Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her job is to push Cabinet ministers ‘ to do what is right ’ ; this involves reminding them of the Government 's strategy laid down in the manifestos and combating what she regards as the inertia inherent in departments . |
| 2 | ( Recall Fodor 's example of blinking when a good friend goes to poke us in the eye . ) |
| 3 | That this person should harbour aggressive feelings towards you is unimaginable , but then suddenly , she goes to poke you in the eye — and you blink . |
| 4 | He has felt the presaging shadow of death , and he goes to meet it in the old unchanging way of the wild — alone . |
| 5 | This accursed recession has blinded us to the fact that we are well placed , vis-a-vis our competitors in Europe , to create wealth . |
| 6 | At one extreme is the person who starts a diet every morning and has broken it by the evening . |
| 7 | When that news hits him , the narrator seems to crumble , even though a premonitory dream the night before has readied him for the shock . |
| 8 | Yeah she said she has to wear them for the television |
| 9 | Mellowes has assigned me to the duties of the administrative assistants , then to those of the statistical clerks . |
| 10 | However , because of their wide scope , when judging such clauses under s 3 of the UCTA , one has to treat them on the basis that they exclude or restrict liability for total failure to perform by reason of wilful default . |
| 11 | I am glad that she has joined us for the debate . |
| 12 | Almut Suerbaum , of the university of Munster , has joined us as the new Fellow in German ; as a specialist in Medieval German literature she continues the tradition of her predecessor . |
| 13 | ‘ Captain Aranyos wants to see you in the south chapel of the Stefansdom at three o'clock , ’ she blurted before he had the opportunity to broach the subject . |
| 14 | But he has forsaken them for the moment , at least in his current Emmerich show , ‘ Some Very Recent Paintings ’ ( opening 14 January ) . |
| 15 | It could also be that for some of you 1988 has also seen some trouble , a bereavement perhaps , that has shaken you to the foundations . |
| 16 | In America , where they have a fondness for creating lists of the greatest ever people , his Plight of English has placed him among the very top writers on the English language . |
| 17 | I think the first evidence we have of that , is when Brocklehurst has placed her on the stool and publicly humiliated her . |
| 18 | It is your enthusiasm , dedication and sheer hard work which has placed us at the forefront of our industry . |
| 19 | I for one value the friendship that he has given me in the eight and a half years that I have been a Member of the House , despite the fact that we are in different parties and disagree on many issues . |
| 20 | He care for the whole of mankind and has given us in the Bible a guide-book by which to live . |
| 21 | Check the output which CREFDL has given you against the example of a successful run of the command file as shown in Figure 2.1 . |
| 22 | Agnes nodded and smiled at her ; then , as Nan came behind the counter , she whispered to her , ‘ His lordship has reminded me of the time . |
| 23 | ‘ a very long boy , with a very little head , and an open mouth of disproportionate capacity ’ , devotedly attached to Betty Higden who has rescued him from the workhouse in which he has been brought up , having been a foundling child . |
| 24 | In 1986 Metromedia 's six US television stations were sold to Rupert Murdoch , who has grouped them into the Fox Television network . |
| 25 | He wants to provide us with the insight from his word and the power from his Holy Spirit that our lives should be transformed . |
| 26 | Does not my hon. Friend consider it surprising that the right hon. Member for Chingford ( Mr. Tebbit ) , who always wants to lecture us about the rule of law although we certainly need no lectures about it from him , comes to the House with , I think , two cases where crookedness was involved ? |
| 27 | THE 1993 British and US Open champion , Patty Sheehan , had the better of a tense battle with Canada 's Dawn Coe-Jones to win the $700,000 Standard Register Ping — a 32nd tour victory which has catapulted her into the LPGA 's Hall of Fame . |
| 28 | It has carried me from the comfortable Salisbury suburb where a kind Scottish family have made me a home , to a rough Bulawayo farmstead . |
| 29 | PETER MARSHALL 's double-handed style has carried him to the top of the British rankings , and many observers were looking to this week 's British Open Championship at Wembley Conference Centre to provide proof of his potential at world level . |
| 30 | SUN man Paul Welford has reported him to the police , and Flashman said : ‘ If people want to do that , then fair enough . |