Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the details are nicely done such as the antiquated ceramic water bottle offered by the porter to enable them to cope with the freezing bedrooms . |
| 2 | Most parents can identify the first phase of interaction with their child , that is they can see what the child is doing that is irritating and they see how they react , but rarely do they then follow through the interaction to see what happens at the end . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's not been easy for the chairman and his board seeing us stuck on the bottom of the table , ’ said Clough . |
| 4 | The decision has nothing to do with the merits of the case which Her Majesty 's Government will defend in due course . |
| 5 | To reflect society can only mean comedy , in such a world , if a work is to convince as any sort of mirror , and the preference of other nations for melodrama and the bleeding heart has nothing to do with the habitual temper of British life . |
| 6 | Lesbians who wished to become parents by artificial insemination found themselves pilloried by the media . |
| 7 | The naive observer might be forgiven for believing that this contrast has something to do with the different weight given by members of the academic community to their research interests compared with their ‘ teaching interests ’ ( the very awkwardness of the term makes the point ) . |
| 8 | The Londoner found himself staring into the expressionless face of the tall and broad , blond-haired , blue-eyed bouncer . |
| 9 | And I believe that the growing trend erm of people going to the cinema , erm cinema owners reconverting cinemas they 've cut into three back into the large auditoria , erm will continue and a night out at the cinema has something to do with the the building you 're in , erm this building if refurbished would have a restaurant , would have a bar , would have a cinema club , would be a real asset to the town . |
| 10 | There is still a high integration workload and the business has to look further out into the future to enable it to respond to the changes and opportunities likely to occur in the industry . |
| 11 | Jack 's Irish blood made him sympathize with the Levellers — the Irish have never forgiven Cromwell for the Drogheda massacre , you know . |
| 12 | She insisted on knowing who her intruder was , and so she would wait down by the car to see who emerged from the building . |
| 13 | Pavel Penkin is the strike leader , what farmers want he says is a massive injection of state investment to enable them to compete in the new free market and improve their lot . |
| 14 | Dušan 's ambition led him to aspire to the throne of Byzantium . |
| 15 | His talk made me think of the housing estates near Mum 's house , where the ‘ working class ’ would have laughed in Terry 's face — those , that is , who would n't have smacked him round the ear for calling them working class in the first place . |
| 16 | Far from being an eyesore , local people get pleasure seeing them blowing in the wind . |
| 17 | Children have their very own entertainers and a full programme keeping them occupied during the day and early evening ( During Season and Bank Holidays ) . |
| 18 | He forgave her , and then a week later he and Keeley came home from the Beaux Arts Club to find her sitting on the basement steps , smiling nice as pie . |
| 19 | Unfortunately though , he became too domesticated and did n't have a fear of humans so he was put on a programme to help him adjust to the wild . |
| 20 | ‘ The IAC consider it damaging for the Labour Party to regard the SDLP as their equivalent in Northern Ireland and the IAC believe the Party should distance itself from the SDLP . ’ |
| 21 | In early March the SIG moved to Kabrit and were put through a hard training programme to fit them to operate in the desert alongside the SAS . |
| 22 | Subsection ( 1 ) empowers the Bank by notice in writing served on an authorised institution to require them to provide to the Bank such information as the Bank may reasonably require for the performance of its functions under the Act . |
| 23 | The vicious front snap-kick caught him caught him just above his right hip , instead of square in the groin , but its force knocked him spinning to the ground . |
| 24 | The common law offence of sedition , which consists of stirring hatred amongst different classes of Her Majesty 's subjects had fallen into disuse , and an unsuccessful attempt to use it to prosecute for the making of anti-semitic remarks appears to have discouraged prosecuting authorities from seeking to persuade the courts to mould the common law to deal with new problems posed by those who promote ill-will in an increasingly multi-racial society . |
| 25 | ‘ Rallying helps me forget about the possibility of losing the appeal . |
| 26 | Shook newspaper off and the wind sent it whirling into the railings of the park . |
| 27 | Originally this means of disposal was performed as an experiment to assess what happened to the radioactive material . |
| 28 | A child in a doorway saw me coming through the olives and called , and then the entire population of the tiny hamlet appeared — four women and half a dozen children , unmistakably islanders . |
| 29 | Somehow I managed to have the presence of mind to photograph her going into the house . |
| 30 | He says he was physically threatened in an attempt to get him to sign over the rights to three groups he represents to Sony . |