Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If an employee has produced a computer program outside the normal course of his duties , but has used his employer 's equipment or done it during the hours of his employment , the ownership of copyright is more difficult to predict , although it is more likely that the employer will be treated as owner . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've a great deal to thank-you for , Edward , ’ he said , ‘ not many would have helped me the way you did or taken me in the way I looked that night . ’ |
| 3 | If she 'd had the power at that moment she would have reached out and crushed him into the carpet . |
| 4 | and criticizing the royal family , we have admired and criticized them in the course of the last half hour . |
| 5 | They 've knocked it , flattened it down and rebuilt it by the looks of it . |
| 6 | The crate-people took no notice of them but arranged their food to the left of them , erected a cross in front of them while their leader pulled an angled prop from behind the picture he was holding and positioned it in the pebbles to the right of the dedicated gathering . |
| 7 | The artist calmly took a small mechanical device and positioned it against the side of her finger which wore a glittering pair of rings in emerald and diamond . |
| 8 | Yet it was not beyond the power of reason and foresight to know that the days of the Indian Empire were numbered , if not in years , still in decades : the best and the wisest of the British in India had known and said it from the beginning . |
| 9 | The other car , the other De Dion we had , burst its radiator , but we are very resourceful ; we went and bought thirty foot of garden hose and connected it to the engine and sent the water round and round the car and that acted as a radiator , and we drove it for a week like that . |
| 10 | Anna picked up the saucepan into which she had been putting potatoes and transferred it to the stove . |
| 11 | Periodically we had lifted and turned them on the banks , where the sun and wind had shrunk and hardened them . |
| 12 | Brian had not merely hated the cockerel but feared it since it had got through the fence and bitten him on the leg . |
| 13 | His face and body were a mass of bruises after he had been attacked at his home by a forty-strong mob who were preparing to lynch him in the remains of his once beautiful garden when the military had arrived and bundled him into the back of a police van and brought him to La Tambier . |
| 14 | Even though I have chained and muzzled you for the wolf you are , still your eyes challenge and your mind defies . ’ |
| 15 | Her children have disappointed and saddened her to the point where she has made the decision to rule them out of future considerations surrounding the throne . |
| 16 | So it 's floated and knitted it on the back . |
| 17 | They 'd thrown her into a Jeep and driven her into the Heide , through the woods , to a large wooden building hidden in the trees . |
| 18 | He dreamed the actual execution , including his head being separated from his body , and then abruptly woke up to find that his bed headboard had fallen and struck him on the back of the neck in the same place as the guillotine in the dream . |
| 19 | Mrs. Jarrett , whose hobbies include china collecting , Scrabble , reading and ‘ a little bingo ’ , spoke of the very many people who had helped and supported her over the years . |
| 20 | The books draw on the experiences of Christians in Guatemala , whose faith has strengthened and supported them through the hardships and challenges of recent years . |
| 21 | At that moment it had been appropriate to put big pickets you know I think if we thought too much about it we would have and taken it to the lodge and put it through the union it would have had cold water put over it and you know it was right for Tom to be wary and it was probably right for us to do what we did I mean I think you know it it was successful the way it turned out . |
| 22 | Wait until I 've shown you the fabulous coast of Jutland and taken you to the island of Fyn where I was born . |
| 23 | Not that it had done Oliver Rattrie any good , since he 'd been caught the day after by those same Chartist women who had marched into Halifax singing the One Hundredth Psalm ; sheep no longer but howling Furies who had seized him , puny little thing that he was , and thrown him in the canal where , in his struggle to keep himself from drowning , he had lost every last shilling of the blood-money in his pockets . |
| 24 | You know they 're either set up now you 've given them an education and thrown them on the world squandering it now they 'll only squander it when they get their hands on it you might as well squander it on yourselves , let the kids squander it for you . |
| 25 | Someone had put them in a box and thrown them into the canal . |
| 26 | twisted , warped , it 's in a sense it 's exactly the same as the circle , you know you draw the circle it 's a line that starts there and goes perfectly round and comes back to the starting point , it 's exactly the same as that , but it 's been pushed out at the edges , it 's been dented in here , it 's not recognisable now as that same circle , although it 's what it is , and you see what , what has happened is although we 've sinned , although we 've come short of God 's plan , God has n't destroyed the whole thing , he could so easily just taken up the human life and crumple it up and thrown it on the heap , said finished with them , ca n't be bothered , I 'll start all over again with new people , I 'll have a new creation , well he did have a new creation , but he kept that same creation , he said I 'm gon na work on it , I 'm gon na do something with it , I 'm gon na restore it , I 'm gon na ransom it , I 'm gon na redeem it , I 'm gon na make it again , not just like it was , but I 'm gon na make it even more wonderful and more beautiful . |
| 27 | He could have slit our throats for us then and there and thrown us in the canal , likely as not . |
| 28 | Then suddenly the boar had turned about and hurled it into the air . |
| 29 | As the then district administrator put it , the district had scratched around for every spare penny over the years and sunk it into the hospital , and yet more and more resources were being demanded . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've bought you a safety seat and fitted it in the back . ’ |