Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [prep] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My plans for flying around the beautiful Nelson and Marlborough Sounds area happened to be frustrated by the fact that Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands was visiting nearby . |
| 2 | I 'm getting worn out doing this , it 's hurting my eyes after going to the pictures and then doing all these bingo cards for granddad |
| 3 | It was difficult to stop my things from falling into the sea , but in the end I got everything on to the shore . |
| 4 | I was starving ; it was hours since either of us had eaten but Mrs Lewis made me wash my hands before sitting at the table . |
| 5 | I lie down on my bed and remove my socks before looking at the folder . |
| 6 | And three words per second is the way that television presenters make er , their scripts for presenting to the public in a news bulletin . |
| 7 | The storyteller explains her words by referring to the deaths of her father-in-law and husband , as well as the capture of the ark . |
| 8 | He ignored her words by reverting to the former subject . |
| 9 | Other members did not mince their words with regard to the British government . |
| 10 | I must admit , that they carry a huge chip on their shoulders with regard to the English . |
| 11 | We asked Barbara to write about her favourite and most useful London shops , and readers voted with their feet by flocking to the shops she featured . |
| 12 | The Industrial Revolution gave birth to a large and well-to-do middle class and they were not slow to emulate their betters in travelling to the seaside to enjoy the air and the water . |
| 13 | Those who fled during the Cultural Revolution often did so alone , others carrying two children on their backs across the Himalayan mountains to join the 100,000 strong refugee communities in India , where today a committed group have devoted their lives to working for the Tibetan cause . |
| 14 | Some were immediately picked up by the demons , whilst others managed again and again to risk their lives before falling to the persistent attacks of the creatures from hell . |
| 15 | Any attempt to prove that they were misled by fraud or otherwise would necessarily involve an inquiry into the manner in which they had performed their functions in dealing with the Bill which became the British Railways Act 1968 . |
| 16 | Other children are now being banned by their parents from going to the park in Bannockburn . |
| 17 | The youth of today are being deserted by their parents in regard to the superego development . |
| 18 | They were led to do this after major expressions of concern about the difficulties institutions were facing in their libraries in coping with the massive expansion in student numbers . |
| 19 | MICROSOFT GIVES A SNEAK PREVIEW OF ITS IDEAS FOR TAPPING INTO THE GROUPWARE MARKET , INVADING LOTUS NOTES TURF |
| 20 | Farmers can find common cause with their workers in complaining about the ‘ interference ’ of outsiders in their own farms ' and the village 's affairs . |
| 21 | There are those who believe that their houses are built over tombs , unknown to archaeologists , and that the owners still supplement their incomes by selling off the contents bit by bit on the black market . |
| 22 | But Popper limits its implications by distinguishing between the process of discovery and the logic of validation . |
| 23 | In 864 , the Edict of Pîtres ordered that peasants who had fled because of the Vikings should not be oppressed by counts or others in the places in which they had found refuge : they were to return home to their original lordships but they should be allowed to keep their earnings from working in the vineyards ; on the other hand , if they had married and fathered offspring while resident in others ' lordships , the wives and children were to remain with those lords . |
| 24 | Often there are disagreements and the desire to defend their own interpretation can lead learners to stretch their powers of communicating to the utmost . |
| 25 | Elena described her feelings on returning to the little town of her birth , San Jose de las Flores , in Chalatenango after three years ' absence . |
| 26 | It therefore referred to its observations with regard to the nationality requirements . |
| 27 | Management committees are being asked to take more responsibility for the shaping of their bureaux by participating in the planning and assessment processes . |
| 28 | Counter-insurgency and its attendant covert and intelligence aspects have had an inordinate degree of latitude and influence on policy in Ulster partly because the Westminster cabinet and parliament are incredibly ignorant of the region and have been well content if the English politicians and Whitehall civil servants who administer it from the Northern Ireland Office at Stormont Castle succeeded in preventing its problems from impinging on the affairs of the mainland . |
| 29 | We have the benefit of a Conservative Government who will put the battle against inflation at the head of their priorities for dealing with the recession . |
| 30 | They referred in that connection to their arguments with regard to the residence requirement . |