Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , indeed , this freak of fortune was felt to be all the more cruel on account of the impossibility of resenting it openly ; but the delighted grandfather cared nothing for what the John Pontifexes might feel or might not feel ; he had wanted a grandson and he had got a grandson ; this should be enough for everybody … |
| 2 | But in one instance , he makes the text longer : this is where he replaces " this was nothing to the delighted grandfather " by " the delighted grandfather cared nothing for what the John Pontifexes might feel or might not feel " . |
| 3 | A creature , therefore , can be taught nothing for which the inner , instinctive potential is not already present as a latent pattern in mind and muscle . |
| 4 | President Gorbachev is as uncertain as everyone about what the future of the two — perhaps one — German states will be , but there is no doubt that the Gorbachev vision of a new Europe had to encompass the Wall 's disappearance . |
| 5 | Easy — someone for whom the composer 's name does not always come after the words ‘ Gilbert and ’ . |
| 6 | ourselves despite what the governors |
| 7 | To someone like myself the sum you mentioned is an enormous amount of money . ’ |
| 8 | The demand must also specify someone with whom the debtor can communicate with a view to securing or compounding for the debt to the creditor 's satisfaction or , as the case may be , establishing to the creditor 's satisfaction that there is a reasonable prospect that the debt will be paid when it falls due . |
| 9 | If she were a Lady , she would still be referred to as Mrs. X. If the person were a member of the nobility or someone in whom the press had an interest , rumour would start to circulate , and damage could not be avoided . |
| 10 | But there 's also a radio in the police cars that you can talk all the way over in Chelmsford which is twenty two , twenty three miles away , so you can t talk to someone in what the Essex Police call their information room , that 's another piece of equipment . |
| 11 | But Fahid is , like myself , someone on whom the attractions of the desert quickly pall . ’ |
| 12 | Hopefully , this will prove to be a posthumous tribute to someone to whom the Trust have cause to be grateful , and are much saddened by his death . |
| 13 | In the last two years , Hanson has been seen as a provider of last resort , as someone to whom the Government can turn for relief , especially its privatization programme runs into problems . |
| 14 | Here is how one observer describes this peculiar meaning of have : In the have causative the causer assumes the causee 's " readiness to serve " ; the causee is treated as a cooperative performer of the causee 's will , as someone to whom the causer 's will can be communicated ( either directly or by an intermediary ) and who will be neither unable to understand it nor unwilling to perform it . |
| 15 | When secondhand goods are sold on the " as is " basis of Precedent 4 , the question arises as to the extent to which the seller can disclaim responsibility for their condition if they are to be used at work either by the buyer , or by someone to whom the buyer sells them . |
| 16 | And he sent er memo after memo to the commanders in Korea advising them of what the guidelines were , what they were allowed to say , what they were n't allowed to say and so on . |
| 17 | In this case the process of the acquisition by B. & C. of Atlantic shares created a close relationship between them of which the auditors were well aware . |
| 18 | Barrymore did not know in which of them the mysterious man was living . |
| 19 | It appears to be a rather desolate place with wide windswept prairies ringed by snow-capped hills , but it has plenty of what the ferrets need : prairie dogs . |
| 20 | Er inside , er is a wheel which with which the erm signal box , or signalman , er could er open and shut the gates as necessary . |
| 21 | He stressed the importance of Johnson Matthey to the economy of Hertfordshire and mentioned his unofficial visit to Royston a week or so earlier to familiarise himself with what the production and development of autocatalyst entails . |
| 22 | They , you can see that the patients can be considered in four groups , those in the top line which in which the marker tumour was absent and no other tumours were seen in the bladder . |
| 23 | NOTHING THAT Ministry have ever recorded can prepare you for what the band are like live . |
| 24 | Do do you want to take them , or or shall I remind you of what the headings were ? |
| 25 | Then the best clothes were chosen , none of them the height of fashion nor even necessarily a good fit , but neat , tidy and clean . |
| 26 | There were no omelette episodes , no Socialist Workers and almost none of what the Prime Minister likes to call ‘ badinage ’ . |
| 27 | The reconversion of one portion of the value of the product into capital and the passing of another portion into the individual consumption of the capitalist as well as the working class form a movement within the value of the product itself in which the result of the aggregate capital finds expression ; and this movement is not only a replacement of value , but also a replacement in material and is therefore as much bound up with the relative proportions of the value-components of the total social product as with their use-value , their material shape . |
| 28 | The first concerns the structure of the snowball sample itself in which the 60 interviewees were evenly distributed between four ‘ representative ’ townships , 15 from each . |
| 29 | Up to the sky itself from which the sun and moon and stars shine upon this earth . |
| 30 | I had felt at the instant the idea suggested itself to me the first glimmer of positive thought : suddenly I knew I was not going to sink . |