Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was an extraordinarily attractive girl , with a pale complexion , a freckled face , and ginger hair : a girl for whom most of the other GIs would willingly have given a monthly pay-packet . |
| 2 | But so many once-wealthy children are leaving the private sector that there is no room for them all at the most popular schools . |
| 3 | He had an alley mate , the man on the next machine , who pulled the levers for both of them at one end while William 's grandad pulled for them both at the other . |
| 4 | Foreign bodies have already appeared on the Saatchi share register and despite its problems the group would clearly be a juicy prize for someone such as the fast-expanding French . |
| 5 | Is the Prime Minister aware that 500,000 cashmere jerseys are worth £75 million to textile communities such as my own in the central borders in Scotland ? |
| 6 | My little mistress went from her father 's bedroom to mine , and back again , and looked after us both with the greatest care . |
| 7 | It is that someone among them has taken for himself some of the treasures of the city which were destined for God 's own sanctuary . |
| 8 | Giving it would deprive the delivery driver of the opportunity to discover for himself some of the delightful scenery on his patch . |
| 9 | Only a handful of shows survived the First World War , during which many of the old varieties of berries became extinct . |
| 10 | During Friday 20 May and Saturday the 21st the fierce chase continued , during which some of the French ships were scattered all over the Channel ; a few , like the Spanish Armada before them , only escaped by sailing right round the British Isles . |
| 11 | The most mouthwatering specimens tend to be found in limestones — famous sites are in the Silurian rocks of England and Mississipian rocks of the U.S.A. The group as a whole had a major crisis in the Permian , during which most of the Palaeozoic forms died out . |
| 12 | This Appendix summarises the states through which each of the important LIFESPAN objects may be transitioned . |
| 13 | Civil society is at the centre of this web of inter-relationships , comprising : the sphere of circulation , in which people and groups contest in the ‘ market place ’ ; the sphere of reproduction , in which social groups — classes-in-struggle compete to promote their economic , biological and political reproduction ; and the popular democratic forces , through which much of the struggle within civil society is organised . |
| 14 | To the north is the Caspian Sea , to the South and west , the Persian Gulf , through which most of the worlds oil had passed in the twentieth century . |
| 15 | In a sense , the patrolling constable blended in as part of this hidden social group , of whom most of the city 's population were largely ignorant . |
| 16 | Many of them such as the American Express Gold Card and the NatWest Mastercard are charge cards , not credit cards . |
| 17 | about five of them all with the same name ? |
| 18 | One supporter summed up the feelings of them all about the authorities who took them away . |
| 19 | More generally , he was certainly the most effective in making his mark abroad ; he was the most sought-after of them all in the European marriage market , which was both highly profitable and rewarding to morale when this Scottish king succeeded where an English one failed and Mary of Guise became James 's second wife , rather than Henry VIII 's fourth . |
| 20 | and if people could get a copy of them all before the next meeting |
| 21 | Hold them at the same height above the ground and let go of them both at the same moment . |
| 22 | Yeah they 're spellings are a little bit easier than ours cos they change some of them some of the awkward ones . |
| 23 | Chairman of my all of the offices or er tremendous amount of work which has gone into the local report to the Committee , er but also to the tremendous amount of work which has been done behind the scenes which I know has been going on with er that is quite good for the officers erm looking at the budget er i in the line with what actually saying for them . |
| 24 | We never came to any agreement , but I can say for my part that I developed fairly firm ideas of my own on the matter during the course of such discussions , and they are by and large the beliefs I still hold today . |
| 25 | If he was n't so attractive himself , ’ she continued , echoing some old thoughts of my own on the subject , ‘ who 'd give a damn ? |
| 26 | FOLLOWING the article by Warren Bagust on the raw deal David Gower has been given by the England selectors ( WCM Sept ) , I have been doing some research of my own on the relative merits of David Gower and Graham Gooch as batsmen and as captains of England . |
| 27 | I also put together an adaptation of my own from The Pickwick Papers in which I took on four characters all travelling in a coach together , then mixed it with the narration , rather as they did with the production of Nicholas Nickleby . |
| 28 | I concluded my own column of that week as follows : ‘ After sneering at Lord Mogg , I suppose I should commit myself to a conclusion of my own from the last ten days ' dramas . |
| 29 | Although they 're among the poorest people in the community , many feel better off than they 've ever been — they 've got money , time and friends of their own for the first time . |
| 30 | This little band of Medau enthusiasts decided on a little fund-raising of their own for the team and on 18 May held a sponsored ball bounce . |