Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [art] [unc] [no cls] " in BNC.

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1 Berlioz would have shouted a protest there and then , but Plantade registered his with the Courrier des spectacles : ‘ masterpieces should be left alone ’ .
2 We just treat them like a con a another contractor .
3 I suppose I knew what your reaction would be , but thought in my arrogance that if I presented you with a fait accompli , the sale of the land , your money back , you 'd be so overwhelmed with gratitude that you 'd immediately fall into my arms . ’
4 ‘ You like your girlfriend to be with you at every Grand Prix ? ’
5 The Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria ( CITUB ) and the Podkrepa ( " Support " ) Labour Confederation walked out of talks with the government on April 14 , accusing it of presenting them with a fait accompli over price liberalization .
6 Relating these principles to Figures 11.1 and 11.2 , it will be seen that they comprise , despite the problems already encountered in describing them on an ad hoc basis , only a small number of variants .
7 They had a vaporised block that led them to an idée fixe about test-tube fusion being real .
8 Kant tried to link the idea of numerically identical particulars with the idea of one space and one time , both conceived by him as the a priori forms of our intuition .
9 ‘ You presented him with a fait accompli ? ’
10 Don Juan refused , but later acquiesced when , in October , Franco presented him with a fait accompli by leaking news that Juan Carlos was to come to Spain to continue his schooling .
11 and what they wanted was the easiest ones and they came up with the answer economics Gerald simply , we Ge Gerry and I put our heads together and went bib bib bib bib bib , you know as good parents do and we both presented him with a fait accompli you either take an engineering degree , we do n't care what sort or you go out to work in a bank because economics you will not get a first because you are not reader and t to get a first in economics , which is what you 'll need if you 're gon na make any money out of it
12 The only way to handle my witch is to present her with a fait accompli .
13 With military-style precision , one gunman stayed to guard the man 's family , while the other took him to the Banque de France where at least four others were waiting .
14 One gunman stayed to guard the man 's family , while the other took him to the Banque de France in Toulon , France , where four others were waiting .
15 ‘ I am not saving it for the Tour de France .
16 Instead , the wall was used as a reason for seeking conciliation with the East and accepting it as a fait accompli .
17 I remember when a work like Bartók 's Music for Strings , Percussion , and Celeste was thought quite impossible , and we now play it like a Concerto Grosso of Handel !
18 So I did actually , I t actually turned it into a ro er song you see .
19 His version of human freedom and motivation could easily have included poverty as a ‘ rational ’ reason for crime ; and there was no necessary reason for him to equate his social contract with the status quo as far as property relations were concerned ( after all , he did not equate it with the status quo in many other respects ) .
20 The suspect hijacked the taxi in Cretan Road , abandoned it in a cul de sac after injuring two more police officers in a frenzied attack and then was arrested in nearby Bishopsgate Street .
21 We 've seen it in the er erm broadsheet up-market papers .
22 Firstly , there needs to be an overall strategy for the change , rather than individual units trying to manage their own parts of it in an ad hoc way .
23 But if you borrow it from a in er mortgage company , you 're gon na , you 're gon na borrow twice that , you gon na have to pay twice that much back .
24 Just tied it round the ta erm table .
25 And he said to her did n't he take it to the tri erm
26 Leave it to the au pair .
27 Some girls I knew had arranged for their two penfriends to meet me at the Gare du Nord and , somehow , we recognised one another .
28 The final conclusion I come to therefore is that , though the theories of plate tectonics now provide us with a modus operandi , they still seem to me to be a periodic phenomenon .
29 The mutilated text of the passage of Polybius has come down to us in the Excerpta de sententiis and the keyword " he wept " , has to be supplied from Diodorus ( 32.24 ) with the support of Appian , Punica 132 : they are known to have used Polybius directly or indirectly .
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