Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is like expecting them to see distant stars without the help of any binoculars or telescopes but just with their own native eyesight . |
| 2 | It aims to protect women by allowing them to SEE potential partners from the safety of their own telephone . |
| 3 | As late as the eighteenth century some of the most renowned painters of France , Boucher , Lancret and Watteau among them , found it no more beneath them to paint gallant scenes on the artificial eggs presented by the king to members of his court at Easter than Cellini did to be called on to unpick the precious stones from Clement VII 's tiara as the Imperial troops advanced to sack Rome in 1527 . |
| 4 | Many of them make regular trips to the filmset where it was all put together , at Portmeirion in Wales . |
| 5 | We must also consider the opportunity that some occupations have for deliberately restricting access to the acquisition of the skills needed to do the job , thereby keeping down their distribution amongst the population , and enabling them to claim higher rewards in the market place . |
| 6 | None of them made any concessions to the local Muslim culture . |
| 7 | Not all worlds are the same , and life upon them has strange effects upon the body . ’ |
| 8 | Each of them has many adherents in the discipline , and at first sight it looks as if the approaches are in direct competition . |
| 9 | Two months before his departure he wrote to twelve or fifteen poets , requesting their public support for Pound and asking them to provide private testimonials in the event that he should be tried and sentenced for his crime : there was , at this stage , a strong possibility that Pound would be condemned to death . |
| 10 | The four main states — Andhra Pradesh , Tamil Nadu , Karnataka , and Kerala — between them elect 129 members of the Lok Sabha , the lower house of parliament . |
| 11 | The Doctrine is at best a circular re-statement of the obvious : Why did I experience those vibrations in the air as sounds ? |
| 12 | He did his usual practice stint , during which I endured more jokes from the other caddies and from some of the players about my sudden fame . |
| 13 | I made four locks for the gates on Lord 's cricket ground er and when I 'm telling you this , and practically without exception , they must 've er got to know me and they come for what they wanted . |
| 14 | I made many speeches during the passage of that legislation . |
| 15 | Well Roger I , I made great pains in the presentation to make clear that this is not a standard , because we do n't have a standard . |
| 16 | ( 55 ) I found a bottle with which I made numerous marks on the ground surrounding our tents and a few yards into the jungle , as far as I dared venture . |
| 17 | Anyway , in the end I made 1,800 pesos on the funeral . |
| 18 | From my hotel at the foot of fifth Avenue I made short forays into the neon between soaking my cuts , counting my abrasions and nursing anxiety to sleep . |
| 19 | I made several speeches in the Lords propounding my belief that the Biafran side should have had our support , and I still believe we would have been very much better off had that ensued . |
| 20 | We got the Gilbey bar but I no the answer to that question would be if any company or org organisation was prepared or wished to talk about funding the theatre in any way and I think were 'd be more than welcome to sit down with and talk them and say well how would you perceive that which way would you like to go about it how can we assist that and I think we 're be open to suggestions from them how they see it I mean you know it could be seats it could be programmes it could be any any arrange of things that we 'd certainly welcome who approach us from companies but we I think we are pro-active in sense that we do n't wait for that to happen we actually go out but was said early I think given the recession it has been difficult lately to actually go out to companies and say I mean sure companies like the Harlow Council find it extremely finance the finances extremely difficult on them and with the recession it 's really difficult for them to actually find funding and I know lot 's of companies who actually cutting back on it certain areas I think funding of oth outside organisations will be one of the areas they 'll be cutting back on . |
| 21 | Get them out for Easter I mean white lines up the seams |
| 22 | In other words not sitting there and asking people to , erm people in authority , erm sort of people of influence , ask them what they think , but actually going out and visiting people and groups , and I was going to ask whether this would be copied to the women 's sub-committee , because there are many , many groups of women who never have a chance of saying what they really want , and I do n't mean patients , I mean potential users of the health service . |
| 23 | He told the delegates that he was " tired of the impossible state of affairs in which I suffer bitter attacks from the outside … while I am also attacked by colleagues at home who sing the daily chorus of slander and besmirching " . |
| 24 | Lastly I told him that there was supposed to be a plan for a British submarine which would take off escaped prisoners somewhere near La Spezia , and I produced some maps of the area which I had managed to get from a book seller friend of mine in Parma . |
| 25 | I make certain assumptions about the lyric poem , however : The lyric poem , then , is a particular kind of universe of discourse . |
| 26 | I make frequent visits to the Killearn workshop and I need a base for when I 'm in Scotland . |
| 27 | I make several trots down the run without so much as a tremble of the float . |
| 28 | However , when I make these comparisons across the Atlantic , I can almost hear my readers saying : " plate tectonics " . |
| 29 | There 's a file of that , of course , but I make it up from my working diary , and nobody will know if I make some extracts from the diary . " |
| 30 | I rode 12 miles to the start , hid the bike and set off . |