Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PETER PEARS : We were staying in Escondido on the West Coast of America with Rae Robertson and Ethel Bartlett , the pianists for whom Ben wrote the Scottish Ballad . |
| 2 | A manufacturer of products , which he sells in such a form as to show that he intends them –o reach the ultimate consumer in the form in which they left him , with no reasonable possibility of intermediate examination , and with the knowledge that the absence of reasonable care in the preparation or putting up of the products is likely to result in injury to the consumer 's life or property , owes a duty to the consumer to take reasonable care . |
| 3 | In them Hooker discusses the Presbyterian system of government by church elders , the status of bishops , and the relationship between Church and State . |
| 4 | So females are retained in these groups , but males are driven out by the dominant male , whom Freud called the primal father . |
| 5 | At this point my story becomes the introductory scene of a fiction which could be continued . |
| 6 | Solanki had told the Lok Sabha on March 30 that " I now regret that I handed over this note " but that " neither I nor my ministry instructed the Swiss authorities to stop or impede investigations into the Bofors case " . |
| 7 | My decision pleased the present-day driver , as the fare would be expensive . |
| 8 | However , my decision to back the new development came first . |
| 9 | They all just go past me with their baked beans and their fish fingers and washing powder and chocolate biscuits , and my fingers punch the right figures on the till and I do n't see them at all . |
| 10 | Words came into my ears and my fingers made the appropriate movements . |
| 11 | Erm that zoning that allocation in a local plan backed by this erm er er policy in the structure plan would be enough in my judgement to enable the economic development people to actually capture the , get the elephant in the trap . |
| 12 | One day in February 1943 I returned to my billet to find the usual envelope addressed in my mother 's round handwriting . |
| 13 | Fuck I Jean get the hot water , oh fuck ! |
| 14 | You will undoubtedly be aware that ‘ Green ’ is the marketing tool of the 90 's and that my department enforces the statutory measures which aim to protect consumers against misdescriptions and misleading claims by manufacturers . |
| 15 | I tramped through the ruins of Tughlukabad trying in my mind to fill the deserted barracks with Turkish mameluks and Persian cavalry officers . |
| 16 | In answer to my office colleagues who saw me manhandling a hopper-shaped device into my car boot the other week : no , I was not setting up a home distillery , merely preparing to field-test a pond filter . |
| 17 | My eyes skip the busy road that sweeps around the head of the port and is divided by a great oval flowerbed , garishly planted . |
| 18 | Well , one of the first things I did on applying for this job was to announce my intention to end the repellent Billy Bullshit column . |
| 19 | I turned and looked out over the slanted , foreshortened wedge of streets and stocky tenements , and for once the strain in my ears found the appropriate line , the right score . |
| 20 | It has , incidentally , materially diminished my capacity to enjoy the original symphony . |
| 21 | ‘ And you truly do need my help to locate the ephemeral Svend — not to mention your sister . ’ |
| 22 | The palace was several miles from the Legation and every time they topped a rise my parents saw the whole procession spread out in front and behind . |
| 23 | But I read in an article this morning ( 'Students set to pay full fees ' , 29 September ) that if I were applying in a few years ' time , I would have to ask my parents to pay the full cost of my tuition . |
| 24 | The Minister will not be surprised to learn that my question concerns the regulatory environment of British Steel , in which the Government hold the golden share . |
| 25 | Can I can I say that in my opinion that the county council 's current budgeting strategy which effectively imposes a two percent efficiency saving which I might add in figures come to something like one point five million erm is , is of concern but what is of greater concern is the further possibility of a four percent er reduction which is being sought in blocks of three percent and one percent next year for ninety four ninety five which is to the amount of two point eight million at the current prices will in my opinion decimate the present level of service provision in policing . |
| 26 | I 'd like my fiancé to do the traditional thing and ask my father for his permission to marry me , but he says that no one does this any more . |
| 27 | My eye followed the light cloud of her smoke , now here , now there , above the plain , according to the devious curves of the stream , but always fainter and farther away , till I lost it at last behind the mitre-shaped hill of the great pagoda ( 6 ) . |
| 28 | The " eye " , as if with a will of its own , becomes the subject-agent in " as far as the eye could reach " ( 1 ) , " My eye followed the light cloud " ( 6 ) , " the only thing on which the eye could rest ( 4 ) . |
| 29 | My constituents remember the dashing figure of Jeremy Thorpe . |
| 30 | In the mornings my husband walked the endless corridors of oil power , hoping for patience to overcome impatience . |