Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , right from the beginning when we talk to citizens about using their friends of the theatre I nearly fell about you know |
| 2 | He was also responsible for instructing his pupils in the History of the English Language and in philology ( the growth , history and structure of words ) . |
| 3 | After completing your priorities to the satisfaction of your boss , discuss in depth the list of tasks that arrived through management by inertia , but do n't use that phrase ! |
| 4 | After scattering his drives throughout the first three rounds , he began to find the fairways . |
| 5 | We had to climb to FL070 maintaining VMC before we could contact Lisboa Military , and after passing our estimates for the TMA boundary , immediately requested the Porto weather and reports of CB activity . |
| 6 | Tapeworms are also members of the group , though they look very different for after burying their heads in the walls of their host 's gut , they bud off egg-bearing sections from their tail end . |
| 7 | ‘ Acid ! ’ he cried after consulting his notes for the one hundred and thirty-ninth time . |
| 8 | After making his plans for the safekeeping of funds in several banks he started off on his travels once again . |
| 9 | The £250,000 trip barely rose above the bergschrund on the unclimbed face , and failed again after transferring its attentions to the ‘ normal route ’ , the north west ridge . |
| 10 | As our plans only allowed for one day on Mykines , we made the hølmur our main target , and after leaving our things in the empty house in which we had arranged to spend the night , we set off to follow the steep cliff path which leads to the bridge . |
| 11 | FORMER world champion Alain Prost was cleared of bringing motor racing into disrepute yesterday , after offering his apologies to the International Motor Sports Federation ( FISA ) in Paris . |
| 12 | No more talk about scattering her ashes over the Mediterranean by moonlight . |
| 13 | Introducing subscripts 1 and 2 for denoting our quantities in the two dielectrics , we may write |
| 14 | Larry Cummins said , ‘ I have no unpleasant feelings about remembering my experiences during the war . |
| 15 | The aim of the study is to help a large civil engineering consultancy firm determine their longer term strategy for training their technicians in the use of computers as an aid to design . |
| 16 | Instead of centring his analyses on the knowledge derived from the experience of the subject , Foucault investigates the conditions of emergence of the subject as the basis of knowledge ; he argues that at the same time as it was widely proposed as the one saving good of human civilization it also facilitated a more sinister operation . |
| 17 | They 'll be stopping motorists in the hope of jogging their memories about the events of seven days ago . |
| 18 | Most problematic for the courts have been the cases involving flats given by local authorities to persons in the course of pursuing their duties under the Housing Acts towards homeless persons . |
| 19 | Although it is clear that Gascoigne is way beyond his peers in what is an era of ordinary players , Taylor 's predecessors — Don Revie , Ron Greenwood and Bobby Robson — all shunned the opportunity of building their teams around the most talented players at their disposal . |
| 20 | Instead of impressing its customers with the ease and convenience of , say , Microsoft 's ‘ Word ’ word-processing program , the company hopes to wow them with the way that ‘ Word ’ can incorporate charts or query a remote database for the latest sales figures . |
| 21 | The studies produced interesting results , though there is some doubt about the statistical validity of applying its conclusions to the whole of the uplands in the UK . |
| 22 | Thus alerted , a sub-committee of the North of England Protecting and Indemnity Association met on the following morning and resolved that the danger could only be met by " a central organization of owners for the purpose of protecting their interests against the unreasonable demands and actions of trade unions or combinations affecting such interests " . |
| 23 | But the recession has meant the studios are cutting back , so instead of keeping his planes on the ground , he 's making his own flying thriller . |
| 24 | ‘ Would you do a marathon of keeping your feet off the ground for as long as possible with Les Dawson ? ’ |
| 25 | The qualification " as it were " in ( 1 ) suggests Pemberton 's own inner voice ; " that he could n't find it " in ( 4 ) suggests the boy 's peremptory style of speech ; something really superior in the way of a resident tutor " ( 11 ) suggests the Moreens ' way of expressing their requirements in the style of genteel private advertisements . |
| 26 | It believes DEC is more than capable of meeting its goals at the top end of the market — in the same way that Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp capitalised on the performance of their respective HP 9000 Series 700 and RS/6000 lines when they were introduced . |
| 27 | It believes DEC is more than capable of meeting its goals at the top end of the market — in the same way that Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM capitalised on the performance of their respective HP 9000 Series 700 and RS/6000 lines when they were introduced . |
| 28 | Without bargaining skills , a president will be a nonentity in the White House , unable to control other political leaders and incapable of meeting his responsibilities as the principal public policy-maker . |
| 29 | Left home earlyish for his visit by rail to London to see his publishers ; been picked up by taxi at about 7.20 a.m. , almost certainly to catch the 07.59 , arriving Paddington at 09.03 ; obviously with only some fairly quick business to transact since he 'd appeared confident of meeting his commitments with the tourists at lunchtime at The Randolph , and then again during the afternoon ; likely as not , then , he would originally have intended to catch the 11.30 from Paddington , arriving Oxford at 12.30 . |
| 30 | Most importantly , he set about resolving the problem of transporting his troops to the mainland . |