Example sentences of "[pron] [vb pp] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can have them fried the next day . |
| 2 | As I mentioned early the , the city of Sermaria it was under siege and the army of Seria was encamped all around it , Ben Hadad was a great warrior , he would of been the , the Alexander or the Napoleon of his day and he had set up this encampment around the city of Sermaria , nobody could get in , nobody could get out and very quickly the stocks of food and water er were used up , rationing would of been introduced but it only lasted for a certain period , they 'd got to the stage it tells us in the previous chapter that er , that a donkeys head was sold for eighty shekel 's of silver and some folk had even got to the , had sunk to the level of cannibalism , of eating their own children and the city was , when they heard about this they were in an uproar and they started blaming god and in between the city of Sermaria of all its suffering and hopelessness and helplessness and the army encamped about with all of their supplies , there was this area of no mans land in which they were caught up four men who were leapers and they were trapped there , they did n't want to go over to the Serians because they 'd be killed , they did n't want to go back into the city because they were n't allowed there and any way what was the point , they 'd only die of starvation in there and so these four men are caught up in no man 's land and yet their no better off than people in the city , now god had promised deliverance , through his serve and Eliger he had promised deliverance , Eliger said tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour shall be sold for a se shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel in the gate of Semaria , he said the gates are gon na be open , there 's gon na be food and its gon na be a reasonable price and it says the royal officer who 's hand the king was leaning on said the man of god said behold , if the lord shall make windows in heaven could such a thing be , he said do n't talk stupid man , how can such a thing happen for us ? , he did n't believe what god servant said and Eliger brings out to him a terrible judgment , he says because of your unbelief you will see it , but your not participate in it but lets look at these four men for a moment , cos that 's where our real interest lies this morning , I just wanted to say three things in their experience , the first things is that they were amazed that , at what they found , because after they come together and they talk about it and they said well what shall we do and they weighed the pro 's and the cons and Semaria does n't look very attractive with its cannibalism , they said well the least if we stay here were gon na die , if we go into Semaria we 'll die , lets go down to the Serein camp , the worse they can do to us is put us to death and were dying men any way , but they may just take pity on us , we maybe allowed to grope around in their dustbins and get some scraps of food , they may at least allow us that , and so they make their way down just as evening is falling , they make their way down to the Serein lines and when they get there , they are amazed at what they find , you see their condition was helpless and hopeless , they were dying men any way , they were lepers , but they were dying of starvation , that was far more imminent than their leprosy , their problems and their needs were greater than themselves , they could not meet their own needs , their problems and their needs were greater than their government , the king in Semaria and all of his court could not meet the needs of his people and then in verse five , we read something there , they arose at twilight to go to the camp of Aramians or the Serein 's and when they came to the outskirts of the camp of the Serein 's behold there was no one there , they expected to at least meet a guard , there would surely be somebody on sentry duty even if the rest of the soldiers had gone in to their tents and were perhaps getting ready for their , for the evening , going to bed or whatever they were gon na be doing , having their evening meal , there would at least be somebody on guard duty , but when they got there , there was no one there , god had stepped in , god had intervened and the good news of the Christian gospel is that god has intervened in our , in the midst of our helplessness , in the midst of our hopelessness , god has intervened , he had stepped in to history , so often you 'll hear folks say , well why does n't god do something , why does god allow this to happen , why does god allow that one , why does n't he do something all they really show by that comment is their own ignorance , because god has done something , god has intervened , listen to what it says in John three sixteen , for god so loved the world that he gave , he 's only son and the er , the er apostle Paul and he 's writing to the Gallations , in chapter four and in verses four and five hear what he says there , but when the time had fully come god sent his son , born of a woman , born under law to redeem those under law that we might receive the full rights of son , er of sons , god has done something , he 's sent his son Jesus Christ into this world in fact his done the greatest thing he could do , he has done the very ultimate thing , he has sent his son into the world that 's the greatest intervention god could ever have made , it was far greater than , than just intervening in sm , in some small local event , were you see some catastrophe happening and you say well why does n't god do something there , or there 's a war situation going on in some other part of the world , well why does n't god step in and stop it , god has stepped in , not in a local situation , not in some er passing problem or need but he 's stepped into the greatest way possible by sending his son Jesus Christ into the world to dye for men and woman , to take away sin , to pay the price that god 's