Example sentences of "[subord] [n mass] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If people associate you with the ‘ Carry On ’ films , they do n't think of you as anything else . |
| 2 | If you ever get to be a concert violinist , which I personally doubt , you 'll always wonder if people want you on the platform because of your looks or because you 're any good . ’ |
| 3 | A thing of great beauty , it was not unusual to hear sharp intakes of breath as people beheld it for the first time . |
| 4 | State-controlled television claimed on Nov. 18 that the opposition protest " had fizzled out as people dissociated themselves from the politics of disruption and violence " , although it acknowledged that stoning and tear-gassing in Lahore had " caused inconvenience " . |
| 5 | We had it organised so that when people contacted us in the first instance , we gave them a menu of mods that we would do , depending on what the customer wanted . |
| 6 | When people ask me about the deeds of some of our very great airmen , and I go right throughout the war on both sides , there are shining examples brighter than anything in the constellation that come to mind ; I think of Cheshire 's 100 sorties and , no less important , Fraser Barron — a little Kiwi not yet 21 with two DSOs , two DFCs and a DFM — Pathfinder squadron commander , killed with his deputy Master Bomber on one of the interdiction targets before the Invasion , and a host of others , I can think of half-a-hundred , but I have never met anyone — In fact I have never walked in the shadow of anyone — braver than Buster . |
| 7 | When people ask us in the street what it is . |
| 8 | He rarely showed any emotion , even when people presented him with the most heart-felt outpourings of their fears and hopes . |