Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was how I saw it : Henry and Louisa Agnew , long dead but mysteriously alive under this mountain of paper , were one team ; Edward and I the other . |
| 2 | For a time he lost himself in the game , his whole self gathered up into the shapes the stones made on the board , until it seemed the board was the great Tao and he the stones . |
| 3 | Mr Clarke answered criticism from Cleveland County Council leaders in comparing the money being spent on the City Technology College in Middlesbrough and what the education authority has to spread over the county 's state schools . |
| 4 | And she said er are you Mr or whatever the name was ? |
| 5 | I want you to know , Douglas , that the thing that hurts Mr Grant and I the most is the deceit . |
| 6 | He himself had been roundly booed in Jamaica and whatever the reasons , the Barbadian public could not bring themselves to come out in support . |
| 7 | Yes to Lochinver yes and that same steamer would be calling in Kinlochbervie and all the villages and this traveller for Hamiltons would be going round beforehand and you would be getting a hundred weight of sugar and tea it would be in a big tea box er er probably er er Ceylon coming from Ceylon but you the whole or you could buy a small quarter . |
| 8 | I 'll tell you this — if they had tried that on with the Liverpool team of the mid-1960s that included Ron Yeats , Ian St John , Gerry Byrne and myself the match would never have taken place . |
| 9 | But you see China was different compared to erm places like Russia and wherever and so you ca n't just strictly sort of use the Marxist model and apply it to China and what the Com |
| 10 | He then explained why he had sent Daisy and myself the flowers in the first place . |
| 11 | I had the Sta Prest and I the short hair , and every party you went to it would be all Tamla and Blue Beat and ska . |
| 12 | The 200-year-old mansion was once the home of the Balfours of Balbirnie and them the headquarters of the GDC . |
| 13 | Just spent 24 hours on a bus with the dashboard covered in St Christophers or whatever the local version hereabouts is . |
| 14 | It was from here , I reflected , looking through the windows at a small scattered town , that the despatcher had spoken to George and me the previous evening : and while I watched , George appeared outside and was met by a man who came from the station . |
| 15 | In recent weeks our Moscow correspondent could have reported on why the voters in Lithuania had rejected Lansbergis and what the implications were for the prospects of democracy in Russia as well as Lithuania . |
| 16 | Not at all , the way it 's reported in north eastern newspapers is more jobs for Vickers Armstrong erm in Newcastle because there the manufacture of tanks is very important indeed to the local prospects of the economy . |
| 17 | Point four erm sentences are made up of noun phrases and verb phrases those phrases can be composed of intransitive verbs standing alone , or transitive verbs and objects so you can have four , the structure what sounds like Florence smiled actually has a structure as on the handout in the sentence composed of a noun phrase and a verb phrase , the noun phrase contains a single noun Florence and the verb phrase contains a single verb smile or you can have something like four two , Florence teased Dougal and there the verb phrase contains the verb teased and another noun phrase containing the single noun Dougal . |
| 18 | So it was the bait piled in by J.J. and myself the first night of a season in the early 1970s . |
| 19 | ‘ For people like McQuaid and myself the war was the best part of our lives . |
| 20 | The block grant from central government is calculated as the difference between the GRP and what the authority plans to spend , so long as this expenditure is below a government assessment of what the local authority should spend . |
| 21 | Yes er we 're going to the drugs squad Dave and I the launch of a new hotline which is where people can report dealers , a little bit sceptical about its success but we 've spent quite a lot on posters and business cards . |