Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | It also times the transfer of its eggs extremely carefully so that most of them hatch in the hosts ' nests at exactly the right time . |
2 | That is why I side with the scientists and the Fundamentalists of Arkansas against the fake liberals . |
3 | I thought , this is the last time I taste of the benisons of nature . |
4 | And I mean including the Germans , if you can drive them out . |
5 | I mean for the Republicans the purpose is a united Ireland . |
6 | Well the , the risk has changed for a start I mean with the chemicals there are so many now erm chemicals and so much of it being transported by road , the risk of that and the dangers of accidents must be increased , although legislation has brought in a number of improvements , so firemen have to be very much up to date with that . |
7 | Oh yes , er yes they were , they were er of course there was a great divide there I mean between the Liberals I mean they were the only two parties in those days . |
8 | But maybe cos there was no opportunity , they did n't see there to be I mean like they did n't know any better but as soon as , I mean things are rapidly changing they 're given the opportunity to erm I mean through the struggles to actually take charge of the conditions and to gain so some material and perhaps there was beginnings of them seeing that well perhaps we ought to look more to this sub-culture and to erm |
9 | I mean in the periods that I 've been coming down and coming over , and it 's been a fairly regular basis , I should imagine every manager and director or university employee has put forward every conceivable way in which that particular building could be used . |
10 | No but I mean in the ones that they have , yes . |
11 | Before going on to analyse the kinds of blocking technique one might nevertheless use , I want to briefly explain what I mean by the terms ‘ open ’ and ‘ closed ’ sides when referring to a stance . |
12 | Sh and people here give her such a hard time I mean like the blokes are always say oh God , you know , that troll and everything but I |
13 | I remain on the outskirts of the main group , with a bottle of beer for company . |
14 | The full vessels are left on the empty shore , they are for use but I am carried to the river in your arms , and I dance to the rhythms of your heart-throbs and heaving of the waves . |
15 | As I push through the dancers towards Tamsin , the boy sinks helpless to the deck . |
16 | I push through the tourists and into the Horse Guards . |
17 | The guest bedroom is a small room with a tiny window , and it has nothing in it but a single bed , a lamp on a nightstand and Jesus hanging , plain and formidable , above the bed , I sit above the covers , staring into space . |
18 | so we could have reduced that , and I think that is the criticism that I make of the Conservatives , not that the Conservatives in this council have done that , but that they should be apologizing for it . |
19 | I peer at the kids ' faces , and feel like a teacher at an end-of-term disco . |
20 | I DAWN AT THE PYRAMIDS |
21 | ‘ I suggest to the players that they simplify the game . |
22 | ‘ What I want from the politicians ! ’ |
23 | ‘ I worry about the children , ’ she said to Daphne . |
24 | Yes and during the winter holidays I cut er cut the articles and I now , I , you can see the articles I cut during the holidays . |
25 | In fact I broadcast that material , but I cut it into three programmes , and I , I cut in the questions I would have asked if he 'd actually given me a chance to ask them . |
26 | and that 's , I 'm sure I put over the years |
27 | The social pressures I put upon the kids were designed to make my maths teaching more effective . |
28 | Under emergency procedure I put in the words in the second line , after having made every reasonable effort to consult with the chief executive . |
29 | ‘ D' you think I walk between the drops ? ’ |
30 | I walk through the remnants of ancientness until , close to the cliffs , I come to a brown headstone : shoulder high , two feet wide . |