Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have been better if we could have come at the weekend & seen something of the family , but Richard had long-standing plans involving friends of his who could only come ( from Macclesfield ) on Saturday . |
| 2 | If an employee has produced a computer program outside the normal course of his duties , but has used his employer 's equipment or done it during the hours of his employment , the ownership of copyright is more difficult to predict , although it is more likely that the employer will be treated as owner . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've a great deal to thank-you for , Edward , ’ he said , ‘ not many would have helped me the way you did or taken me in the way I looked that night . ’ |
| 4 | If she 'd had the power at that moment she would have reached out and crushed him into the carpet . |
| 5 | and criticizing the royal family , we have admired and criticized them in the course of the last half hour . |
| 6 | His wife , who was alleged to have aided and abetted him on the second occasion was jailed for three years after a two-day trial . |
| 7 | They 've knocked it , flattened it down and rebuilt it by the looks of it . |
| 8 | The crate-people took no notice of them but arranged their food to the left of them , erected a cross in front of them while their leader pulled an angled prop from behind the picture he was holding and positioned it in the pebbles to the right of the dedicated gathering . |
| 9 | The artist calmly took a small mechanical device and positioned it against the side of her finger which wore a glittering pair of rings in emerald and diamond . |
| 10 | Yet it was not beyond the power of reason and foresight to know that the days of the Indian Empire were numbered , if not in years , still in decades : the best and the wisest of the British in India had known and said it from the beginning . |
| 11 | The other car , the other De Dion we had , burst its radiator , but we are very resourceful ; we went and bought thirty foot of garden hose and connected it to the engine and sent the water round and round the car and that acted as a radiator , and we drove it for a week like that . |
| 12 | Anna picked up the saucepan into which she had been putting potatoes and transferred it to the stove . |
| 13 | Alon also experimented with the basic design , building a 130 hp Franklin-engined version and a prototype Alon A–4 with a Lycoming O–320 160 hp motor , before selling the type certificate of the Aircoupe to Mooney Aircraft , whereupon Mooney changed it to a single-tail design and manufactured it as the M–10 Cadet , producing 61 at $9,295 each before shutting the line down for good in 1970 . |
| 14 | Periodically we had lifted and turned them on the banks , where the sun and wind had shrunk and hardened them . |
| 15 | Now that we have looked at Wharram Percy deserted village and seen something of the 30-year long excavations there , we should look at other studies and excavations on village sites which seem to suggest the same developments implied at Wharram Percy . |
| 16 | I thought he were gon na forget that , I thought I should of got up and told everybody at the front |
| 17 | It was this strange subterranean thumping that had wakened and drawn her in the first place . |
| 18 | Brian had not merely hated the cockerel but feared it since it had got through the fence and bitten him on the leg . |
| 19 | There was no other explanation ; she 'd gone and landed herself in the sole company of a madman . |
| 20 | His face and body were a mass of bruises after he had been attacked at his home by a forty-strong mob who were preparing to lynch him in the remains of his once beautiful garden when the military had arrived and bundled him into the back of a police van and brought him to La Tambier . |
| 21 | Even though I have chained and muzzled you for the wolf you are , still your eyes challenge and your mind defies . ’ |
| 22 | Her children have disappointed and saddened her to the point where she has made the decision to rule them out of future considerations surrounding the throne . |
| 23 | So it 's floated and knitted it on the back . |
| 24 | They 'd thrown her into a Jeep and driven her into the Heide , through the woods , to a large wooden building hidden in the trees . |
| 25 | And yeah , they 've gone and re-credited me for the fifteen pound ! |
| 26 | Worse , they had lost Gooch after a ball from Moseley had reared up and struck him on the left hand , breaking a bone , although until the match was over even his team thought it was only bruised . |
| 27 | He dreamed the actual execution , including his head being separated from his body , and then abruptly woke up to find that his bed headboard had fallen and struck him on the back of the neck in the same place as the guillotine in the dream . |
| 28 | Mrs. Jarrett , whose hobbies include china collecting , Scrabble , reading and ‘ a little bingo ’ , spoke of the very many people who had helped and supported her over the years . |
| 29 | The books draw on the experiences of Christians in Guatemala , whose faith has strengthened and supported them through the hardships and challenges of recent years . |
| 30 | Tuan Ti Fo stoppered the bottle and fixed it to the small hook on his belt , then straightened up . |