Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henley prides itself on the accessibility of its Faculty whose services extend well beyond the formal classroom environment . |
| 2 | Aswan has none of the melancholy transience of most end-of the-line towns . |
| 3 | As you drive , this NVH manifests itself in the form of tiny vibrations fed back through the steering wheel and the gruff , uninspiring sounds from the SE-FHE engine . |
| 4 | Stewart joins us on the line now good morning Mr . |
| 5 | Nine months on Mr Boulton is still waiting for the two and a half thousand pounds he claims Brit-Pol owes him for the coach . |
| 6 | We must put all our energies into the preparation for Belle Ile while Schellenberg busies himself with the Steiner affair . ’ |
| 7 | Lungfish joins me under the blanket . |
| 8 | Japanese director Nagisa Oshima wants him for the lead in Valentino , a movie which will explore the destructive effect of fame on silent screen stars . |
| 9 | Hungary owes something in the order of twenty billion dollars in international debt . |
| 10 | Gregory sees her as the prime mover in this , while allowing for the importance of divine intervention in Clovis 's victory against the Alamans . |
| 11 | At the hearing , your own Counsel takes you through the report and shows what a splendid , reliable fellow you are , and gives you questions that bring out the excellence of everything you did . |
| 12 | Gibson Keddie finds himself on the wrong end of a tongue lashing … |
| 13 | In another case it will mean that the writer creates his own special kind of language : and it is in this sense that Halliday applies it to the Neanderthal language of The Inheritors . |
| 14 | MIKHAIL Gorbachev presents himself as the saviour of socialism . |
| 15 | Tony Vaux follows him through the comic-horror jungle of Third World bureaucracy — and corruption . |
| 16 | Indicating one of the wider streets leading off the square , he added , ‘ A short walk down Calle Lunga brings you to the Grand Canal . ’ |
| 17 | Elsewhere Salim separates himself from the doers and makers of the big world beyond him , of whom it is said : ‘ They 're making cars that will run on water . ’ |
| 18 | Er I think Ruth says anything in the hope that it 's somewhere near right . |
| 19 | Kim meets us at the door wearing a shimmering dress . |
| 20 | Then as her stomach jumps in panic , Maggie sees them in the far corner , Lucy and Frieda , with Jo beside them . |
| 21 | James Bond gets it in the neck from Korean goon Oddjob |
| 22 | Misha Glenny takes us through the historical background to the war , before giving us a more detailed account of the political manoeuvring and stirring from August 1990 to May 1992 . |
| 23 | The Church in Senegal sends you to the Church in Benin . ’ |
| 24 | Instead , Mauriac tells us about the books he 's read , the painters he 's liked , the plays he 's seen . |
| 25 | A –rain of plastic sailed stunters , with tubular tails trailing to follow the flight path , as that great showman Peter Powell steers them from the sunroof of a moving car . |
| 26 | Regan declares it to the man himself ( V.i.6ff. ) , as the egoism they each pursue turns the two sisters into deadly rivals ( 15f. , 18f . ) . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , David Speedie puts himself in the shop window at St Andrews tonight . |
| 28 | He is upset at the lack of activity and howls appallingly , but when Odd-Knut tries him on the trace he is clearly crippled and in pain . |
| 29 | Now it does n't matter what I say to him or how hard Phil Boersma works him in the gym or in training — Barnes has to do it himself . |
| 30 | Back in Baidoa , little Issi knows nothing of the complex politics behind his hunger . |