Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With all my heart I hope for the failure of that first book — no , volume , of mine , from beginning to end not trash , but heartless pretence . |
| 2 | She was singing on stage when we arrived and by the time I had reached my seat I said to the man who was with me , this is the Salome I have been looking for . |
| 3 | Most of my work I do in the evenings when he 's in bed , ’ Ashley explained . |
| 4 | When I quit my job it felt like the end of term , it felt like Saturday morning , it felt great , it felt illegal . |
| 5 | ‘ Think so , ’ I said , checking the pockets of my parka which gave off the odour of Hoy Sin sauce mixed with Mocha-Mysore coffee ( filter-ground ) . |
| 6 | With that remark I took my leave and made my way through the orchard and onto the road leading to Brigade H.Q That evening as I lay in my trench I thought about the events of the first seven days in Normandy . |
| 7 | Those of his generation ( to my shock I wake to the realisation of senior membership ) who call themselves writers practise all the genres and will write anything for money — even , like Auden , for a brace of cheap cigars . ’ |
| 8 | As soon as I got into my flat I looked at the Supersight club with great care . |
| 9 | But when Siegfried drove away , the activity stopped abruptly and as I was leaving with my pockets stuffed with the equipment for my round I glanced into the sitting room and saw the young man stretched in his favourite chair . |
| 10 | As I sipped the remainder of my beer I reflected on the years that had past , the paddling trips we had done together and all the good times . |
| 11 | I could see that the old bull was not going to be forced to drink , and he protested by coming after my father-in-law who made for the post . |
| 12 | ‘ For much of my life I lived in the Hacienda de Nieve surrounded by savage formality . |
| 13 | Yes , my schooling I went to the School in nineteen seventeen in the middle of the First World War . |
| 14 | From the comfort of my armchair I reach across the table and pick up the gun . |
| 15 | But while I lay in my bed I thought about the accident . |
| 16 | Er , I I I thought it extremely discourteous of Councillor instead of responding to my letter he goes to the press and starts complaining , this does n't seem to me the way to sort out the problem at all and I am equally aware of the problem er and if it only helps me get some facts together then it it will strengthen my arm getting things sorted out . |
| 17 | Having searched this field to the best of my ability I left with the intention to return at the earliest opportunity . |
| 18 | ‘ It is the only thing I have left from my family who died in the famine . ’ |
| 19 | This narrow interpretation may be ingenious but in my judgment it flies in the face of the ordinary meaning of the language and of the purpose of the statute . |
| 20 | But most of my time I spent in the many and varied mosques , and each day I went back to Hagia Sophia , sometimes remaining for hours . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , just before I set up my workshop I sent off the application form to the appropriate office , ’ Ashley explained , ‘ but there was no acknowledgement . |
| 22 | That day the bones of the brother of my mother who went to the bottom of the sea will rise up through the green waters , and when they meet the air they will take on his flesh again , and he will swim far up into the endless air and he will meet the old man , free of his dust walking in the air , and my mother flying , and me flying , and I will be laughing . |
| 23 | This may be due to the fact that the article appears to be ‘ lifted ’ from my newsletter which appeared in the Autumn 1992 edition of the ‘ Cornishman ’ magazine . |
| 24 | Despising herself for her weakness she reached for the telephone , dialling Nick 's number . |
| 25 | Not least in the sexual , for both projected a red-blooded response to their manhood which goes beyond the merely sexual or corporeal , claiming — demanding ! — the full world of nature and manhood as their proper spheres : nothing was to be too sacred , for all is sacred — a Blakeian conception which predates Blake in its patent Jewishness by millennia , not centuries . |
| 26 | Pausing only to change her dress and smooth her hair she went into the Casa Guidi , laboriously climbed the stairs and arriving in the drawing room in some distress through lack of breath , was hastily urged to sit down and put up her feet and take a dish of tea . |
| 27 | To cover her confusion she enquired after the latest entertaining village gossip from Lucy , who was prone to whiling away hours at the ante-natal clinic in deep conversation with fellow village wives . |
| 28 | In her mind she went over the transformation . |
| 29 | The girls , as in her mind she thought of the Misses Cardings , had trimmed it with a deep tone of lime-green velvet ribbon and in the heart of the bow at the side they had placed two tiny red silk rosebuds . |
| 30 | With their eyes erect and fear in their speed they run for the safety of the waves . |