Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I put him back in his stable again , complete with an enormous amount of bandaging and went home to wait for my vet to phone with the results of the x-rays . |
| 2 | ‘ I could n't close my fingers to pull on the water after an hour . ’ |
| 3 | BELVILLE : I stepped out of my chariot to walk across the meadow and whom should I spy but your humble servant , Mr. Williams . |
| 4 | This , maybe , was my opportunity to escape from the torpor into which I had sunk . |
| 5 | Colleagues it 's now my pleasure to call upon the deputy General Secretary , Tom to move his section of the report and to address conference . |
| 6 | Fortunately , Ewen and myself had remembered to bring along the Trophy as well as the cheque for £500 which it was my pleasure to present to The Crofter of the year — Donald Murdo Macleod , 1 The Gress , Back , Lewis . |
| 7 | Allowed my eyes to wander over the whole of it , he wrote , and almost with satisfaction . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm right at the peak of my career now , and it 's my ambition to go for the ‘ grand slam ’ , ’ said Gunnell , after winning the 400m , her first race in Britain for five months . |
| 9 | These words of Monsignor Guardini , written nearly thirty years after my early musings , expressed a growing need in my thinking to account for the Buddha in the providence of God . |
| 10 | ‘ Mr Lockwood , ’ he said finally , brushing a tear from his eye , ‘ you can go into my bedroom to sleep for the rest of the night . |
| 11 | I try to convince my acquaintances to join in the action of the Czechs and Slovaks , but I fail … |
| 12 | Water is often a symbol of emotion ( or the subconscious ) , and my desire to go through the flood symbolised my conscious willingness and desire to delve deep into my emotions . |
| 13 | These phrases denied me my right to participate in the very same way that the socialist movement refused to recognize my rights to have access to information that would dispel my ignorance on such subjects . |
| 14 | As I have never been interested in argument , he must often have felt frustrated by my silences , my refusal to rise to the bait . |
| 15 | This has not prevented accusations that Bantam shamefully exploited my illness and that I cooperated with this by allowing my picture to appear on the cover . |
| 16 | It is not my job to comment on the policy of the County Council . |
| 17 | I wish my membership to commence with the .................... |
| 18 | They will then be framed , as fit companions in my drawing-room to hang by the side of a pair by my friend Audubon . |
| 19 | Every February , like thousands of others artists up and down the country , I have to decide which of my paintings to submit to the Royal Academy ; you are allowed to send in a maximum of three works for which you pay a fee of £9 each . |
| 20 | The Institute of Investment Management and Research ( IIMR , formerly the Society of Investment Analysts ) has set up a sub-committee under my chairmanship to decide on the calculation of an earnings figure which can be used for the per-share calculation and for price/earnings ratios . |
| 21 | I may modify my behaviour to conform to the expectations of the group , and I will do so in a much shorter time than I would in a one-to-one relationship . |
| 22 | It was from there that I began my efforts to enquire into the operation of the judicial system in the area . |
| 23 | He replies : It 's not the type of car I 'd want my wife to take to the shops . |
| 24 | I got my staff to check on the Charlotte T. , and found that she had sailed the day after Andrew Stavanger wrote his letter . |
| 25 | His argument was that it would free my father to return to the States , but Ron is never so simple . ’ |
| 26 | We closed rapidly and I opened fire at about 800 yards sighting a little high at first to allow for the distance and then dropping my bead to centre on the machine . |
| 27 | After three weeks it was my turn to go to the delivery ward at Fulmer . |
| 28 | It was my turn to go to the bank for the wages and I remember going back to the shop saying King George VI had died . |
| 29 | ‘ In fact , I have immediately asked my lawyers to proceed with the withdrawal of the action concerned to nullify all its consequences . ’ |
| 30 | I wanted my children to go to the best school that I could find . |