Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her twin sister Sally , of Penarth , South Glamorgan , south Wales , begged school-friends and neighbours not to feel guilty about sending her on the venture . |
| 2 | If Ramsey was to be Archbishop of Canterbury , what was wrong with leaving him in the weighty see of Durham until the day came ? |
| 3 | Although I know that my hon. Friend is interested in switching it to the autumn , we have no plans to do that because there are different views about it . |
| 4 | Well , we 'd like to think that er people , once they 've been introduced to these different sorts of drinks , and become a bit more aware about different sensible levels , would actually be interested in buying them in the future and trying them out themselves . |
| 5 | He was more interested in telling me about the tactics of the attorney general . |
| 6 | He angered even the faithful by doing it in the middle of the night , announcing he would slash spending to close a gaping budget deficit and promising to use the new tax revenue to bolster poor school districts . |
| 7 | Because of the apprehension of a breach of the peace on the part of the inspector , it was held , there arose a duty on him to prevent a breach of the peace , and because the appellant had sought to hold the meeting in defiance of his instructions , she was guilty of obstructing him in the execution of his duty . |
| 8 | You can score points for the number of ceramic divisions you can move the butt over ( with extra for actually getting it down the hole and extra for doing it from the far end of the gutter from the hole ) , for the amount of destruction caused — apparently it 's very hard to get the little black cone at the burned end to disintegrate — and , over the course of the evening , the number of fag-ends so dispatched . |
| 9 | ‘ I think they were quite serious about leaving us at the time and thought they would get an objective opinion from Langford . |
| 10 | Although she was nervous of putting him to the test , she knew that , sooner or later , she must . |
| 11 | Not content with blackguarding him in the columns of the local rag , him and his silly daughter 's bum , the one-time Chief Citizen of the Borough had been up to no good with a girl young enough to be Grace 's sister , and in the Grand Hotel , and at a Conservative Party conference of all places . |
| 12 | My time at the Housing Corporation was eventful in bringing me for the first , but no means last , time into contact with Mrs Thatcher when , on the fall of the Heath government , she became the shadow Minister of the Environment , in succession to the job she had had as Minister of Education . |
| 13 | Many fish , squid , octopuses , comb-jellies and jellyfish ensure that the abyssal depths are never completely dark by filling them with the sparkle and shimmer of animal light . |
| 14 | Even so I did not expect my feet to be trouble-free after using them for the first time on a full day 's hiking in the Purbeck Hills . |
| 15 | So far as the old , mutually dependent carers are concerned , this work is valuable in reminding us of the substantial numbers of men who perform these functions for their wives . |
| 16 | The author undermines ‘ adult ’ notions of what is normal and natural and obvious by showing them through the eyes of a young boy who is trying to puzzle it all out . |
| 17 | He did n't tell her that they had brought him here unconscious after torturing him in the main building . |
| 18 | Had he been so sure of finding her at the alehouse ? |
| 19 | Nevertheless , as the World Bank and other august proponents of the perpetual increase of global trade never tired of reminding us throughout the 1980s , many First World countries began to step up protectionist measures in that decade . |
| 20 | The ward nurses will need information from the patient and his family and from other people who may be involved with helping him in the community . |
| 21 | Cross-examined by William Dunlop , defending , Mr O'Donnell agreed that it was possible one of the men had not become involved in attacking him at the quarry . |
| 22 | Although the case for commitment accounting improving budgetary control is a good one , there is a real problem involved in adopting it in the financial accounts . |
| 23 | He had got as far as the packaging and labelling them at his premises prior to taking them to the ship . |
| 24 | If we are right in regarding it as the single most important area in which independence is prized and which also causes major distress for carers , it seems clear that it should be a priority in health and social services provision . |
| 25 | Ensure the flowers are as dry as possible before placing them on the blotting paper , as any remaining moisture will encourage mildew to form and spoil all your efforts . |
| 26 | Helen Gardner was aware of the problem , observing that the pursuit of image patterns , or of the ideas in a poem , can be useful to the interpreter , but can not ‘ be more than auxiliary in leading us to the true ‘ meaning' ’ of the work , which is the meaning which enlarges our own imaginative life . ’ |
| 27 | So we do have a problem and and we need to grasp that the a conclusion talking about rolling programme we are concerned about resources we 're , we 're , we 're concerned about using them to the best advantage . |
| 28 | Mr Thomson also felt undermined because ‘ untoward occurrences ’ , including allegations of staff threatening residents , were not being relayed to him for up to three weeks , even though he was legally responsible for reporting them to the county council . |
| 29 | ‘ A big thing ; Edwin was largely responsible for getting it off the ground . |
| 30 | Many businessmen fear that , while Peking may stick to its open door and reform policy in name , officials responsible for implementing it in the southern provinces may lose their jobs as hardliners attempt to tighten their political grip . |