Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Western Wolf , on whom Cauthen won over the course last month , should follow up , but faces several threatening rivals , notably Single . |
| 2 | , Benjamin Wills ( 1807–1899 ) , Plymouth Brother , was born in Devonport , Plymouth , 12 December 1807 , the only child of Quaker parents , Benjamin Newton , a draper of Plymouth dock who died ten days before the birth of his son , and his widow Anna , a daughter of Roger Treffry of Lostwithiel , with whom Newton lived until the age of twelve . |
| 3 | One ex-sailor whom Minton met at the Mandrake was Joshua ( ‘ Mike ’ ) Avery , then just embarking on his discovery of Soho and sharing a room with Daniel Farson . |
| 4 | An insight into his state is provided by Michael Wishart , now married to the painter Anne Dunn and living in a studio in Paris , and whom Minton visited in the autumn of 1953 . |
| 5 | Oswald , whom Bede regarded as the fifth overlord of the peoples south of the Humber and described as ruling within the same bounds as Eadwine ( HE 11 , 5 ) , clearly became on this testimony as powerful a ruler as Eadwine had been , but on his accession he faced an immediate challenge in midland and eastern England from Penda . |
| 6 | We gave our permission that the women should gather up the dead and give them burial according to the fashion of this people — ‘ t is said they strip the flesh and griddle it for a delicacy beforetimes , but I for one do not give this credence . |
| 7 | The film was Snow White ; and I felt my sanity slipping until the moment when the queen metamorphosed into the witch . |
| 8 | When my sons went to the village school there was respect and they knew that they could not ‘ nannick ’ about in school , even if they did while on the way there . |
| 9 | ‘ For two years me and my sons walked along the towpath and park searching for a zip or the buckle of Brian 's belt , anything that would help . ’ |
| 10 | My heart fills with the anticipation of this perfect grove , towards which I am walking . |
| 11 | But my heart dipped at the thought . |
| 12 | My heart bleeds for the whole misunderstanding but it bleeds most for Diana . ’ |
| 13 | My heart sank at the prospect of yet again missing the top in the thick fog , but we had a great treat in store . |
| 14 | My heart leapt off the bedroom |
| 15 | ‘ When I walked away from the Great Rebellion , my heart bled with the pity and the waste and the anguish of it . |
| 16 | And how my heart aches for the baby son of Sarah Monelle , the young mum killed when a speeding car mounted the pavement , again in freezing fog , and ploughed into her and three of her pals . |
| 17 | Q I am getting married in the spring and am planning to have my hair permed nearer the time when it is longer . |
| 18 | Later we were to have several talks , but when I first arrived sick and ill and my GP went through the diagnosis , his greatest concern was to get me into the hands of a good specialist which he did with the utmost speed . |
| 19 | I will make my views known to the world community and to UNESCO ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ Did my coin land in the fountain ? ’ she asked . |
| 21 | He used to be a crane driver dear for , yeah he used and I 've got to , one of me sons now is a foreman for , well they 're not now it 's , it 's sort of amal amalgamated with another firm now I think , but he does , he does erm , he 's a foreman like now , he used to be a truck , crane driver and my , the very night that my hubby died on the following Monday he would of been working in Harlow , he got a new crane to take over in Harlow and he 'd been working away from home for weeks and months of the year always away , coming home weekends and I used to have to cook and do his washing and pack him up for going off again Monday morning early , but he never was near home working then , and as I say the night before he went he was , he was gon na work on the Monday to in Old , to Harlow down where the new er place was for and it unfortunately cos he went . |
| 22 | My foot went on the |
| 23 | On the way down I had my camera tied to my waist and it started to drop ; in trying to grab it I lost my balance , got my foot caught in the tree root , took a tumble and twisted my ankle . |
| 24 | Such is the power of suggestion that that night as I neared the top of the staircase , my foot stumbled on the last step but one . |
| 25 | They were having an intense and appropriately heated discussion on the problems of cold-spots ( as evinced by the fact that their first attempts came out looking like braille roundels ) , and on the unfortunate instability of three poppadoms balanced together — caused not so much by the jerk they received when the turntable started up as by their movements while they cooked and swelled — but eventually my flatmates settled on the concept of standing the things up individually on the glass turntable , and so instigated what they termed a ‘ brainstorming session ’ in an attempt to find a suitable support mechanism . |
| 26 | I put him back in his stable again , complete with an enormous amount of bandaging and went home to wait for my vet to phone with the results of the x-rays . |
| 27 | ’ I spend most of my time working so most of my money goes in the bank for a rainy day or for my children 's education . |
| 28 | ‘ But when my contract expires at the end of the season I 'll be keeping my fingers crossed that one of the top clubs will be interested in signing me . |
| 29 | It was a battle of weight versus cost , a battle which , to my husband 's dismay , I usually lost and we would have to pay over the odds to have my cases stowed in the hold of the Jumbo . |
| 30 | I left my cases parked on the quay , and made my way into the post office . |