Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | He wanted work and to pay for the damage so I offered him a job . ’ |
2 | Will your household insurance pay for the damage if you spill a can of paint over your wall-to-wall carpet , put your foot through the bedroom ceiling , or demolish a load-bearing wall and bring half your home tumbling about your ears ? |
3 | Both sides seemed satisfied and although it is unlikely that a two-tier Champagne classification would have been workable in the long term , it sufficed for the present although it was still being debated in the Senate when war broke out three years later . |
4 | Now , in cases where he was convinced of the correctness of his choice of the homœopathic medicine , in order to obtain more benefit for the patient than he was able to get hitherto from prescribing a single small dose , the idea often naturally struck him to increase the dose … and , for instance , in place of giving a single very minute globule moistened with the medicine in the highest dynamization , to administer six , seven or eight of them at once , and even a half or a whole drop . |
5 | This series of squares is disquieting as it heads for the horizon unless it allows for the curvature of the Earth . |
6 | All that energy for comparatively few sales , but she will get them for the paperback as she is very much the rising star of Black American fiction . |
7 | It is the property of the Widow and the Orphan who regard it as safe in your Hands , & in our case moreover it is the property of the Sovereign of the country who selects us for the deposit because he expects ( & expressly has declared that to be his motive ) to find in us , the nice Honour of Gentleman added to the common honesty & Integrity of Men of Business . ’ |
8 | So we are looking for a new name that we shall use for the discs when they are eventually released . |
9 | As we have seen , there are distinct limitations on what can be achieved by way of conditions on a planning permission ; this can often be as awkward for the developer as it is for the planning authority . |
10 | see , for the lights so you were n't allowed to put the lights on you see for the bombers . |
11 | Where will Mary look for the coin when she comes back in ? |
12 | Bales had been arranged for the jury as they had been on the night of the fire . |
13 | The Martian encampment they find may be deserted but the lichen-like vegetation , triggered into accelerated growth by a light drizzle of rain , proves more than just a minor hazard for the astronauts as they race against time to repair the ship . |
14 | What news will Chancellor Norman Lamont have for the motorist when he rises in the House of Commons next Tuesday to deliver his budget speech ? |
15 | Fig 103 By making the first of two tacks into tide it is easier to judge when to tack for the mark since you are much closer to it than if you take the other course . |
16 | Subtitled How The World Will Change In The Depression Of The 1990s , its central hypothesis is that we are headed for a major depression , that deflation will return , that property prices will collapse by two-thirds , that Islam will pour into the power vacuum left by communism , that taxes will soar , that many major corporations will cease to exist , that anyone wealthy enough will flee big cities and away from the gangs controlling them , that countries like India , Canada , South Africa and Israel will fall to bits , that there will be plagues of locusts and frogs and that firstborn sons ought to head for the hills while they 've got the chance . |
17 | Clearly you would n't write in the same way for the Sun as you would for the Times or the Financial Times or the Guardian , or the Cambridge local paper . |
18 | ‘ I have attempted to see Queen Yolande to ask her why she did not send out a search-party for the King when he failed to arrive at Kinghorn Manor . |
19 | Disney , the king of cartoon animation , have released their own animation studio package for the PC so you too can create magical animated sequences . |
20 | A sense of smell is the first and primary thing for the animal because it gives it its sense of direction and it 's very important and it goes gently cold , delicately as the dark snow . |
21 | ‘ The government 's proposals on patronage and sponsorship [ the so-called Ley del Mecenazgo or Patronage Law ] may provide an important boost for the Museum if it actually becomes law ’ . |
22 | It is a valuable acquisition for the museum as it describes an experience which quite a number of Middlesbrough people must have gone through . ’ |
23 | You will need to get a receipt for the materials if you do the work yourself or the bill from the contractor if you have the work done for you . |
24 | He accuses the Americans of being xenophobic : ‘ It 's very difficult for the Americans because it 's most unusual for them to adopt a standard not written by the American National Standards Institute ( ANSI ) . |
25 | It 's as difficult for the stewards as it is for us , ’ he said . |
26 | While reluctant to divulge exactly the new creative strategy , Hind confirms the forthcoming campaign will drop the old line , ‘ Pickles that bite back ’ devised by Still Price for the brand when it was owned by Brooke Bond . |
27 | Life was fraught enough for the Stevenses as it was , with the constant care of Jennifer , without her adding to their problems , and besides , she had come to value her privacy and her independence . |
28 | We 'd clear them out for the licensee if he was having trouble . |
29 | We then did n't have enough materials for the wall so we had to shorten its length , which in turn meant there was not enough room for media vehicles and not enough space for VIPs to manoeuvre their cars in , and that meant altering security arrangements . |
30 | Oxfam is being urged to call off a charity pop concert because of fears it could attract thousands of travellers back to Castlemorton.Tickets are already on sale for the event although it has n't yet been granted a licence.Richard Barnett reports : |