Example sentences of "[pers pn] the [adj] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 2 | That 's okay , she 's also given me the right words to use to put it through urgently , okay , cos I mean you , I know you have n't exchanged yet , but you want to do that fairly quickly . |
| 3 | Another greatly pleasurable result of the broadcast was that it put me in touch with colleagues of his , and their wives , in the lighthouse business , several of whom wrote me the kindest letters expressing the most heart-warming comments . |
| 4 | Business fliers fly with the airline that will most quickly give them the necessary coupons to go to , say , Hawaii with the family . |
| 5 | ‘ Grey ’ issues of money occur whenever enterprises that are short of funds to pay their obligations insist that the banks should make them the necessary advances to restore their ‘ liquidity ’ . |
| 6 | Between them the eight runners had won three races ; they were racing 's cannon fodder . |
| 7 | Throughout human history , disabled people have constantly confounded the low expectations of others , and how much better it would be for special educators to raise the expectations of disabled children and their families by giving them an understanding of this , by helping them to accept their disabled identities with pride , by helping them to understand their place in the world and their rights as well as giving them the practical skills to deal with these issues . |
| 8 | Three are commonly identified i.e. national , local and school , and in an attempt to clarify them the following paragraphs examine each in turn . |
| 9 | At the turn for home Baby Turk led from Nemain and Acatenango , but behind them the four runners owned by the Aga Khan — Shardari , Dinistan , Darara and Shahrastani — were making their efforts , and over a quarter of a mile out Shardari hit the front , closely pursued by Shahrastani and Darara . |
| 10 | Between them the four countries have some 144,000 elephants . |
| 11 | All around them the other coolies stared in disbelief at the sight of their tormentor so astonishingly struck down before their eyes ; then the floodwaters of their hatred burst some invisible dam , and several men dashed forward screaming incoherently to slash at the kneeling man 's head and shoulders with their coupe-coupes . |
| 12 | I have now received the draft Contract from the vendor 's solicitors and I have accordingly despatched to them the Preliminary Enquiries arising thereon and also my local search with East Herts District Council . |
| 13 | Between them the 16-year-old schoolboys wrote their way to 20 straight As between them . |
| 14 | Between them the light-armed men-at-arms formed smaller companies with room to manoeuvre at need , and the knights and cavalry , visible in snatches of blazonry and colour against the dun-coloured slopes , were drawn back somewhat higher in three squadrons . |
| 15 | Finally , reward those who have read the papers by giving them the most opportunities to talk about the material and to express their views . |
| 16 | Between them the three sons held title to most of Henry II 's kingdom — but title only . |
| 17 | If there was a delay , a ‘ cold trod ’ gave them the same privileges provided the retaliation was completed within six days . |
| 18 | Returning to our canine theme , dogs still carry with them the same instincts possessed by their wild ancestors , still remaining members of that same species — the wild wolf — even after so many generations of breeding have made them what must be the most diverse species upon Earth . |
| 19 | It is you the Great Spirits want . ’ |
| 20 | In this one it was n't quite so er , straightforward in that we , we had n't given you the actual activities to do . |
| 21 | Are we the only dogs chosen for our star signs or have any of you had this star treatment ? |
| 22 | But I told him the best publishers to try — the pink-ohs , you know . |
| 23 | Others are less concerned with perfect indexing , but rather demand that the searcher exercise his skills thoroughly , offering him the appropriate facilities to do so . |
| 24 | In front of him the two men had separated , reacted to the shout , and then to the sight of the gun . |
| 25 | In front of him the torpid lizards stirred in their cage on the picture box . |
| 26 | DeVore who had shown him the top-security files detailing the deals Klaus Ebert had struck with various Companies to destroy Curval 's own enterprise . |
| 27 | In the long opening mime section Bocca 's graceful arrogance was eloquently coupled to the desperate impatience to meet Nikiya ( Viviana Durante ) , and once dancing with her the two qualities sparked into a heady ardour . |
| 28 | Behind her the enchanted dancers spun on ; the focus of the circle was now drifting along a violet-lit corridor . |
| 29 | Below her the muttering sunflowers continued their ghostly and invisible movement . |
| 30 | Stung by the complete absence of regard for her the insolent words betrayed , Maria rammed her key into the lock with violently shaking fingers , anger stoking and stirring a seething cauldron of other emotions . |