Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She 's very clever , ’ William said at once , ‘ making lovely shoes she is for them actresses in the theatre . ’ |
| 2 | The difference between them stems from the choices made in the context of organizing a provision for those who have challenged the authority of their schoolteachers . |
| 3 | On the way home through Canada I wrote the first few chapters of a book about my views on the tour . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've enjoyed speaking to audiences about my experiences in the game , ’ he said . |
| 5 | After a reasonable second class in Part I of the mathematics Tripos I transferred to theology : my tutor , Fred Marsh , gave me a deep love and critical understanding of the Old Testament , but was realistic about my chances in the theological Tripos . |
| 6 | As a fledgling journalist on the Yorkshire Evening Post I had written one or two bits and pieces about my jaunts into the Dales . |
| 7 | During my researches in the library of the Royal Geographical Society I learnt that in 1875 an Egyptian army commanded by Munzinger , a Swiss mercenary who had served under Gordon in Equatoria , had set out to invade Abyssinia from Tajura , and been exterminated by the Danakil before they reached Aussa . |
| 8 | I explained during my comments on the speech by the hon. Member for Cynon Valley that we attach high priority to Africa , but that there are other channels in the aid system . |
| 9 | During my travels across the Siberian Steppes , some years ago , I chanced upon a team of Russian palaeontologists , who were clearly in a state of heightened exuberance . |
| 10 | ‘ Of its mode of nidification ’ , Gould wrote of the nightjar he found on the lower Namoi , ‘ I can speak with confidence having seen many pairs breeding during my rambles in the woods … |
| 11 | The fact is , I feel as if ten years worry has been taken off my shoulders in the last ten minutes , and I 'm a little light-headed about it . ’ |
| 12 | I put out a hand to grasp you , and you slip through my fingers like the quicksilver cascade of a waterfall . |
| 13 | Yes , won a prize for my tomatoes at the Woodstock Horticultural Show ! |
| 14 | For my contemporaries in the postgraduate school at Durham in the early 1980s , the inclusion of the scientism of the self ( to use Okely 's phrase ) became part of ‘ doing the business ’ ( to move to the jargon of my contemporaries in the detective departments ) . |
| 15 | You have a love bite on your neck , yet you go on asking me for my views on the multicultural society , on secularism , on Darcian Monetarism . |
| 16 | I , William Baskerville , write this for my sons in the year 1742 . |
| 17 | I had to repeat things again and again , hoping that something would sink in , but I was rewarded for my efforts with the satisfaction of knowing that they all passed their examinations at the end of the year . |
| 18 | I think the Prince of Wales may have told Sir Thomas so , after he asked for my services at the banquet . |
| 19 | Let us consider what he has achieved , for example , for my farmers in the less-favoured areas . |
| 20 | I mean I have to pay for my books at the end of the year but that 's all . |
| 21 | Sent off for my tickets for the aforementioned match on Monday , only to find out on Tuesday that it 's been postponed ( effin Bright ) . |
| 22 | Stupid ! ’ as I drove the staff angrily into the ground between my feet with the action of a woman pounding corn . |
| 23 | Springsteen shot between my legs through the catflap without another look at Fenella . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm wonderin' , ’ said her mother , ‘ if we should clear out them ashes from the grate there . |
| 25 | I thought little about this prospect or indeed , about the opposition , as I was not intending to go the full distance after my exertions in the previous day 's 10K . |
| 26 | Of course , things happen in politics for more than one reason , but these things did happen shortly after my visits to the countries in question . ’ |
| 27 | Last year this was arranged as usual but I was so busy looking after my guests during the day that I had to rush getting ready for the evening out . |
| 28 | Companies House has bowed to pressure from MPs and the business community and agreed to send ex gratia payments to companies that were forced to pay a late filing penalty after their accounts for the period to 30 September 1991 were delivered to Companies House on 31 July 1992 . |
| 29 | During the Second World War Petwood was requisitioned by the R.A.F. and it became the Officer 's Mess for 617 Squadron , better known as ‘ The Dambusters ’ , after their bombings of the Mohne and Eder dams . |
| 30 | They therefore chose to look after their children during the week , and to allow their husbands to do so while they went to work on Sundays . |