Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pers pn] the [noun] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 In standing out for true sportsmanship on the field Mr Chapman , loyally backed by his players , set a standard which has raised the sport he loved to the highest level , and has won for him the gratitude of sportsmen the world over . ’
2 This positive conviction carried with it the rejection of any attempt to compromise with other sources , authorities or norms , or to establish theology itself on any other foundation .
3 Trainees will come to realise that their action , by its abruptness , has carried with it the judgement that the client is guilty of incest .
4 Branson did not see Malcolm McLaren for another five months , by which time association with the Sex Pistols carried with it the whiff of high treason …
5 The position carried with it the right to a seat in the Council and Fould combined it with the office of Minister of State .
6 If taken to extremes , such policies carried within them the potential to precipitate a catastrophic decline into hyperinflation .
7 Either the C scribe or one of his predecessors added to the 1017 entry that the ætheling Eadwig was afterwards killed , and ( perhaps inadvertently ) omitted from it the expulsion of Eadwig king of the ceorls , which appears under 1020 ; the information in 1030 that Olaf " was afterwards holy " ( i.e. regarded as a saint ) must also have been included at a fairly late stage in C 's composition .
8 At a very early age the Spencer children had impressed upon them the value of good manners , honesty and accepting people for what they are , not for their position in life .
9 The children must have impressed upon them the need for personal cooperation within the classroom as essential to the variety of learning situations with which they will be faced .
10 However , my Presidency has impressed upon me the Sea-Change in recent years of governmental policy as it affects University and College finances .
11 The Minister of State , my right hon. Friend the Member for Oxford , West and Abingdon ( Mr. Patten ) , was on the Front Bench yesterday and has reported to me the content of the ten-minute Bill and the vote .
12 Beneath the heaven of feeling that he needed her were the remnants of pain caused by the memory of how he had looked at her the morning after they had made love .
13 Cos you remember last week we accounted for er He was in the world , and although the world was made through him the world did not recognize him .
14 But she knew , morning person or not , if Fen only felt for her the way she felt for him , she would happily be up at half-past three or even earlier , just to be with him .
15 Maggie 's room , her own place , had been made for her the summer she was eight by Phoebe , Paul and Uncle Wong .
16 1 You have prepared for us the script for ten episodes of a video entitled — .
17 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 " .
18 The slight tilt it always had now become a great lunge to one side , and as the mist moved against it the bin appeared to be moving the other way .
19 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 .
20 Police never traced a scruffy looking man seen with her the day before she died .
21 Emptying his mind of everything except an awareness of the Presence of his Creator , Father Kipling enfolded the stem of the monstrance in the ends of his humeral veil , and held it high , and made with it the Sign of the Cross in the air .
22 I did understand however that my oath to preserve the constitution to the best of my ability imposed upon me the duty of that nation of which the constitution is the organic law .
23 ‘ 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 ! ’
24 whether it could properly be said that it 's a duty because it 's not , it 's a guide , er the question arises as to whether it 's a duty but of course it 's here , it 's always been in the expert 's report incorporated in it the reference to it erm but er Lord in my submission er it is undoubtedly correct that your Lordship would be greatly helped by hearing evidence from a solicitor engaged regularly , frequently , in commercial conveyancing work as to what the extent of the practice , the accepted practice and the professional standards operated by solicitors in this field and
25 There was on her lips the slightly sulky look he had first noticed in her the night before , but she was fighting .
26 Such is the notion uncritically entertained in the Alliance Report : competing candidates of the same party would make clear their differences on policy issues , and on the balanced slate so presented to him the voter would pick and choose .
27 Each industry must have applied to it the test of national service .
28 The gesture revealed nothing of that woman 's essence , one could say rather that the woman revealed to me the charm of a gesture .
29 ‘ The defendant had been personally negligent in that he had failed to take such steps and make such inquiries as would have revealed to him the defects in his structure and the risks of fire thereby occasioned . ’
30 The Administration decided that it applied to any coal owner who had actively sought to mine the coal up to the day the law was passed .
  Next page