Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun] the [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She turned towards him , her head propped on her hand , and he saw the strong afternoon light shafting with gold the cropped brightly dyed hair . |
| 2 | In fact I suspect on June the ninth even the wipe out of the Conservative party in the European elections may make even those members that side think that in order to say their own skins in the future they will actually have to start to think about a fairer electoral system and indeed there will be a unified system on the way forced by Europe on this house if we do not take it upon ourselves to do so and it will be our own fault that we 've shirked our responsibilities in my view to actually take it on board . |
| 3 | E alone names the Scottish kings involved , but this information was present in its Canterbury precursor , as it appears in F. The latter also has E's 1025 entry on the battle of Holy River , its 1032 annal on the appearance of wildfire and death of Bishop Ælfsige of Winchester , and its 1033 material on the death of the bishop of Wells . |
| 4 | The jaw muscles turn out to have been placed to generate the most powerful bite possible , especially when Diatryma brought into play the powerful downwards hingeing action of the upper beak on the skull . |
| 5 | ‘ It has been remarkable , bearing in mind the massive oversupply of office and retail space , that we have continued to hear of unexpectedly high rents being achieved , ’ said the analysts . |