Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes Soutine , who was living in the village , came over to enjoy a good chicken dinner , and after eating their fill the two artists reproached their host for living in such luxury . |
| 2 | After giving their pursuers the slip , the thieves abandoned the Cavalier . |
| 3 | A PRISONER was on the run last night after giving his guards the slip while he was visiting his dying mother in hospital . |
| 4 | After taking their bows the cast met Princess Margaret backstage . |
| 5 | Matters then came to a head and after dropping her baby the mother was distraught about what she had done to her child . |
| 6 | By means of tapping his foot the horse could perform mathematical calculations , and solve problems of musical harmony . |
| 7 | Allowing for the differences in stance has far more chance of success : then it is just a question of deciding which way the ball will fly from certain lies . |
| 8 | The lucky winner has the privilege of sending their leader the first congratulatory telegram , announcing the success of the latest project . |
| 9 | But she had a stroke of good fortune when she inherited Penelope Beaton as her art teacher , a woman who laid aside ‘ the nice tidy little shell paintings ’ favoured by her predecessor in favour of teaching her class the pleasures to be had from working with the wonders of unpredictable watercolour . |
| 10 | SPRED has the twofold aim of teaching your child the ways of your own faith , and integrating him/her into the local parish community . |
| 11 | We are , of course , at liberty to employ adjectives like ‘ legal ’ as an inexpensive way of giving our texts the look of authority . |
| 12 | There is also no way of knowing what use the authorities will make of the information if and when the VAN team does give them a warning that another Richter-7 earthquake is due in 7 or 11 hours time . |
| 13 | Punctuation is a way of showing your reader the structure of your sentences : it separates successive units ( such as sentences by full stops , or items in a list by commas ) and specifies what function words have ( for example when an apostrophe indicates possession ) . |
| 14 | Even after the fall of the hated Poitevins in 1234 , ‘ Henry III in no wise gave up the policy of making his household the centre of the administration of the State ’ . |
| 15 | From B 's perspective of obtaining his freedom the unresolved issues were equally fundamental to the point addressed . |
| 16 | He was , for instance , punctilious about paying his models the agreed amount and would work out the precise sum owed to the last quarter of an hour . |
| 17 | This can be anything from a loan of £10 to tide your sister over to her next pay cheque , to substantial gifts like giving your grandson the money for the deposit on his first house . |
| 18 | There is a real need for formal and informal support from managers in allowing their staff the time to develop teaching skills ; Hopps ( 1988 ) found staff felt inspired by insights gained in learning how to prepare teaching sessions , while Lathlean ( 1987 ) suggests how such staff development can be arranged without compromising patient care . |
| 19 | I deeply resent Michael Rowan-Robinson 's insinuation that I have been ‘ disreputable ’ in my use of a review article by Bernard Carr and Martin Rees in writing my book The Accidental Universe ( Review , 20 January , p 186 ) . |
| 20 | The judge dismissed the wife 's appeal , holding that since there was no evidence that in deceiving his wife the husband was acting on behalf of the bank , they could not be held responsible for his misrepresentation and , therefore , the charge was enforceable against her . |
| 21 | In reporting his death the annual report of 1957 states : " It would not be an exaggeration to say that his shoulders carried the burden of the BDDA income for the greater part of that period . " |
| 22 | Partly as a reaction against the restless interference of Lloyd George , he believed in giving his ministers the maximum freedom . |
| 23 | As the dust created by the collapse of the monarchy cleared , however , it became increasingly apparent to those eager for change how tenacious and resourceful in defending their positions the established ruling classes of Spain were . |
| 24 | The BMC did a good job in showing our visitors The True Path . |
| 25 | A week later , 11 June , her column is full of the sculptor tempting her : ‘ You 're only seeing Paris … come and see ‘ Par-ee ’ … leave all these people ’ ( Modigliani delighted in showing his visitors the real Paris ) . |
| 26 | On this view pragmatics ( at least in part ) is about how , given a sentence uttered in a context , that context plays a role in specifying what proposition the sentence expresses on this occasion of utterance . |
| 27 | In arguing their case the LNA were clearly drawing on those traditions of philanthropy which emphasized the central role of women in the reform of moral conditions . |
| 28 | We were to go into the mountains and spend one night in tents before making our rendezvous the next day . |
| 29 | The corporation tax has so far been treated as a tax on the rental of capital only , but in assessing its incidence the effect on monopoly profit must also be considered . |
| 30 | Before leaving his desk the computer supplies a printout of each location to be visited showing the individual name , job title , man number , depot number , hourly/weekly/monthly paid , age , birth date , service , joining date , marital status , salary or wage , total numbers by payroll and average salary or wage . |