Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The text itself tells us more about the origins of Dame Sirith . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | According to the theory of universal grammar , children start outlife with a universal grammar or language ‘ blueprint ’ in the mind which gives them some idea of the form that any language will take . |
| 4 | ‘ The agent who arranged it all , ’ he continued , ‘ was he perhaps a lawyer , name of Jaggers ? ’ |
| 5 | The killing is repeated on ritual occasions , perhaps at first because the protection the totem gives them is not enough , or because they need to band together again to re-enact the crime which binds them all together , although they use a surrogate for the crime , not the actual father again . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Gorman was singled out as the culprit who started it all and was promptly dispatched to the changing rooms . |
| 8 | The girl who found him that day by the lake was sent by destiny , by fate , the atheists ' substitute for God . |
| 9 | Travel — On Home Ground : The performer who makes it all white on the night |
| 10 | 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 … ’ |
| 11 | De Niro had to fight for him to co-star in GoodFellas , but that was the picture which changed it all . |
| 12 | The broadcaster who threw it all up to become the son of God was giving thanks on the eve of the party conference in Wolverhampton . |
| 13 | Just as stagebound as anything produced before 1939 is When We Are Married ( 1943 ) , in which three middle-aged couples are thrown into a frenzy upon discovering that the parson who married them all those years ago was n't qualified to do so . |
| 14 | In every part of Europe , twenty workmen serve under a master for one that is independent ; and the wages of labour are everywhere understood to be , what they usually are , when the labourer is one person and the person who employs him another . |
| 15 | If you have n't got the telephone manual bit at the back which shows you all these facilities , then let me know and I 'll send you one . |
| 16 | Now , on the back I bought him some extra fog lights for back and I bought him them fog lights that goes int window . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | As Adam Smith remarks in 1759 : ‘ When a person comes into his chamber , and finds the chairs all standing in the middle of the room , he is angry with his servant , and rather than see them continue in that disorder , perhaps takes the trouble himself to set them all in their places with their backs to the wall . |
| 20 | The variable which interests us most is that which is concerned with the various roles played by the individual . |
| 21 | The woman who give me this |
| 22 | That was my auntie and that was the l the woman who gave me that tea set I were telling you about . |
| 23 | If there are four marks for a given point , the candidate who gets it all right gets four , the candidate who gets it all wrong gets nothing , but the chap who gets it part right has a possibility of one , two or three , and it 's often a question of judgement as to what an imperfect answer is worth . |
| 24 | This is the nature with which I desperately attune , knowing no other , with which I painfully harmonise , fearful always of the loss of the love which keeps me that way . |
| 25 | First , what happened to the Jew who told you all this ? , |
| 26 | The magician who taught me this commented ‘ I saw this done with chopsticks and patter about a Chinese system of numerals . |
| 27 | The camp was near the river which gave you all great joy-it had to be our bathroom — but that was fun to you too . |
| 28 | The similarities between things called by the same name are indefinite and fluctuating ; one tries to pin terms down by definition , so that they can be used for strict inference , but Wittgenstein showed that in the vocabulary of natural languages the similarities are ‘ family resemblances ’ , by which A may be like B in one respect and B like C in another , but A like C in neither , so that it is useless to look for common characteristics by which to define the word which names them all . |
| 29 | At last amazing inside story of Fergie 's shattered marriage … by James Whittaker , the man who brought you THOSE pictures |
| 30 | It has been written and directed by James Dearden , the man who had us all on the edge of our seats with Fatal Attraction . |