Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took us about two minutes to get into the basement flat , about five minutes for Nicola to shake off the giggles and about another five for me to brief her as to what to say . |
| 2 | Nevertheless it took many centuries for Edinburgh to become unequivocally the royal and national capital . |
| 3 | The loss of McCoist opens up the possibility of Jess playing his first full international from the start , having been used as a substitute against Italy . |
| 4 | This now historic photograph of Leeds shows how the nineteenth-century terraced houses were fitted into the pre-existing pattern of fields . |
| 5 | Wales , Toshiba took over the Rank factory in Plymouth , Tatung of Taiwan took over the Decca factory in Bridgenorth , Mitsubishi took over the Tandberg factory in Scotland and Sanyo has bought the Philips factory in Lowestoft . |
| 6 | A flashlight searched back and forth across the sleeping bodies of the coolies as the hulking figure of Duclos advanced down the barrack in a dripping black rain cape . |
| 7 | The dazed figure of Tock tumbled out the front door of his battered home , rubbing his eyes and brushing the dust from his hair and pyjamas . |
| 8 | GERMANY IS firing on all cylinders these days , and labels like MFS epitomise where the scene is headed over there . |
| 9 | Soon after they moved in to Hamilton Terrace it became apparent that association with Minton brought out the petulant , fussy side of Vaughan . |
| 10 | It required servicing approximately once a month and usually three electricians from Scunthorpe carried out the work . |
| 11 | one young golfer who did grow up to greatness is Sandy Lyle … he 's in Thame on Sunday to open up the new Oxfordshire Golf Club we 'll be meeting up with him on Monday … |
| 12 | Graham saw us on to the train and went by car to Pendre Works where the Talyllyn has its workshops . |
| 13 | The IRB professes to be the body administering world rugby , but the need for the existence of FIRA points out the IRB 's failure to take a truly world view of the game . |
| 14 | His premature death opened the way for John Fothergill , an engineer and the first of five generations of Fothergills to head up the Tilery Bank business , to take over . |
| 15 | He makes the point that the arrival of these southerners ( and westerners ) has enabled the University of Ulster to push up the minimum entry grades for some courses . |
| 16 | The case of Sartre demonstrates why the assertion of ‘ history ’ against structuralism and poststructuralism must always remain problematical . |
| 17 | He was going to put the medals back in his drawer and listen out of the window for Lee going up the field , listen for the sheep . |
| 18 | And in the pine-clad kitchen littered with baby 's bottles , an icon of Jesus hangs on the wall . |
| 19 | The Act of Union stirred up the latent nationalism even of non-Jacobite Scots . |
| 20 | Or , slightly less galling , Fyfe 's new company Hickson & Welch of Castleford taking over the company completely . |
| 21 | The blustery winds of March dried up the land so that when April arrived , with stronger sun and balmy air , the whole countryside sprang into new growth almost overnight . |
| 22 | One only has to compare Scotland with England to see where the real problem lay . |
| 23 | So when the team plays at home , his chum in Derby switches on the local sports show ready for Mike 's call . |
| 24 | Based as it was on principles of race , with the figure of the Jew as the focal point of all hatred , and with the Führer as its ideological and organizational fulcrum , the Nazi Movement needed no regular orders or directions from Hitler to step up the pace of anti Jewish actions and discrimination , pushing the government and the State bureaucracy into action , and always therefore increasing the radicalizing momentum of racial policy . |
| 25 | A hoax in Newcastle shut down the main BR railway station , and in Tyne and Wear thousands of tube passengers were stranded when all 46 Metro stations were evacuated while 37 miles of track was searched . |
| 26 | This position was also felt to have been influenced by the controversial decision taken by the Arab League Council in September to speed up the transfer of the Arab League headquarters from Tunis to the Egyptian capital Cairo , a decision first taken in March [ see pp. 37334 ; 37726 ] , and by the lack of large-scale Western aid to support domestic economic reforms and to compensate for serious economic losses forecast as a result of the Gulf crisis . |
| 27 | Windows in the street were broken by the blast and fire crews from Grangetown put out the blaze . |
| 28 | My earliest recollection of Fred was when , as a schoolboy , I watched spellbound as he returned to his home in Belfast holding aloft the old Claret Jug , signifying his victory at Hoylake in 1947 . |
| 29 | Underneath that I have another article to which was kicked out sometime later but I have it in here , it says , raid on Gdynia would surprise to Nazis to say refugees in Sweden tell how the non Germans cheered in the streets but the two refugees eye witnesses to the American Bombing Attack on Gdynia , October ninth , reported here that the raid caught the Germans by surprise and that non German workers stood in the streets and cheered amid terrific destruction . |
| 30 | Lawyers and supporters of the parents in Orkney questioned both the motives and the methods of this once trusted organisation . |