righteousness demands for sin so god has intervened and his intervention has changed the whole situation , its brought a whole new complexion on things , its changed the colour completely , no longer is the world now under darkness and in , and in pending judgment in doom , because Jesus Christ came and he took that judgment and that , that condemnation upon himself , he said I 've not come to condemn the world he said its already condemned , its already under judgement , the sword of Damocles is already hanging over the world and Jesus Christ came in and to take that judgment and that condemnation on himself and when he died there on the cross and rose again , there came that burst of light in a world that had been shrouded in blackness and darkness , a world that had been shrouded in sin suddenly for the first time sees the light , god has paid for himself the price of sin , god has intervened and changed the whole situation and the message of the gospel is that if you and I allow that intervention to effect us personally , then like those four men surely we too are amazed at what we 've found . |
| 3 | now I done the blue sky we 've got to do |
| 4 | So I , I spent the night thinking oh dear , have I done the wrong thing now ? |
| 5 | every time I done the down stroke |
| 6 | Had I seen the extraordinary edition of the Observer newspaper , carrying extracts from the government 's official report into the Al Fayeds ' purchase of the House of Fraser group ? |
| 7 | How have I seen the casual passer through the Cloisters stand still , intranced with admiration ( while he weighed the disproportion between the speech and the garb of the young Mirandula ) , to hear thee unfold , in thy deep and sweet intonations , the mysteries of Jamblichus , or Plotinus ( for even in those years thou waxedst not pale at such philosophic draughts ) , or reciting Homer in his Greek , or Pindar — while the walls of the old Grey Friars re-echoed to the accents of the inspired charity-boy ! |
| 8 | ‘ I 've shared the same ball as Waqar and Wasim all series , so why have n't I had the same degree of success ? |
| 9 | What I have said about Nottingham I would also have said about East Sussex had I had the same information . |
| 10 | Have I got the right number ? |
| 11 | Have I got the right term ? |
| 12 | Have I got the slightest reason in the world to be unhappy ? |
| 13 | Not only had I gained the technical degree I 'd been chasing , but I 'd finally achieved a position in a business when I could use that expertise to its full potential . |
| 14 | The trouble was I chose the wrong product if I hoped to make myself a fortune . |
| 15 | Had I left the Golden Turk to commit murder , or was I telling the truth about being drugged and placed in Ralemberg 's garden after the dreadful crimes had been committed ? |
| 16 | Had I taken the latter course , the result might have been embarrassment rather than accident . |
| 17 | One officer , a really nice screw , a senior officer called Mrs [ R ] , understood why I wanted to be moved off the pregnant house and got me moved the next day . |
| 18 | St Ives freely admitted his nerves were in fragments , what with Dawn Allenby 's recent caper and the tragic death earlier that morning of the boy who had severed an artery on Haggerty 's steps , but why had nobody reprimanded the stage-door keeper for listening to the wireless during a performance ? |
| 19 | Scobie is surely right when , with regard to Let Us Compare Mythologies he says that the title ‘ seems to indicate that Cohen himself regarded the religious sense as the primary one ’ — which in The Spice-Box Of Earth becomes completely explicit and even urgent . |
| 20 | Through the right of his mother , Edward had himself claimed the French crown when it fell vacant in 1328 , but probably more in hope than expectation , for in the following year and again in 1331 he acknowledged Philip VI 's lordship of Gascony ; not until 1337 was his own interest in the French crown voiced again . |
| 21 | After leaving Paris where he had attended the CSCE conference on Nov. 19-21 [ see pp. 37838-39 ] , Bush had himself visited the Middle East from Nov. 21 , spending the following day ( the US Thanksgiving Day ) with US troops in Saudi Arabia , meeting King Fahd there and Egypt 's President Mubarak in Cairo , and returning via Geneva where he had a meeting on Nov. 23 with President Assad of Syria . |
| 22 | ‘ Cos a lot of the fans have got theirs done the same way now . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Cos a lot of the fans have got theirs done the same way now . ’ |
| 24 | yeah , I 've , I 've seen it , its got the same dog as in the story teller |
| 25 | As Gorbachev had himself told the Central Committee in February 1988 , in the ideological sphere above all they must be guided by their Marxist-Leninist principles and not forgo them under any circumstances . |
| 26 | A heavy gypsy with an untamed beard and sparrow hands , who introduced himself as Melquíades , put on a bold public demonstration of what he himself called the eighth wonder of the learned alchemists of Macedonia . |
| 27 | President Venkataraman then attempted to replace him by transferring Surjit Singh Barnala , the Governor of Tamil Nadu , who had himself incurred the central government 's displeasure in late January when he refused formally to recommend the imposition of president 's rule . |
| 28 | Lobsang Senior , ill-equipped with one eye and welly boots , scrambled up a steep snow slope above the bend and reappeared on a rocky platform which overhung the blue-water grave . |
| 29 | She 'd never seen either of us in a suit before — we were running them in , checking for labels we 'd missed and so on — and we had stood on her doorstep as if we were about to launch into the ‘ Have you heard the Good News … ’ routine . |
| 30 | Some fella told me that only a couple of weeks ago , but the greatest rip off of them all , have you heard the greatest rip off about Betty and the , and the roof ? |