Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd just got my licence and I drove into Manhattan , because I got my licence the day I turned sixteen . |
| 2 | As soon as I loosened my grip the tiniest fraction — say to alter the angle of insertion from one that caused grievous bodily harm to one that was only very uncomfortable — the damned thing sprang into a new incarnation as a frisbee and shot across the room . |
| 3 | This resulted in a great deal of correspondence between myself and the Development Corporation and at the end of it I told my wife the best thing to do was to hand her notice in as there was no chance of us ever getting a house in Harlow , fortunately her services were much more seriously in demand then we imagined and the company nominated us for one , a house which is allocated to one of their executives , the house that we 're living in now and have lived in ever since nineteen sixty three . |
| 4 | I turned my face the other way . ’ |
| 5 | POWELL : Oh yes , I enjoyed your speech the other day . |
| 6 | Howard thought for a few moments and then said , ‘ I think I know what time the next plane leaves for London . ’ |
| 7 | PLAYER : And I know which way the wind is blowing . |
| 8 | getting attacked in pubs you know like that 's happened to me , being verbally assaulted in the street has happened to me because I am with my lover who is a woman , who publicly I can not show like that love , publicly you know cos oh I 'm scared of violence you know , I like my face the way it is . |
| 9 | I like your man the , the goalkeeper |
| 10 | and I get my book the following Monday . |
| 11 | Did I take your pound the other day ? |
| 12 | The screening of Brazilian film Pixote sold out and Ilors la Vie , a film about a photographer kidnapped in Beirut , caused someone to phone our Secretary the very next day and ask to join Amnesty . |
| 13 | Out of a crowd of more than three hundred I noticed Sir Jocelyn Lucas , with whom I had never exchanged a word , making his way determinedly in my direction , and I watched him breast the wave like Captain Webb , twisting and turning . |
| 14 | I called her baby the Dust Baby and bought him clothes from a shop in Nassau before I left . |
| 15 | but she liv I saw her Nan the other day and like her Nan , I do n't cos her Nan always invites me round . |
| 16 | ‘ I have been around too long to take anything for granted so when I saw which way the wind was blowing I just buckled down and got on with playing . ’ |
| 17 | I saw my father the night he was murdered . ’ |
| 18 | Oh I beg your pardon the deposit cheque . |
| 19 | I wonder what price the bookies would give us for a Central South treble ; that 's Oxford to win the Boat Race , Gloucester to reach the Cup Final and Swindon to beat West Brom . |
| 20 | Cos I hurt my finger the other day . |
| 21 | When I reach its head the man in charge goes away to conduct a transaction involving cardboard boxes . |
| 22 | By the time I reach my car the sack is giving way completely . |
| 23 | Of Reason In Because I was late I missed my turn the clause because I was late tells why I missed my turn . |
| 24 | When he does have something to say he does so politely , almost shyly , but with a touch of the tongue-in-cheek humour which made his father the darling of the fans in the Sixties and Seventies . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It is an invaluable ‘ workshop ’ in which to teach your teenager the art of compromise . |
| 27 | Each cell is a unit : it contains genes in the form of DNA , which determine what form the cell will take ; and it contains machinery for protecting and for carrying out the ‘ instructions ’ of those genes . |
| 28 | But if he has to do it all over again , there are likely to be two main changes : a tougher approach from the start and a campaign team which knows what time the Nine O'Clock News starts . |
| 29 | He lacks the star quality which makes its possessor the automatic focus of attention . |
| 30 | Thank you for your recent letter , it is always useful for me to hear what use the publications that I have sent out were put to . |