Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The film was Snow White ; and I felt my sanity slipping until the moment when the queen metamorphosed into the witch . |
| 2 | My heart fills with the anticipation of this perfect grove , towards which I am walking . |
| 3 | But my heart dipped at the thought . |
| 4 | My heart bleeds for the whole misunderstanding but it bleeds most for Diana . ’ |
| 5 | My heart sank at the prospect of yet again missing the top in the thick fog , but we had a great treat in store . |
| 6 | My heart leapt off the bedroom |
| 7 | ‘ When I walked away from the Great Rebellion , my heart bled with the pity and the waste and the anguish of it . |
| 8 | And how my heart aches for the baby son of Sarah Monelle , the young mum killed when a speeding car mounted the pavement , again in freezing fog , and ploughed into her and three of her pals . |
| 9 | Q I am getting married in the spring and am planning to have my hair permed nearer the time when it is longer . |
| 10 | Later we were to have several talks , but when I first arrived sick and ill and my GP went through the diagnosis , his greatest concern was to get me into the hands of a good specialist which he did with the utmost speed . |
| 11 | ‘ Did my coin land in the fountain ? ’ she asked . |
| 12 | He used to be a crane driver dear for , yeah he used and I 've got to , one of me sons now is a foreman for , well they 're not now it 's , it 's sort of amal amalgamated with another firm now I think , but he does , he does erm , he 's a foreman like now , he used to be a truck , crane driver and my , the very night that my hubby died on the following Monday he would of been working in Harlow , he got a new crane to take over in Harlow and he 'd been working away from home for weeks and months of the year always away , coming home weekends and I used to have to cook and do his washing and pack him up for going off again Monday morning early , but he never was near home working then , and as I say the night before he went he was , he was gon na work on the Monday to in Old , to Harlow down where the new er place was for and it unfortunately cos he went . |
| 13 | My foot went on the |
| 14 | On the way down I had my camera tied to my waist and it started to drop ; in trying to grab it I lost my balance , got my foot caught in the tree root , took a tumble and twisted my ankle . |
| 15 | Such is the power of suggestion that that night as I neared the top of the staircase , my foot stumbled on the last step but one . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ’ I spend most of my time working so most of my money goes in the bank for a rainy day or for my children 's education . |
| 18 | ‘ But when my contract expires at the end of the season I 'll be keeping my fingers crossed that one of the top clubs will be interested in signing me . |
| 19 | Down below , Quigley shouted goodnight at me and I shouted back , and , at last , my mum tiptoed to the door and , looking fearfully around her in case Quigley saw , blew me a little , damp kiss . |
| 20 | My mum went to the doctor and says to the doctor . |
| 21 | My dad was a coach builder and my mum worked at the gas board . |
| 22 | For a while , my route flirted with the border and after some easy going across the Severn Valley , I took to the hills again , following a roman road over Long Mountain . |
| 23 | My er my sister worked in the grenade shop and erm after she ca she 'd been working at , on the manor , do you know the manor at Willenhall and then er she decided to go on with the war work and she was courting the man named , John and his father was the timekeeper , later H & T Hornes , but erm it fizzled out and anyway the romance did but erm |
| 24 | BELVILLE : I stepped out of my chariot to walk across the meadow and whom should I spy but your humble servant , Mr. Williams . |
| 25 | I was taking Venturous alongside the jetty arm at Lowestoft on day to await the road bridge opening when Marty Stone , our second engineer , poised on the gunwale for a jump ashore to take the ropes , slipped on the wet rail and to my horror disappeared over the bow . |
| 26 | This , maybe , was my opportunity to escape from the torpor into which I had sunk . |
| 27 | I am in constant touch with defence industry leaders through the National Defence Industries Council and the Defence Manufacturers Association , and my Department participates in the regional seminar staged by the DTI for small and medium-sized defence industries . |
| 28 | No doubt there was something comic in the situation and I suppose that was what set my mind wandering in the direction of Farmer Bailes ' dog , Shep . |
| 29 | When I first came across this text my mind went to the Athanasian Creed which describes the Godhead as uncreated , infinite , eternal and incomprehensible . |
| 30 | With my mind working with the speed of desperation , it seemed I would be safest where I was till I could break away in the direction of the bus station . |