Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To my eyes it looks like the pattern , though I know with my head that it 's the background . |
| 2 | My hon. Friend will be aware of the concern of my constituents who work at the Royal Navy workshop at Almondbank because of the present review of helicopter servicing . |
| 3 | Since the owners of capital have always had , and continue to have , the ear of government it is their views which prevail in the legislative sphere . |
| 4 | And it is true what your father says … when I think of what it was like after the War , and when I look around now — ’ suiting her actions to her words she looked around the café , at the ladies , old and frail , like herself , respectable in black and grey — ‘ these went through it too , ’ she said , ‘ and look at them , at us , coffee and cake on a Sunday morning . |
| 5 | For the rest of their lives they lived in the forest . |
| 6 | As the two women were saying their goodbyes he came to the end of his task , switched off the motor-mower and headed with it towards the narrow gate at the side of the house . |
| 7 | Sudden changes in behaviour patterns of prey species also produce seasonal changes in predation ; for example when young moles are dispersing from their nests they travel on the surface rather than beneath the ground , and they are then heavily predated . |
| 8 | When everyone has found their places he stands by the microphone at the top table , hammers on the table with a gavel , and announces loudly , ‘ Ladies and Gentlemen , Pray SILENCE for the Reverend John Smith , who will now say grace . ’ |
| 9 | J. Three of the trading estates have had New Towns built with them to house workers and their families who come from the larger towns or from villages where there is no more work . |
| 10 | The three women say this is contrary to the wishes of thousands of people who contributed about £3 million to help troops and their families who suffered in the war . |
| 11 | To change their properties you click on the right mouse button . |
| 12 | In each of these cases the majority of farmers have less than 1 hectare under the relevant crop , but most achieve levels of income well in excess of their neighbours who remain outside the projects . |
| 13 | The Devil 's spawn , black hearts with rhythm in their souls who jeer at the weaknesses of little people unfit to lick the dirt from their boots . |
| 14 | The Devil 's spawn , black hearts with rhythm in their souls who jeer at the weaknesses of little people unfit to lick the dirt from their boots . |
| 15 | Among those I met were the Duke of Wellington , who has his London home in part of beautiful Apsley House , which with all its treasures he presented to the nation some years ago ; Vicomte and Vicomtesse Bernard de la Giraudière , and Mr Richard Nicholson the Vice Chairman of Laurent-Perrier UK , and his charming wife ; Mr Malcolm Innes , Mrs Piffa Schroder , Mr John Grant of Rothiemurchus , the Hon. |
| 16 | She had to mourn for her friends who died in the accident . |
| 17 | Charmed too by her four cousins , their husbands and wives , all of whom treated her with instant familiarity , and their children who caroused through the house with unstoppable stamina , much to her aunt 's hilarity . |
| 18 | They are not active hunters and live largely on molluscs and crustaceans which they grub up from the sea floor and crush in their mouths which open on the underside . |
| 19 | At 354 grams , it compares favourably with its competitors which lurch towards the 400 mark . |
| 20 | His creditors who met in the Waterloo Hotel in Edinburgh on 20 January 1826 were told Scott 's liabilities were £104,081 and his estate available for realization was worth £48,494 . |
| 21 | On his knees he took off the slipper , slid the white high-heeled sandal on to her foot . |
| 22 | John Donne may have been a great frequenter of plays , but the catalogue of his books he produced in the early seventeenth century reveals no dramatist among the many contemporary English writers he assembled . |
| 23 | And when he went for his injections I said to the vet can you snip that funny little growth and he said oh we 'll wait until he 's under , complete anaesthetic and then , it 's only a little wart he said . |
| 24 | On his travels he passes through the tower vaults ( unpleasant ) , local village ( worse than Ludlow ) , Baron Frankenstein 's Castle ( tasteless decor ) , Black Forest ( well , more green than black ) , Graveyard ( dead dudes ) and The Morgue ( Spectrum Fan Club offices ) . |
| 25 | Despite his disappointments he starred for the South African side which played as Springboks against the Juniors late last season . |
| 26 | When Zen judged that he had enough for his purposes he pointed to the Fiats . |
| 27 | PORTADOWN police Chief Superintendent Jimmy Blair praised his officers who stumbled on the lorry . |
| 28 | In his memoirs he revels in the audacity of the fraud he pulled off : |
| 29 | With Schottenheimer favouring the ground game , in contrast to his predecessors who leaned towards the pass , Okoye 's career has flourished . |
| 30 | Lord John , as white faced as any of the fashionable women at the ball , backed uncertainly towards his friends who hurried towards the confrontation . |