Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ah , but I am not a pretty young skivvy , ’ said Dr Neil wickedly , ‘ and dear Mr Sands does not wish to see me walk through the door . |
| 2 | The liberal ideas of this group , and the fact that several of its members were known or alleged to belong to the secretive Catholic brotherhood , Opus Dei , made them anathema to the " old shirt " Falangists and the Catholic integrists . |
| 3 | Frankie 's very success made them part of the pop family . |
| 4 | For Clarke , football hooliganism developed at the intersection of these trends : the fans have now taken the traditional values of toughness , masculinity , local identity , collective action and partisanship and made them part of the game 's new , more spectacularised style . |
| 5 | The drunken porter allowing them entrance after the usual altercation . |
| 6 | Timothy Gedge was as ordinary as anyone else , but the ill fortune of circumstances or nature made ordinary people eccentric and lent them colour in the greyness . |
| 7 | Liese made me dinner in the Chinese style : miso soup , stir-fried vegetables , sweetsap for dessert . |
| 8 | Play another sound effect — perhaps a door opening , keys jangling , a car moving off , a bomb exploding , or a dog barking — and it becomes difficult not to link the two sounds together and make them part of the same story . |
| 9 | Is she alright now without them or does she have to wear them part of the time ? |
| 10 | They go to Phoenix on Saturday to play a team which has given them trouble in the past . |
| 11 | We grabbed the ‘ speeder from the motor park and amazingly enough got ourselves passage to the Festival on a grain hopper . ’ |
| 12 | This may all sound very trivial but it has the effect of making me almost hate my body to the extent that I feel ashamed to let John see me naked . |
| 13 | Certainly , when you realized my connection with the case at Bloomwater , they were the bully-boys you turned on to me . |
| 14 | You 've heard my explanation of the fact that it was poorly worded and I think that is a great shame . |
| 15 | As I commented a little earlier to somebody , I still have n't quite forgiven my mother-in-law for the chemistry set she bought my seven-year-old . |
| 16 | Well they 're a lot of fun and kids love them , and as I commented a little earlier to somebody I still have n't quite forgiven my mother-in-law for the chemistry set she bought my seven year old . |
| 17 | As I commented a little earlier to somebody , I still have n't quite forgiven my mother-in-law for the chemistry set she bought my seven-year-old . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh God , ’ I moaned , and lowered my head to the cool steel pipe of the bridge rail . |
| 19 | With a mounting feeling of dread , I went to a chair at the far end of the table from Quigley and lowered my head in the gloom . |
| 20 | ‘ If I like , I 'll throw my dinner on the floor and put clams in my hair and have tantrums , and … ’ |
| 21 | And erm I got my ironing out the way and then I can go to my mother then , and start to paint , paint the bathroom tomorrow . |
| 22 | I got my part of the control lines together and carried them in a loop round to the kite . |
| 23 | I think it 's about time I got my share of the |
| 24 | ‘ I got my chance in the national side when injuries put me into the match against Romania in Bucharest three years ago . |
| 25 | I got my schooling on the hoof . ’ |
| 26 | Thou got my eckle up the day thou left , and it 's been sky ‘ igh over eight year . ’ |
| 27 | I certainly feel like celebrat ing my painting at the moment — I have n't done any for weeks . |
| 28 | There goes my view of the proceedings . |
| 29 | And when the public started seeing my name on the back of these albums , the subsequent demand was staggering ! |
| 30 | But as they had n't seen each other since the day they both left the house , I did n't think my debut in The Jungle Book was the best time for a reunion . |