Example sentences of "[noun prp] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With his black garb , Italianate features and fearsome reputation , Sir Edmund must appear as Master Lucifer himself to the peasants of Templecombe Manor . |
| 2 | To be sure you are Lucifer himself in the shape of my master or you could not use me thus , and I beg you 'll send me out of my way to my poor parents . |
| 3 | The weapon was old as the world and deadly as poison , a shard of the fatal weapon forged by Vaul himself for the death god Khaela-Mensha-Khaine , a fragment of crystallised death capable of slaying daemons and gods alike . |
| 4 | We had navigated the 10-minute ritual of telling Peggy Sue which of the nine alternative piscatorial preparations we preferred ; coffee and iced water were in place ; salad and Thousand Island on the way . |
| 5 | He designed a series of posters including one of Branson himself under the caption ‘ No One is Innocent ’ , an another bearing a swastika made of cannabis leaves , the Virgin logo and what had become a Sex Pistols ' slogan , ‘ Never trust a hippie ’ . |
| 6 | Thus the Gowers of Stittenham ( Yorks. ) served the lord of nearby Sheriff Hutton , although they held Stittenham itself from the prior of Malton . |
| 7 | Thus the Gowers of Stittenham ( Yorks. ) served the lord of nearby Sheriff Hutton , although they held Stittenham itself from the prior of Malton . |
| 8 | The programmes on the computers , also accessible to visitors to Pompeii itself in the small museum at Boscoreale , are the culmination of what is known as the Neapolis project . |
| 9 | The story told her unconscious that to follow Hansel 's lead led her back , not forward , and it was also meaningful that although Hansel was the leader at the story 's beginning , it was Gretel who in the end achieved freedom and independence for both , because it was she who defeated the witch . |
| 10 | ABOVE George Zirkle who in the early 1930s , showed impressive scores in ESP experiments run by JB Rhine . |
| 11 | incidentally er Jim which of the areas was of particular you know interest to you . |
| 12 | In the end , several firms undertook penicillin production on a massive scale , but hardly any ever came to Florey himself for the clinical trials which he was desperate to extend . |
| 13 | Introduced by the government for the first time in the Local Government Bill , the county consists of only two districts and is dominated by Cardiff which at the time contained ‘ just about the only pocket of Conservative Party strength in south Wales ’ ( Wond 1976 : 127 ) . |
| 14 | In the early hours of Sunday 13 February 1692 , Captain Campbell , from a clan hostile to the Macdonalds , along with 120 of his soldiers , whom the Macdonalds had been entertaining for the previous fortnight , suddenly fell upon their hosts and butchered them , shooting Macdonald himself in the back and killing nearly 70 men , women and children . |
| 15 | I am thinking , for example , of the city of Belfast and other urban areas throughout Northern Ireland which in the past year have suffered more than ever from air pollution . |
| 16 | We forgot to mention that as an added bonus the winner will be presented with the 555 by Paul Chandler himself at the London Music Show ‘ 92 , so get dialling and it could be you . |
| 17 | Lamarck , and many of his contemporaries ( including Charles Darwin himself in the later stages of his life ) , supposed that repeated use of a trait could itself change the genetic material that was responsible for the transmission of that trait so that characters acquired or improved by repeated use could be inherited directly by the offspring . |
| 18 | Some art historians detect the hand of Leonardo himself on the canvas , and it 's now generally accepted to be the most perfect version of the Last Supper in existence . |
| 19 | He has a singular mind and what is on it at the moment , seems , in our time of stagnation , to speak for a lost England ; and England which for the moment has been buried beneath the slogans of ideology and the jargon of modish materialism and press vendettas and bile . |
| 20 | Peter talks to his brother Alan who as the holder of a CPC ( national ) is aware of the basic workings of the redundancy payments scheme under current employment legislation . |
| 21 | And she did owe Lilith something for the birthday message . |
| 22 | For her eighth birthday Rachaela bought Ruth something from the local Sunday market , with misgiving and a knowledge of unassailable rightness . |
| 23 | To go back to the Gdynia one on the ninth of October nineteen forty three , I have to state that when our crew arrived in England we went to er through school at Bovingdon for a couple of weeks then we were assigned to the Ninety Second Bomb Group and they wan na be sure we fit in . |
| 24 | Now I have a figure in front of me which came from the International Air Transport Association who say that in January something in the order of sixteen flights were cancelled , and airlines lost more than five hundred million pounds in revenue , of which three hundred million was lost by European airlines . |
| 25 | But such criticisms were rebutted this week by Selina herself with the simple argument that whatever her talents are , one of them lies in getting people to watch her on the television . |
| 26 | There is little evidence about Ermentrude herself at the time of the marriage . |
| 27 | He jerked out drawers and scattered their contents on the floor , dragged all her clothes from the wardrobe , threw out her shoes , then pulled Ruth herself from the bed and ripped off the sheets . |
| 28 | We have derived the condition for the normal component of D. What about the tangential component ? |
| 29 | BT went a stage further in its experiment , just completed , involving ten staff from its directory enquiries centre at Inverness who over the past year have been operating from home . |
| 30 | Through a second marriage it passed to William Baker who on the death of his son in 1775 is registered as of this parish i.e. Upper Hailing . |