for worship to become something which speaks to the things I find mysterious , and in that respect I think the interest in spirituality and religious experience , in mysticism , in all those sort of areas about one 's personal religious life , and a lot of it not very orthodox or traditional . |
| 27 | However , in the event Mubarak largely carried the Egyptian public with him to the extent that even staunch opponents such as the Moslem Brotherhood supported his policies . |
| 28 | I am sure that the Secretary of State for Scotland will appreciate that I have corresponded with him about the fact that the Local Government Finance Bill is a United Kingdom Bill . |
| 29 | I am afraid that I could not catch the last part of my hon. Friend 's question , but I agree with him about the importance that he attaches to the single market . |
| 30 | Those who have worked with him during the time that he has been in his present post have come to admire the hard work , courage and assiduity with which he has pursued the object of bringing the parties within the island of Ireland to sit down with the British Government and resolve their differences . |