Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [noun prp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | and he told me about Thomas the Tank engine , everywhere we went |
| 2 | He reminds me of Dennis the Menace . |
| 3 | She poured out the coffee and presented it to me like John the Baptist 's head . |
| 4 | Oh , ’ the corona grinned , ‘ my apologies for not telling you about Eudo the page boy but , according to my memory , there was nothing suspicious , just a fall from a window . ’ |
| 5 | Meant to tell you about Margaret the other day and it 's just dawned on me , I meant to tell you before I forget . |
| 6 | To Timothy his dear dad great mercy and peace to you from God the father and Christ Jesus our Lord I give thanks to the God of my forefathers who I worship with a clear conscience when I mention you in my prayers as I do constantly night and day . |
| 7 | ‘ I saw a picture of you in GQ the other day , ’ Georgina said . |
| 8 | Hey one thing I was gon na query you on Mike the erm sanding sealer you know you say you must leave that for at least a week ? |
| 9 | Thus the following , said on Thursday , can only be referring to next Thursday ( or perhaps some more remote Thursday ) , otherwise the speaker should have said today : ( 58 ) I 'll see you on Thursday The same holds if it is said on Wednesday , due to pre-emptive tomorrow . |
| 10 | I 'll drive you to Glasgow the minute the snow lets up but I 'll not hear a word about it . ’ |
| 11 | I do n't know how he guessed ‘ t was me with Ellen the other day , but he swore vengeance three years ago when he was banished to his smaller estate and forced to hand Tracy to the Sheriff of Gloucester , and he does n't forget . ’ |
| 12 | No we buried him did n't we on August the eleventh . |
| 13 | When they first obtained them from India the Romans mounted them as finger-rings less for their appearance than as symbols of hardness and strength . |
| 14 | Certainly if Hughes plays against Latvia in Belfast the way he played against them in Riga the first of those farewell games for Bingham will yield another two points . |
| 15 | She had met them in London the previous summer during their annual holiday and had agreed to travel out to Naples with them and look after their two young children . |
| 16 | In October Mozart 's English friends tried to persuade him to join them in England the following spring . |
| 17 | One technological improvement is a little better-documented : water-mills proliferated , with references to them in Charles the Bald 's charters , for instance , becoming increasingly frequent as the reign went on . |
| 18 | He was prepared for me to Cook The Books |
| 19 | In either case he does not run the risk of being left with the goods ; if he can not find a purchaser he can return them to X. The answer is that he is X 's agent if under the terms of his contract with X he has no right himself to buy the goods but can only sell to a third party , Weiner v. Harris ( 1910 C.A. ) . |
| 20 | erm when they for Britain the |
| 21 | Presumably Billykins was telling her about Donald the Gourmet Cook , Donald the Great Fighter for Social Change , Donald the Novelist . |
| 22 | It is because Mr Gorbachev keeps his hands off Eastern Europe that a growing number of people there see him as Mikhail the Liberator . |
| 23 | Blake asked him about Jack the Ripper . |
| 24 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |
| 25 | I have argued elsewhere that Pound was prepared to take instruction , as well as to give it ; that when he first came to London in 1908 , he was looking for masters to whom he might apprentice himself ; that he found them in the Irishman W.B. Yeats and the maverick Englishman Ford Madox Ford ( whose professionalism about writing still denies him in England the recognition that he gets abroad ) ; and ( so I have speculated , though I know it can not be proved ) that Pound sought the same relationship with another Englishman , Laurence Binyon , who was too cagey to go along with the idea . |
| 26 | I saw him in Manchester the other day , all hot and greasy and suspicious . ’ |
| 27 | To the French , Bonington brought with him from England the genius of the British school of watercolour painting , working in oils very much in the way he approached watercolours . |
| 28 | However great the risks of parting with one 's collection , Gould could not have hoped to carry with him from Hobart the enormous quantities of skins , skeletons , eggs , nests , plants , and seeds he had amassed . |
| 29 | But you said you saw her in Bamford the previous Friday . |
| 30 | On 29 January 1716 Argyll , assisted by one of Marlborough 's favourite staff officers , General William Cadogan , who had brought with him to Scotland the 6000 Dutch troops who had swollen the Hanoverian army , began his advance on Perth where that same night the rebels decided on a retreat towards Dundee . |