Example sentences of "the [noun pl] in [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything seems to have been built yesterday , and giant skyscrapers are sill shooting up from this little patch of land in an attempt to outdo the cities in America it resembles . |
| 2 | yes , well I do n't know , I suppose that nearly all er the houses in Harlow you could say are open planned now , you know had a , had er , a , kitchen dining area that we have , erm or erm lounge , diner , erm they have n't gone in , in this , the ordinary houses , they have n't gone in for building |
| 3 | I did n't venture further in to find the owls in case I bumped into a Brother . |
| 4 | On the Thursdays in lab you have to work on your own and everybody 's doing different experiments and it is really — I mean , I dread Thursdays , because it is really worrying . |
| 5 | ‘ But if we can find the funds in future we would want to reinstate the service . ’ |
| 6 | I refrain from naming the books in case you have yet to read them . |
| 7 | But you see I find this discussion slightly difficult to deal with because on the one hand you 're saying yes , the exclusion clauses in the policy reduce the scope of your liability quite dramatically , and on the other hand you 're saying but that 's just the words in practice we behave quite differently . |
| 8 | The week when we really knew of the treatment of the Jews in Holland he could not eat either . |
| 9 | During all the years in television I suppose I 've done thousands of interviews . |
| 10 | Steve Thompson from Gloucester is the new world karate champion … in the finals in Italy he won his class … he won the champion of champions fight and then went on to help Britain win the team title … |
| 11 | The experiments in mortification they performed on their own faces — the piercings , the pallor . |
| 12 | In addition to the changes in remission it was proposed to allow parole to be removed for prisoners serving over 4 years if it was felt that their release would put the public at risk . |
| 13 | It is a truism to say that we have not yet come to terms with it , or with the changes in relationships it has brought . |
| 14 | If you ever get the chance of going to the catacombs in Rome you will see on the walls a very popular image of the cross shaped as an anchor . |
| 15 | Khrushchev initially claimed ( in a report to the Supreme Soviet on 12 December 1962 ) that by installing the missiles in Cuba he acted in response to a Cuban request ; this has been contradicted not only by statements from Castro , but also by Khrushchev himself . |
| 16 | Like the poppies in Flanders it was red as blood . |
| 17 | Emergency planners are keeping a close watch on the forecasts in case they have to roll into action . |
| 18 | They began following its twisting route , keeping close to the cover of the trees in case they should meet with any oncoming sect vehicle going to relieve or check up on their outside patrol . |
| 19 | Even before the upheavals in Europe they were warning against attempts to subtract environmental aid from development aid . |
| 20 | It is sad but I mean er alright er people have you know some of the names in Lloyds they 've had to sell everything they 've gone skint . |
| 21 | She copied the way Meredith bent his knee as he passed in front of the altar , and when he said November was dedicated to the souls in purgatory she lit a candle for the commercial traveller with the skin grafts . |
| 22 | As word came back from the matches in front it looked as if only Dr. Stephen Bonnard and Buck Finnegan were in serious contention . |
| 23 | Watch out for the answers in October SHE . |
| 24 | It was Macaulay who said that there was no more absurd ( and after the scenes in Liverpool I would say horrifying ) spectacle than ‘ the English having one of their periodic fits of morality ’ . |
| 25 | The same mood continued after Monday night 's 3–0 home defeat at the hands of third-placed Pirelli — meaning that even if Alton were to win all five of the games in hand they have over the Eastleigh side , they would still be three points behind them . |
| 26 | I done it to I done it to Russell one night messing around and he told the girls in work I 'd been away for the weekend and he 'd had somebody else there honest to God he did ! |
| 27 | We had to circle all the islands in case we missed the eider . |
| 28 | I fear you were so desperate to hide the size of the increases in charges you were planning behind the Home Secretary 's statement ( on juvenile crime ) , that you simply abused the system . |
| 29 | In the afternoons in Aswan we collected our post and wrote letters home . |
| 30 | In fact , according to Austin there are more than a thousand of these acts which are performable in English , and unless the hearer or reader recognises which of these is being expressed by the utterances in question he or she has missed the point . |