Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also children want to learn , to enable them to acquire qualifications needed for the jobs they would like to do when they leave education . |
| 2 | Rooks cawed in the dark trees which ringed the house and I imagined demons nestling in the branches , mocking us . |
| 3 | On many occasions I seen students surprised by the unpredictability of these bits , and are unwilling to use them again . |
| 4 | I never go round by myself without seeing one because I hear feet scrabbling on the bark or I see bits of fir cone floating down . |
| 5 | ‘ I spent ages crawling around the hotel 's foundations and could n't find a way out . |
| 6 | I spent years looking for the answer , and what I found was somewhat unexpected . |
| 7 | Suddenly , I heard feet running across the stage . |
| 8 | Then I heard footsteps coming towards the hut . |
| 9 | ‘ I saw problems coming for the breed and in 1984 I started a training club for Dobermanns and , more specifically , for their owners , ’ Graham said . |
| 10 | As we as I approached them , I saw flames coming from the the curtains . |
| 11 | But the temptation to intervene grew nevertheless , particularly as I saw things turning against the innocent maidservant . |
| 12 | I saw parties feeding on the seed-heads of thrift in the middle of a gannet colony , on the seeds of rushes out on the windswept moors , and in my own garden where they quickly cleaned up the remaining rowan berries . |
| 13 | As he bowed to me in that tight state , I almost believe I saw creases come into the white of his eyes . |
| 14 | ‘ I think employers look at the disabilities rather than abilities — and they are being very unfair to themselves . |
| 15 | Number of member states : 143 divided as follows : 20 Category I industrialized countries belonging to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) ; 12 Category II countries belonging to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ( OPEC ) ; and 111 Category III developing countries . |
| 16 | Members : 144 divided as follows : 21 Category I industrialized countries belonging to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) ; 12 Category II countries belonging to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ( OPEC ) ; and 111 Category III developing countries . |
| 17 | I had lights put in the coal cellar and wash house too while he was at it . |
| 18 | If someone had valuables hidden in the hypocaust , he must have been waiting on thorns for the chance to get his hoard away , and baulked all day by staff and visitors wandering around . |
| 19 | I need crutches to get around the house and could not get to the concert , ’ she said . |
| 20 | I have sweets lying on the counter , I do n't have to take them if I do n't want to . |
| 21 | Walking down the descent rake I notice tracks leading into the Kitchen itself . |
| 22 | I spend hours lying on the bed thinking about how to escape . |
| 23 | For any effective right of tax-diversion would require legislation to set up a Peace Tax Fund ; to prescribe the uses to which tax resources diverted into the fund might be put ; and to authorise the Inland Revenue Commissioners to take into account a person 's conscientious beliefs in determining which account that person 's taxes should be paid into . |
| 24 | In every contract where expert determination is to be used , there will be a clause which refers questions arising under the contract to an expert and which contains a number of ancillary provisions . |
| 25 | In his report Sir Thomas criticised the Bank of England , which supervises banks operating in the UK . |
| 26 | Fig 4 has an upper pedal tone of A which has lines based on the A blues scale ( A C D Eb E G ) played simultaneously underneath . |
| 27 | John Ellis , general secretary of the Civil and Public Services Association , which has members employed by the Government 's statistical services , said : ‘ Anything that improves the quality of statistics , which this country is very good at getting wrong , particularly on transport and the economy , would be to the benefit of the whole country . ’ |
| 28 | THERE MUST BE SOMETHING SPECIAL WHICH CAUSES DOGS TO HOWL IN THE NIGHT , AND ESPECIALLY DURING MOONLIGHT , IN THAT REMARKABLE AND MELANCHOLY MANNER CALLED BAYING . |
| 29 | First of all , the US deficit was not financed literally with paper dollars ; foreign central banks which received dollars invested in the New York money market at the going rate of interest . |
| 30 | In the fourth year , in addition to consolidating their command of the language , students choose from a menu of options which cover topics ranging from the earliest texts in German to the work of contemporary writers and including some study of art and film . |