Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The savings on operating costs alone were immense , some experts putting it in the order of £2 million a year . |
| 2 | This has led some writers to place him within the interpretative tradition . |
| 3 | Some bullets hit him in the air and more bullets hit him as he lay on the ground . |
| 4 | However , whatever , the reason why I mention it , I do notice that Green Peace are thinking of , perhaps some members saw it in the press , did you , that Green Peace are making a formal complaint to the European Commission about switching from de-sulphurisation to importing low sulphur coal , and it may be something that we should focus in on as well . |
| 5 | A few seconds brought him to the oak . |
| 6 | Some children watched them from the shadows as they entered . |
| 7 | There are some guys want me out the way . ’ |
| 8 | A few women make it despite the system and then become vaunted as a great example of personal initiative and drive , thus suggesting that employment is a matter of personal ability rather than an economic and political issue . |
| 9 | Pulling his coat open , he pushed his hand into his trouser pocket , and taking out two half crowns dropped them into the tin . |
| 10 | Some commentators regarded him as the leader of a conservative faction which had opposed the economic reformist policies of CPV general secretary Nguyen Van Linh . |
| 11 | Midge Ure was playing for nothing , just a few beers to see him through the evening . |
| 12 | Since this is , in effect , as much an oblique comment on the present as a literal interpretation of the past , what such accounts tell us about the quality of village life in the past must be handled with considerable scepticism . |
| 13 | Other voluntary hospitals with such funds lost them to the Exchequer , which pooled them in a central fund . |
| 14 | No such fears limited them in the 1880s and 1890s . |
| 15 | After that dogs bit me on the feet . |
| 16 | However — although these contortions saved me from the worse excesses of daily racism , my face kept giving me away . |
| 17 | The Turks might try to tax , or offer administrative salaries to Zuwaya who were willing to participate in government ; but Zuwaya always resisted these attempts to bring them into the reach of government . |
| 18 | The high viscosity of these solutions keeps them in the eye longer , while the polymer itself is intended to mimic the ocular mucins ( glycoproteins ) , a deficiency of which is often the cause of dry eye symptoms , and promote tear film stability . |
| 19 | These songs remind us of the deeds and of the character of God , as does the psalmist who sings : |
| 20 | What do these syndromes tell us about the language-processing system as it exists in intact brains ? |
| 21 | These matters confirm me in the view already expressed that the disturbance complained of in this case is not actionable . |
| 22 | Now these messages remind me of the old Tarzan movies , now you were all old enough now to remember the old Tarzan movies . |
| 23 | If these variations remind us of the history of the Alps , then so much the better : we may find a better balance to the continuing battle between development and conservation . |
| 24 | These questions take us to the very heart not only of recent theological debate about Barth , but of the inner problematic of the entire development of modern theology as we are tracing it . |
| 25 | These questions take us beyond the scope of this chapter , but they are raised again in Chapter 6 . |
| 26 | These studies tell us about the broad pattern of movement between school and work . |
| 27 | These journeys took him to the furthest extent of the colonies , from Lake Ontario to Virginia and into the Carolinas and Florida . |
| 28 | These factors take us beyond the study of language , in a narrow sense , and force us to look at other areas of inquiry — the mind , the body , society , the physical world — in fact , at everything . |
| 29 | Although these omissions suited me at the time , I have since found them incredible to the point of doubting my own powers of recollection , but when I checked recently with my sister , she confirmed their accuracy . |
| 30 | This we did by making sure every request for spare parts , made on order slips , had been met by the delivery of these parts told us by the exact delivery slip . |