Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to steal my strip on the Island ? ’ |
| 2 | You will now release me : the resulting implication being that I bought my freedom at the expense of his . |
| 3 | And , perhaps , with this act of treachery I can finally buy my freedom from the burden of buried horror that bound me to Andy twenty years ago , so that — dispossessed of that trespass — I 'm left free to betray him again , now . |
| 4 | Once we were past the village on the road up to the major , Sir Edmund , recalling my story about the ambush , ordered the soldiers to fan out before us . |
| 5 | I liked the way Karen had picked up that my story about the wallet was in fact a message , and I liked the message she was sending back even more . |
| 6 | He did n't believe my story about the Star Zoo … until the robot told him it was all true . |
| 7 | The passage could be read as ‘ this is not my ‘ Histoire de l'oeil ’ , but a male story that I have been subjected to ’ , or as ‘ this is not ‘ L'Histoire de l'oeil ’ but my story of the eye which is not a his-story but a hystery , i.e. a female story ’ . |
| 8 | When I had told my story to the minister , he introduced me to Ivan Feigelson ( known to his friends as Ika ) , a young medical student of Russian emigré parentage . |
| 9 | I told my story with the help of Joy and Alan , who arrived for coffee and contributed greatly with their humanity , humour and charm . |
| 10 | My mum used to pick my hair off the pillow while I was asleep so that I would n't see how much I was losing , and at that time I was too ill to get up and go and look in the mirror . |
| 11 | I have stripped off the patina of almost-respectable journalism , put back the earring , parted my hair in the middle to hide my own personal recession , exchanged the Marks and Spencer 's cords for 501s , the Oxford shirt for a Lloyd Cole cast-off black polo . |
| 12 | yes , just for instance , my brother pulling my hair in the back of the car and annoying me . |
| 13 | At sunset , I climb back to the waterfall and wash my hair in the cold , clear water — a mundane chore elevated into sublime pleasure . |
| 14 | After dinner , I combed my hair in the bedroom . |
| 15 | They did n't make me wash my hair which I was very grateful for as I hate having to wash my hair in the bath . |
| 16 | Er , I 'm sure we did n't put a brush through my hair in the bath . |
| 17 | My advantage over the rest of the managers is that I can manipulate my time more . |
| 18 | They may communicate more fully than they would in real life but this is to my advantage as the reader because it increases my relief and my pleasure . |
| 19 | But she did n't pity me ; she mimicked my accent in the play . |
| 20 | It 's like my kind in the South and the vultures . ’ |
| 21 | And that we actually op adopted a b a modern sensible er , reasonable attitude towards all living creatures and that we do today vote to ban fox hunting it is anachronistic as I said earlier , it is not necessary it actually causes harm , not only does it cause harm to foxes , but at least in one case , which is sufficient for me to continue my support for the ban damage to the people in my area . |
| 22 | Sir , — I would like to make known my support for the devolution of Scotland . |
| 23 | IWISH to express my support for the ambulance men and women . |
| 24 | My quizzing about the intellectual world which I was about to enter with some trepidation left him with a wry smile , which puzzled me for some time after , as my naïvety about the world of further education lasted well into my early days in college . |
| 25 | My exposure to the energy and subtle abilities of my Subud brothers in Java had so ignited my optimism and sense of wonder concerning our hidden natures that I had wangled my way into Lancaster University 's Department of Comparative Religion to write a doctorate on transformational consciousness , in a field which was later to be referred to as psycho-anthropology . |
| 26 | He was the heartbeat of the team in 1966 … my lieutenant on the field , a cool , calculated footballer I could trust with my life . ’ |
| 27 | My debut on the bestseller list should happen any day now . |
| 28 | But as they had n't seen each other since the day they both left the house , I did n't think my debut in The Jungle Book was the best time for a reunion . |
| 29 | And what I make from writing barely pays my part of the housekeeping . |
| 30 | That would be devastating to my part of the country — |