Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | but with four minutes to go United went and blew it all … the defence tied themselves in knots and Paul Trollope banged in an equaliser … 1-1 hard luck Hereford |
| 2 | It was just a strange feeling and of course the inability to contact anyone in the Shill 's room . |
| 3 | The policy is to educate pupils to cope with the technology and give them the opportunity to exploit it in their future work and leisure . |
| 4 | This would give her the opportunity to say something in time for the next morning 's American newspapers . |
| 5 | I wish that Deane was scoring 3 a match — but I have nt had the opportunity to see him in action recently . |
| 6 | to do and we 're going to have the opportunity to do it in a slightly interesting way and you failed miserably because you sat and chatted and did n't get any work done . |
| 7 | For the man without interest , the opportunity to distinguish himself in action , and thus by securing mentions in despatches to attract the attention of the Admiralty , was a harder road to advancement . |
| 8 | You will receive a copy of the report and have the opportunity to discuss it in an interview . |
| 9 | No academic libraries since the time of the Travelling Workshops Experiment have successfully applied the strategy and it is most unlikely that illuminative evaluation ‘ in toto ’ will ever get the opportunity to prove itself in academic user education , largely because of the lack of time to pursue it in full . |
| 10 | He gave the union leaders the opportunity to tell him in a forthright manner where they thought he was going wrong with his policies and he in turn did some pretty plain talking about what he saw as their shortcomings . |
| 11 | ‘ The majority revere him in spite of all he 's done , ’ said a US official . |
| 12 | Unable to stop the spell which has made the broom fetch water , the apprentice breaks it in two only to have both halves doing the job at twice the speed . |
| 13 | The monkey won after the experts buried themselves in their portfolios while the chimp , called Ola , threw darts at names of companies listed on the Stockholm exchange . |
| 14 | It 's about six feet in height and just about shoulder width , er it 's coloured black and it has a bullet proof glass window of about six inches by four inches which enables the er officer behind the shield to manoeuvre it in the correct position . |
| 15 | But when the RSPCA found him in January , he was in a starved condition , his ribs and hip bones showing through , and his back legs hardly able to support him . |
| 16 | Did the Prince love me in those early days ? |
| 17 | Or did the Prince expect something in return ? |
| 18 | When Anna brought it home — some thirty years ago it must be — the prince put it in his pocket . |
| 19 | This word universal is never the name of anything existent in nature , nor of any idea or phantasm found in the mind [ my italics ] , but always the name of some word or name ; so that when a living creature , a stone , a spirit , or any other thing , is said to be universal , it is not to be understood that any man , stone etc. , ever was or can be universal , but only that the words , living creature , stone , etc. , are universal names , that is , names common to many things ; and the conceptions answering them in the mind are the images and phantasms of several living creatures or other things . |
| 20 | We see the struggle asserting itself in the preface to his poem ‘ The Glass Dog ’ ( Flowers for Hitler ) : |
| 21 | Surely the Board have someone in mind . |
| 22 | All her nerves shook with it , as though the blow struck her in her face . |
| 23 | Occasionally I would join Robins on the bridge ; at other times , when all was going well , he would come into the saloon to join me in a drink served by a Cockney steward called Tomkins ; the choice was limited , but I did n't drink much anyway . |
| 24 | To allow the solicitor who has prepared the case to take it in court would not be a perfect solution , but might be some improvement . |
| 25 | This is a statement of law as it should be , rather than as it is , but there is nothing to stop the courts developing it in this direction . |
| 26 | At the same time as the area covered by the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher has been enlarged , the usefulness of the rule has been reduced by the unwillingness of the courts to apply it in circumstances where the defendant could not be said to have been at fault . |
| 27 | The vet left them in the staff room while they tried to discuss Lizzie 's future . |
| 28 | Nieto was walking alongside the touchline when a ball kicked from within the field hit him in the face , breaking his glasses . |
| 29 | A grasshopper , slowly chewing a leaf-blade is suddenly struck by the clubbed end of a muscular tongue projected like a lance from the mouth of a chameleon ; a field mouse in the twilight of an English wood , searching for seeds , is transfixed by the curved talons of a pouncing owl and may be dead even before its captor 's beak begins to rip it apart ; a lizard in the Arizona desert , stabbed by the hypodermic fangs of a rattlesnake , is paralysed as venom is injected into its veins and it can offer no resistance as the snake takes it in its jaws and swallows it head-first . |
| 30 | The Germans occupied them in the second world war , the Americans rebuilt them afterwards , and then the north-west Europeans came back in the shape of the European Community and its powerful money . |