Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [conj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , since I am going to kill you anyway — an intruder in my house , I met you , drew my gun ; you attacked me and in the ensuing fight the gun went off , unfortunately killing you — I — ’ |
| 2 | Agents and exporters should therefore treat them as within the existing system , and include T2 documents where appropriate . |
| 3 | The functional managers are responsible for choosing the right staff , for instructing them and for the result with regard to quality , quantity and cost . |
| 4 | They would n't need them because of the , this technology and that that 's but nevertheless they do ha they would be conscripted because they do have to have the ground troops of |
| 5 | The individuals most concerned on these three occasions do not usually instigate them except in the case of the marriage . |
| 6 | Coins can make three contributions to this study , all of which derive from the way that coin portraits are normally identified by the inscription that accompanies them and from the fact that they have survived in much greater numbers than have portraits in any other medium . |
| 7 | But I ca n't explain it , it 's as if the devil himself is down there , and there 's this horrible smell that chokes you and at the same time you get the feeling that something evil is lying in wait for you . |
| 8 | Slavonic legend has it that at the time of the Creation of the World a group of malignant spirits staged a revolt against Svarog , the sky god . |
| 9 | Tradition has it that at the cremation of Gautama Buddha in India in 543 BC the tooth survived the flames and was brought to Kandy in the fourth century AD . |
| 10 | Amid the euphoria of its seven-point opinion poll lead , the party 's own pollsters have reminded it that in the South the Conservatives lead 47-33 while in the Midlands and Wales the race remains too close to call . |
| 11 | ‘ But I 've told Leeds I would prefer delaying it until after the World Cup final , especially with the Aussies playing three warm-up games in England . ’ |
| 12 | Ptolemy ranked it as of the first magnitude , and seems to have referred to it as ‘ the Last of the River ’ ; from Alexandria he could not see Achernar , though Acamar was visible low over the horizon . |
| 13 | Our courts have refused to consider the validity of an Act of Parliament either on the ground that Parliament had no power to pass it or on the ground that the statute had been improperly passed . |
| 14 | On the other hand , there must be effect , dependent upon the age of the child , upon libidinal development as we have considered it and upon the modelling phase of the child 's life . |
| 15 | For example , in English Hop Growers Ltd v Derring [ 1928 ] 2 KB 174 Scrutton LJ said " I have always for myself regarded it as in the public interest that parties who , being in an equal position of bargaining , make contracts , should be compelled to perform them , and not to escape from their liabilities by saying that they had agreed to something which was unreasonable " . |
| 16 | Er well in the book it does n't say it and I tried it and under the give that a little bit more room , can get back under by just moving |
| 17 | Patricia Branca has reminded us that in the Victorian household where the man earned between £100 and £300 a year , an income range which excluded the highly skilled manual worker and included as many as 42 per cent of the middle class , there was only enough money available for the employment of one or at most two domestic servants and very little at all for the rest of the ‘ paraphernalia of gentility ’ desired by the aspiring middle class household . |
| 18 | The elements it contained ‘ helped us but in the end our approach is driven by our own particular view focused by the firm 's strategic plan ’ , said Mulvie . |
| 19 | Allotment holders got a letter from the council 's pollution control technician warning them that under the terms of the 1990 Environmental Protection Act , the council would be obliged to take formal action if the smoke from an allotment bonfire amounted to a nuisance . |
| 20 | But you ignored them but in the end we we had to something abo about it . |
| 21 | Sometimes Cabinet meetings horrify me because of the amount of rubbish talked by some Ministers who come there after reading briefs which they do not understand . |
| 22 | And they had white , the whole lot like , and they stripped off right down to a white G-string , then they turned all the lights off and dropped them and by the time they 'd put the lights black on , back on , I ca n't speak now , they 'd had , they had a black one on so they , what they must have had , they well they do , they have loads of them on , they just peel them off like one after another never actually see them naked . |
| 23 | We paid her my first big visit in Brooklyn , she had n't met me except on the phone . |
| 24 | Sir Reginald told me that on the night before U Saw went to London in the hopes of getting a promise of some kind of independence for Burma from Winston Churchill in return for full co-operation in the war , he had warned U Saw that the hopes of success were very slender . |
| 25 | A Chinese social scientist studying student behaviour told me that since the demonstrations at the end of 1986 , many had become less interested in education . |
| 26 | Then she told me that during the last winter , while I was in Sweden , my father had already had an attack , but they had not told me . |
| 27 | HARRY DEAN STANTON once told me that during the filming of 1984 's Paris , Texas , he wandered alone into the desert after a tiff with the director , Wim Wenders . |
| 28 | He told me that during the nine months he had been at the farm he and the others had noticed that the landscape had changed . |
| 29 | Polgar told me that in the early days of his marriage he examined the childhood of many famous persons and saw that geniuses all specialised in a field very early . |
| 30 | Later one of the gringos in the office told me that in the book of depositions , which began at the end of January , they were already ( in the second week of April ) at page 152 , with three entries per double page . |