Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But whatever age , Stow offers them the chance to meet up with old friends and catch up on the gossip . |
| 2 | Whereas the Third Republic did set out to improve the aesthetic education of these citizens , the modern welfare State offers them the bread and circuses of culture as spectacle and entertainment . |
| 3 | Cooke says : ‘ Egg pasta is certainly preferred by many chefs not only because of its excellent colour and flavour , but because it offers them the possibility of upgrading their pasta menus , thus increasing their profits . ’ |
| 4 | Sally Cline 's Women , Celibacy and Passion ( Deutsch , March , £15.99 , 0 233 98804 1 ) will reawaken the debate about sexual abstinence last seen in Liz Hodgkinson 's Sex Is Not Compulsory : Ms Cline identifies a new breed of passionate non-performers , ‘ women who believe that celibacy offers them the independence , the creative time and energy for their own growth and work which conventional sexuality has not allowed them ’ . |
| 5 | The prison governor tells them they are about to be shot and offers them the choice of dying like men or wearing blindfolds . |
| 6 | ‘ I was looking for new challenges , and Cassell as a large independent commercial publisher offers me the scope to publish a wide range of books in a commercial environment . ’ |
| 7 | One owes them the duty to uphold and support them . |
| 8 | If they are right , this spares them the refusal which would have otherwise shown up in the main survey as reported difficulty in getting credit . |
| 9 | Judgement means that the court agrees that your debtor owes you the money as stated on the judgement which is normally your debt , the interest and some costs . |
| 10 | If he does not declare an intention to defend the action or make an offer , the second date , known as the calling date , is the date on which the claimant can ask for a Decree from the court declaring that the debtor owes him the sum sued for . |
| 11 | Similarly in He loves her ; She loves him the form he is replaced by him after loves , while her becomes she after loves . |
| 12 | Rumour has it The Orb play a different set every night . |
| 13 | Has anyone the bottle to find out ? |
| 14 | He holds it the way elderly Greeks hold worry beads , a certain anxiety about the dwindling supplies of life remaining , kept at bay by this endless fiddling . |
| 15 | Dunedin has what the Book of Records claims to be the world 's steepest street , with a gradient of 1 in 1.4 . |
| 16 | Section 38 specifies what the expression means . |
| 17 | And the other one just specifies what the path is , does n't it ? |
| 18 | Even when a picture is used , it is not complete , it takes the form of an icon which contains what the perceiver considers matters at the time . |
| 19 | Your only hope is to find Madame V — and pray the letter Beatrix sent her contains what the kidnappers want . ’ |
| 20 | Similarly , Article 13 is expressly designed to allow service by post unless the law of the state of destination contains what the commentary describes as a ‘ positive prohibition ’ of such service , a requirement which is quite unrealistic in the context of the legal tradition of many countries which would actually take grave exception to such service . |
| 21 | And so , Simon he he wants what the apostles have got . |
| 22 | One wonders what the factors are which cause modern uncivilised behaviour ? |
| 23 | Even the early varieties developed in the time of Browning and Tennyson were nothing like the splendours of today , and one wonders what the genius of their poetic expressions would have made of the ethereal glow in the half light of ‘ Super Star ’ ( see page 129 ) , the exquisite shape and deepest of all crimson-black red of ‘ Charles Mallerin ’ or a hundred and one other modern marvels . |
| 24 | Exactly how this will be done remains to be seen , but one wonders what the effects will be . |
| 25 | The results are uneven and one wonders what the result would have been if Mr Smith had examined all the companies covered by the original report for a longer period . |
| 26 | He spares us the details , saying only that she was tall , well-built . |
| 27 | Future Image maintains that the extension to a wider base has won them at least half a dozen valuable new clients , and he thinks its the way forward for all agencies . |
| 28 | One thinks himself the master of others , and still remains the greater slave than they . |
| 29 | Someone whose job allows them the flexibility to attend meetings and participate in programmes |
| 30 | It allows them the monopoly to exploit their invention for a period without unauthorised limitation or competition . |