Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having observed his or her own former situation by means of regression , the patent will then during the course of a counselling session have the opportunity to discuss what happened ( something that may never have been done before ) , to express anger at the perpetrator and possibly at others who may have guessed what was going on but perhaps did nothing to prevent it , and to understand that he or she was in no way to blame for what occurred . |
| 2 | Out of approximately one hundred prospective overseas students I spoke with , the majority said they had little intention of returning to China unless conditions improved in all aspects of life in the near future , but they were vague about what they would do overseas once their initial period of advanced education was complete . |
| 3 | Britain , France and West Germany have argued for a joint world turnover threshold of £3.5bn , while the majority want it set lower at £1.4bn . |
| 4 | The wallingford buy who 'd steered Cambridge home was carried shoulder high … |
| 5 | The twin caricatures of the King hoarding the nation 's wealth and the Prince dissipating it had appeared in other Gillray etchings , but nowhere with greater effect than in these two productions of July 1792 . |
| 6 | When the split happened he said : ‘ There was no one else involved . |
| 7 | The serpent carved there seemed to writhe , its tongue darting , whilst its intended victim , Eve , stood like the personification of innocence with one hand covering her groin , the other raised to hold back her long flowing hair . |
| 8 | For those who enjoyed them , the preservation of the fueros was ‘ an instinct and a poetry ’ and the struggle to defend them linked the backward-looking Carlism of the 1830 's with the cultural nationalism of the later nineteenth century . |
| 9 | As the struggle progressed he came to see the inadequacies of the term and realized that it was too constricted in its meaning and gave rise to confusion and misunderstanding . |
| 10 | More and more the struggle to express it intensified . |
| 11 | The struggle to understand everything showed clearly on her face , and slowly , surely , she found a ray of hope in the mess , something to compensate for the painful discovery that she 'd been ignorant of her own roots . |
| 12 | The other side of the coin is the agonising trust in the dark , the utter obedience when all our inclinations go the other way , and the willingness to suffer which marked our Lord . |
| 13 | The board revealed it had established a sub-committee ‘ to progress the recruitment of a group chief executive from outside the Barclays Group ’ . |
| 14 | The board said it regretted that Lord Hollick had informed the chairman that he could not support its statement of support for Mr Montgomery in full . |
| 15 | The board saying they wanted to sell him will have made him think ‘ Why not , no point hanging round where I 'm not wanted ’ . |
| 16 | For example if you had the London Mozart players here as we frequently did and frequently played to full houses , then even with a hundred percent house there was a subsidy required of something like seven or eight pounds per seat , in order to meet the cost of presenting that particular concert and we 've done it for years but sadly when we had to make cuts that was one of things the board decided they had to cut up they had to save money somehow . |
| 17 | On arrival at the hairpin bend I looked over my shoulder and saw that the kakar had lowered her head , and was once more cropping the grass . |
| 18 | Reminding her that she would still be in full control at all times , I asked her whether it was not worth trying the technique to see what happened . |
| 19 | He had n't the heart to say he did n't want to be his lordship 's servant or , indeed , anyone 's servant . |
| 20 | Ah , they had the money to buy they had every they could afford |
| 21 | The smell accompanying him suggested he 'd brought fresh coffee beans . |
| 22 | Those who had the privilege to know her wanted to remember her . |
| 23 | The bitter sobbing which had consumed her immediately after her coming upstairs had stopped . |
| 24 | It was the cesspool smell I had noticed earlier . |
| 25 | But his concentration was poor these days : he could hardly keep his mind on anything for more than a moment … and even when he heard what the Padre said it made no sense … " the Editor of The Times as wise as God Himself ! " |
| 26 | And at the end of the Easter break I brought the family back from holiday , rescued the uniforms from the dry cleaners and rang the friend who shares the school pick up just to say : ‘ All set for tomorrow ? ’ |
| 27 | When the clerk returned he saw the letter , glanced at the door , in an attempt to see who had left it , then slotted it neatly into one of the pigeon holes behind him . |
| 28 | Said Platt : ‘ The haggling over the contract spoiled what had been a good summer for me . |
| 29 | But the chairman said he 'd heard nothing to suggest that an Englishman is required to wear a beard . |
| 30 | Gloucester City Football Club have done an about turn too … they 've got Brian Godfrey the man they sacked as manager three months ago back in charge … the chairman says he made a mistake … three cheers for him … |