Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through the horse , we have emphasized for us the animalistic and instinctive nature of the male ( or human ? ) sexual appetite . |
| 2 | Branson 's fierce attack on ‘ predatory pricing ’ carried with it the implied threat of another anti-trust suit against British Airways in the American courts . |
| 3 | His first posting in 1915 took him to the Toba Batak country in Northern Sumatra in time to witness the Muslim Acehnese rising against their Christian rulers ; an event which made him appreciate the approaching crisis of Islam as a focus for nationalism , and impressed upon him the urgent need for Muslim-Christian accommodation . |
| 4 | A hydraulic representation of his system dominated in which the historical evolution and context of Keynes 's ideas could find no place . |
| 5 | ‘ Might there not be a case for putting the initial interview in the hands of an educational psychologist skilled in eliciting a history without being committed to what the social workers revealingly call ‘ disclosure ’ ? ' , he suggested . |
| 6 | It was only when the Finance Minister , Navarro Rubio , confronted Franco personally , impressed on him the absolute and urgent necessity of devaluing the peseta , and asked him how he would feel if ration cards had to be reintroduced , that Franco reluctantly gave in . |
| 7 | She made her way towards the small window table selected for her the previous evening , but before she could sit down Silas came to her side . |
| 8 | Again , originally groups of ‘ adventurers ’ were recognized in trade with various lands — one trading with Prussia secured royal recognition in 1391 , another with the Netherlands in 1407 and a third with the Scandinavian lands in 1408 , but eventually the Netherlands group secured for itself the specific name of the Merchant Adventurers ' Company ( 64 , pp. 143–50 ) . |
| 9 | They were deluged with what the French call le corbeau , poison-pen letters accusing neighbours , business competitors and colleagues of everything from listening to the BBC to being an active resistant ( of whom there were , in fact , very few indeed until the eve of the Liberation ) . |
| 10 | " suggested that arrangements should be made under which the Technical School should work in co-operation with the Grammar School . |
| 11 | Nehushtah , Mandru 's wife , had decided upon it the previous night . |
| 12 | Then they clapped me on the back with too many hands , thrust upon me the plastiform wafer that confirmed payment of the rest of my fee , and proclaimed that they would create a song for the festival in praise of ’ the , most safe and reliable Delmore Curb , master courier ’ . |
| 13 | Polymeric phosphatidylcholines have been prepared in which the polar head group forms the interface , and which mimic the interfacial characteristics of the lipid of these natural cell and lipoprotein surfaces . |
| 14 | Internal markets within large organizations will increasingly be created as cost-centres and profit-centres proliferate , and surveillance will be lessened as more flexible manufacturing systems are adopted within which the collective workers become their own supervisors . |
| 15 | What had she seen in him the other day that had been so disturbing ? |
| 16 | They have seen Pop Will Eat Itself close up and seen in them the terrible cost of debauchery . |
| 17 | The following case study is unusual because Charlotte ( not her real name ) had not revealed to me the actual reason why she felt the need for aromatherapy . |
| 18 | However , this job revealed to me the big , wide , illegal world of the homosexual . |
| 19 | The child is probably trying to write down a suitable looking word , and has n't said to himself the actual word he has written down . |
| 20 | The word stirred her , and she recalled what her mother had said to her the previous day : that Cork had been her home all her life , with no suffering and no want — a safe and secure home . |
| 21 | In cases where we require the client to confirm in writing certain representations made to us the following letter may be used . |
| 22 | Jane continued her career — if you can dignify it with such a name — on Vogue , where the personnel manager fiercely shot at her the rhetorical question : ‘ You 've got a private income , of course ? ’ |
| 23 | The ‘ Senior Fire Steward ’ would have a pre-prepared list of all sections to be searched by which the current situation could be assessed and reported to the Fire Service on its arrival . |
| 24 | Once we get beyond the cheap debating point , has the right hon. and learned Gentleman thought about what the minimum wage will do to unemployment ? |
| 25 | New friendships , as much as politics and poetry , transformed for him the final years of school . |
| 26 | His age and status induced in me the normal mixture of deference , fear and cheek . |
| 27 | Bill thought I 'd died on him the other night cos I was , you know , me breathing and everything , and then all of a sudden I must 've relaxed for a bit and not needed to breathe and he give me a shock he says God I thought you were dead . |
| 28 | They had slept beside it the previous night , and rose at five to make sure of reaching the top by sunrise . |
| 29 | 34.1 ; see also 32.49 ) , and with God 's supernatural eyesight is shown by him the whole extent of the Promised Land from Dan in the north to Zoar in the south , and right across to the Mediterranean sea in the west . |
| 30 | His wife hated their life here in Munding , and what had happened in the ice-bound park at Easterness had become for her the final bitter vindication of that hate . |