Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [noun pl] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a tight thicket of new , thorny growth in the clearing , a bird darting between the branches picking at the red and blue berries that hung from the twigs . |
| 2 | Clutching the hot loaf to her chest she fled , expecting every minute to hear shouts of : ‘ Thief … thief … ’ as she threaded between the wharves arriving at a narrow lane not far from Marsh Street where the press gangs roamed . |
| 3 | Here in the open grass he broke into a headlong run , lurching and recovering as the tussocks turned under him . |
| 4 | It might have ordered the Serbs to remove their heavy artillery , by threatening to use counter-force ; it might have arranged for the Muslims to move to a safe haven elsewhere in the country . |
| 5 | It was the belief of many of its members that if explanations and theories were to be given for the facts collected in their natural histories , they were to be given in mechanical terms , specifically in terms of the corpuscular theory . |
| 6 | It should be noted that the maturity variable differs between the contracts traded at any moment in time . |
| 7 | Bull , developing parallel Unix boxes with IBM , says it may license technology it developed for the EDS project to big blue . |
| 8 | The inhuman whistle from the pinioned man 's throat reached a new pitch as the sunlight filtering through the trees glinted on a knife blade . |
| 9 | On the one hand , the sampling process had to generate as many categories of user as possible and so account for the variations found in the known sample relating to age , sex , class , township , and so on . |
| 10 | The warm breeze whispered through the chimes hanging from the balcony ceiling . |
| 11 | The possibility raised there is intended for the Cartesians to deal with . |
| 12 | Queueing for the Chuckwagon ; queueing for the freezer-van ; queueing for the toilets installed by WC in Fields Ltd . |
| 13 | Being Phil 's mate , for example , was something which many fans aspired to even though they could never hope to carry off the performances required of an aggro leader themselves . |
| 14 | The initial biopsy specimens in that patient also passed through the stages seen in our allografts which eventually developed ‘ fibrosing cholestatic hepatitis ’ — namely hepatocytes in rigid cords and later distorted ground glass hepatocytes . |
| 15 | who agreed that the appeal should be dismissed for the reasons given by Fox L.J. , Lloyd L.J . |
| 16 | I agree that these appeals should be dismissed for the reasons given by Dillon L.J . |
| 17 | I agree that this appeal should be dismissed for the reasons given by Scott and Steyn L.JJ . |
| 18 | If revaluation of his security is necessary , resulting in a greater shortfall , he is to be treated as the creditors referred to in the previous paragraph . |
| 19 | There is no record of where the papingo was placed for the contests held during the first century of the Kilwinning Society of Archers . |
| 20 | The atmosphere has to find it somewhere so it goes after the molecules locked in the glazes and that 's when the real magic happens . ’ |
| 21 | She had forgotten about the payments made into the Swiss bank account and the Kensington flat . |
| 22 | Physical exercise also has the capacity to be used to attempt to control emotional feelings , to work off the calories consumed in food and to control body size . |
| 23 | The word allow may often be substituted for the words think of — try both and note the different effects on the body . |
| 24 | As they fled , two men were wounded as the attackers fired at bystanders . |
| 25 | Do n't know about the issues to do with house-to-house collection . |
| 26 | As leader of the election campaign for the party as a whole , Kim was also blamed for the losses suffered by the other factions . |
| 27 | CytR produced a bipartite footprint in which the protected regions were separated by approximately 10 bp and located between the regions protected by the two cAMP-CRP complexes . |
| 28 | It would comprise a basic allowance to compensate for the restrictions imposed by disability , regardless of whether the person was employed or not , together with an income maintenance element — a pension paid when employment was interrupted or employment capacity was reduced partially by disability . |
| 29 | This was firmly rejected by the staff-side reps , who have maintained throughout the negotiations that the original agreement on LW should be adhered to , that it should be considered separately from the rest of the negotiations , and that LW needs to be a flat-rate , across-the-board payment to compensate for the costs incurred by working in London . |
| 30 | In the spadefoot , the intense competition among males for females means that some over-anxious males do not wait for the females to get into the pond but instead waylay them on the way to the breeding ground ; the pair then arrive at the pond already in amplexus . |