Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [coord] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness . |
| 2 | So then I was able to put in drops of blood and nasty black and white pictures and get rid of the Paisley patterns and bindweed round the edge of pages everywhere . ’ |
| 3 | And that 's what they 're doing , they 're coming into peoples gardens and rushing down the sewers again , you know ? |
| 4 | Turn back the flaps , allow the moisture time to dry , then brush a mastic compound on to the roof boards and press down the flaps firmly . |
| 5 | He packed away the picnic things and started up the engine . |
| 6 | They stood among the hogsheads , their wide aprons marked by entrails , their blood-reddened hands dexterously wielding sharp little knives as they slit open the silver bellies and tossed aside the innards — while all the time they chattered endlessly , matching their skill in removing entrails with a similar expertise at gutting other people 's private lives . |
| 7 | Therefore it is true to say that , when a person stiffens the neck muscles and pulls back the head , not only is the body 's natural coordination being obstructed but it is also being prevented from returning to its natural state of ease and equilibrium . |
| 8 | They raid research labs and let out the animals , that sort of thing . |
| 9 | Pete suggested that in a few days ' time he could take her out to the nearest big town on the coast , and there she could look for clothes in the department stores and check out the library for the addresses of any useful organisations or people to contact . |
| 10 | Telford drove piles in behind the lock walls and bolted together the iron plates to make the lock both stable and watertight . |
| 11 | It would be possible instead to preserve the relationship between the financial institutions and the personal sector savers but to alter substantially the deployment of funds by obliging the institutions to contribute to a national investment bank , giving them in return bonds with a rate of return linked to the real growth rate of the economy . |
| 12 | Party manners — Hewlett-Packard Co hosted all the COSE meetings and picked up the pizza tab ; Sun Microsystems Inc then threw a celebratory dinner for the COSE teams on April 16 , the night before the announcement : now it 's IBM Corp 's turn , unless Lou Gerstner decides to sit it out , pleading poverty . |
| 13 | Hewlett-Packard Co hosted all the COSE meetings and picked up the pizza tab . |
| 14 | Although they make a go of the cinema for a while , by showing desert pictures and pushing up the heat so that they can sell cool refreshments , their only aim is to get back to middle-class life , but with enough money to avoid any more ‘ petty , stupid problems . ’ |
| 15 | Sometimes a single boulder bounds and clatters down the scree pile , echoing loudly , sometimes a larger mass breaks away , sometimes the scree itself shifts and readjusts itself in a prolonged rattling clatter — a noise rather like the sea swashing back over pebbles . |
| 16 | She put down her two shopping bags and picked up the shoe-polish . |
| 17 | Then he changed two fifty-pound notes and paid back the money that he owed . |
| 18 | An innovation in organisation sectorisation resulted in the regions losing their business roles and becoming purely the providers of services and facilities . |
| 19 | On 13 June the Court of Appeal decided that the union was not accountable for its shop stewards and set aside the fines . |
| 20 | The computer is very fast ; it can be set to scan the text of journal articles and print out the titles of all which use significant key words more than a stated number of times , and it can be set to tell us how many times Shakespeare used a particular expression , and in each case it can give the results quite astonishingly quickly . |
| 21 | ‘ I am fully committed to implement the Panama Canal treaties and turn over the canal to Panama in the year 2000 … |
| 22 | Recession is the culprit : it has slashed tax receipts and driven up the cost of unemployment benefits . |
| 23 | At a time when Japanese cars were a joke , his faith and perseverance founded the Nissan dealerships and built up the business . |
| 24 | Glasses clash and cutlery clatters in the all-night cantinas where drunken revellers confuse the robot waiters and flee along the colonnades , their bills unpaid , their breath steaming in the thin and wintry air . |
| 25 | The system , automatically self-arming , clicked into frenzied activity , locating and cross-checking the radar sources and seeking out the placement of active missiles within an area of several square miles . |
| 26 | If records are stored in the next available position in the prime data area — the consecutive spill method — but a link field is provided from the home record or from the last synonym , this avoids unnecessary head movements and cuts down the search time required for the consecutive spill techniques . |
| 27 | Other whaling nations recognised the destruction of whale stocks and set up the International Whaling Commission in 1946 to control international whaling , Just when Japan was developing her whaling industry to full commercial efficiency . |
| 28 | Soul II Soul take a British approach to race relations and pull off the difficult trick of combining black pride sentiments with a benevolent multiracialism . |
| 29 | Laverne slides and scrambles down the bank on the other side . |
| 30 | Where Mother fried the fish , lit the Friday night candles and laid out the clothes in the order my brother and I would put them on . |