Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed to have come to the deep , still centre of the sea : a place where you felt nothing , where you saw nothing except the coal-black atoms that danced before your face and knitted up the dark . |
| 2 | Erm I 'm always overjoyed when people say things like that to me , that you 've just said , er but I think I understand acting more than I understand anything in the world . |
| 3 | Environmental issues are also important to Alison although she believes none of the major parties have a good green record . |
| 4 | She and Susan had rooms adjoining , so she had none of the creepy feelings one often gets in a strange house . |
| 5 | ‘ So you heard none of the commotion when Sarah Parker roused Dr Darnell ? ’ |
| 6 | Our tiny underground Church was too small , so we invited everyone to the main hall of Munster Road School . |
| 7 | Several customers had similar tales to tell although there seemed none of the panic of the previous year , only a feeling that war was inevitable and a preoccupation with details . |
| 8 | getting compurgators to swear that they believed him to be oathworthy , although they knew nothing of the facts of the case . |
| 9 | Reg. v. Grant and Hewitt , 12 J.L.R. 585 , although it adds nothing to the established principles , is an example of inconsistent previous statements wrongly withheld by the Crown at the trial but properly , if belatedly , disclosed on appeal , so that a conviction depending on evidence of identification was quashed for want of a fair trial . |
| 10 | It is a very effective package , paperbacked with a threatening kind of picture on the cover ; it has a subtitle ( ’ The fight to save children from damage by lead in petrol ’ ) which begs the question , and although it contains nothing but the truth , it certainly does not contain the whole truth . |
| 11 | ‘ Much obliged for that , Albert , ’ said Joe , and explained that he 'd got a guest and how it came about , although he said nothing about the wallet or the men . |
| 12 | He had something of the solitary about him , something of the dreamer , although he had none of the dreamer 's physical clumsiness . |
| 13 | To make him need her more than he needed anything in the whole of Chung Kuo . |
| 14 | The flat was mine , you see , but he 'd bought the furniture , so he took everything except the child 's cot . |
| 15 | Then I 'd er erm a friend come in in the afternoon and er ca n't remember if I had anybody in the evening or not . |
| 16 | I do n't really get pocket money but if I see something in the shops in , in , this toy or something my mum , mum 'll buy it for me and say that 's your pocket money for this week . |
| 17 | If I see anything on the subject it goes into the file , and eventually I have enough material for a book or an article . ’ |
| 18 | if I see anything on the table I 'll just pop it in a freezer bag |
| 19 | If , she said to herself , writing Marjorie Richardson and Lady Mayhew and Miss Dunstable down for Easter lilies , if I do everything in the parish that I should do , and I keep the garden going and the meals and the house ( sort of ) and the translation , then where can be the harm in doing this other undeniably humble little thing that so curiously makes me feel strong and alive ? |
| 20 | ‘ Like if someone put something in the food , eh ? , sooner or later everyone will be ill . ’ |
| 21 | And not until I have someone from the American embassy present . ’ |
| 22 | So provided you get something at the right level of sophistication , you should n't go far wrong with any of the mainstream graphics software currently available . |
| 23 | There was a ring of sadness in his voice which she found puzzling until she remembered something from the past — Eddie 's voice repeating what he 'd told her all those years ago at the Oulton Park circuit . |
| 24 | He showed it to Patrizia Valesio and asked if she knew anything about the asterisks which Chiodini had pointed out . |
| 25 | I asked Dang if she knew anything on the subject of knitting machines . |
| 26 | It was a test , really , to see if she said anything about the stockings . |
| 27 | When the passengers are cleaned up see if you can get this young lady , Irene Charial , alone and find out if she knows anything about the layout of the engine-room . |
| 28 | At two , your child does n't realise that if she bangs someone on the head with a spade , it hurts . |
| 29 | Now I do n't know if you remember anything about the nine days of the General Strike , as opposed to the s sort of the whole miners ' strike in that year . |
| 30 | These Christmas Day menus sound pretty average , but if you eat everything on the list you will have tucked away 5,472 calories by bedtime — around three times as much as a manual worker needs , and four times as much as an office worker 's requirements . |