Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To my mum who along with my dad helped me my daughter , who I 'm very proud of as now she 's started taking greater interest in G M B. To my mum who at the moment does n't enjoy the best of health , who over the years has had to endure a daughter who , er , on some occasions has not been a very great help to her , has guided me through very difficult times , as mums always do . |
| 2 | To my mind none of the evidence , general or specific adds much to the inherent probability that men and women of a certain age will be inclined by nature to favour the status quo . |
| 3 | I think that that case is distinguishable from this on that ground , and also on the ground that in my view none of the statements in the leaflet in this case actually impute corruption . |
| 4 | I told her that I had finished constructing the new kite , and that she could help me test it in the wind . |
| 5 | He had also , however , as Churchill perceived , conceded to Gandhi and the Congress movement a degree of recognition of their importance which in the long run could do the British no good . |
| 6 | . And i the the lady who runs the personnel department , it 's her husband who on the ship . |
| 7 | She may feel more in control if she takes her bill herself to the Department of Social Security , having been guided by the adviser that she should ask them about the ‘ fuel direct ’ scheme that will debit her benefits automatically and prevent disconnection . |
| 8 | Then she marched back to the front of the class , dusting off her hands one against the other like someone who has been handling something rather grimy . |
| 9 | Briefly she saw in her mind a slender girl walking the shore , beating her hands one against the other in bitter rebellion . |
| 10 | Even Ingrid had stage style , a certain energy that made her project something over the footlights . |
| 11 | Now if you damage yourself by whatever way , and the classic one that we see at school is if you get banged in the eye in rugby , somebody elbows you in the scrum or something similar , you then get a swelling caused by what ? |
| 12 | He had heard their laughter , their long silences and the chink of their wine-glasses one against the other . |
| 13 | For ten long years Misery leaves him there , during which time no-one in the village dies . |
| 14 | Later , confronted with the ambiguously dominating Attwater who kings it over the natives on his atoll , one of them ‘ broke into a piece of the chorus of a comic song which he must have heard twenty years before in London : meaningless gibberish that , in that hour and place ’ , seemed hateful as a blasphemy : ‘ Hikey , pikey , crikey , fikey , chillinga — wallaba dory . ’ |
| 15 | while we sleeve it into the sail . |
| 16 | Harper , of whose status none of the Dutch was quite certain , shared the princely cold chicken , hard-boiled eggs and red wine . |
| 17 | Me leave it in the car ? |
| 18 | The practical consequence of this must be that the individual who in his personal development has not mastered his basic instinctual drives but finds instead that the state masters them for him experiences none of the narcissistic gratifications of self-mastery but all of the privations which the agencies of state control enforce on him . |
| 19 | She shared with her husband a love of travel , and learned from his expertise something of the finer qualities of wine and food wliich helped her , when his illness necessitated it , to enter journalism and become the breadwinner . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh — ’ he tutted with annoyance , and lifted his feet one after the other . |
| 21 | The guard was an inverted vee which forked away from his hands , and by rotating his wrists one within the other it was possible to convert the axis of the blade into a glittering circle . |
| 22 | But then he murmured half under his breath something to the effect that ‘ the boy had cost him much suffering ’ . |
| 23 | It astonished her how the passage of time had censored from his memory everything except the trimmings like crackers , turkeys and mince pies ; and he 'd imagined , in the place of the emotional strain and physical surfeit he 'd forgotten , a wholly fictitious jollity . |
| 24 | I once asked Kalchu how he was able to tell his cows one from the other , and how he was able to distinguish his own from other people 's . |
| 25 | Oh what throw it through the window . |
| 26 | And then you do other exercises like lying on your back , putting your feet your from the knees downwards over the edge of the pool and then trying to do sit ups . |
| 27 | It 's a normal thing to do , to teach your children everything from the time they 're born , so to put some kind of arbitrary division on where you stop helping is nonsense to the child and it 's , it 's absurd to parents , too , and of course it does n't happen . |
| 28 | However , it is vitally necessary to cross-check your instruments one against the other and to include the Navigation instruments in the essential cross-check of the Flight instruments . |
| 29 | The trust of which Seia is trustee is effectively ‘ I ask you to make over to your son everything except the gardens ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ Now that you 've expressed your condolences what about the Fraser girl ? ’ |