Example sentences of "[coord] [vb -s] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To that extent it does not matter in principle whether the individuals are described in a particular society as ‘ upper class ’ , ‘ middle class ’ or ‘ lower class ’ , or whether the society is rural or urban : it is a universal that all individuals in all societies have contacts with other individuals ( even the exceptional case — say , a hermit — has occasional societal contacts or has had them in the past , and ‘ isolates ’ are special cases ) . |
| 2 | For example , an employer who has allowed all his employees access to information or has entrusted it to the least skilled may find the court unsympathetic . |
| 3 | He care for the whole of mankind and has given us in the Bible a guide-book by which to live . |
| 4 | At one extreme is the person who starts a diet every morning and has broken it by the evening . |
| 5 | God means to free us from the bondage to the self-centredness and self-vindication which marked us in the old days , and has equipped us with the Spirit of the Messiah to set us free to serve him unselfconsciously , effectively and joyfully . |
| 6 | It is generally assumed that in the absence of methodological artifacts visual laterality effects in normals arise either because one cerebral hemisphere is relatively inefficient at processing or retrieving the stimulus material presented and/or because one hemisphere can not fully process the information and has to send it across the corpus callosum to the opposite hemisphere . |
| 7 | Pilar Wayne now says she ca n't afford the upkeep on ‘ La Roca ’ in exclusive Newport Beach , California , and has put it on the market for £2 million . |
| 8 | His American tour kicked off on day one at the Tournament of Champions in Southern California and has taken him to the two major Pro-Ams — the Bob Hope and the Crosby ( aforementioned Pebble Beach National Pro-Am ) — a trio of Florida events — Doral , the Honda Classic and the Players ' Championship — as well as The Masters , the Colonial , the Memorial , the season-ending Nabisco Championship and a slew of less-hallowed events in between . |
| 9 | It 's sad , you know ’ — she turned about and looked at Peggy ‘ It is sad when a mother outshines a daughter , and aims to do it to the extent of trying to fascinate her son-in-law . |
| 10 | The second player then breathes in and tries to take it off the first until it reaches the player at the end . |
| 11 | She 's met a lot of friends here and and likes to meet them in the canteen . |
| 12 | She lifts from the floor a leather Gladstone bag , and begins to load it with the things she will need for the day : well-thumbed , much underlined and annotated copies of Shirley , Mary Barton , North and South , Sybil , Alton Locke , Felix Holt , Hard Times ; her lecture notes — a palimpsest of holograph revisions in different-coloured inks , beneath which the original typescript is scarcely legible ; and a thick sheaf of student essays marked over the Christmas vacation . |
| 13 | Somebody purchases alcohol from an off-licence and proceeds to drink it in the open air , usually in a secluded place called a ‘ bushing spot ’ . |