Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Participants listened to the story read at an even pace of around 120 words per minute and had to write down all the errors they could detect as they heard them or insert the missing word . |
| 2 | Indeed , Robert Trivers in the original path breaking paper of his that launched the whole theory of parent offspring conflict , without knowing it , predicted it . |
| 3 | He met the old T'ang 's eyes , a look of understanding passing between them that escaped the young Prince 's notice . |
| 4 | And do you know , ’ he leaned across the table staring at me and tapping the open file softly with his huge fingers , ‘ if tomorrow I decide to release one of them , there will be over three times as much paper-work . ’ |
| 5 | But you 'd do better to come down with me and make the long trip round . ’ |
| 6 | In his speech , Charles praised my ‘ sterling contribution ’ to the school and shortly after it Paul came up to me and made the touching suggestion that I should give some classes in the summer term — if I was still free . |
| 7 | Come with me and meet the other teachers . |
| 8 | Now she stood beside me and watched the white Lincoln drive out of the boatyard . |
| 9 | The same principle can be drawn from all of them and help the troubled find meaning and purpose in their lives . |
| 10 | The discounts can be 13 per cent or more , a good return for whoever buys them and recovers the full face value a year later from the issuing bank . |
| 11 | A number of pupils and staff are away on a four-day school trip and efforts were being made today to contact them and break the dreadful news . |
| 12 | The Arab states , with the exception of Lebanon and possibly Egypt , might well have resettled the bulk of the refugees , had Israel accepted the principle of the right of return by receiving back about one-quarter of them and had the international community generously funded resettlement . |
| 13 | The Hearthwares and Myrcans were greeted with friendliness and something like relief by the people they came upon — merchants in covered carts , farmers with flocks and herds , women bent under loads of firewood or water , children trailing behind them and eyeing the armoured figures on the big horses in wonder . |
| 14 | There are so many paths and old miners ' tracks around this area of Swaledale that you could spend years walking them and exploring the old workings and still not cover them all . |
| 15 | Sadly for them , their response to it works against them and encourages the very behaviour they fear most . |
| 16 | In fact any intervention with the playing of the game will distort prices , reduce the information contained in them and prevent the full adjustment which is a part and parcel of the creation of wealth in a market economy . |
| 17 | He cut the last of them and followed the red thread back to its source . |
| 18 | Although such findings are not in dispute , and of course are rarely undertaken in areas where public antagonism to the institution is known to run high , there is continual pressure to replicate them and repeat the consoling message . |
| 19 | You just point to them and click the right mouse button . |
| 20 | If they say black cards you say ‘ Good , so I will keep them and take the red cards away ’ . |
| 21 | Very difficult to avoid them and pay the full price for anything . |
| 22 | The wind passed over them and rustled the bare branches of the trees and they still stood . |
| 23 | His mouth was like two halves of a peach when you part them and see the rose-edged pulp inside , before you bite it . |
| 24 | Families picked grapes , trod them and poured the new wine into storage jars . |
| 25 | I 've had mine done twice , mine done twice , mm , the police were up the other day lying in ambush , and I 'd spotted them and phoned the local police station and said there 's men lurking in the bushes of are they policemen ? , she said yes madam , they 're policemen . |
| 26 | Their supporting beams ran through our tiny cabin , and we could put our feet up on them and feel the entire ship squirming and stretching like the spine of a fish . |
| 27 | This will necessitate a visit to the local newsagent for the papers and you will have to ask your new next door neighbour if she or he can give a note to the milkman for you or contact the local dairy yourself . |
| 28 | So that I could kill you and suck the warm blood from your neck . |
| 29 | Mitch goes with you and takes the necessary shots , ’ he added firmly , glancing at Mitch . |
| 30 | They 're gon na take one look at you and run the other way ! |