Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is my milk I get out of the fridge |
| 2 | Thinking to steal a march on watchful eyes I set off from the Cross Inn ( not long established as the only hotel and bar ) at 6.15 a.m. and headed for Port of Ness and the Butt of Lewis . |
| 3 | At the height of the gale I go down to the pier to see how our local boats are doing , but all the anchors appear to be holding firm . |
| 4 | It reproduces by releasing single-celled spores which drift off in the sea and grow into new plants . |
| 5 | When ripe these pear-shaped fungi are filled with dust-like spores which pour out of the small central opening at the slightest movement . |
| 6 | The state also has authority to determine disputes which arise out of the operation of its laws . |
| 7 | Unlike a bus , its wheels are guarded by lifeguard trays which drop on to the rail when the hinged gates under the front of the tram are swung back upon impact . |
| 8 | Every few weeks he will have to spend a weekend at home near a telephone on call to handle any emergencies which crop up in the area . |
| 9 | The surface of each of the dendrites which branch out from the neuronal cell body is covered with synapses — perhaps up to ten thousand in all — arising from the other neurons which thus make contact with them . |
| 10 | The fact that trajectories which wander out of the region may later return ( after wandering chaotically near the strange attractor ) is of no concern ; we are concerned only with trajectories that remain forever within the small region , and a strange collection of these is removed . |
| 11 | This is overlain by further sandstones and silty red-beds which pass up into the Triassic Sherwood Sandstone . |
| 12 | Instead of being built on a mound , natural or artificial , and surrounded by a moat , Dunbar 's rose in lofty towers on a series of pointed rock-stacks which thrust out of the sea , these linked ingeniously by covered stone bridges . |
| 13 | In the attic they uncovered an exciting collection of 19th century Cambridge University calendars year books which fit in with the fact that Mr Edelson was closely connected with Trinity College . |
| 14 | We offer four £5 book vouchers to readers who come up with the wittiest gag about scientists and engineers . |
| 15 | The moment you see a striped juggling club you think back to the circus . |
| 16 | We hope to be collecting feedback on any research you carry out on the tape within the next 4 to 6 months , and if you are to have time to work with it , we must get it to you as soon as possible . |
| 17 | As you will appreciate we hope to be collecting feedback on any research you carry out on the tape within the next 4 to 6 months , and if you are to have time to work with it , I would like to supply it as soon as possible . |
| 18 | As you will appreciate we hope to be collecting feedback on any research you carry out on the tape within the next 4 to 6 months , and if you are to have time to work with it , we ought to try to supply it as soon as possible . |
| 19 | We hope to be collecting feedback on any research you carry out on the tape within the next 4 to 6 months , and if you are to have time to work with it , we ought to try to supply it as soon as possible . |
| 20 | As you will appreciate , we will be collecting feedback on any research you carry out within the next 4 to 6 months , and if you are to have time to work with the tape , we ought to try to supply it to you as soon as possible . |
| 21 | But that but that 's tha that 's defeating the whole object of the exercise of getting you know more foot patrols , because it 's foot patrols that they 're talking about all the time , if you give 'em a car you go back to the you know the fire brigade syndrome when it was zip zip zip |
| 22 | Then at Dunkirk we set off on the first 400-mile stage to our overnight stop at Vandanesse . |
| 23 | It 's the spiel we give out to the tourists if they happen to capture one of us when they 're wandering round the grounds . |
| 24 | FOLLOWING two years of fund raising and six to eight weeks hard net practice we set off for the Far East on December 16 , 1991 for a combined cricket and hockey tour . |
| 25 | When the pair finish one car they go back to the beginning of their segment and start on another . |
| 26 | It is well established that objects are perceived to have the same colour despite quite extensive variations in the colour of the light with which they are illuminated and hence the wavelength of the light they reflect back to the retina . |
| 27 | At nightfall they set off down the escarpment and in holiday mood were soon bowling merrily along the coast road . |
| 28 | After hearing pro-Yeltsin and anti-Gorbachev speeches they set off towards the Kremlin down Tverskaya ( formerly Gorky Street ) , Moscow 's main thoroughfare . |
| 29 | In poor physical condition they set off under the blazing sun , marching for fifty minutes and resting for ten . |
| 30 | Certainly those responsible for some of the decisions that have lead to outright closures could learn a lot by looking at these institutions which date back to the nineteenth century and earlier and will no doubt continue to survive . |