Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the description fits someone else in the office , take action . |
| 2 | Poland , for instance , unlike Russia , was a participant in and indeed an important contributor to the great movements in early modern European history , such as the Renaissance and the scientific revolution , and the country 's legal system , literary forms and religious faith aligned it firmly with the liberal West rather than the more authoritarian East . |
| 3 | Sir , So , the swords are drawn with the Government at long last , now that you have a UK Chairman whose speech at this inauguration laid it firmly on the line , that what this country needs is a transport policy to serve commerce and social preference . |
| 4 | He fought their attempts to carry him out with the strength of one possessed . |
| 5 | Their presence made it hard for the women to rescue the corpses of the drowned , and many bodies had to be abandoned to them . |
| 6 | The absence of noise placed it happily in the private sector . |
| 7 | Any excuse got me out of the office . |
| 8 | Kolchinsky lowered him carefully to the floor then flicked on the intercom switch on the desk . |
| 9 | But I have n't the heart to drive him back to the warren . |
| 10 | A bell tolled , the sign for Compline , and Lady Amelia led him down through the darkened cloister out across the grass to the church . |
| 11 | Nutty flung herself blindly at the opposition . |
| 12 | ADRIAN MAGUIRE moved upsides reigning champion Peter Scudamore at the head of the jockeys ' table when a double aboard Calapaez and Mr Felix moved him on to the 32 winner mark at Plumpton yesterday . |
| 13 | He was busy in the bottom of the second punt , and when he climbed out of it he cut the rope securing the first punt with his sword , and then used his foot to launch it out across the water . |
| 14 | ‘ Master Daunbey , ’ Mandeville caught him up at the corner of the gallery . |
| 15 | Manescu grasped her firmly by the arm as he asked his question . |
| 16 | After six o'clock , when the cheap rate had started , Karen King let herself out of the side door of Aunt Jane 's bungalow and walked the quarter of a mile to the public call box . |
| 17 | All that postmodernism has been able to do is signal the demise and loss of all we have held dear , and it remains for another generation of artists to pull us out of the mire . |
| 18 | Sinn Fein failed in an attempt to co-opt him on to the council on Wednesday night . |
| 19 | Only one of this year 's Crufts group winners made it through to the last forty ! |
| 20 | Phil , his ever-cheerful self , telling me he has stood up his girlfriend to see me through till the end . |
| 21 | It is then the truck drivers push them out of the moving cab . |
| 22 | Exhausted front seven hours of nonstop toil , the brothers flung themselves down on the red soil in the shade along with the other fifteen hundred coolies of the plantation and lay like dead men . |
| 23 | Frank Howard , defending , said Millman had been drinking to celebrate his birthday and expected his girlfriend to drive him home at the end of the night . |
| 24 | The administrator 's greeting made everyone else in the room turn round to look . |
| 25 | Gaveston led them back to the heart of the palace whence a servitor took them up to a chamber high in the building . |
| 26 | Revenue from normal trading fell , but the club made it up from the transfer market . |
| 27 | At that moment a slim figure flung itself out of the shadows to tumble Lefevre 's giant adversary from his feet . |
| 28 | But his victory at Stoke on Saturday has him back at the top of the list . |
| 29 | It would have been impolite to refuse so Elisa found herself back in the sitting room . |
| 30 | Grasping her elbow , Donal moved her out of the way of the small bridesmaid who seemed to have got over-excited and was racing around with someone 's little boy . |