Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simply turn the page for the exercises we 've chosen specially for you from Massage for Total Relaxation — and then face the world with a new sense of inner calm . |
| 2 | It was really too cold for the clothes I had brought , so I fell back on a recommended resource . |
| 3 | When the phone was in its cradle , Jessica reached for the clothes she had discarded . |
| 4 | ‘ God forgive me for the thoughts I just thought . ’ |
| 5 | My mother was so dazzled she never even thought to question him about his job , but she grew to live for the visits he made daily to the shop . |
| 6 | If there is any way by which the Wallowa Valley could be kept for the Indians I would recommend that it be done . |
| 7 | I felt sorry for the gypsies you know in Cross Street |
| 8 | He must surely have supposed that Alpheus was shown in the southern gable-corner , Cladeus in the north ; and if the designer intended these figures for the rivers he would naturally have set them so . |
| 9 | She knew , of course , that men were driven by lusts of the flesh , desires that they satisfied with little or no regard for the females they wanted , but , strangely enough , she would not have considered fitzAlan to be a man to lose control of himself for that reason . |
| 10 | Smaller family farmers have been neglected and offered derisory prices for the products they mostly sell ( e.g. cassava and honey , see Chambers and Singer 1980 ) . |
| 11 | Once they pass they are given accreditation for the products they are allowed to sell , and that accreditation is available for the customer to see . ’ |
| 12 | Indeed , one of the key points about Berger and Mohr 's study is that such moral careers are being partly constructed by capital 's requirements for a cheap workforce and one which can be dismissed in line with fluctuating demands for the products they make . |
| 13 | These workers will only be employed if there is demand for the products they make — for export , from the government or from the employers themselves . |
| 14 | There are two possible sorts of explanation for the difficulties we have in recalling dreams . |
| 15 | So the teacher of a blind child , while allowing all along in the child 's education for the difficulties he encounters , still prefers to emphasise to everyone the sameness of the child ( his skills and achievements ) . |
| 16 | She was taking her revenge now on Bathsheba for the difficulties she had experienced in her life . |
| 17 | The only financial bonus for the dangers they face is an environmental allowance of £1.14p a day . |
| 18 | He described a life so different from my own that I could not have imagined it — ‘ She loved me for the dangers I had passed , and I loved her , that she did pity them . ’ |
| 19 | There was , obviously , no simple starting point for the developments we shall examine , nor any pre-ordained culmination . |
| 20 | For me that was vindication for the disagreements I 'd had with Sydney Newman and Donald Wilson , both of whom saw the music and titles after they 'd been done and said they did n't like them . |
| 21 | To get anywhere near an understanding of News Corporation 's accounts , you usually have to wait for the figures it is obliged to file with America 's Securities and Exchange Commission . |
| 22 | And we used to c as we had nicknames for the ones we did n't like , she was called . |
| 23 | Erm that 's putting it bluntly because erm obviously being a volunteer is a sort of two way thing , we could n't run without volunteers , we 're very grateful for the ones we 've got but So it 's clearly a matter of whether you decide and whether you like the way we like to run things or or not . |
| 24 | Clothes buying is hardly Yuri 's preferred foreign pastime , though : ‘ When I travel , I prefer to sneak off to look at cars and buy accessories for the ones I have at home — a Volvo , an Audi , a Volkswagen , a Japanese Micro bus — and my favourite , an old Chevrolet . |
| 25 | At Chicago airport , I filled in a ‘ missing baggage ’ form and set off to my hotel , minus socks , tights , knickers and shoes , except for the ones I was wearing . |
| 26 | She had taken them out so that she could read the labels on the other bottles — and for super-safe keeping she had locked them in my drawer while she went through all the tablets looking for the ones she wanted . |
| 27 | For the labourers he had produced , on a twenty-seven by twenty-four-foot ground plan , a unit containing a lobby , living room , scullery , indoor w.c. , and one large and two small bedrooms . |
| 28 | A local builder obliged by knocking down the remains in exchange for the materials he could salvage , and the place had been known as the Half House by local people ever since . |
| 29 | Designing a grid for the pages you wish to produce is really a matter of commonsense . |
| 30 | For the Americans it was the first declaration in a film that love for pleasure is not sin . |