Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb -s] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | During this period she herds stray animals to her seashore cave , where she feeds them during the cold months . |
| 2 | There is a delightful passage where he addresses himself to the role of dreams and faces out the difficulty inherent in medieval lore which others like Chaucer resolve through ambiguity : namely , that in a situation where some dreams were held to reveal truth and others to be the products of a disordered digestive system , it is difficult to distinguish true from false . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Environmental issues are also important to Alison although she believes none of the major parties have a good green record . |
| 5 | But I 'm sure that once she joins you in the pool she will find it easy enough to slip into the flow of things . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He 's mad on polo so he takes me to the Hurlingham Club to watch him play . |
| 9 | He worries that the children would be upset when they saw it , so he rubs it off the wall . |
| 10 | Committees are a waste of time , so he deletes them from the diary . |
| 11 | His room key and tag feel bulky in his pocket so he leaves them on the table with his newspaper before visiting the well assorted buffet table . |
| 12 | No you ca n't throw it you have to like jump on it like that and you go weee and it , and if , and if someone gets you on the hips you have to throw it to everybody . |
| 13 | If somebody bonks you on the |
| 14 | Many of them just lie there helplessly until somebody manhandles them over the side of the boat . |
| 15 | ‘ She 'll cast a spell on you if she sees you in the wood , ’ Kay warned . |
| 16 | The customer always matters and is never a nuisance — even if she interrupts you in the middle of doing something else . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Especially not if she puts them by the bed . ’ |
| 19 | At two , your child does n't realise that if she bangs someone on the head with a spade , it hurts . |
| 20 | But if one rids oneself of the idea that there need be any thing in common to good things , other than that they are good , one will be ready to recognize that there may be other good things which do not involve pleasure , that some things which involve pleasure may be good rather than bad , and that relative goodness need not be proportional to relative pleasurableness . |
| 21 | Furthermore , if anybody catches you in the club showers , your lover is very likely to end up being blackballed ( if you 'll forgive the phrase ) . |
| 22 | Zephandra Butolphi has this idea that you have repeat everything until it becomes one with the cosmic miasmal consciousness , so pages one , two and three read : |
| 23 | a shop-assistant has possession of money paid to him by a customer until he puts it in the till . |
| 24 | ‘ Give us a couple o' bob an' I 'll come up the stairs an' carry the bloody fing dawn , even if it kills me in the process . |
| 25 | If it sells it to the Third World , it destroys local economies . |
| 26 | If it wakes him in the night , he gets angry , I 've heard him , not the actual words , just the voice low and terrible . |
| 27 | And what 's the point of a journey that seems very pleasant if it gets you to the wrong place ! |
| 28 | If it rains everything in the shed will get wet . |
| 29 | But it will prove to be a necessary and worthwhile one if it leads us in the direction of a less doctrinaire and therefore more properly educational form of antiracism . |
| 30 | If he refers it to the Court of Appeal , Courtney may well spend a proper period in jail . |