Example sentences of "[pron] [det] [vb pp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had brought out his lists , four sheets , and had got them half fixed to the door when Allan knocked him aside and tore them down and then spent an hour , with James 's help , going down the names and telling the young men to their faces whether or not they were listed . |
| 2 | Nothing much stirred in the village . |
| 3 | A Lake Chad Basin commission with representatives of Chad , Cameroon , Nigeria and Niger ( which all bordered on the lake ) had been established in 1964 but had made little progress . |
| 4 | Other factors included wages , rents and the uniform business rate , which all added to the company 's overheads , and the recession in the retail trade , which forced the company to slash prices to generate demand . |
| 5 | Well what investigations have you all made into the success of grant maintained schools elsewhere in the country ? |
| 6 | Kevin Brown had them all brought to the kitchen where lamps were lit . |
| 7 | ‘ That was us when we all worked in the shop , afore the War . ’ |
| 8 | On that merry note we both retired for the night . |
| 9 | He led her into the room and , looking at the four musicians , he said , ‘ This is Peggy , my sparring partner ever since we both crawled on the lawn together . |
| 10 | She gave me a piece of bread and a toasting fork and we both crouched over the fire to make toast . |
| 11 | Why , is n't there any left in the cupboard ? |
| 12 | Erm , I know three blind mice , three blind mice , three blind mice , see how they run , see how they run , they all run after the farmer 's wife , he cut off their tails with a carving knife , have you ever seen such a thing in your life , three blind mice |
| 13 | The men to whom I gave counselling ( and prescribed sedatives ) would , for a while , complain of nightmares , anxiety and dyspepsia — but they all recovered by the end of the tour . |
| 14 | Did you actually see either er car or card ? or was it all done over the telephone with somebody else looking at the card ? |
| 15 | The company claims that customers say that they want to do their development at the workgroup level in an open systems environment , on a range of hardware and under different operating systems , and to share data in a decentralised development environment , rather than have it all tied to the Repository on the mainframe server . |
| 16 | It all depended on the man . |
| 17 | It all depended on the availability of goods trains in any particular station at any particular time . |
| 18 | In the final analysis all power relationships depend on resources , be it those obtained from the state , the respective local authority or the private individual who is to be willing to pay for a specific service . |
| 19 | ( By way of indication of what this represented in the family budget , it has been estimated that weekly expenditure on food in working-class families at the time was about 35 per head . ) " |
| 20 | ( And these black musicians were themselves all shaped by the counter culture and acid rock . ) |
| 21 | Hoisted back to the London street , she saw them both reflected in the plate-glass of the shop window , superimposed in transparency above silk and fur , gilt and leather , the swaggering dummies with blind inscrutable gaze in their preposterous clothes . |
| 22 | At the moment it looks as if the end of term will see us all thrown on the job market . |
| 23 | ‘ This produced a pretty farcical scene really with us both stopped on the track , but I managed to get away and hang on for second . |
| 24 | Unless you want us both soaked to the skin . ’ |