Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [noun] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Surprisingly enough , the small island of Jersey has been host to about 5,000 Madeirans , many of them contract workers in the hotels for the season . |
2 | Watching on for the past few weeks have been a small handful of experts , among them Jim Railton of The Times , who 's been following the Boat Race for twenty years . |
3 | Deep in my heart safe from the guards |
4 | My Mum lives for the films . |
5 | Knowing that half of Scotland had left their cars sitting in the middle of roads to make sure that they could get to the gig is not so much my horror story as the police 's , she chuckled . |
6 | Before this , the fortunes of the various strategies rose and fell , just as in my computer simulation of the Cheats , Suckers , and Grudgers . |
7 | I said oh I 'm not gon na give you my telephone number after the things I 've been hearing about you ! |
8 | ‘ It was only slightly traumatic , but I knew from my safety audit of the operators that it was virtually impossible for things to go wrong , ’ explained Nigel . |
9 | In my lecture tours round the squadrons I sought these crews out and , almost without exception , found they had in fact volunteered for PFF but had their applications rejected by their CO . |
10 | Training courses were arranged and at one of them General Aung San himself presided and listened to my opening speech to the PROS . |
11 | Two different frictions made the soles of my life grate upon the uppers of my loaf . |
12 | Our day started with my brewing coffee with the beans Jean-Claude ground , and buttering lengths of baguette to dunk . |
13 | I said breathlessly , tucking my pyjama jacket into the bottoms . |
14 | Sometimes I found it impossible to concentrate on my school work as the activities of the bird populations outside kept grabbing my attention . |
15 | I would lie for hours in my sea grey with the remains of bubble bath . |
16 | As for point ( b ) , I could n't even get my brain cells around the questions never mind the answers . |
17 | Clearly , the coherence of the passage is judged isomorphically by measuring its text world against the readers ' knowledge of the real world . |
18 | Through the cloudburst I could see the old men laying out their prayer carpets under the arches , then , on a signal from the mullah , a line of bottoms rose and fell in time to the distant cries of ‘ Allah hu-Akbar ! ’ |
19 | So I told the press the next morning who were mega grumpy at all of this and I do n't blame them , so when the ceremony started Pat took the stills photographer round to the front and the television guys as the Princess began to inspect er the crew pulled all their gear through the Band of the Royal Marines over their toe caps under the tubas and pressed their cameras under the nose of the Princess Royal which would n't have happened had the Lieutenant Commander been prepared to listen to us and of course you could see him getting angrier and angrier |
20 | Still , it provided the Gray family with regular exercise , so often did we pursue it over large tracts of Scotland as the tent tried to escape home to warmer climes in the south , flapping its PVC accessories like the wings of a large , wounded goose trying to take off . |
21 | Donna chewed her lip contemplatively as she read , forced to run her index finger beneath the words , so jumbled and irregularly formed were they on the faded page . |
22 | ‘ And you did n't know he gave all her housekeeping money to the Druids — ‘ |
23 | THE true horror of Sarajevo was shown in your picture of the two little white-faced boys sitting holding their toy guns on the stairs at home , amid the real grenades and bullets . |
24 | In La Fille Mal Gardée Mother Simone does this when she triumphantly finishes her Clog Dance on the arms of her more graceful neighbours , just as all the guests but Alain do after the Betrothal and they all dance out , arms linked to celebrate . |
25 | The workers were hard-living and hard-drinking men , who left their cottage homes in the valleys on Monday mornings and did not return until Saturday nights , because their journeys to and from work were hard and hazardous , though short . |
26 | ‘ In his last will and testament , the celebrated philosopher , author of Pythagorean Mysticism and the Ninfanian School , left his entire estate , the noble house at Punta del Giorno , the farms and their sheep folds in the hills at Crotone , Metaponto and Matera , the vineyards that fringe the banks of the Sauro gorge , to none other than himself , when he should return in his next incarnation to take up residence on his territories again . |
27 | Also , as the directors remain in office , the receiver would probably be under an obligation to provide the directors with the information that they need to know to enable them to comply with their reporting obligations under the Companies Act . |
28 | ‘ I remember vividly being on night guard prior to the morning executions when some prisoners sang and rattled their tin mugs against the bars in some form of defiance . |
29 | One woman told Elizabeth Roberts that she had resorted to taking her wedding ring to the pawnbrokers ' three times : ‘ each time I was caught with babies ’ . |
30 | The moon had risen but no sooner did it spill its silver light over the fields than it was swallowed up by cloud . |