Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of them involves the observation of events as they actually occur , and the other involves experimentation which causes events to take place . |
| 2 | ‘ Neither of them fits the picture of a proper mother . ’ |
| 3 | So water for me represents the ordinariness of life which Jesus can take and make very special . |
| 4 | The time recorded on two different watches , for example , can be perfectly associated : the time on one of them can be correctly predicted from the time on the other , but not because the time on one of them causes the time on the other ; altering the time on one of them would have absolutely no impact on the other . |
| 5 | Region I denotes the range of chain lengths at which T g reaches its asymptotic value and the critical value x c at which this occurs increases as the chain becomes more rigid . |
| 6 | Volume I covers the period of 1916 to 1930 and concludes with Magritte 's return to Brussels from Paris where he had stayed for nearly three years . |
| 7 | Figure 2.1 I illustrates the action of this instruction . |
| 8 | I takes the lot in there for the lower orders , ’ said Sid . |
| 9 | If he lacked Zhivkov 's taste , Ceauşescu showed greater consistency of purpose : Zhivkov survived his fall and lived long enough to explain that he had not really been a Communist after all ; Ceauşescu never gave his judges the satisfaction of hearing him renounce his beliefs . |
| 10 | A play really demands to be read aloud -it needs the sound of the human voice to bring it alive . |
| 11 | ‘ Fred 's a diamond , an' 'e finks the world of 'er . |
| 12 | Saying that we should teach terms for discourse types and encourage students to use them raises the issue of whether these types are specific to a particular culture . |
| 13 | One of them concerns the possibility of a distinction between numerical and species identity , i.e. the problem of individuation of ontological particulars . |
| 14 | She alerts the reader in her introduction to what she finds offensive in these genteel concoctions of tea and adultery : … if a comic charlady obtrudes upon the action of a real novel , I will fling the novel against the wall amidst a flood of obscenities because the presence of such a character as a comic charlady tells me more than I wish to know about the way her creator sees the world . |
| 15 | ‘ Fit as a fiddle , darlin , ’ and I can hear , faintly , through the twisted frenzy of my own pelvis , a cheerful rustle as she turns the pages of her magazine . |
| 16 | She turns the water to steam and frees the light inside her , twisting and turning in a sparkling , spinning column . |
| 17 | She would like an audience to identify with something within themselves , but she hates the idea of King being canonised . |
| 18 | She rubs the tops of my legs like I 'm cold and she 's trying to warm me up . |
| 19 | The technique involves the woman masturbating her partner to the point where he can not control his ejaculation , whereupon she squeezes the tip of his penis firmly between her fingers until the urge subsides . |
| 20 | It would not be right to celebrate a society in which Afro-American women could make quilts and gardens but not write essays , and indeed Walker condemns that society even as she evokes the value of the gardens and the quilts . |
| 21 | I reckon it 's been brought into the front room because erm , if she shut that door for them , cos she shuts the animal in a , a room here there and bloody everywhere , it 's stopped again now ai n't it ? |
| 22 | Continuing this outburst she devises the plan for Duncan 's murder . |
| 23 | In so doing she destroys the principle of control that kept her novels within the bounds of the generic traditions of British fiction . |
| 24 | She represents the responsibility for choosing life or death ; she encompasses the instinctive and physical processes of gestation and birth , our knowledge of these , and our ability to manipulate them . |
| 25 | The Queen of Beauty encompasses the ebb and flow of feminine life , and she represents the possibility of expressing each nuance of this . |
| 26 | ‘ Is n't it obvious why she points the finger at you ? |
| 27 | ‘ The last time we saw you , ’ Prue says to him , as she ladles the haricots around his gigot , ‘ you were just desperately trying to find a second line to go after ‘ Goe , and catch a falling starre . ’ |
| 28 | She thinks the world of you — and you 're her brother . |
| 29 | She thinks the world of you . |
| 30 | Maybe she diddles the Meals on Wheels people , but masterminding a string of robberies ? ’ |