Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | And in September 1988 , Donleavy seemed to confirm this by placing him on the ‘ inactive ’ list and arranging for him to rejoin the Boy Scouts of America as Director of Marketing and Public Relations for the Chicago Area Council . |
2 | But whereas the long version refers only to the words in Lamentations 1:12 ( O all ye that pass by the way , attend , and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow ) , the short version incorporates all the references to focus more sharply on the organic relationship between man and Christ whose natural growth is blasted by sin : And only in the short version does the meditator acknowledge this by identifying himself with the penitent thief pleading for pardon to be extended to him , and confessing his failure to acknowledge Christ as the true source of his integrity : In both versions the meditator admits that the very ability to recognise the life-giving power in Christ is a sign that he in fact has the love of God even if he does not feel it : And in both , as the meditator sees his betrayal and sense of deprivation borne by Christ in His words : " My god , my dere god , why hastow al forsakyn me … ( 89. cf.102 ) he imagines himself lying down among the bones of dead men on mount Calvary , taking the foot of the Cross in his arms , the stench of death in his nostrils . |
3 | You do this by assessing which of the ‘ stars ’ and their characteristics dominate his house at birth . |
4 | I did get around this by approaching it from the other side : I added gain to the clean modes and it all came together well . |
5 | In ( 36 ) the adjective former does not qualify the properties , as such , implied by the use of the word king ; the sentence does not mention any entity that has characteristics formerly typical of kings — such as regarding oneself as the owner of one 's subjects , perhaps , or believing that one is of divine lineage . |
6 | This means that you can perform operations on it , such as scanning it for the particular information you want . |
7 | ‘ I have devised a number of exquisite tortures for little boys who break bottles ’ he wrote , ‘ such as circumcising them with the jagged fragments ’ . |
8 | But Shallis argues that this is hardly surprising , because its very terms of thought are such as to exclude it from the content of all discussion , at the very outset . |
9 | " I tell you what — I do n't think I can do any more by seeing him at the moment , but I think you should cut out his meat completely for a week or two . |
10 | And you ca n't do that by beating them over the head with clichéd , didactic behaviour . |
11 | That by putting it in the middle of the other side , he clipped the pallet again the opposite side and that also went down in between the racks and dropped on the pallet below it . |