Example sentences of "[conj] the [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was very mean of me , I know , after the sweet beginning of your letter & the pleasure I had from it , to be very angry at the end . |
| 2 | And I 'm not sure , I ca n't remember which , I do n't know whether she started on the bottom or the bottom I 've a feeling she may be did n't start on the bottom actually |
| 3 | We are all party to exploitation , whether through the food we eat , the products we buy , or the taxes we pay . |
| 4 | The rest of the population has little idea of the advances that are being made or the excitement they are generating . |
| 5 | He bashed away at it with the A.S.M. solidly from eleven fifteen , when he arrived at the theatre , until half past two , without any break for lunch or the drink he desperately craved . |
| 6 | Do not use a social setting for suddenly coming out with all the reservations you may have or the frustrations you may feel at not having been consulted properly . |
| 7 | Rule-following is the typical mode of action by which the structure of the content of the rule is reproduced in the actions of the people , though we may have to explain their aims or the acts they intend , in other ways . |
| 8 | This stage is intended mainly to ease the initial awkwardness , the interviewer does not really want your detailed impressions of the weather or the route you took to get to the interview . |
| 9 | The exact location of the third , million-pound Raid Gauloises is still a secret , although Fusil did say at the finale party in Costa Rica , ‘ It will be in Africa , not the Sahara Desert or the Africa you see on safaris . |
| 10 | How could the child he loved most have failed to inherit either his instincts or the opinions he had with such difficulty acquired ? |
| 11 | From the mere fact of wanting more or less or not at all or the contrary I can derive no imperative for choosing between my wants . |
| 12 | If the right hon. Member for Aylesbury ( Sir T. Raison ) inquires of the trustees and directors of either the national or the Tate he will be told in no uncertain terms that it is extremely unsatisfactory that they can not acquire the sort of painting that they need to keep their collections fresh and up to date . |
| 13 | After each flight we were picked up on little points , such as our positioning or the way we were holding the glove : too high or too low , the wrong angle . |
| 14 | It is important to appreciate its complexity for we might then be less likely to generalise its demands , or the way we decide between them , on the basis of the ( by now familiar ) too narrow diet of examples . |
| 15 | So if that database for example is there is no constraint within the way we use our system or the way we develop our system or indeed the way our system will develop in the future and the way capabilities will develop in the future . |
| 16 | Small changes in the choices we make or the way we behave can make us part of the solution rather than the problem . |
| 17 | Balance sheets really have n't changed either er formally the way we publish them to you or the way we look at it , them ourselves . |
| 18 | This did not matter , since it was the topics that counted , not the order of them or the way they were introduced . |
| 19 | That means actually copying their hand movements or the way they are sitting and doing the same . |
| 20 | ‘ Perhaps they are learning a little more about airmanship or the way they should behave at 40,000ft and above from the medical point of view . |
| 21 | In these systems we have good descriptions of their anatomy and of the physiological properties of the major types of nerve cells but , at the cortical level , we do n't have good explanations of what the systems do or the way they do it , except in the broadest terms . |
| 22 | Frankly , however minor the item in the programme , you ca n't be too careful what you say or the way you say it . |
| 23 | If you can muster superior strength , you can impose your way of thinking on others — even if they do n't like-what you do or the way you do it . |
| 24 | So it does n't matter whether we look at it as whether you 'd get a third or whether you say you 'd get two sixths well it does n't matter cos it 's the same size it 's just it 's cut into two pieces or the way you wanted to do it which was a good way with the first pizza . |
| 25 | ‘ That you do n't like my face or the way I talk or the way I work ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ That you do n't like my face or the way I talk or the way I work ? ’ |
| 27 | I mean I 've actually I tried to persuade a colleague of mine that I could quite easily sexually harass a male student of mine , and the reason I could do that , or the way I could do that , is because I have power over him . |
| 28 | Many times it appears to be used so that other qualities of the work — the wide assortment of materials it might be constructed of , say , or the way it is attached to the wall — can take centre stage , much in the way that a black and white photograph allows you to concentrate on matters otherwise obscured or de-emphasized by colour . |
| 29 | Or the way it feels and actually is . |
| 30 | what the way she dresses or the way she acts ? |