Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stuart looked at the text books beside him on the seat . |
| 2 | Sometimes I 've been drinking tea with a Sherpa friend of mine in the village of Kundy and there 'll be a clatter up the stairs caused by a dozen people saying ‘ We understand Hillary 's here ’ , as if that gives them the right to charge in and take over . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ You will speak to me politely or I will split my men here into two football teams with you as the ball . |
| 4 | Those who had known Michael Holly at his home in the south-east of England , or had shared office and canteen space with him at the factory on the Kent fringes of London , might not now have recognized their man . |
| 5 | Intelligent and well researched , Morrissey escapes the naivety and hypocrisy that has brought a thousand young and earnest rock stars before him into the shallow waters of the plastic art form pop music so often is . |
| 6 | He watched his dejected figure walk past him into the cottage and , after allowing a few minutes to elapse , followed him in and discovered him sitting at the table in the living room , his bag of apples and sandwich lying untouched . |
| 7 | Fast-paced action adventure with you at the centre of some staggering cinematic effects . |
| 8 | The British Telecommunications Act 1981 established BT as a public corporation and transferred telecommunication functions to it from the Post Office . |
| 9 | And I have replied er , Who in the past six months has reached their targets percentage targets above mine in the last six months ? |
| 10 | The majority of home entrants to HE in the UK are aged 17–20 — around 80 per cent of home entrants throughout the 1970s and early 1980s . |
| 11 | Had Canada won against the Swedes , Australia would then have had a home tie against them with the chance to recoup some of their financial losses in Cyprus , coupled with the incentive of knowing that further success would probably earn them a home match with the United States in the semi-finals . |
| 12 | ENGLAND cricket captain Graham Gooch will be able to put his and wife Brenda 's marriage problems behind him on the team 's tour of India , his father claimed last night . |
| 13 | Lacking any financial acumen , he ran into difficulties with the Inland Revenue which filed a bankruptcy petition against him for the unpaid tax on his ring earnings : the order was for over £17 000 . |
| 14 | This , however , was denied by Kravchuk on March 19 , and at the Kiev summit he denied Yeltsin 's claims of a telephone conversation between them over the issue on March 16 . |
| 15 | The stainless steel hip-flask is perfect for taking a little home comfort with you into the great outdoors . |
| 16 | One practical problem was providing everyone with suitable places to work — in the end we allocated one of our conference rooms to them for the fortnight . ’ |
| 17 | Later , he showed her around and told her in detail the things that needed doing to the house , and she imagined her father here , sliding down the banisters or across the ballroom floor , and she felt a sentimental attachment to the place creep over her like the muffling fog . |
| 18 | This prompted him to contact a business acquaintance of his in the Shetlands who kindly offered to enquire about DZ642 . |
| 19 | ‘ Your promises , phone calls to me at the university … |
| 20 | Yesterday , The Scotsman revealed that the proposal has prompted an extraordinary court action against it by the Lord Provost of Edinburgh , Norman Irons , and the Sheriff Principal of Lothian and Borders , Gordon Nicholson . |
| 21 | Then she pulled the biscuit tin towards her across the table , yanked off the lid . |
| 22 | With his lovely wife Eva beside him in the co-pilot 's seat , Dan Knight was the only one of the original ten crew members aboard . |
| 23 | In addition , Iraq viewed Kuwait as having gradually eaten away patches of Iraqi territory in the border area between them over the years and also as draining reserves from part of Iraq 's South Rumailah oilfield which straddled the frontier . |
| 24 | ‘ Or maybe you 'd prefer to be invigorated by another stalemate argument with me on the subject . ’ |
| 25 | Beruna glared as he walked past to join Okawi , her hands full of seal blubber , a bone knife beside her on the sand . |
| 26 | And we were absolutely amazed when , in going round the ocean floors , we found that indeed these molecules in the sediments showed a , a relationship to the surface temperatures above them at the present day . |
| 27 | But you could smell the mandrake fruit on her across the room . |
| 28 | It is true that he knew the Prime Ministers of the later 1940s and early 1950s , Attlee and Churchill , personally , and he was not averse to breaking protocol by raising policy matters with them behind the back of their Minister of Fuel and Power on a few occasions . |
| 29 | Some forty former pupils attended a farewell lunch for her over the gaudy weekend . |
| 30 | ( If anyone wants to see prescience in its purest form , they might read quotations from Woodcock 's writing in my obituary article about him in the Dictionary of National Biography . ) |