Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb -s] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Environmental issues are also important to Alison although she believes none of the major parties have a good green record . |
| 2 | All Lori will tell you is that she knows nothing about the jade , ’ Paige advised him steadily . |
| 3 | Reg. v. Grant and Hewitt , 12 J.L.R. 585 , although it adds nothing to the established principles , is an example of inconsistent previous statements wrongly withheld by the Crown at the trial but properly , if belatedly , disclosed on appeal , so that a conviction depending on evidence of identification was quashed for want of a fair trial . |
| 4 | It is a very effective package , paperbacked with a threatening kind of picture on the cover ; it has a subtitle ( ’ The fight to save children from damage by lead in petrol ’ ) which begs the question , and although it contains nothing but the truth , it certainly does not contain the whole truth . |
| 5 | Finally , one major gap in Oakeshott 's theory is that it says nothing about the fundamental issue of how societas may be reconstituted in the modern age . |
| 6 | My view would be that it does nothing of the sort and that if we think it does we delude ourselves . |
| 7 | The story he told was precisely the story that Lanfranc had told in 1072 , with the single exception that he says nothing about the ultimum quasi robur of the whole case in the series of documents mentioned by Lanfranc . |
| 8 | When the passengers are cleaned up see if you can get this young lady , Irene Charial , alone and find out if she knows anything about the layout of the engine-room . |
| 9 | At two , your child does n't realise that if she bangs someone on the head with a spade , it hurts . |
| 10 | Not guilty , did n't do it that 's why what gorilla man did sickened me ; no blood well hardly any blood literally a drop , a drip , a fucking pixel on the screen and the only thing slicing into flesh was a needle , tiny and delicate not a chainsaw or an axe or a knife or anything , but it 's that image that idea that old devil meme , I keep dreaming about it , keep having nightmares about it , and I 'm the trapped one , I 'm the man in the leather-and-chrome chair and he 's there with his gorilla face and his squeaky baby voice , explaining to the camera that what he has in this bottle and in this syringe is sperm ; the crazy fucker 's loaded it up with jism man looks like half a fucking milk bottle of the stuff and he 's going to inject it into the little guy 's veins and he ties something round the naked upper arm of the little guy strapped to the chair and pulls it tight and waits for the vein to show while the little guy howls and screams like a child and tries to shake the chair to bits or rip it apart but he 's too well strapped in there no purchase no leverage and then the man in the gorilla mask just does it ; sinks the needle into the little guy 's skin with a bit of blood and empties the whole syringe into him . |
| 11 | And he thinks nothing of the travelling to and from training . |
| 12 | ‘ You should know you 'll not change your father now and he means everything for the best for the whole house , ’ she argued forcibly but the strain was showing on her own drawn , anxious features . |
| 13 | The employee top 10 features those companies which are expanding fastest , and it says something for the performance of WPP that it has managed to perform well in eps and return on capital terms at the same time as it has achieved that expansion . |
| 14 | It takes a year to organize this grand event and it says something for the racecourse when the only thing that went wrong yesterday was the weather . |
| 15 | It started in 1976 and it says something about the timescale over which these sorts of things have to be planned that the first results of any value appeared 16 years later . |
| 16 | The original entries for 995 and 996 may have been lost , and it says nothing of the hostile relations which probably existed with Normandy for a time , and only hints at the troubles in the Irish Sea mentioned above . |
| 17 | And it means nothing to the layman , two Greek words meaning ‘ grey ’ and ‘ marrow ’ , so we 've given it an easier name , infantile paralysis , which at least is English . ’ |
| 18 | By comparison housework is boring , lonely , unrewarding work , and it has none of the prestige associated with meeting famous people and working in a glamorous establishment like Claridges . |
| 19 | Zephandra Butolphi has this idea that you have repeat everything until it becomes one with the cosmic miasmal consciousness , so pages one , two and three read : |
| 20 | If it rains everything in the shed will get wet . |
| 21 | Isaac proceeds as if he knows nothing of the events surrounding the pot of soup . |
| 22 | ‘ While you 're speaking to him , I suggest you ask him if he knows anyone in the building trade who would like to come out here to help you . |
| 23 | If he chucks something on the ground he 'll pick it up and give it to me and he 'll do it all the more . |
| 24 | If he resembles anyone from the less-than-hallowed history of TV light entertainment , it 's Dick Emery , with his gaggle of thumb-nail stereotypes and music hall turns . |
| 25 | I ask Mr Jackson if he wants anything from the shop — you know , like fags or a newspaper or summat , but he says he do n't . |
| 26 | But it does nothing of the sort . |
| 27 | But it says nothing about the register being evidence of ownership , and it is not clear what role , if any , it plays in converting an equitable interest to a legal one . |
| 28 | I do not think this experience is confined to women , but it symbolizes something of the quality of the Great Mother , and it shows how we have the ability to conceive and carry to birth on a level other than the physical . |
| 29 | I call that a restricted international perspective because it does not explain or attempt to explain how production is organized internationally and , to my mind , a theory can not do that unless it says something about the changes in the organization of labour that go along with innovations in machinery , transport , instruments and products . |
| 30 | But because he accepts something from the philosophers ' view , a view which leads to scepticism , he himself runs the risk of it . |