Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [vb base] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | if I can comment on that Chairman , the erm , the Authority asked for thirty for next month , along with all the other authorities I think in the country , asked for an improvement in the , in the policing the country , and I think people that live in , in Shropshire , and the people that live in other er , parts of the country as well , would have welcomed the increase in the police force this year , but the government decided not to do that . |
| 2 | She come off the phone and she said , bloody hell she said that one of the rare times I go to the trouble of making myself butties for dinner , cos usually she gets a pasty or something , and I get invited out for dinner , you this Viv er , a friend of hers , you know the one that was having trouble with all that drainage underneath the |
| 3 | Now I do n't care what people say : at times I look at the child and I am so happy I ca n't sleep at night . |
| 4 | At times I think of the first contacts the people of St Kilda had with the outside world . |
| 5 | However , at other times I feel at the end of my tether . |
| 6 | But that 's one of the strengths I suppose of the social work qualification , that it is a generic one so |
| 7 | This massacre of the innocents I blame on The Silk Plant Company whose trees , plants and flowers are so lifelike , one can be forgiven for doubting the real thing . |
| 8 | Yes we 've got four winners I think after the record . |
| 9 | You should continue to keep the time log to see whether the actual use of time conforms to the goals you set in the Action Plan . |
| 10 | Once I 'd mastered a none-too-straightforward control panel , which looks rather like those muticoloured ever-flickering computers you find on the dashboard of executive cars , my test run got under way . |
| 11 | In other words you get into the rugby team because you happened to go third instead of fourth . |
| 12 | In other words you agree with the customer , right , now take my words , you wan na think it over , right , we 're not prepared to give you a decision tonight , eh , now I 'd say something like , well that 's understandable , and we 've gone through as many things and debt this evening as we probably need to go through , do n't you agree ? |
| 13 | it had , erm one of them cast iron baths you know in the middle of the bathroom with the sort of er curly legs , Queen Anne type legs on it |
| 14 | Our arguments are based not only on our national interest but on the risks we perceive to the competitive position of the Community as a whole . |
| 15 | In their two contrasting styles we return to the main theme of this chapter : boyo Neil 's communicating style emphasising ‘ commonality ’ ; and the formal prime ministerial Margaret Thatcher style emphasising ‘ control ’ . |
| 16 | In many respects we act in the shoes of solicitors and legal advisers because we have gained great experience in dealing with these matters . |
| 17 | We tend to regard the Middle East as a ‘ trouble spot ’ and our understanding of the region and its culture is limited by the stereotyped images we receive through the media . |
| 18 | we , I 've had when we go down , on Thursdays we go to the sports hall sometimes if it 's wet and erm we 're to erm do things the teachers and I er , have tried a bit of basketball but I ai n't got it into |
| 19 | Newspaper , radio and television reports are intimately involved in the formation of our images of the places beyond our immediate experience , and the pictures we form of the places featured in our study are no exception . |
| 20 | ‘ We have a clear groupwide strategy to establish a sound financial business with the capacity for future investment in the many exploration and development opportunities we have around the world . |
| 21 | He also has the rather unenviable job of being the go-between between the leadership and us , which means he has to tell us any things which ‘ are not done ’ ( for example that I ill-advisedly introduced Confucius into one of my examples ) , and also has to clear any demands we make with the leadership . |
| 22 | As for NME 's opinion of her work , you should know how much we love Madonna by how much we love Ice-T , Suede and all the other insolent wasters we praise to the hilt each week . |
| 23 | As part of a settlement worked out with the help of the US Environment Protection Agency , the two mills will pay $5.8 million in fines and spend more than $50 million on reducing the levels of dioxins and other toxic compounds they discharge into the Pacific Ocean . |
| 24 | Not all their reactions by any means are negative ; you can capitalize ( in your efforts to foster understanding and friendship ) on any steps they make in the direction of greater independence and on any interest ( or overtures of affection ) shown towards the infant sibling . |
| 25 | When ingested by animals they accumulate in the blood and tissues unchanged or after minor oxidative alterations and in some cases they form the prosthetic group of a chromoprotein . |
| 26 | Our three pictures marked A , B and C show three well-known TV personalities — A is Jim Bergerac , B is Inspector Morse and C is the Larkin family — and the cars they drive in the TV series that made them famous . |
| 27 | In the third part of the series in which our road testers name the cars they rate as the best , the ultimate in luxury saloons comes to the fore . |
| 28 | The problem is that the same — different task and the labelling task are unlikely to be matched in the demands they make on the subjects . |
| 29 | But the more closely historians examine the seventeenth century , the more precedents they find for the innovations associated with the name of Peter the Great . |
| 30 | Beyond this , character- ization rarely goes further than the creation of characters sufficient for the roles they play within the fabliau ; there is very rarely the slightest pretence at verisimilitude in the form of feigning that the characters have experiences beyond or after those of the narrative given . |