Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She cared less than nothing for the privileges of the housewife ; the old woman could have kept the keys for ever , and Julian would have been indifferent . |
| 2 | The woodmen never broke up those temporary dwellings which they built to see them through the weekdays of the felling season . |
| 3 | Hanging back so they were just at the limit of vision , she followed them through the tunnels of the complex , occasionally passing other personnel or soldiers , who ignored her to concentrate on their search for the fugitive . |
| 4 | I scrambled out of the trench and accompanied them through the trees to the farm . |
| 5 | Dulé was to slip into the sea , then , binding the container of burning pitch to his head with a deep cushioning of reeds in between to prevent him getting burned , he would swim to the ship , gouge a hole in the hull with his knife and , taking dry tinder from a companion swimming alongside him , light spills from the fire and pass them through the walls of the ship , then slip back under the cover of the mangroves and lie in wait for the panic . |
| 6 | Clovis 's campaigns and ruses against other Frankish rulers should perhaps be seen as power struggles within a small kin-group , and therefore as precursors of the civil wars that were to follow , but we know nothing about the connections between the petty kings of the years prior to 511 . |
| 7 | There is nothing in Polybius about the Bacchanalia scandal , nothing about the measures against the Latins , for instance in 187 B.C. ( Liv . |
| 8 | Tell them about the aims of the Medau Society , what it does for them , and for others |
| 9 | The people of Wainfleet are openly friendly , keen to welcome visitors and proud to tell them about the fascinations of the town . |
| 10 | but this whole case is about management and service charges and you 're person who erm assess them for the purposes of the brochure , you say you do n't recall whether it 's the second or third addition ever seen by you ? |
| 11 | I have hinted that the dawn has many times come to me through the leaves of the willow , but it is less the tree itself nowadays that transmits things seen to my mind — than something of which the willow is a visible type . |
| 12 | Finally , he showed me off the premises with the injunction , accompanied by a theatrical wink , that I should get straight on to him if I ever had any bother . |
| 13 | He said : ‘ A contact I made when I was in Croatia got in touch to tell me about the efforts of the villagers of Sumet , which is between Split and Mostar . |
| 14 | She often asked me about the hills in the distance , beyond the moors , and wanted to ride her pony there . |
| 15 | If the hon. Gentleman wishes to write to me about the details of the case to which he referred I shall be happy to respond . |
| 16 | He was more interested in telling me about the tactics of the attorney general . |
| 17 | And erm you know as lorry drivers , we we class ourselves as the professionals of the road , but at the end of the day our standards or our reputation is tarnished by the actions of a few is n't it ? |
| 18 | Having freed ourselves of the shackles of the classical conception of the company and its assertion that it is only the interest of the shareholders as property owners that the law should seek to protect , it becomes evident that a whole web of relationships of interdependence exist around and within the company . |
| 19 | With free arms we could move more and brace ourselves against the bumps on the road . |
| 20 | As regular , well-known members of the church it is difficult to put ourselves into the shoes of the first-time visitor . |
| 21 | It was a pleasant place , Blackheath , a shade too respectable for someone into the tablets of the time , and full of kids — unlike Small — waiting to go to university . |
| 22 | The match referee , a technician at his side if necessary , could be the magic eye , unless it is to be someone from the ranks of the umpires themselves . |
| 23 | Pile the soil on to the sieve , about 3 cm deep , leaving a gap of at least 1 em around the edges of the soil to allow air to circulate and dry the soil . |
| 24 | As soon as Silver disappeared , we got ready for a battle , placing ourselves around the sides of the stockade . |
| 25 | Peter gives all new members of staff a document which tells them what their duties are and reminds them of the rights of the residents . |
| 26 | Now let us turn to exemption clauses and the effect upon them of the provisions of the Unfair Contract Terms Act . |
| 27 | As they travelled west , along the same route that the young cadet had come , they met travellers who told them of the horrors of the revolution . |
| 28 | Immediately after his infamous singlet and shorts press conference , French and Fordham woke Wallaby manager John Breen , coach Bob Dwyer and captain Nick Farr-Jones to a meeting to inform them of the happenings over the previous 12 hours . |
| 29 | News had reached them of the happenings at the manor and they rightly assumed that with Tom in charge of the manor farm they were not likely to be evicted from their forest camp . |
| 30 | Mr Crowden told them of the terms of the will and suggested that Violet 's legacy seemed a poor reward and that it might be improved . |