Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [verb] [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he made one tell him and immediately he had explained or shown one the fallacy of one 's doubt . |
| 2 | The prison governor tells them they are about to be shot and offers them the choice of dying like men or wearing blindfolds . |
| 3 | And actually , one day , because she knew it was my favourite , she said that I could have permission to have it copied and gave me the name of the jeweller , which I thought was so sweet . |
| 4 | My intervention , such as it was , became well known and earned me the enmity of two or three people whose awards had been either altered or struck out . |
| 5 | Environmental audits are defined as determining what the organisation has done and is doing in relation to the environment . |
| 6 | Because the sons of the primal father both loved and hated him the possibility arose that those of them who by luck or design chanced on their actual fathers in their hunt for women and killed him or drove him off ( most probably the former , the latter seems insufficiently traumatic ) would have gratified one side of their ambivalent feelings , but would by the same action have frustrated the other . |
| 7 | Giving parents a measure of choice would , it was argued , be more likely to secure their involvement in the school and in their child 's schooling : ‘ They are more likely to support a school they have freely chosen and to give it the loyalty which is so essential if their children are to do the same . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It appears to me that the whole question is governed by the broad , general , universal principle that English legislation , unless the contrary is expressly enacted or so plainly implied as to make it the duty of an English court to give effect to an English statute , is applicable only to English subjects or to foreigners who by coming into this country , whether for a long or a short time , have made themselves during that time subject to English jurisdiction . |