Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] the [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a spare one lying around We 'd finished u er stopped using them during the war some time during the war . |
| 2 | She expected to take them through the process several times , demonstrating the skills and strategies involved , and gradually increasing the amount which they were able to tackle independently , before they could manage by themselves . |
| 3 | At home , while Ministers are careful not to use such words as ‘ green shoots ’ in public , they use them off the record all the time to political journalists , who dutifully pass the message on to the reading public . |
| 4 | It 's becoming fashionable to buy in rather than build specialised servers — IBM Corp and Digital Equipment Corp are both doing it , and now ICL Plc has gone to Burlington , Massachusetts-based Xylogics Inc for the Annex Three and Micro Annex XL communications servers under an OEM agreement that will see the UK company marketing them as the DRS local network terminal server line with its DRS 6000 range of Sparc-based and DRS 3000 iAPX-86-based Unix systems . |
| 5 | But whatever their position is by Wednesday , supporters hope to see them put their disappointments behind them for the Aldershot Senior Cup final . |
| 6 | Labour candidate Frank Cook told Mr Fowler to recognise the difficulties of thousands of pensioners and families in the constituency living below the poverty line , and to apologise to them for the agony 13 years of Tory rule has caused them . |
| 7 | You like yams ? ’ he asks as he hurries me through the West Indian greengrocer 's and out the back . |
| 8 | ‘ Got some new tablets to get me through the Season supposed to be revolutionary — solve all problems . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ We were at Desnogorsk to start the first phase of an 18-month partnership programme between the Smolensk station and ourselves under the TACIS 92 programme ’ , said Arthur . |
| 10 | There must be someone in the group older than 35 . |
| 11 | ‘ In the same way , I feel sorry for John Lukic , who will be reminded about that punch of his in the Rangers-Leeds European Cup tie until he 's blue in the face . |
| 12 | The parents , he was convinced , had perceived nothing of the incident last Thursday , and therefore he was happy to relegate it to the back of his mind , and do nothing further about it . |
| 13 | I was allowed no anaesthetic because I was so drunk , but felt nothing of the emergency dental surgery or stitches . |
| 14 | She knew nothing of the future other than that it was an inhospitable fog that no-one had any choice but to enter , but she was certain that there was a scene all laid-out and waiting for her where she brought in the name of the man — or woman — who 'd first talked to Chrissie and then run her down . |
| 15 | The renationalisation of the water industry would cost £3.8 billion — and that is to say absolutely nothing of the £28 billion programme which is currently in place and which will run for the rest of the decade . |
| 16 | In England it has often been disputed whether there is any regional feeling and obviously there is nothing of the quasi-nationalism evident in Scotland and Wales . |
| 17 | ‘ What really attracted me to this hat was its shape — it reminded me of the ones American tourists wear . ’ |
| 18 | Pleased , that is , until I discovered that I had forgotten to bring the tea bags — the subsequent ‘ Well , why did n't you bring them then 's , ‘ Why is it always my fault 's reminded me of the Quentin Crisp line that marriage was impossible for him because he could not have tolerated an endless succession of mornings when the first words he heard were , ‘ And another thing ’ — and that there were no birds . |
| 19 | Their dependent variable constituted 105 large companies ( drawn from the 500 largest firms in the US ) which during the period 1968–72 were involved in trade litigation for committing , or having being accused of committing , one or more of the following : price discrimination , tying arrangements , refusal to deal , exclusive dealing , franchise violation , price fixing , foreclosure of entry , reciprocity , allocation of markets , monopoly , conspiracy , and illegal mergers and acquisitions . |
| 20 | Its the , its for the Oxford English Dictionary , its erm , what they 're doing is they 're making up a Dictionary for just using everyday collocation and they |
| 21 | His film of Henry V , with himself as the rabble rousing monarch backed by a troupe of glittering British heavyweights , opens on October 6 . |
| 22 | If we look at each of the consonants just mentioned and see which of the features each one has , we get a table like this , where + means that a phoneme does possess that feature and — means that it does not : |
| 23 | In short , unless there is somebody behind the idea willing to take the risk of speaking up for it , the idea will evaporate and disappear . |
| 24 | With neighbouring diners sitting too close to have a conversation without being overheard , D'Arcy contented himself with the family small talk whilst he made the most of the lobster fricassée . |
| 25 | He may raise the matter directly himself with the authority concerned . |
| 26 | He had been elected floor leader in 1986 , a post which in the Netherlands political system was comparable to that of party leader . |
| 27 | Kuroda advocates the training of farmers in modern pest control methods , like those successfully applied by Indonesia , which in the mid-1980s banned pesticides such as those being donated to Cambodia and replaced them with a programme of integrated pest management ( IPM ) , which aims to exploit the natural weaknesses of a pest and shift the balance in favour of its predators . |
| 28 | Perhaps somebody in the EMI top management will rattle a few cages in their American office and get them to take note of Mr Lewis 's efforts for the British market . |
| 29 | ‘ You can tell your father , ’ she went on in a low voice , ‘ there 's plenty in the valley willing to help . |
| 30 | We 've got somebody from the Oxford English er dictionary compilation er arena , with us today and I , I , I 'm almost tempted to ask Clare what wh what , what the definition of the word quality is actually . |