Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Only Pears ’ consistency has kept him in the background . ’ |
| 32 | Only Pears ’ consistency has kept him in the background . ’ |
| 33 | A woman who 's devoted more than twenty years to caring for her disabled daughter has made it to the finals of the ITN Carer of the Year Awards . |
| 34 | The farmer 's tied him to the fence to stop him butting the sheep and that 's deemed to be cruel . |
| 35 | But his choice of verse form has condemned him to the weakness which mars all attempts to match the Horatian strophe with the English quatrain — the weakness of expansion . |
| 36 | Our discussion of the evolution of the logogen model has led us to the following view of the organisation of the mental lexicon . |
| 37 | Rye praises the IT she has received : ‘ The project has kept me off the streets and taught me useful things like carpentry . |
| 38 | But coming from a theatrical background has prepared her for the highs and lows of an actor 's life . |
| 39 | The reader who has bought your book has bought it on the understanding that this is what will happen . |
| 40 | And it may be that the extent to which the bank has left it to the husband to procure the wife 's consent and to explain the transaction to her will be a critical feature of the case . |
| 41 | Lewis added : ‘ Bowe 's stripping has robbed me of the chance of beating him in the ring . |
| 42 | At times the loneliness of her position has brought her to the edge of despair , so much so that she has made a number of suicide attempts , some more half-hearted than others . |
| 43 | That ability has led us into the more specialized areas and it has demonstrated that success was not just getting through the traumas of the 70s and taking costs out of the business , but in finding different directions in which to take the business . ’ |
| 44 | Our body clock has woken us for the next day after only a minimal opportunity for extra sleep . |
| 45 | So a new ball Lewis This his third chance Stone has found him in the end . |
| 46 | The fact that so many insurance products contain a substantial savings element has brought them within the scope of the Financial Services Act 1986 . |
| 47 | You have been so successful as a branch manager that the company has promoted you to the position of regional manager in charge of twenty shops all of whose managers work under the conditions outlined in situation 3 above . |
| 48 | This discussion has led us into the third and perhaps most important question : since the assumptions will generally be untrue , how robust are the results to minor modifications of the assumptions of the model ? |
| 49 | In America , where they have a fondness for creating lists of the greatest ever people , his Plight of English has placed him among the very top writers on the English language . |
| 50 | ‘ Our visit has impressed us with the skill and the quality of our soldiers , and with the risks they run . |
| 51 | The War Office has raised you to the status of a 4/ — wife [ the daily allowance ] ; what fun , darling ! |
| 52 | Unfortunately , the designer has integrated them in the text , and while this might be admirable for coffee table books or even guide books , it is quite wrong here as it makes them look cramped and mean . |
| 53 | When he reached the hut Ariel had built , he found Kit Everard asleep on the threshold , curled up like a worm when a hoe has struck it in the earth , rust-pink and grimacing with his whole body , as if in pain . |
| 54 | But though the jungle morass has gripped him to the knees |