Example sentences of "[det] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | does that compare them with the customers ? |
| 2 | I can see the town airport from where I am , indeed I can touch its tarmac with a digit thrust through the chain-link fence — all that separates it from the Lofleiđ3ir — but to get from here to there is not so easy , and involves taking a bus into town and back out again or taking a taxi . |
| 3 | To it we owe that nervous , spidery line of the drawings — so quick , so attentive , yet so despairing — that alerts us to the elusiveness of the subject at the same time that it perseveres in the attempt to render it . |
| 4 | Would that suit you for the time being , Graham ? |
| 5 | Humpage had been chosen as wicketkeeper and started the game behind the stumps , but with Gloucestershire finding little to worry them in the efforts of Warwickshire 's regular bowlers , Humpage removed his pads and gloves , with Chris Maynard , playing as a batsman , taking over as wicketkeeper . |
| 6 | That blessed us with the vision faith had won , |
| 7 | If mothers receive a benefit which they are expected and indeed do spend to service the needs of their families , then this re-confirms them as the day-to-day managers of household finances , which for millions of women is not only a chore but also a source of considerable anxiety ( McClelland , 1982 ) . |
| 8 | Despite this , an intrepid few made it from the continent , including examples from France , Holland , although the star of the event was from much further afield — half-way around the world . |
| 9 | Some rattled on the glass , some got her in the face , some spurted into the room . |
| 10 | ‘ This got me into the very comfortable American hospital , where I was well pampered . |
| 11 | I haul her off the bed and half carry , half drag her into the bathroom . |
| 12 | This involves them in the same difficulties as those faced , or evaded , by psychologists . |
| 13 | This led her to the alarming conclusion that it was not they who were bigger , but she who was smaller — and a lot smaller . |
| 14 | This bring you to the main designing screen . |
| 15 | Only 40% thought that there will be a united Ireland one day but few expected it in the short term — 16% expected it to come about in 25 years , 13% in 50 years and 11% in 100 years . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , well , some make it to the big time , others do n't , ’ Melissa remarked smugly . |
| 17 | Few make it to the top . |
| 18 | This provided her with the ideal opportunity to research and write a book about the local food , which resulted in the publication of The Taste of Cyprus ( Interworld Publications , £5.95 ) , an enjoyable look at seasonal Cypriot cooking . |
| 19 | As a general approach , this presents a very attractive picture of human beings , but we must not , on the other hand , allow this to distract us from the pressing reality of society as an institutionalised , patterned , constraining system . |
| 20 | Mercury was believed to possess magical properties and some regarded it as the quintessence of the human body and of all substances . |
| 21 | The prosecution alleges this links them with the 3 lorry attacks . |
| 22 | She watched as Luke fought his own anger and then half threw him to the ground . |
| 23 | Combined with their reluctance to enter the war , the Turks entertain great hopes of their army , upon which a major portion of the budget is spent : and they can not fail to recognise something ludicrous in an attitude which , at one moment , abhors the idea of fighting and at another lauds it as the noblest activity of man . |
| 24 | They abandoned the ride and walked instead in the shade of the trees beside the track , but although this protected them from the sun 's rays the leaden heat was everywhere and there was no escaping it . |
| 25 | The Midland kept its own account at the Bank and used the Bank 's notes instead of its own ; this protected it against the effects of Sir Robert Peel 's clampdown on note issuing in 1844 . |
| 26 | This leads me to the last determinant of transmission teaching I want to explore here : that of teacher isolation . |
| 27 | All this leads me to the conclusion that the greater part of the passage of geological time has left over most of the earth no more than Shakespeare 's " gap in nature " . |
| 28 | This leads us to the composition and behaviour of sports crowds , especially at football matches and the current debate about the reasons for hooliganism . |
| 29 | This leads us to the most widely adopted material for kite sails , Ripstop Nylon |
| 30 | This leads us to the disturbing conclusion that there is a degree of subjectivity in identifying a stretch of language as discourse — it may be meaningful and thus communicate to one person in a way which another person does not have the necessary knowledge to make sense of — yet in practice we find that discourse is usually perceived as such by groups , rather than individuals . |