Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She looks like someone has punched her in the mouth , ’ said one pal . |
| 2 | Firstly I do n't think there 's a substantial disagreement between Yeltsin and the so called hard liners , except over the question of timing so as to win the market and someone 's introduced them to the Soviet Union , and secondly I do n't think you can treat Boris Yeltsin as some kind of democrat at all , on August the twelfth he threatened to rule Russia by decree just at the definitely senators and the Russian nationalism and he built some sort of support and I , I think it 's very wrong to characterise the events there with the revolution , more it 's been , it 's been much more of a power struggle between different sections of the you know , the elite there along the lines of the events in Romania . |
| 3 | Kendall has doggedly maintained that , despite Everton 's dreadful run which has dragged them towards the bottom of the Premier League , there is nothing intrinsically wrong with his side . |
| 4 | There is a dark power to their fastidiously constructed nightmare pounders which has pushed them to the fore of hardcore . |
| 5 | But skipper Richard Gough is out with a groin injury which has troubled him since the Skol Cup final . |
| 6 | She does n't do anything special to look after the distinctive voice which has kept her in the music business for an astonishing 33 years . |
| 7 | It is your enthusiasm , dedication and sheer hard work which has placed us at the forefront of our industry . |
| 8 | The tragic feature of deaf education , which has bedeviled it from the beginning , is the disagreement among educators about the best method of teaching the deaf and dumb . |
| 9 | The car has been written off , which has left them with the prospect of having to pay out for a new vehicle . |
| 10 | Leicester 3 Sunderland 2 ONCE again , Sunderland were unable to transfer the marvellous form which has taken them to the FA Cup final at Wembley into their league matches . |
| 11 | Two businessmen have just completed an epic journey which has taken them across the English Channel in a microlight aircraft . |
| 12 | That experience , which has brought me to the province so often , has given me a very deep sense of admiration for the resilience and warmth of the people . ’ |
| 13 | THE 1993 British and US Open champion , Patty Sheehan , had the better of a tense battle with Canada 's Dawn Coe-Jones to win the $700,000 Standard Register Ping — a 32nd tour victory which has catapulted her into the LPGA 's Hall of Fame . |
| 14 | ‘ However , in the economic revolution which has overtaken them with the collapse of the Soviet Union I can see problems looming for them in future . |
| 15 | He addresses God as the God of Abraham and Isaac , the God who has commanded this return to the Land , and who has assured him with the words , ‘ I will do you good . ’ |
| 16 | Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ . |
| 17 | ‘ It was a brilliant performance , ’ enthused Toby Mullins , the ladies ' coach who has led them to the championship in his first season in charge . |
| 18 | For example , there is a right way and a wrong way of answering a stranger who has asked you for the time . |
| 19 | Roy Jenkins , chancellor from 1968 to 1970 , acknowledged the strain when he said : ‘ I think it is the most back-breaking job in government and indeed it has broken the back of nearly everyone who has held it since the war . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ a very long boy , with a very little head , and an open mouth of disproportionate capacity ’ , devotedly attached to Betty Higden who has rescued him from the workhouse in which he has been brought up , having been a foundling child . |
| 21 | The stories about Strahinja tell of a classic conflict between love and duty when the hero 's wife falls in love with the Turk who has abducted her from the family home whilst her husband is away in Kruševac visiting his wife 's relatives , the powerful Jugovići family . |
| 22 | In 1986 Metromedia 's six US television stations were sold to Rupert Murdoch , who has grouped them into the Fox Television network . |
| 23 | He has offered madness in the form of a minute ; she has accepted it in the form of an examination answer . |
| 24 | I am glad that she has joined us for the debate . |
| 25 | It does n't take the detective skills of Lord Peter Wimsey to track down the novels of Dorothy L Sayers … she 's made it into the top shelf of crime writers . |
| 26 | ‘ Besides , we ca n't kill her until she 's led us to the book or at least told us where we can find it . ’ |
| 27 | She 's written it on the top of the letter . |
| 28 | They 're like , I do n't know , it 's like they 're really thin , and she 's plucked 'em at the end as a kid . |
| 29 | I 'll propose Emily 's report and , and in doing so I 'd like to say thank you to her for her sterling work this year , I think she 's done a terrific job erm and I 'd like to thank her personally for the help she 's given me over the year . |
| 30 | She 's got me by the jeans — the hand 's scabby — she 's got some skin disease . |