Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb -s] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These or other events in her life at this time , even the sad ones like the passing of the first anniversary of her husband 's death , may be the key that will open the door for her to freedom from the prison of grief where she has finished the hard labour of bereavement . |
| 2 | That is , everyone in an organization should constantly be thinking through what information he or she needs to do the job and to make a contribution . |
| 3 | Either way he or she returns to disturb the heterosexual norm , especially in its masculine form , and does so according to a psychic and/or social dynamic which is intrinsically perverse : deviance emerges from the terms of its exclusion , eventually undermining that of which it was initially an effect , and which depended upon its exclusion . |
| 4 | In fact , according to Austin there are more than a thousand of these acts which are performable in English , and unless the hearer or reader recognises which of these is being expressed by the utterances in question he or she has missed the point . |
| 5 | Even the earliest beginner , if he or she has seen the originals , will instantly recognise there is something missing . |
| 6 | Clearly , formulations of gist and upshot are important in written and formal spoken discourse too , although there the task of the sender is much harder , as he or she has to estimate the need for reformulation at any given point . |
| 7 | The client should be told that if he or she wishes to discuss the claim , this will generally be welcomed but that they must make an appointment first . |
| 8 | ( 3 ) Call the seller 's conveyancer and ask if he or she intends to adopt the National Protocol . |
| 9 | The computer asks the child if he or she wants to work the section again or choose another scene . |
| 10 | This might happen because the writer is tired , because he or she wants to get the writing over and done with ; but the fundamental reason seems to be that the writer has broken contact with the feeling that originally made him or her want to write the story or poem . |
| 11 | The Cohen Committee admitted that these complaints were not altogether unfounded but all that has resulted is section 192 of the Act which invalidates provisions in trust deeds ( or elsewhere ) which purport to exempt a trustee from , or to indemnify him against , ‘ liability for breach of trust where he fails to show the degree of care and diligence required of him as a trustee having regard to the provisions of the trust deed conferring on him any powers , authorities or discretions . ’ |
| 12 | Does he also agree that , where he has extended the competence of the institutions of the European Community , we shall increasingly see , as we have seen in relation to Sunday trading and British Aerospace , the emergence of two forms of law — first , British law , which we encourage the population to obey and honour , and , secondly , European law , which we try to avoid — and thus we shall succeed in undermining the rule of law here ? |
| 13 | The 64-year-old minister was nominated for the honour by colleagues at Walworth Methodist Church , south London , where he has spent the past 15 years campaigning tirelessly against racism and working to improve race relations within inner cities . |
| 14 | The conduct of the consumer may also be relevant where he has put the product to a use for which it was not intended . |
| 15 | I know a very distinguished gentleman at Windsor who 's reaching a certain age where he wants to put the Aston Martin in his will in case there may be a family war over its inheritance . |
| 16 | So , where he 's done the extra year at the end if I do this extra year at the beginning I can start the teaching certificate . |
| 17 | Any failure to press the Bat switch while the Bat diode D9 is momentarily lit results in a low output from transistor TR4 and the ball moves on to the wicket l.e.d. where it stays to let the batsman know he has been bowled out . |
| 18 | The noise thus created is thought to be passed up the animal 's windpipe and into the sinus cavities of the skull , where it resonates to produce the purring sound . |
| 19 | Where it 's got the , it 's y |
| 20 | It was taken by Madeiran emigrants to various parts of the world , including the Hawaiian islands , where it has become the Hawaiian ukelele . |
| 21 | The mayors ' plan , targeting $35 billion in fiscal assistance , public works , community development black grants , job training , and low-interest small-business loans , has been taken up in Congress where it has met the famous legislated ‘ wall ’ , which prevents shift of military funds to social programmes rather than to deficit reduction . |
| 22 | Ritual mourning for the divine son of a mother-goddess is very common throughout ancient polytheism — not to mention modern polytheisms like Catholicism — where it seems to represent the same situation as the self-inflicted mutilations but at one remove . |
| 23 | The writer means that she or he has discussed the poem 's meaning , but the sentence literally says that the next stanza discusses the poem 's beginning ( an unintended meaning ) . |
| 24 | Although she does admire the friendship of the two men , she is doing it to please Bassanio and thus gaining love from him — which profits no one except herself . |
| 25 | Mrs Thatcher , although she has criticised the Delors monetary union plan for being ‘ undemocratic , ’ is determined to try to exclude consideration of a bigger role for the European Parliament from the Rome Treaty review process . |
| 26 | Strasbourg is Mrs Thatcher 's last chance to signal that she has seen the point and joined the team . |
| 27 | She is thrilled that she has kept the pub . |
| 28 | Charlie tell us that she has to programme the computers to show the correct illustrations . |
| 29 | Her supporters , however , claim that she has returned the party to the essential verities of sound money , lower rates of income tax , strong government , and rolling back government from areas where it has no useful role to play . |
| 30 | There are rumours that she has fled the Dales — perhaps to the cities in the north . |