Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.

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61 The final contents of the budget are only revealed to the Cabinet the day before the Chancellor presents it to the House of Commons , when it is too late for any major changes .
62 Instead , Mauriac tells us about the books he 's read , the painters he 's liked , the plays he 's seen .
63 The thought of caged chicken reminds me of the occasion — I was about seven at the time — when my father lost his rather large , pompous cockbird who dominated his twelve wives .
64 The neck button disappeared — but not the buttonhole — and today a wedding boutonnière reminds us of the sporting ancestry of the coat .
65 A –rain of plastic sailed stunters , with tubular tails trailing to follow the flight path , as that great showman Peter Powell steers them from the sunroof of a moving car .
66 Regan declares it to the man himself ( V.i.6ff. ) , as the egoism they each pursue turns the two sisters into deadly rivals ( 15f. , 18f . ) .
67 Advent reminds us of the significance of God 's time .
68 And — funny — my tender breast of chicken filled with garlic butter and herbs sauteed in sunflower oil with savoury rice and side salad reminds me of the chicken Kiev we occasionally buy in the supermarket .
69 He is upset at the lack of activity and howls appallingly , but when Odd-Knut tries him on the trace he is clearly crippled and in pain .
70 Tod likes it in the clubroom , but there is a man here whom he hates and fears .
71 In the story of the rich man and Lazarus , the rich man 's wealth insulates him from the poverty and the suffering of Lazarus .
72 Now it does n't matter what I say to him or how hard Phil Boersma works him in the gym or in training — Barnes has to do it himself .
73 The Ego is our internal saboteur , our own worst enemy , which con fines us to the dark cellars of our mind .
74 A butterfly sticks them on the leaves of the particular plant that her caterpillars eat ; a blowfly on the dead flesh that her maggots will relish ; and some wasps , for the sake of their young , become body-snatchers .
75 The what question provides us with the next guideline :
76 But assuming Collor 's Brazil makes it into the ranks of the developed world , it will do so at the lowest level of eligibility , on a par with the East European countries .
77 We are grateful for a flysheet-pitch-first tent in the Tromsdalen campsite and as we work speedily on its erection , the man in the camp reception hut watches us through the windows .
78 The yellow shirt orders me off the bed and tears through the sheets .
79 Bert Burnell sees it in the number of passengers travelling on each of his routes .
80 For example , let's say an old lady with a walking stick approaches you in the High Street and asks you the way to the nearest public toilets .
81 When Mrs Gaskell introduces us to the Bartons ' lodging , we supposedly see it through the eyes of Mrs Barton .
82 Analysis of the returns leads us to the following conclusions :
83 The first hundred yards ' walking up the gill leads you into the rocky vault of Lower Ease Gill Kirk .
84 Nothing that I have read about the case leads me to the conclusion that anything untoward happened or that the basic and important principle of the GP 's right to refer has been undermined .
85 This description introduces us to the tramp and gives us a rough picture of him .
86 Our next case introduces you to the complexities of multi-unit operation .
87 and we went in and like the vicar greets you at the door do n't he and she was like up to the vicar like , you know , she 's more fucking heavier than thou
88 It was planned in 1725 and an engraving by Sutton Nicholls shows it at the north side of the garden , 300 feet long with forty-one windows on the ground floor .
89 See the but er , this room drives me up the wall !
90 In regard Angus Brown , John McVurich are in the parish of Kilvarow the presbytery refers them till the next dyet therein . "
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