Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may find it helpful to make a chart about her like the one below . |
| 2 | He well recalls a couplet about him in The Times : ‘ He was right , dead right , as he walked along ; but he was just as dead as if he 'd been wrong . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I kept a lookout for you on the ship . |
| 4 | Less the arm the figure is complete in itself , but it was part of a larger whole : a four-horse team , the charioteer in the car holding the reins , possibly the dedicator as a warrior behind him on the ground or mounting , probably a groom at the horses ' heads ( a small-scale arm was found , as well as scraps of the horses ' legs and tails ) . |
| 5 | It will simply be a case of which of the two areas can muster the greatest amount of support in order to secure the development for their own area ! |
| 6 | The motherboard can take a full 66MHz DX2 chip but there 's no easy upgrade socket — it 's a case of our with the old and in with the new . |
| 7 | For some reason , William sought to get rid of Adelizia and he began a case against her in the church courts which ended in a declaration by Pope Innocent II that his first contractual marriage was binding . |
| 8 | ‘ Actually , I already know quite a bit about it from the guide-books , ’ she began . |
| 9 | Mind you , us kids often used to sneakily eat a bit of it on the way home — happy days ! |
| 10 | ‘ Do n't be ungrateful , ’ said Caroline , who was a bit above herself at the best of times . |
| 11 | On the subject of the draft union treaty , Gorbachev introduced the idea of holding a referendum on it throughout the country . |
| 12 | On one occasion my father sent a runner to him in the Danakil country with an important letter . |
| 13 | He came to a decision to which on the evidence before him he was entitled to come , and it was not a decision with which the court could properly interfere . |
| 14 | Lord Denning M.R. stated that the court could intervene if the Minister acted on no evidence , or reached a decision to which on the evidence he could not reasonably have come , equating the case to one where a court interfered with a decision of a tribunal which had erred in law . |
| 15 | ‘ It should not be so difficult a decision for him in the best interests of an organisation in which he believes and for which I know he has worked so hard . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It should not be so difficult a decision for him in the best interests of an organisation in which he believes and for which I know he has worked so hard . ’ |
| 17 | This would never yield anything like a reduction of one to the other , but Carnap supposes that it still allowed us to claim that the concept of a material object could be reduced to ‘ autopsychological concepts ’ , those which concern the nature of one 's own sensory states . |
| 18 | The official entry to the English capital of a new Swedish ambassador became the occasion for a struggle over which of the two rivals should give way to the other ; in this almost fifty men were killed and wounded . |
| 19 | Collected Poems 1909–1935 provoked a respectful response from the critics , although there was a sense in which Eliot was now being taken for granted ; he had been assimilated , after something of a struggle against him by the purveyors of contemporary taste , and could quietly become a monument standing unnoticed by the roadside . |
| 20 | But when Prince rocks out it 's because that 's as much a part of him as the funk strut . |
| 21 | ‘ Because you 've been a part of it from the start . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ No , but then Ellie Browne did n't want to be a part of it in the first place . |
| 23 | A theatrical gentleman approached me after one of the performances , said he was impressed by my singing , and that he could obtain a part for me with the Schikenader Company in Vienna . |
| 24 | He thinks there 's a part for me in the new play at the Queen 's . ’ |
| 25 | The move came five days after a finding against him by the Independent Commission Against Corruption , a body which had been established in 1988 by Greiner in order to investigate alleged instances of corruption by previous Australian Labor Party ( ALP ) administrations . |
| 26 | A tower over ten feet tall took only thirty seconds , and he would leave a trail of them around the passageways in his more creative moods . |
| 27 | The problem was that I could not get a response from anybody in the Department . |
| 28 | It stands on the site of Wedgwood 's first factory , and has a statue of him over the porch , as well as a series of elaborate reliefs and friezes . |
| 29 | There 's a statue of him on the table too . ’ |
| 30 | Owen was buried in the churchyard at Newtown , and there is a statue of him in the town 's memorial park . |