Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pron] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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1 | On no account should it be regarded as something through which the traveller passes quickly while hurrying on to the next destination . |
2 | On January 3 , 1940 , the plaintiffs wrote to the defendants in these terms , ‘ we confirm the arrangement made between us by which the ground rent should be reduced as from the commencement of the lease to £1,250 per annum , ’ and on April 2 , 1940 , a confirmatory resolution to the same effect was passed by the plaintiff company . |
3 | Thus the case could properly be classified as one in which the client determined the outcome . |
4 | If we see a character walking along a path to cross the screen say from right to left , and if this shot is immediately followed by one in which the same person is walking along the path from left to right , the viewer 's natural assumption is that the walker has reversed direction and is now returning to his or her starting point . |
5 | This was achieved by a religious ritual which may have stemmed from one in which the original parricides mutilated themselves ( and especially the organ which was responsible for their incestuous desires ) out of remorse and guilt at what they had done and in mourning for the primal father . |