Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Play another sound effect — perhaps a door opening , keys jangling , a car moving off , a bomb exploding , or a dog barking — and it becomes difficult not to link the two sounds together and make them part of the same story . |
| 2 | Disillusion me and get my sympathy at the same time . |
| 3 | President , delegates , when this resolution was drawn up and passed by my branch at the latter part of nineteen ninety two , we understood the text of Chancellor Lamont 's Autumn Statement regarding public sector workers and a ceiling of one point five per cent on pay increases starting in nineteen ninety three . |
| 4 | How many responsibilities of a disparate nature did I have to hold in my mind at the same time ? |
| 5 | She makes my tea with the same water she boils the eggs , she says she do n't but I know better and you know what that does . |
| 6 | I 've learned the application techniques from the most talented people in the business and I know how to make the most of my make-up with the least effort and time . |
| 7 | Interested , I asked him to whack my bottom with the same instrument and urged him to do it properly so that I could feel what it was like — he did so and I was only just able to restrain my tears it hurt so much . |
| 8 | Perhaps my allegiance to the latter may in part be conditioned by the fact that grew up in its company , in which case I should similarly prefer Fritz Reiner 's 78s of the Shostakovich Sixth ( Columbia , 6/37 ) , which I also bought as a schoolboy . |
| 9 | Had I taken up my station on the same day two , three or even four hundred years earlier the same spectacle would have presented itself , completely unchanged . |
| 10 | This being that you cut off my head at the same time . ’ |
| 11 | well my Lord in the same way that they 've erm repeated the fund in the past |
| 12 | 1869 ] and finish my doctorate at the same time . " |
| 13 | And then you mentioned Thorn House , and my birth on the same day as Donna , and she was so shocked she spilled her tea . |
| 14 | Mr is very different we must all be protected , I 've worked out my bill as the same as this year because no way shall I spend seventeen and a half percent more money I shall be as careful as I can and I sha n't starve and I sha n't get cold now I 've worked out that the V A T on my fuel bill is eight hundred and eighty five pounds , I 'd delighted if Mr could perform the trick and I need n't pay it , on behalf of the Duke of Westminster , the Duke of Rutland , I think I can also thank him . |
| 15 | I would go to my chamber on the same gallery as poor Cosmas and , of course , notice something was wrong . |
| 16 | If you obey my command you will o remain in my love in the same way that I have obeyed my Father 's commands and remain in his love . |
| 17 | ‘ You have chosen to follow me , as your fathers chose to follow my grandfather against the same enemy . |
| 18 | I saw that he was examining my face during the same silence . |
| 19 | I 'd slave my guts out on a case and think I 'd got it settled and a week later the woman would turn up in my office with the same dreary tale . |
| 20 | Finally , if Germany did become the true economic locomotive of Europe , then she could demand support from Europe if her economic strength ever began to falter , thus exploiting her weakness in the same way as she will exploit her strength . |
| 21 | It 's the second incident of its kind on the same stretch of motorway , in two days . |
| 22 | Women even cut their hair in the same style . |
| 23 | Again , if I call my mother and her sister by the same term ( 'mother' ) , then both behave maternally towards me — though not necessarily with the same intensity of feeling . |
| 24 | With the backing of President North , the Josephite Church was building its sanctuary in the former state of Utah . |
| 25 | There is no such thing , mind you , as private property for nine tenths of the population : its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence for those nine tenths . |
| 26 | The compensation claim was of symbolic importance to the Sandinistas and followed a 1986 ruling by the International Court of Justice that the US had broken international law and had committed illegal acts in its support of the former contras . |
| 27 | Indeed , so close is the degree of correspondence between prosecution preference and decision as to venue ( 96 per cent according to one study : Riley and Vennard , 1999 ) that magistrates might almost be said to have sub-delegated their responsibility to the latter . |
| 28 | Had the two been at their prime in the same era Scotland 's midfield would have made Dirty Harry look like a wimp . |
| 29 | I am sure that the House wished to join him in sending its sympathy to the many victims , some of whom may have suffered irreparable damage . |
| 30 | In January 1983 , the water content of reservoirs in South Africa had fallen to 50 per cent of its level at the same time last year , and the 1982 maize crop was 40 per cent lower than the record of 40 million tonnes harvested in 1981 . |