Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , an emotion may be expressed involuntarily or voluntarily ; if I say something in a ‘ happy ’ way , this may be because I feel happy , or because I want to convey to you the impression that I am happy . |
| 2 | But fortunately the dice are almost always loaded in their favour , and if we decide to fight with them the end result , for them and for us , can be that ‘ Out of this nettle , danger , we pluck this flower , safety ’ . |
| 3 | One day he will , and proceed to create from her the perfect dish of a wife and peeress . ’ |
| 4 | Please , try to look at it the way I have to — you must know that it 's an important matter because of Michel 's divorce ; if it were known , if it could be proved , that he is , ’ Flavia looked at Andrée and continued firmly , ‘ living with my mother , the divorce could still be stopped . |
| 5 | Always start with the victim and try to trace around him the web of relationships in which he was involved . |
| 6 | After , after er er I 've done with them the travel head lad takes over , he does all the ol the tra the race course , you know . |
| 7 | As I 've said to you the the old bastinal used to hang on the toilet wall outside was a whole row of them you know these these big galvanized bath things that were brought in on maybe on a Friday night . |
| 8 | Tell them , what I 've said to you the message that I have given to you . |
| 9 | You wo n't remember them after if you do n't look at them for a week but when you come to look at them the night before you 'll be surprised what you do know . |
| 10 | Okay you 've talked to them the phone right and you 're gon na go and sign them up . |
| 11 | That announcement to W. could , in my judgment , only serve to underline to her the extent to which she is in control . |
| 12 | So , I hope I 've introduced to you the very different styles by which microbes produce disease and indicated the balance of factors involved . |
| 13 | And I appreciate and I mean I 've discussed with you the , the complications or you 've got to keep open certain hours because you 've got a catering facility and you 've got certain members of staff and you 've got to keep projectionists occupied etcetera . |
| 14 | And now I come to think of it the light in here is not what it was . |
| 15 | Through the horse , we have emphasized for us the animalistic and instinctive nature of the male ( or human ? ) sexual appetite . |
| 16 | ‘ I have seen it come down from the sky with a noise like thunder , and I have seen within it the bodies of those who were Too Late ! ’ |
| 17 | 1 You have prepared for us the script for ten episodes of a video entitled — . |
| 18 | Thus , the Report refers to " English in the highest sense " as " the channel for formative culture for all English people , and the medium of the creative art by which all English writers of distinction , whether poets , historians , Philosopher , or men of science , have secured for us the power of realising some part of their own experience of life " . |
| 19 | A notice of his death in the Bristol Journal supports the view that had he lived he would have made an even greater mark as an engineer : ‘ The public have to deplore in him the loss of one of the first mechanics in the kingdom , whose early genius brought to perfection that long-wished-for desideratum , the applying the powers of the fire-engine to rotular movements . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ We are also concerned that any troublesome remand prisoner is unlikely to be sent to the Wolds , and that while we have to deal with them the Group 4 people are cushioned . ’ |
| 21 | But having sa said that I have to share with you the a key element er , in the life of the church has been the ordained Ministry of Word and Sacrament and pastoral care . |
| 22 | These are n't my figures they 're County Council figures The point is this , what is going to happen if positive action is to reduce the flow of traffic , I have to emphasize with you the flow of traffic is not taken . |
| 23 | Families may be placed high in these hierarchies for a variety of reasons — because they have brought with them the high status they had in their villages , because they have acquired status by helping new families settle here in the fifties and sixties and kept them in a state of perennial obligation , because they have gone up in class and ( as a Sikh woman in Newham told me ) ‘ claim status by pretending to be ultra-devout and criticising others who are less so . ’ |
| 24 | In most cases these families are poor , but they have brought with them the petit-bourgeois values of financially better-off days , and this has led to an apparently unquenchable materialism . |
| 25 | The sharpest contrast is with migrants who have brought with them the expectation that sons will bring their wives into the homes of their parents , where in some sense the wives will be under the authority of their mothers-in-law . |
| 26 | ‘ Master Parry , I have so much confidence in the good offices of your daughter that I have brought with me the letter of which I spoke to her . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , he is unable to respond himself as he is away from the office filming at present , but we have discussed with him the requests you make in your letter . |
| 28 | We have put to them the intimate questions teachers and parents are too afraid to ask . |
| 29 | If you can once get into Children a Love of Credit , and an Apprehension of Shame and Disgrace , you have put into them the true principle … |
| 30 | a These past 3 years have reinforced for us the importance of listening to relatives . |