Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four days after the Ralembergs told me about the Luciferi , I was in the Golden Turk carousing by myself . |
| 2 | Nor does it seem to be the case that the notorious reluctance of the Masai to accommodate themselves to the modern world was to any significant extent the result of administrative protection from it . |
| 3 | As all areas were initially classified as class I and II , the EPA left it to the states to redesignate some class II areas as class III , or even to upgrade such areas to class I ( Stern , 1977 ) . |
| 4 | The Fourth Gospel , that of John , places the cleansing of the Temple near the beginning , whereas the Synoptics have it near the climax of Jesus ' confrontation with the authorities . |
| 5 | The Sheikha settled herself in the dressing room , determined not to be too far away from her son at any time . |
| 6 | The proto-JPL proved itself during the Second World War . |
| 7 | The CNAA committed itself to the Diploma . |
| 8 | He had seen the CNAA establish itself in the eyes of many — though employers in the more conventional industries had been slow to recognize the public sector and adapt their recruitment policies . |
| 9 | The Roman defences were still in place , and the Normans used them as the foundations of their medieval fortress . |
| 10 | On 19 December 1960 a new Cuban — Soviet agreement was announced , by which the USSR committed itself to the purchase of 2.7 m.t . |
| 11 | He will liaise with the medical rehabilitation teams and with the ERCs to know something of the overall picture of the person 's employment problem . |
| 12 | They enlisted the help of a rebellious warlord from Vidin , in Ottoman-occupied Bulgaria , Osman Pazvant-oglu , and the governor was able to maintain his position only by arming the Serbs to defend themselves against the invaders . |
| 13 | In the first decade of the century the Bridgewaters aligned themselves with the whigs . |
| 14 | As the Galks led them into the desert , the travellers could see the Cun arguing with the skull people , trying to reclaim their raw meat . |
| 15 | We 've struggled against a background of the Charter Review in the BBC to match ourselves to the changing needs of the audience . |
| 16 | During World War II the Keppels established themselves at the Ritz Hotel in London . |
| 17 | The Khan got her at the sack of T'sosei , and when the Kha-Khan — the present one 's father — wanted her for himself , the Khan married her . |
| 18 | Notice the bust of Dobrovský standing in front of the charming garden house which the Nostics gave him in the last years of his life . |
| 19 | No wonder then , that in the statement read out by goalkeeper Gary Phillips , they beseeched the players ' union , the Football League and the FA to protect them from the man who has virtually become a tyrant . |
| 20 | I refused to apologise to the Speaker so the Serjeant-at-arms hustled me to the Tower . |
| 21 | The WPC helped her into the mink . |
| 22 | Were , therefore , the deputies of the Cortes to limit themselves to the study of the ‘ means and methods of expelling the French army ’ , or was their sacred task to endow Spain with a constitution that would limit the despotism which had ended in French invasion ? |
| 23 | On practically every issue the Comintern found itself in the role of an infallible body which had adopted a manifestly fallible policy . |
| 24 | The only thing he knew for certain was that the law forbade the Trunchbull to hit him with the riding-crop that she kept smacking against her thigh . |
| 25 | The Trunchbull seated herself behind the teacher 's table . |
| 26 | ‘ And the Trunchbull put you in The Chokey for a whole day ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ And you 'd already decided the Josephs knew something about the murder . ’ |
| 28 | But until they get any money back , the Tysons find themselves in the position of the gambler who gambled all and lost . |
| 29 | The last five years have seen the DUP establish itself as the voice of about half of the unionist population . |
| 30 | ‘ The Celebes presents us with the most striking example of the interest that attaches to the study of the geographical distribution of animals . |