Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [prep] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now for me at least the light had been turned on . |
| 2 | I hope to see some of you at either the Aston Clinton Weekend in April , the Working with Elderly Day in May or on the trip to Coburg , which I am looking forward to very much . |
| 3 | Despite considerable pressure , much of it from outside the club , there was little chance of a decision being taken yesterday . |
| 4 | Despite considerable pressure , much of it from outside the club , there was little chance of any crucial decision being taken yesterday . |
| 5 | What that word represented had begun to grow in her from almost the very first moment she had seen him . |
| 6 | There 's a small chance she may recover from it with just the supportive treatment , now the cause of the disease has been eliminated , but if she does n't she 'll be in line for a bone marrow transplant . |
| 7 | But ‘ belong ’ — she is fearful that for her at least the word may explode , may vanish in a puff of smoke as delicate as the smoke that trickles from Fenna 's nostrils when he is asleep ; as delicate as the fronds of smoke that drift mysteriously from the end of Phoebe 's cigarette when she gestures impatiently in conversation . |
| 8 | game so they can have an effect on the child so that the outcome is better if you just if you do n't get to them till there the child 's done the SATS and it 's over |
| 9 | This distinction , which cuts right across the familiar division into arts and sciences , seems to me by far the most important that there is . |
| 10 | Standard disc drives can not duplicate the ‘ I can not read that ’ instruction because the unreadable sectors have data written on them at twice the normal speed . |
| 11 | ‘ Good-night , John , ’ she said , demurely , and walked up her front steps , turning to wave to him from inside the house . |
| 12 | McAllister , still beset by that strange mixture of desire and fear which gripped her whenever he began to make love to her at even the lightest level , found herself shivering , but allowed him to continue , and when the next kiss found her lips she responded to him , timidly , it was true , but still a response . |
| 13 | He studied her warrant card intently , as though there might be some real doubt about her identity , and then returned it to her without even the glimmer of a smile . |
| 14 | There were very strong objections from one landowner and frontager and much pressure was brought to bear on him by both the company and the Rural District Council , who announced on 9 September that he had accepted their conditions . |
| 15 | But let's see just see the number plate on it underneath there the |
| 16 | As for the supposition that psychoanalysis favours and furthers personal autonomy , I can find little evidence for it among either the analysts or the analysands whom I have known , unless by autonomy is meant a retreat into a private ( and invariably middle-class ) world of minor emotional fluctuations . |
| 17 | In spite of everything that history had thrown at them since then the Kaszubes had remained in their chosen place . |