Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [pers pn] [det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has placed them both on the sofa under the magnificent painting of a Ramayana demon by his Thai protegé , not facing one another across his huge desk , to indicate that this is an intimate and informal interview , not to be taken too seriously whatever she says . |
| 2 | His brother has lent him some for the time being , but Mr Szuluk says without proper clothes , he ca n't get a job . |
| 3 | Not Fat Paul — Fat Paul , with his full-breasted bulk , his impassive sloped slab of a face , his parched pub rug , and the cruel blond eyebrows which give the eyes themselves the glint of a veteran ferret who has seen it all in the hare-traps and rat-pits . |
| 4 | Rex has told me all about the Tyrrell Society and their activities a dozen times if he 's told me once . |
| 5 | And in his 36 years in the profession , this approach has landed him several of the hottest potatoes going : campaigning for the British Institute proposals from the Scottish side ; merging his firm Thomson McLintock with Peats ; introducing graduate intake only at the Scottish Institute ; working on the Likierman report on professional liability ; and , last but by no means least , heading up the then newly-formed APB at a time when , in the public view , auditing was becoming increasingly discredited . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's only recently that I 've felt able to write about him , but the controversy about Down 's Syndrome babies has brought it all to the surface . |
| 7 | The familiar story of the artists ' model ( female ) sitting for hours , days , even weeks on end , for a ( male ) artist , has brought us some of the great ‘ nudes ’ in art history . |
| 8 | ‘ We tried to save money by building economically , but it has cost us more in the long run . |
| 9 | She 's told me all about the walls . |