Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you have to admit you do look very young and innocent , so you ca n't blame me for putting on the Big Daddy bit . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ But how can President Aquino overhaul the leadership of the armed forces after she has already commended them for putting down the coup ? ’ asks a congressman and former military officer , Mr Bonifacio Gillego . |
| 3 | Do use them for mopping up the blood on the new road . |
| 4 | And er , I thought I 'd probably have wall paper on that wall , you know , use , use the curtains just as plenty of fullness , but have them for keeping out the light or keeping in the heat , |
| 5 | A team of police officers swooped on the men 's home in Penny Lane at 9am yesterday and arrested them after breaking down the front door . |
| 6 | She warned me against noticing only the differences between life in the Indian sub-continent and in England and she warned me about being seduced by the apparent ‘ exoticness ’ of it all . |
| 7 | Be careful not to qualify praise ( do not , for instance , say , ‘ Thank you for taking out the rubbish — why do n't you do that all the time ? ’ ) . |
| 8 | He therefore sees effective RE as essentially helping to liberate all pupils " from the taboos which inhibit them from exploring freely the experiential and cognitive options available " ( Hay 1990 : 109 ) . |
| 9 | Motocross riders are a tough breed … no amount of fog was going to stop them from checking out the sport 's newest circuit this morning . |
| 10 | That is intended to assist them in determining how the funds might best be dispersed . |
| 11 | Apparently they like having things explained to them without understanding either the explanation or even what an explanation is . |
| 12 | Not many spoke out against sending the Taskforce — and I also admired him for taking over the Liberal Party in very difficult circumstances . |
| 13 | Now Mr Onanuga 's bosses have suspended him for making up the whole story about Mr Lamont . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been to see the dog , ’ Anabelle replied , and told him about taking away the dog 's food . |
| 15 | They blamed her for splitting up the family and on many occasions were abusive to her . |
| 16 | It would also explain the delay in releasing her after handing over the letters . ’ |
| 17 | Robinson ran a school for retarded Christian children and had clashed with local villagers , who accused him of setting up the first Israeli settlement in Lebanon . |
| 18 | The rapid fire of questions was deliberate , she knew , designed to scare her into blurting out the truth . |
| 19 | Blanche fished , tickling him into keeping up the conversation . |
| 20 | He did n't actually say the words , but they were implicit in the final look he gave her before disappearing down the companionway . |
| 21 | Also in 1834 , his supposed misdemeanours forgiven and his contribution to Canada already recognised , he was appointed Superintendent of the British America Land Company , formed to develop the eastern lands of Quebec but bad health prevented him from taking up the appointment . |
| 22 | When he was able to make a full number of appearances , or a large proportion of them , Palace did reasonably well — best was 7th in 1949–50 when Graham missed only four games — but when his back injury prevented him from appearing regularly the side suffered badly and we finished bottom of the League twice in three seasons with Graham making only 26 ( 1948–49 ) and 11 ( 1950–51 ) appearances respectively . |
| 23 | The 20-year-old beauty consultant was released yesterday after five days behind bars for breaking an injunction banning her from pumping up the volume . |
| 24 | We congratulate him on spelling out the good things that we shall be offering . |
| 25 | But the war also completed his task for him by sweeping away the remains of the system under which golf professionals had been subjugated as decent , working-class chaps . |
| 26 | I tried to sell it , but no one was willing to offer me more than five shillings , so Bob uses it for picking up the produce from the market every morning . ’ |
| 27 | Is it worth killing off the unsuccessful part in order to concentrate resources on the successful side ? |
| 28 | Oh I 'm sorry my Lord perhaps I could read the passage out and then er I can hand it up to your Lordship but it after setting out the dictor from Mr Justice in the Midland Bank . |
| 29 | He had used her Christian name without even realising it , so intent was he on pinning down the details of his own remembrance . |
| 30 | The system will enable manufacturers of digital compressed video set-top decoders to buy off-the-shelf components implementing copy protection , ‘ securely embedded inside a single integrated circuit ’ so that there is no way to bypass it without screwing up the decoder . |