Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's bad luck for all them blokes in the other counties what never ‘ ad Sandham and the rest to ‘ elp ‘ em , ’ commented the Van Boy . |
| 2 | Their dossiers should be kept complete , as complete as those of my friends to whom copies of the present missive have been sent . |
| 3 | If your library does not participate in the work of the SUC , or if you are currently considering automation and would like advice on automated input , tape compatibility , etc. , please contact Eileen Watson , the Editor of the SUC at Lending Services , from whom copies of the full results of the questionnaire survey can also be obtained . |
| 4 | To become an agent , these social secretaries simply have to reverse their roles with the agents who have been selling them acts for the previous few years . |
| 5 | ‘ About time someone put down them niggers like the mad dogs they are , ’ someone cried , raising a laugh from his rescuers . |
| 6 | Israeli security forces carried out a series of raids in the West Bank on Jan. 22 resulting in the arrest of at least 60 Palestinians , most of them supporters of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) . |
| 7 | This episode has not changed my attitude to the job of managing Celtic and I will be going before the board at a later date to give them my plans for the immediate future . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ This episode has not changed my attitude to managing Celtic and I will be going before the board to give them my plans for the future ’ Liam Brady |
| 9 | With this in mind , I sent my plans to the Special Air Service Regiment , reputedly the best collective authority in Britain on desert survival , and asked them to comment . |
| 10 | Before expressing my views about the remaining issues , I think it helpful to set out shortly the general principles of law which are applicable to the Secretary of State 's decision-making process . |
| 11 | ‘ I put my views to the Chief Secretary , ’ he said calmly , ‘ before he left for London . |
| 12 | You have a love bite on your neck , yet you go on asking me for my views on the multicultural society , on secularism , on Darcian Monetarism . |
| 13 | Thank you for inviting my views on the above consultation document . |
| 14 | It was impossible to imagine a people — ; I do not say a government — with less relish for war , if my contacts with the Italian colonists and equally with the Italian army were any guide . |
| 15 | Here are my notes on the recent form of the top châteaux : |
| 16 | I enjoy having my work and my cases in the national press . |
| 17 | Neither my wins in the European Championships and European Cup nor my two British records had ever made the front page — but the fact that I would n't run in a relay team had . |
| 18 | While the magnificence of the result could justify the fact that The Red Shoes cost twice as much as The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp , there were many cases where the extravagance worked against the final result , and Michael Powell has recalled that he became ‘ impatient at the complacency of my associates about the mounting costs of our films . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I sank down on my knees and thrust my fingers into the dry warm sand . ’ |
| 20 | I did n't much care ; it was only the clumsiness of my fingers around the dip-in pen which was at fault , and nothing more intimate . |
| 21 | Instinctively , I dipped my fingers in the holy water and crossed myself , remembering the Catholic aunt in South Armagh who 'd raised me for a while as a child and had anguished over my black little Protestant soul . |
| 22 | In my discussions with the regional councils for sport and recreation — There is a football hooligan shouting from the Opposition Benches — |
| 23 | In my discussions with the individual artists , then I have focussed on the ‘ particular ’ , specifically the artist 's concerns within their work and their experience as women working within the context of the art college . |
| 24 | The process which I adopted for validating my accounts of the various meetings I attended , may have undermined my stance as a non-participant . |
| 25 | However , David Chadwick , a member of the Liberal Democrats group on the council , said : ‘ All my requests to the chief executive of the council for financial details about this company have been turned down . |
| 26 | ‘ I am only sorry that my requests for the Public Accounts Committee to investigate royal travel costs as well as the cost of the royal palaces was not agreed to . ’ |
| 27 | One of my contemporaries in the English Department was , now Professor of Linguistics in the School of English and American Studies at the University of East Anglia . |
| 28 | But then , just at the point where my doubts about the external world had become a crescendo and I was certain that revelation was nigh , some glitch would occur . |
| 29 | So now here I am — Mrs Tamm wo n't leave her desk — not heading back to my own room and my labours on the great Assessment , but in the back parts of the building where I have never been before , picking my way blindly along the twisting ad hoc corridors , up and down odd arbitrary stairs , in the faint hope of ( seeing also ) . |
| 30 | The result , agreed in a hard-hitting threeminute session involving no agents , or even contracts , is that my performances in the coming cricket season have a price on them . |