Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the south level 37,000 acres went under water , and the chief engineer of the Great Ouse catchment board considered it the worst fen flood since the time of Vermuyden . |
| 2 | The moment I touched the ground I knew why — the excessive ( to me — but normal to Tiree residents ) wind whipped me and my heavily laden briefcase into the lounge where Peter McMillan , Manager of Scarinish Branch offered me the relative calm of his car . |
| 3 | King David shows us the way when he says , ‘ It is good to give thanks to the Lord … and make thy praise our pride . ’ |
| 4 | Even at its simplest your intervention — supports the children in their role-play introduces the idea that you , the teacher , can play a role yourself creates the possibility of formalising their language creates the possibility of introducing some simple work in other curriculum areas ( e.g. counting ) encourages them to think beyond the immediate , maybe introducing simple notions of cause and effect narrative gives you the opportunity to introduce simple signals indicating when you are in and out of role , thereby accustoming them to this strategy for when you use it later in a whole group drama . |
| 5 | Since 1892 , we at Bob Martin have been developing , improving , refining and perfecting our Flea Treatments , Wormers and Condition Tablets to make them the best you can get your paws on . |
| 6 | Sussex , though , are unlikely to be among the cynical chorus , not after their slip-up against the Minor Counties on a Marlow marsh made them the 14th first-class county in 55– or 6–overs play to have their colours lowered by junior opposition . |
| 7 | Monsieur Saulnier informed me the other day that it was not usual in this part of Normandy to have so many mosquitoes . |
| 8 | But I have never forgotten advice that my research adviser gave me the first time that I was pursuing a dead end : ‘ It is important to recognise when to quit . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It 's a fine idea , but Mrs. Olinton told me the other day that Mr. Olinton would n't lend any of his buildings to Scouts or Guides or Brownies or Cubs . |
| 10 | His cheesecutter hat and Burberry overcoat gave him the look of a working class spiv . |
| 11 | He admitted that Estella was his housekeeper 's daughter , adopted by Miss Havisham to give her the chance of a better life . |
| 12 | The silver pince-nez gave him the air of a rather unpleasant schoolmaster . |
| 13 | ‘ When Data General showed us the changeover to the AV4100 , it took an hour , ’ says Geoffrey Holmes , a former publisher of ACCOUNTANCY who has been helping to re-implement the system . |
| 14 | A beggar lad showed us the house in a dank , narrow alleyway where Mistress Hopkins lived . |
| 15 | He and another left-hander , the more dashing 21-year-old Robert Samuels , provided Jamaica with the batting stability they have so often lacked and captain Courtney Walsh gave them the bowling penetration with a tournament record 36 wickets at 11.30 each that combined to regain the Cup for Jamaica from Barbados , their third success in the last five seasons . |
| 16 | In recent times I have been able to go down to the hostel , where my good friend Richard Megson gives me the opportunity to wash in lovely hot water . |
| 17 | KEITH RAMSEY 'S match-winning shot for Manchester Giants in the 105-104 victory over Sunderland 76ers on Tuesday night made him the toast of the Stretford Sports Centre , particularly as all of their supporters had been confined to the bar . |
| 18 | So many of the stories were wild exaggerations , inflamed by a number of factors — the ‘ culture contact ’ between rural and urban society , personal resentment ( particularly if two women were forced to share the same kitchen ) , the strangeness of the whole situation at the start of a frightening new war , or simply as Angus Calder put it the English tendency to confuse manners with morals . |
| 19 | Match referee Deryck Murray confiscated the match ball after umpires John Hampshire and Ken Palmer showed him the scarred leather . |
| 20 | Yet , unable to refuse the implied reproach , Celia sat down in the antique rocking chair she had bought and allowed Miss Maynard to pass her the child . |
| 21 | Scarborough were disappointed that a deep frost on their ground — named , ironically , after frozen food manufacturers McCain denied them the chance to face Arsenal . |
| 22 | In many societies David McKnight tells me the man who does the circumcision who actually chops off the foreskins as it were , owes you a wife for it and he says in many of them if you give a man your foreskin then you 've got a right to demand a wife . |
| 23 | The Italian , French and Austrian industry ministers tell us the same . |
| 24 | The legendary Enzo Ferrari rates him the best driver ever , and coming from the man with Ferrari 's wealth of experience and knowledge , he must be right . |
| 25 | A search party found him the next day , dead from exposure . |
| 26 | Acutely embarrassed by this unexpected disclosure , the British government hastily added a clause to the 1911 Official Secrets Act giving it the right to see copies of all cables if an emergency existed . |
| 27 | how to distinguish a statistically significant coefficient , right , rule of thumb is that the T ratio has to be greater than two with absolute value right and the figures in square brackets next to the T ratios tell us the exact level of significance , right , er of that coefficient , right , so the incoming elasticity of demand is statistically significant from zero only at the eighty five percent level , a correspondence of fifteen percent significance that incoming the price elasticity demand , highly significant , right , significance level as given by the probabil by the probability er unit in square brackets , the timing level therefore we could be very highly confident about that coefficient okay . |
| 28 | Being signed by Hampshire as replacement for Andy Roberts just a few months after his Test debut gave him the chance to impress Clive Lloyd in county matches and in 1982 he really came good with 134 wickets , the best season 's haul since the reduction in championship matches in 1969 . |
| 29 | Health Home Cooking shows you the new way to serve food that 's light , tempting and satisfyingly nourishing . |
| 30 | No wonder Spurs rate them the best they have faced . |