Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Villeneuve and Scheckter managed to score just eight points between them during the 1980 season and the reigning world champion failed even to qualify for one race . |
| 2 | These are n't my lecture notes they I cribbed them off the social psychologist and made copies last night . |
| 3 | Nigel turned his head to look at me for the first time and smiled in a kindly manner . |
| 4 | Since some people regard them as the ultimate madness and evil they deem it to be their moral right to break laws , mostly in a non-violent manner , as a form of protest . |
| 5 | ‘ Millions of people travel to the region every year many of them for the first time and we want to make sure that the lasting impression they take with them is a good one . ’ |
| 6 | Towards the end of the second year some major or joint students of History undertake a six-week period of placement or work experience in a record office , museum or folk park ; others follow a specially-designed short course which prepares them for the final year and for the world of work . |
| 7 | I know people get tired of appeals , but I urge them to organise fundraising for the echo-cardiograph equipment as undoubtedly a great number of people will follow me through the coronary unit and the machine will surely be of great help to them . |
| 8 | As he led me through the back door and on to the waste ground he used as an unofficial parking lot , he said : ‘ Good runner , only thirty thousand on the clock . ’ |
| 9 | Someone should have told me about the local MIND and the National Schizophrenia Fellowship and what they could offer . |
| 10 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 11 | Of course a well-heeled litigant would still be able to frighten booksellers and newsagents by notifying them of the alleged libel and threatening to join them in the action unless they withdrew the offending publication from sale . |
| 12 | Ranu , a Sylheti woman in her late twenties , told me of the enveloping love and care a woman with her first or second child can receive in Bangladesh . |
| 13 | His purpose in writing was to recount the human stories of all his fellow parishioners and their ancestors and to set them against the physical environment and administrative framework of the place where they lived . |
| 14 | By the early eighteenth century , the Jacobite supporters of the deposed king had become closely associated with popery , and the English church and state had assumed the role of a full and active member of the international Protestant alliance , a role which radical Protestants at home had been unsuccessfully urging on them throughout the previous century and a half . |
| 15 | ‘ I feel I should write and thank you for the smooth transition and vast improvement to the standard of cleaning at our premises . |
| 16 | " Sit beside me on my carpet , then , and I will tell you about the golden apple and the nine peahens . " |
| 17 | Within the Rolling Stone thing , I mean , part of it has you as the chief designer and you have to accept the notion that two heads are better than one , which means designers can not |
| 18 | King and keyboard man Mike Lindup have soldiered on , but loyal fans will recall ‘ Something About You as the high point and it 's dispiriting to have a five-year-old record and you one great pleaser in the locker . |
| 19 | THIS is one of those traumatic American dramas that aims to put you through the emotional mangle and spit out the pieces on the other side . |
| 20 | Please complete the questionnaire and the address and job title details form that is sent to you with the annual subscription and fees notice , 1993 , by the members ' registrar . |
| 21 | picture the opponent standing in front of you with the left leg and fist leading . |
| 22 | And so , when you come to the bible and you read the account of Jesus here on the earth , turning the water into wine , of Jesus stilling the storm , when you into the old testament and you read accounts there of the children of Israel , of the me , of the tremendous miracles that were performed by Jehovah , God for them well of course , there 's a natural explanation to it , because you ca n't do these things , there are natural laws that stop you doing them you can not take a glass of water , even if you 're God , you can not take it and make it into a glass of wine instantly , it 's got natural processes to go through . |
| 23 | You know I 've loved you from the very beginning and I 'll go on loving you . |
| 24 | It is not a comprehensive guide to symptoms and services , but it should point you in the right direction and show you where to go for help . |
| 25 | He did n't , he did n't wan na go out you , you in the first place and he just did n't bother to tell , tell anybody |
| 26 | This runs the batch file which will put you in the correct subdirectory and run the program . |
| 27 | He used to shut you in the next room and give you a pile of books and you 'd have to take notes from about seven or eight different books . |
| 28 | For example , let's say an old lady with a walking stick approaches you in the High Street and asks you the way to the nearest public toilets . |
| 29 | If I can get across this road and the bridge I 'll take you over the other side and you might be able see the big tree trunk better . |
| 30 | Damian said thickly , and strode towards her , ‘ My God , I 'm just going to throw you on the bloody bed and — ’ |