Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every sunset the apes would return from their day 's foraging to sleep in the branches of this giant tree , and we were driven to distraction by our repeated attempts to film them properly in the few seconds after they arrived and before the sun set . |
| 2 | The two latter poems describe states of physical illness , but I think it is not unfair to quote them along with the former because all three only express in an overt form what is often expressed throughout her work : the connection between purity and superiority , the connection between purity and death . |
| 3 | Art is not , as the metaphysicians say , the manifestation of some Idea of beauty or God ; it is not , as the aesthetic physiologists say , a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy ; it is not the expression of man 's emotions by external signs ; it is not the production of pleasing objects ; and , above all , it is not pleasure but it is a means of union among men joining them together in the same feelings , and indispensable for the life and progress towards wellbeing of individuals and humanity . |
| 4 | Perhaps they had even bought them together in the same store , on the same day . |
| 5 | Because they were overthrown and the others were taken off into captivity into battle life , and what a life they had , the one of slavery , so at that time because they took no note , because they were destiny instructions to Jehovah for his word and again want to see , they had eyes , but they just did n't want to see it they knew , all the whys and wherefores and what the responsibilities were , but they did n't measure up to them and because of that many of them lost their lives , and if they did n't they were taken into captivity , Jeremiah four , in verse twenty two , again another prophecy sent to them exactly over the same message , the same reasons describes to them as being a , er people that is foolish and of me they have taken no notice Jeremiah four and verse twenty two . |
| 6 | Assuming that the seller can then re-sell them elsewhere for the same price as the buyer had agreed to pay , the seller will suffer no loss . |
| 7 | Quite suddenly he let go and sort of pushed me away at the same time . |
| 8 | All right , I was Marius ’ personal assistant and there 's no reason to assume that Nigel would want to take me over in the same role . |
| 9 | They discovered , or contacted , me early in the same month . |
| 10 | Dexter believed Jane Pargeter was more interested in David Parkin 's affair than she pretended : you ca n't be someone 's lover for three years and then cast them off with the same indifference as an old pair of socks . |
| 11 | So basically all I would have to do is take them with me and I 'd bring them home on the same day . |
| 12 | It fills you up okay but runs you down at the same time . |
| 13 | As I have to come back to the airport to pick up a member of tonight 's convention it will be easy to drop you off at the same time . ’ |
| 14 | Thank you also for the many beautiful tributes and the donations sent for the Cynthia Spencer Unit . |
| 15 | Shall I pick you up at the same time as I did this morning ? ’ |
| 16 | The high speed turn at the bottom of the wave which brings you back up the same wave enabling you to continue your ride in . |
| 17 | I was getting DF118s — painkillers but they knock you out at the same time . |
| 18 | The overall goal is to bring them up to the same standards as the western part of the country by the end of the century . |
| 19 | John Taub and others at the University of California School of Medicine required subjects to sleep an hour or more longer than usual , by putting them to bed at either II p.m. or I a.m. , but getting them up at the same time — 9 a.m . |
| 20 | she obviously took them both for the same thing did n't she ? |
| 21 | ‘ WHY OH WHY DID THEY TRY TO CHANGE THE WORLD BY REPEATEDLY CONTRADICTING THEMSELVES ( AND WERE WE REALLY AT THE SAME GIG ? ) |
| 22 | Then the company puts them back on the same job and they further injure themselves . |
| 23 | I shall not , however , let my hon. Friend hold me back during the few minutes that I shall use to unbridle myself . |
| 24 | They agreed to phase them out on the same timetable applying in their own countries , and faster than required by the Montreal Protocol ( the international agreement on protecting the ozone layer — see ED 52 ] . |
| 25 | The state of mind of day-dream escapers was not simple and they both believed in their plans and knew quite well that they would never carry them out at the same time . |
| 26 | Mike said , ‘ TCT are doing a sequel and a prequel to ‘ T is ’ and bringing them out at the same time . ’ |
| 27 | As the group grew to 2,000 people I still knew the key people and was able to approach them even in the latter days when I was one of many . ’ |
| 28 | Are they in to the same extent , or lesser extent than manufacturing ? |
| 29 | As I understood , he was asleep for much of the time , and indeed , I found him so on the few occasions I had a spare moment to ascend to that little attic room . |
| 30 | If it is true that public goods and services are oversupplied when benefits are concentrated and costs ( revenues ) dispersed , should they not by the same argument be undersupplied when benefits are dispersed but costs concentrated , or when both costs and benefits are dispersed ( Goodin 1982 ) ? |