Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This word universal is never the name of anything existent in nature , nor of any idea or phantasm found in the mind [ my italics ] , but always the name of some word or name ; so that when a living creature , a stone , a spirit , or any other thing , is said to be universal , it is not to be understood that any man , stone etc. , ever was or can be universal , but only that the words , living creature , stone , etc. , are universal names , that is , names common to many things ; and the conceptions answering them in the mind are the images and phantasms of several living creatures or other things . |
| 2 | The animal began to gnaw at the ropes binding her to the altar . |
| 3 | Maxim did his best to shrug inside the ropes wrapping him to the chair . |
| 4 | Instead he designed lamps on the spot and took them straight down into the mines to test them on the jets of methane . |
| 5 | ‘ On a personal note , in 1991 when the Board nominated me and the shareholders elected me to the chairmanship , I indicated that I would serve in this capacity for two years and oversee the rationalisation and turnaround of the Waterford and Wedgwood businesses . |
| 6 | This would enable the men on the bank to keep her head up and give more time to spend on the attempts to raise her from the quagmire . |
| 7 | A few seconds later he was followed by Rocky 's rig , the chains linking it to the ruined gates having been released from its rear axle by Springfield . |
| 8 | The court therefore has to approach its construction on the footing that the new Act may exhibit policies and intentions which are not necessarily the same as those in the earlier Act , and which require similar words to be given different meanings from those which the courts gave them under the earlier legislation . |
| 9 | The Germans occupied them in the second world war , the Americans rebuilt them afterwards , and then the north-west Europeans came back in the shape of the European Community and its powerful money . |
| 10 | Your eyes narrow against the claws gripping you by the scruff of the neck until you let your hook of anger go . |
| 11 | ‘ We feel this book was written because the times imposed it upon the authors . |
| 12 | Analysis of the returns leads us to the following conclusions : |
| 13 | ‘ Now then , ’ the magistrate continued smoothly , ‘ I understand that in the course of a telephone call yesterday afternoon the kidnappers informed you of the whereabouts of a letter from them , and that this letter was subsequently recovered . |
| 14 | The structure has suffered little at the hand of man , or from the lapse of time , so that without much imagination it is possible to picture it as the builders left it about the year 1410 . |
| 15 | He commented : ‘ The promotion was a tremendous success thanks to the wholehearted manner in which the branches promoted it to the public . ’ |
| 16 | A treaty was agreed in 1490 , although a concession was made to the Venetians to exempt them from the Staple . |
| 17 | This teacher 's view that the Afro-Caribbean pupils felt obliged to live up to the labels given them by the school was reiterated by other teachers . |
| 18 | Though sometimes , the gentlemen chucked her beneath the chin absently , or gave her a sixpence , and one , even , pushed her for a whole quarter-hour on the swing . |
| 19 | Hundreds of black-headed gulls were also joining in the feast of freshly hatching insects , paddling over the waves to snatch them from the surface , whilst in the Island Bay we came upon three superb black terns , dipping and turning over the water . |
| 20 | The umpires check it at the end of every over . |
| 21 | The words seized her by the throat . |
| 22 | And my comment would be that the spirit guides us in our understanding of the bible , needs to be augmented by the words and in our daily lives before the words renews us in the sacraments and calls us to serve God in the world . |
| 23 | The Jews provide us with the single most illuminating incident of the episcopate of Avitus . |
| 24 | If they were made any thicker , they would grip the batteries too tightly to allow the springs to push them against the positive contact . |
| 25 | Even when lightning lit the skies and the floodgates opened when she was still twenty miles from her destination she merely flicked on the car 's wipers and peered out into the black night , letting the piercing beam of the headlights guide her along the road . |
| 26 | His wife failed to persuade the judges to include him amongst the prisoners released in the celebrations of the coronation of Charles II , and in her bitterness told them that her husband was being denied justice because he was a tinker and a poor man . |
| 27 | The judges extrapolated it from the fact that constables hold office under the Crown and are sworn to keep the peace . |
| 28 | The question is whether the institutions will adopt the same rather altruistic attitude that they did then now that their income from even the best-performing companies will shrink permanently unless action is taken by the companies to leave them with the same net effect . |
| 29 | David had heard of the Wilikinses ' divorce there had been quite a lot about the circumstances surrounding it in the Birmingham Mail — and he had been told of a second , short-lived marriage . |
| 30 | She was not at the inn , not in the meadows , and when he finally found a sufficiently oblique way to ask where she might be , his misreading of the directions sent him along the wrong path past the wrong waterfall and up the surprisingly taxing slope of the wrong fell . |