Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pers pn] 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 | In an ideal world the choice of harmonizing instrument would depend on what was most suitable for the particular project envisaged and carried with it the greatest prospect of successful implementation . |
| 3 | The tariff policy therefore carried with it the last hope of consolidating the Empire and the last hope of reversing the drift into class politics ; as a pessimist , Law saw further ahead than most of his contemporaries , and events proved him to be more nearly right than they were . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A NEW company has been set up to exploit an automatic bicycle transmission system , which is claimed to he the biggest breakthrough in bicycle gears since Derailleur invented his system in the 1920s ( New Scientist , 6 January , p 23 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | However , Dry was really fizzy and horrible , and the least said about it the better . |
| 10 | So , the least said about it the better . |
| 11 | Only later , I told the now somewhat quivering Principal , only later , when Rosa had gone , did it come to mind that one or two of the other girls had made of me the same enquiry over the past twelve months . |
| 12 | Nehushtah , Mandru 's wife , had decided upon it the previous night . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | What had she seen in him the other day that had been so disturbing ? |
| 15 | They have seen Pop Will Eat Itself close up and seen in them the terrible cost of debauchery . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | However , this job revealed to me the big , wide , illegal world of the homosexual . |
| 18 | What had the vacillating vamp said to her the last time they were together ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In cases where we require the client to confirm in writing certain representations made to us the following letter may be used . |
| 21 | 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 ? ’ |
| 22 | New friendships , as much as politics and poetry , transformed for him the final years of school . |
| 23 | His age and status induced in me the normal mixture of deference , fear and cheek . |
| 24 | He that will consider that the same fire that at one distance produces in us the sensation of warmth , does at a nearer approach produce in us the far different sensation of pain , ought to bethink himself what reason he has to say , that his idea of warmth which was produced in him by the fire , is actually in the fire , and his idea of pain which the same fire produced in him the same way is not in the fire . |
| 25 | Certainly I always tried to remember the shocking effect which the sight of so many old prisoners , some of them bearded , all of them strangely dressed , had had on me the first time I arrived in a main camp . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | They had slept beside it the previous night , and rose at five to make sure of reaching the top by sunrise . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The quicker he got rid of her the better . |