Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his satirical cabaret days , Nichols used to do a sketch with Elaine May about a Jewish mother 's shock at her son 's choice of profession : ‘ Can you imagine me saying , ‘ There goes my son the nurse ’ ? ’ |
| 2 | Now Nichols 's mother could say , ‘ There goes my son the movie director . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ No one understands my speedboat the way your brother does . ’ |
| 4 | If Heini 's wife , Tita , a former Miss Spain , has her way the final home of the picture will be Madrid . |
| 5 | He has her report the matter to the police . |
| 6 | Alternatively , a single set of arithmetic instructions can be provided , and a processor mode register specifies what format the operands can be expected to be in . |
| 7 | One wonders what contribution the Bill will make . |
| 8 | The basic idea is that the quicker it produces its report the better . |
| 9 | Just as the Spirit loses its way the harder you drive , so the Carlton is elevated to a higher level . |
| 10 | ‘ It depends whose pad the police hit first . ’ |
| 11 | Thanks to the intoxicating venom that floods his brain the Forest Goblin Shaman has great powers of mental control . |
| 12 | She sets out before the sun , driving a team of horses which pull her soft blue chariot up from the depths of the ocean , and shows her brother the way to rise . |
| 13 | An analysis of news originating anywhere away from the line-of-rail showed that it frequently came from such a tour , which shows what difficulty the news media had in getting rural news . |
| 14 | FRANK FRAZER assesses what impact the Budget changes are likely to have on the North Sea 's oil industry |
| 15 | And that gets you admission the firework spectacular at the Great Central Railway and that 's at the Quorn Station this Friday seven thirty . |
| 16 | If I get home at 12.30 I probably wo n't want to go down a club , but I 'll pull a beer out of the fridge , sit down and have a laugh at everybody else making pillocks of themselves , including the prat who calls him self the Hitman . |
| 17 | The hotel offers all the normal comforts including a silver service breakfast … but the true train driver gets his meal the old fashioned way . |
| 18 | There are small twigs digging into her back , she is angry , pushes against him , but he pays no attention , carries on , his hands exploring , he is smiling down at her and when he lowers his head the water from his hair seeps into her mouth so that she tastes the lake , the fish smell of deep water , sees the sun brilliant through the branches behind his head , blinding her eyes , sun specks floating , she closes them as he moves against her . |
| 19 | He calls his wife the memsahib , so I guessed he served in India . |
| 20 | ‘ Slow but steady — slow , because the presence of what the Admiral calls your friend the timing device does have a rather inhibitory effect and we 're probably taking some quite needless precautions as far as acoustic levels are concerned . |
| 21 | I think of lipstick samples at Bullocks department store , the way you rub the lipstick from your lips and it stains your hand the whole day through . |
| 22 | ‘ When Thatcher was on the pot , it is my belief she was peremptorily required by her mother and grandmother to do her duty , ’ writes Abse , and proceeds to build a gigantic edifice on the assumption : ‘ A mother who is peremptory when the child wants satisfaction at the breast , is the same severe mother who denies her child the pride in her own first creation , her faeces , ’ he explains . |
| 23 | Sometimes , if she 's good , my mum lets her chop the vegetables . |
| 24 | First guy tells his mate the IRFU should pay the players . |
| 25 | That Fforde accepts some key Thatcherite assumptions is evident , but in many respects his work , like Thatcherism itself , is reminiscent of an earlier intellectual tradition , in that the more one reads his work the more one thinks of A. V. Dicey . |
| 26 | A MAN asks his dentist the cost of fixing his tooth . |
| 27 | Holding your breath builds up tension and shallow breathing denies your body the oxygen it needs to function at maximum efficiency . |
| 28 | he thinks his shooting the oil can , and he keeps diving behind these oil cans and takes cover and that , he said oh no not an oil can and fucking little bullets , bullet |
| 29 | Third , a security interest gives its holder the right of enforcement . |
| 30 | An option is a contract that gives its holder the right , but not the obligation , to buy or sell a specific quantity of a specific quality of a specific asset at a specific price ( the " exercise price " or " strike price " ) on or before a specific day ( the settlement day ) . |