Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [pron] [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first time in over forty years someone had humbled him on the board he considered his own . |
| 2 | So surely if the government er , have , ca n't have the money they cut their own throat ? |
| 3 | The text itself tells us more about the origins of Dame Sirith . |
| 4 | Even on the field he had his own personal trademark — flapping shirt sleeves and long , baggy shorts , which served both as a landmark for his colleagues and to help keep out the cold he felt so badly . |
| 5 | Sneaking across the kitchen she made herself some bread and margarine . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | In the case of mythology the saga teller will always produce a version of the story which puts his own ancestors in a particularly favourable light . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ The agent who arranged it all , ’ he continued , ‘ was he perhaps a lawyer , name of Jaggers ? ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Gorman was singled out as the culprit who started it all and was promptly dispatched to the changing rooms . |
| 13 | Melchiori in one place actually describes ‘ the I ’ as being ‘ the poet who voices his own feelings ’ , and says that the absence of the I form in some sonnets ‘ is an impediment to the dialogue , to the theatrical quality ’ , which he describes in disappointingly literal terms : ‘ Normally in Shakespeare 's Sonnets we find a truly dramatic dialogue between two characters : the persona of the poet himself ( the speaking I , not the man William Shakespeare ) ’ — a welcome disclaimer ! — ‘ and a ‘ you ’ , the actor playing the role of a lovely boy , a worthy or unworthy mistress , possibly a rival poet' . |
| 14 | The girl who found him that day by the lake was sent by destiny , by fate , the atheists ' substitute for God . |
| 15 | Travel — On Home Ground : The performer who makes it all white on the night |
| 16 | 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 … ’ |
| 17 | Just at the moment she had her own anxieties without being expected to worry about other people 's . |
| 18 | What was happening in Europe whilst this was happening cos that 's after the war they had their own development and they developed a different type of machine called a flat machine . |
| 19 | De Niro had to fight for him to co-star in GoodFellas , but that was the picture which changed it all . |
| 20 | Helen Gardner was aware of the problem , observing that the pursuit of image patterns , or of the ideas in a poem , can be useful to the interpreter , but can not ‘ be more than auxiliary in leading us to the true ‘ meaning' ’ of the work , which is the meaning which enlarges our own imaginative life . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Now , on the back I bought him some extra fog lights for back and I bought him them fog lights that goes int window . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Washbrook , the four-square and fearless warrior with the faded , jaunty-peaked , blue cap of both Lancashire and England , was 75 on Wednesday , the day I dared my many happy returns , and still as robust , hale and healthy as ever . |
| 28 | The insider who studies his own society is really the ‘ anthropologist at home ’ and he can not move away . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |