Example sentences of "the [noun] [pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are not for having any man turn sceptic , and disbelieve his senses ; on the contrary we give them all the stress and assurance imaginable ; nor are there any principles more opposite to scepticism , than those we have laid down . ’ |
| 2 | While she changed , she could hear the others laughing and singing and when she emerged from the changing-room she found them all in the foyer waiting for her to emerge . |
| 3 | Idly I wonder if she 'd have done the same thing had the play been Shakespearean : ‘ Now is the winter of our discontent … but leaving aside discontent for the moment I want you all to put your hands together for good old birthday boy Barry in Box B. All together now , Happy Birthday to you … ’ |
| 4 | Now , on the back I bought him some extra fog lights for back and I bought him them fog lights that goes int window . |
| 5 | I treasure the photographs I took of Jack , and following its refurbishment the instrument sounds as good as the day he fashioned it all those years ago — a credit to the man and fitting epitaph to his expertise . |
| 6 | In my last article in the magazine I told you all about my trip to Saudi Arabia , but I did n't tell you why I went or what I hope to do next . |
| 7 | Now the reason I ask you these questions , of course , is not you personally , but the Tourist Board is responsible for a grading scheme which is available for us , the consumers , to help us pick the right hotel for our needs . |
| 8 | In the end he does it all and more . |
| 9 | Pay one fifty a week , at the end of the year we put it all in a jar write your name down . |
| 10 | The first one , I mean , er , this is not casting the stone , but this is the way I see 'em all . |
| 11 | It was really uncanny the way he did it all the time . |
| 12 | the way she said it that day was , they 're old dogs , they do n't need the exercise and they do n't bark , that is the impression , impression I got |
| 13 | If I am to do better than merely throw up my hands and assert that Alison Kraemer was in some indefinable way ‘ the real , right thing ’ , then I would suggest that the distinguishing characteristic of her ascendancy was the way she denied you any possibility of mitigating it . |
| 14 | Depending on the way you do it this can look insolent , aggressive or defensive . |
| 15 | In the meantime we bought him another half in Willington . |
| 16 | ‘ On the order I want you all to march forward in straight lines . |
| 17 | As Willis went to the afterhatch it struck him that Dreadnought was rather low in the water , almost on a level with Grace . |
| 18 | At least five tragic scenarios had gone through my head by the time he told me that Dad had died . |
| 19 | ‘ Have you had a chance to look through the dossier I sent you this morning ? ’ |
| 20 | Oh they just There would always be somebody would be on the road at any time looking for harvest time and my father would say to someone , tell the McGregors We called them that time , so the McGregors came up went tell told the others . |