Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I could n't close my fingers to pull on the water after an hour . ’ |
| 2 | BELVILLE : I stepped out of my chariot to walk across the meadow and whom should I spy but your humble servant , Mr. Williams . |
| 3 | This , maybe , was my opportunity to escape from the torpor into which I had sunk . |
| 4 | Colleagues it 's now my pleasure to call upon the deputy General Secretary , Tom to move his section of the report and to address conference . |
| 5 | Allowed my eyes to wander over the whole of it , he wrote , and almost with satisfaction . |
| 6 | ‘ Mr Lockwood , ’ he said finally , brushing a tear from his eye , ‘ you can go into my bedroom to sleep for the rest of the night . |
| 7 | I try to convince my acquaintances to join in the action of the Czechs and Slovaks , but I fail … |
| 8 | Water is often a symbol of emotion ( or the subconscious ) , and my desire to go through the flood symbolised my conscious willingness and desire to delve deep into my emotions . |
| 9 | As I have never been interested in argument , he must often have felt frustrated by my silences , my refusal to rise to the bait . |
| 10 | This has not prevented accusations that Bantam shamefully exploited my illness and that I cooperated with this by allowing my picture to appear on the cover . |
| 11 | It is not my job to comment on the policy of the County Council . |
| 12 | They will then be framed , as fit companions in my drawing-room to hang by the side of a pair by my friend Audubon . |
| 13 | The Institute of Investment Management and Research ( IIMR , formerly the Society of Investment Analysts ) has set up a sub-committee under my chairmanship to decide on the calculation of an earnings figure which can be used for the per-share calculation and for price/earnings ratios . |
| 14 | It was from there that I began my efforts to enquire into the operation of the judicial system in the area . |
| 15 | We closed rapidly and I opened fire at about 800 yards sighting a little high at first to allow for the distance and then dropping my bead to centre on the machine . |
| 16 | After three weeks it was my turn to go to the delivery ward at Fulmer . |
| 17 | It was my turn to go to the bank for the wages and I remember going back to the shop saying King George VI had died . |
| 18 | ‘ In fact , I have immediately asked my lawyers to proceed with the withdrawal of the action concerned to nullify all its consequences . ’ |
| 19 | It was my lot to live on the desert fringes where the rubbish lay . |
| 20 | But if , if , I can make myself whole , or be made whole with the help of others , then it is my duty to submit to the pain , of healing , the lashes of contempt . |
| 21 | ‘ I would consider it my duty to remain at the salon until you had found a suitable replacement for me , ’ she said primly . |
| 22 | I am excited and absorbed in my purpose to return to the inn but I never find my way there again . |
| 23 | It was still my task to fight for the present , although that task was becoming less appropriate daily , and to maintain the status quo which I had made for myself , and which was the only place where I belonged . |
| 24 | ‘ It was my task to follow at the rear ! ’ |
| 25 | ‘ We would n't want my son to come into the world without his father 's name now , would we , eh ? ’ |
| 26 | The buyout team have mortgaged their possessions to pay for the company . |
| 27 | The people explained their action as an attempt on their part to adhere to the principle of non-violence , but , as Gandhi pointed out , such action could more easily be interpreted as cowardice than non-violence . |
| 28 | They are all unclean ; and in the boys ' initiation rites we find that the mudyi tree also has its part to play in the symbolism of circumcision . |
| 29 | This complex web includes : a ) local and regional offices of central government departments , such as the DSS and DOE ( see Young 1982 ) ; b ) non-departmental public bodies usually dealing with a single specialized function , such as health and water authorities ; c ) decentralized units of public corporations , such as electricity boards ; d ) innumerable autonomous and semi-autonomous official and quasi-official organizations , each with its part to play in the policy-making process , such as tenants ' liaison committees and youth service advisory councils ( see Cousins , 1982 , 1983 ) ; e ) elected local government ( see Figure 8.2 ) . |
| 30 | Abel Goumba of the Front patriotique oubanguien — Parti du travail said that the " regime appears to be using stalling tactics to push it back as far as possible " and that the opposition would increase its activities to press for the conference to be convened earlier . |