Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Tories briefly took control of the council , they implemented current Conservative philosophy — to sell council homes and encourage what for them represents the truest democracy , a property-owning democracy , which is less about one-man-one-vote than every man a home-owner . |
| 2 | And behind all of them lies the archetypal opposition between good and evil , light and darkness , creation and destruction , God and the Devil . |
| 3 | This , it seems , was a widely held assumption : ‘ If the yeomanry of England were not , in time of war we should be in shrood case ; for in them standeth the chief defence of England . ’ |
| 4 | And none of them has the right kind of tights . |
| 5 | Or as they descend the Eastern Terrace after climbing Psycho-Killer or MND , which of them notices the flowering profusion at the back of the terrace — the stonecrops , campion , roseroot and saxifrages ? |
| 6 | In addition , the person who sent me wants the young man to be removed from his home and educated as a gentleman who expects to inherit a fortune . ’ |
| 7 | I denotes the fractional-order beam intensities from an ordered overlayer system . |
| 8 | ‘ I starts the last readin' book on Mondee , . |
| 9 | Title I establishes the European Union as a formal entity . |
| 10 | so I says the only thing that 'll be is to er toast cheese on toast |
| 11 | I says the only thing is I says I bring them in and then finishing is closed . |
| 12 | I started two schemes , first I increases the monthly payment on the mortgage , then I starts a separate savings account . |
| 13 | Office Management I provides the theoretical framework to allow students to respond to direction and to operate within the necessary constraints of the organisational environment . |
| 14 | Upon the balance between them depends the enormous variety of societies seen in the animal kingdom . |
| 15 | Controlling for them tests the original relationship between X and Y , and checks that it holds up . |
| 16 | The figures do afford some comparability between years , and even a brief examination of them shows the great shift from wool to cloth as England 's main export commodity . |
| 17 | She insists the gruelling teaching process is fun but warns : ‘ Patience is most important for the training . ’ |
| 18 | She plays the eponymous heroine who leaves Liverpool and her chips and egg hubby ( Bernard Hill ) and heads for Greece , where she discovers sun , fun and Tom Conti . |
| 19 | She plays the suburban Mafia wife , Angela , who wants to break the tedium of living with her macho hired-gun husband , Alec Baldwin . |
| 20 | She drives the wretched boy Kit , who has a platonic devotion to her , to attempt suicide by persistently upsetting him with ambitions for a stage career , for which he has no vocation . |
| 21 | Superbly , she evokes the fragile communion of the other and of herself in her ineluctable trajectory . |
| 22 | with the red hat , and she dyes the red hat |
| 23 | She represents the ordinary Japanese who believed what was reported : first , that Manchuria was an idealistic experiment in Asian co-operation ; and , later , that Japan was winning the Pacific war . |
| 24 | For the devotees She is indulgence incarnate and She represents the divine grace that delivers creatures from worldly distress and bondage . |
| 25 | Who was the , who , who do you thinks the best dance in your class ? |
| 26 | Erm I 'm g one thing I 'm gon na do is ask if she 'll flag major changes when she produces the new telephone directories . |
| 27 | American producers are taking a great interest in her , and her career is sure to take off whether or not she wins the coveted statuette . |
| 28 | I think she wants the new stuff . |
| 29 | [ Betty ] Sinclair adopted a ‘ cross that bridge when we come to it ’ attitude , which means that she wants the back door left open for a sell-out . |
| 30 | ‘ She wants the quiet kind . ’ |