Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trouble is that I am not a tea-drinker , and so my plants get only the occasional treat when guests visit . |
| 2 | However , I will ask my colleagues to consider again the hon. Gentleman 's point to see what substance we can make of it . |
| 3 | The European Commission 's COMETT programme is aimed at high-level technology training , and its projects bring together the providers and users of training . |
| 4 | She was right of course , he knew that , but her words hurt just the same . |
| 5 | ‘ But it is n't , ’ she cried , frantic now as her words brought home the enormity of what was happening . |
| 6 | Their forefingers imitated the movements of the pen , looping and daubing across the table-top , while their lips mouthed silently the same slow words . |
| 7 | The reciprocal relationship between pamphlet and newspaper insertion was only one way in which reformers used both the London and provincial press . |
| 8 | From their feet stretched away the plain of shaggy grass , a wild lawn of weeds , buttercups , dandelions and lady 's smock in full bloom . |
| 9 | Although the therapist was probably correct in initially providing a chance for Pamela to express her worries to someone outside the family , she should have progressed as soon as possible to helping Pamela and her parents tackle together the problems surrounding their communication and lack of mutual trust . |
| 10 | Other birds , however , can be said with accuracy to weave , for they create the fabric of their nests using exactly the same principles as human weavers employ when they interlace a weft thread between parallel warp threads to create cloth . |
| 11 | Last year the general assembly gave to the Board of Social Responsibility a task of coordinating the work of the church in this field and we are proud now to be able to report to the general assembly that the work done by the assembly 's various Boards and by numerous local initiatives make the Church of Scotland the nation 's leading provider of services to the victims of H I V and to their families delivering both the most extensive and the most comprehensive service to these people within Scotland . |
| 12 | However , my regional director has worked closely with it in its efforts to bring together the public and private sector throughout Devon and Cornwall . |
| 13 | And because their partners are seen as naturally more ambitious and less compromising than themselves , the women then go on to describe themselves as lucky and ‘ grateful ’ if their partners make even the smallest contribution to household affairs . |
| 14 | There she wept for her sins and her tears washed away the blood ; The form in which this sermon harnesses the pressure of fear as well as the promise of comfort , provides a recognisable cultural context for the form of Margery Kempe 's initial vision of salvation and witnesses to the high esteem in which tears as a sign of spiritual grace were held in the fifteenth century . |
| 15 | We operate a postal lending service for books and journals , for which members pay only the return postage . |
| 16 | Moreover , audit committees function most effectively when their members understand clearly the financial reporting process , the types of issue that can affect that process , and the relationships between management , auditors and regulators . |
| 17 | In the end it was left to Jose-Maria Canizares , the oldest man in either side , to secure the point which assured Europe of a tie , before the final four Americans on the course won their matches to produce just the second stalemate in a series stretching back to 1927 , and the first for 20 years . |
| 18 | Only that was n't much consolation at the moment , she admitted , as she began to walk up and down , flapping her arms to drive away the permeating cold . |
| 19 | Absently , she rubbed at her arms to keep away the chill that swept over her . |
| 20 | Despite her long exile , she remained deeply attached to the Episcopalian church , raising her children to love both the Bible and Savannah , where roses blossomed in the dead of winter . |
| 21 | Its tasks remained much the same . |
| 22 | It was considered one of the advanced mills , advanced in that their employees worked only the ten-hour day and finished work at one o'clock on a Saturday . |
| 23 | The new Whig government of 1832 instituted a Royal Commission on the Poor Laws whose agents pieced together the first really comprehensive picture of the situation and a single answer to it . |
| 24 | He had been accused early on in the play by Agydeus that he was too barbaric to offer Zenocrate any amorous discourse , yet he manages to produce a lovely speech for her where he talks about he stunning beauty and his love for her : ‘ Zenocrate , the loveliest maid alive … whose eyes are brighter than the lamps of heaven … that with thy looks canst clear the darkened sky ’ . |
| 25 | His coat and waistcoat swiftly followed it and his fingers ripped away the neckcloth about his throat , heedless of the ruin they effected . |
| 26 | Orwell in his notes offers only the ghost of an answer when he remarks that Waugh 's loyalty was to a form of society no longer viable , ‘ of which he must be aware ’ . |
| 27 | Advancing beyond the purely decorative rococo Gothic of William Kent [ q.v. ] , his designs reflected both the beginnings of a more scholarly approach to Gothic detail and the sentimental appeal of medieval buildings . |
| 28 | Having taken the field with his directors to become surely the first board to be cheered to the rafters , he was presented with a cheque . |
| 29 | Among those present was Master John Prophet , dean of Hereford , who among his pluralities numbered also the deanery of St Chad 's at Shrewsbury , the king 's privy clerk , and soon to be his secretary . |
| 30 | Macmillan briefly concluded : " We had a conference with the general and his officers covering much the same ground as those with Gens McCreery and Harding yesterday . |