Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a former winner at Dornoch ( 1985 ) , where nobody took him beyond the 16th green , Garth has the right credentials for a marathon week 's work — sound legs and wind , a good nerve , great concentration , and all the shots for a course that will test the strong and mock the timid . |
| 2 | During this period she herds stray animals to her seashore cave , where she feeds them during the cold months . |
| 3 | The patches can then be located where you want them among the preamp 's memory locations ( or programs ) , and then called up by a MIDI pedal . |
| 4 | In addition , retinoic acid is insoluble in water and so would remain where we put it in the limb for some time ; this was important because we already knew that to exert its effect the grafted polarizing region needed more than 12 hours . |
| 5 | It spread to the Chinese around 2 , years ago and then reached Japan where they cultivated it into the art form it is today . |
| 6 | Mantack then returned to Donna 's parents house , where they told him about the message . |
| 7 | To a lesser degree they still exist nearer home ; in the Alps herdsmen take their cattle to the ‘ Alm ’ meadows where they tend them during the summer , and in Scotland and Wales the hill sheep spend half the year on the mountain commons whilst the lower , enclosed land grows winter keep . |
| 8 | Then they were both fearful for him and they took him into the cold scullery , where they hid him from the intruders . |
| 9 | Mr Woodcock , 47 , of Holgate , York , grabbed the weapon with one hand and it went off , blasting a wall with pellets , but he hung on , dragging the raider into the car park outside the restaurant , where he pinned him to the ground until armed police arrived . |
| 10 | He took Ellie by her forearm , and marched her down the landing and the painted uncarpeted stairs into the living room , where he sat her in the big chair in the corner . |
| 11 | IBM Corp started relaxing its strict accounting practices way back in 1984 , just as the company 's core mainframe business began to lose its impetus , although no-one realised it at the time . |
| 12 | and that was my Barclaycard number in case you want it although I ordered it through the thr phone I made out that so that I could read it off on the telephone I did n't even erm I did n't even assemble it I just looked and I saw it does n't chop I thought it would chop things but does n't , it only grates Looks as though it had been out before , you know , you look at this ! |
| 13 | I fundamentally disagree with his proposition , although I congratulate him on the stand that he has taken for his principles . |
| 14 | ‘ I was n't going to unroll the damn things , ’ continued Lydia , ‘ so I banged them in the oven , humming insouciantly the while and served them up all bubbling hot . |
| 15 | I was called away to the hospital so I left her at the house waiting for Nigel to turn up to collect her . ’ |
| 16 | Now I know it was a great honour but I could see no way of accepting , so I put it on the mantelpiece and more or less prepared to forget all about it . |
| 17 | Although it was late and Mr Edgar was tired after his journey , Joseph insisted , so I took him to the master 's room . |
| 18 | Vera 's not back from lunch , so I kept it at the desk . ’ |
| 19 | I had n't , June , so I thank you from the bottom of my heart . |
| 20 | ’ So I waltzed him across the road and put him in a doorway and left him for somebody else to find . |
| 21 | It rang while Elizabeth was in the field and I picked it up and someone spoke to me , but I can not speak , so I tore it from the wall and then no one could speak to me . ) |
| 22 | I was told they sent for a nurse who came at me with a needle so I grabbed her by the breast and threw her down on the hors d'oeuvres . |
| 23 | ‘ Your tea is ruined so I threw it in the bin . |
| 24 | I had n't been out for a long time , so I did it for the relaxation , really ! ’ |
| 25 | Sally Curtiss , the Circle 's membership secretary , is here , so I entrusted her with the annexe key . ’ |
| 26 | Once I met him in the West End and we went to the pictures . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Once I met him in the local pub , ’ Patrick Newell recalled . |
| 28 | As a single woman living with her uncle , the negligent landlord Mr Brooke , Dorothea has good reason to concern herself with cottages , although she intends them for the estate of the obliging Sir James , having presumably abandoned her uncle as a hopeless case . |
| 29 | " Womb " was an intimate and horrifying word although you heard it as the incarnation of the Virgin . |
| 30 | Rather than you selling it to the boss and then all the trouble . |