Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [pers pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each time you go through the text you practice the discourse structure , as the structure , or " grid " , stays the same while you are making the other changes . |
| 2 | Peck says : ‘ Henry Hanna was the beginner of Academical education and of the University it self at Stanford ’ and that the Carmelites ( Whitefriars ) were the ‘ chief professors and tutors to the youth of this University ’ . |
| 3 | SIR — Britain leads the world in recognising that mammals with brains as large and complex as ours are entitled to the freedom we humans so ardently strive for . |
| 4 | where it says where as the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the darkness outside , this is where the luck we thing the lashing of the teeth will be see , which sons of the kingdom is that referring to ? |
| 5 | He 'd kill Barak and set you up as the fall guy — I believe that 's the term you Americans use . |
| 6 | Well the parrot he sort of came in the Boar War he did he sort of flitted on my shoulder and I 've been lumbered with him ever since and nobody seems to want him . |
| 7 | Two of the company worked , at the same time , on an educational project , funded by the Hamlyn Foundation , which was called the Rock Me Amadeus Roadshow . |
| 8 | For some enterprising footballers like Celtic 's Harry Hood or Aberdeen 's Willie Miller , the pub is a business opportunity run to the highest standards , but for others it can be either a modest earner , an extension of their drinking or a desperate attempt to grab a livelihood from the cinders of football , an industry that has never fully protected the talent it exploits . |
| 9 | Why should the great mass of believing Christians in fact know less about the figure they worship than about historical figures of far less relevance ? |
| 10 | At any available space in the interview he name-checks himself and his show . |
| 11 | And I always remember the Lotus-land in The Odyssey where everybody lives in ease and luxury — though not the luxury we Europeans think of as such . |
| 12 | Nonetheless , every detail you can obtain from a crime , or witness 's statement , the better you chances of finding out what 's happening around here ! |
| 13 | When I go to the pub me mates say Flipping Heck |
| 14 | And they come in , I mean he skids in the hall at night I mean it 's my fault I threw the rubber ring towards the kitchen down the hall he sort of skidded before he got there and there was a , and he must of had mud er , you know like like he had |
| 15 | The sort we city slickers wear , but with clear glass in the frames . ’ |
| 16 | He ai n't , he 's pissed off , you wo n't catch me I 'll be gone , I mean ee ah what you doing I have n't got no petrol to fucking , drive round the town you cunt |
| 17 | The station it Gwalior , a neo-Mughal construction with chatrio at every corner , consisted in effect of a series of pavilions connected by verandas in a light and elegant stone . |
| 18 | They have foremen , under-foremen , charge hands and so on , but in the pit they deputies down there . |
| 19 | How the heck we prees it , police that sort of thing , I do n't know . |
| 20 | On the platform he Lenin had been confronted by men come back from prison or exile , who greeted him with tears on their cheeks … |
| 21 | This rust-blood pouring from mortal wounds in the planet 's skin is a terrible indictment of the tyranny we climbers inflict . |
| 22 | Thi , that there Paul the ground you muck up the grass . |
| 23 | But when Volks recalled the loan we sort of give up . |
| 24 | Right , can we just move it a bit , cos we 've got to make the mixture we sort of have to do |
| 25 | And the call you P D Q. |
| 26 | Visualise the air you breathe in as clean and white and the air you exhale as dark and black , which takes with it both the toxins of the body and the troubles of the mind . |
| 27 | That was the road we apprentices were expected to take . |
| 28 | The exploitation of women by men and the society they make-up is another facet of the play . |
| 29 | You 're still doing it look come on let's get you on the potty you horror ! |
| 30 | The man you shot is the police attaché at the Legation . |