Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [coord] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | And that 's what they 're doing , they 're coming into peoples gardens and rushing down the sewers again , you know ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He packed away the picnic things and started up the engine . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They raid research labs and let out the animals , that sort of thing . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Hewlett-Packard Co hosted all the COSE meetings and picked up the pizza tab . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She put down her two shopping bags and picked up the shoe-polish . |
| 13 | Then he changed two fifty-pound notes and paid back the money that he owed . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ I am fully committed to implement the Panama Canal treaties and turn over the canal to Panama in the year 2000 … |
| 16 | Recession is the culprit : it has slashed tax receipts and driven up the cost of unemployment benefits . |
| 17 | At a time when Japanese cars were a joke , his faith and perseverance founded the Nissan dealerships and built up the business . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Laverne slides and scrambles down the bank on the other side . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Half-immersed in a white fur rug , he carelessly consumed Macdonald 's chocolate marshmallows and turned over the pages of his Eagle Annual in the shadow of the family piano . |
| 26 | Cut the remaining sheet of pastry into diamond shapes and scatter over the top . |
| 27 | A mob attacked Kano government offices and burnt down the state radio station . |
| 28 | However , in case of foreign participation in excess of 20 per cent of the equity or 5 million forints the assessment is reduced by 20 per cent , but if more than half of the income is derived from manufacturing goods or carrying on the business of a hotel , and the stock capital exceeds 25 million forints and the foreign participation exceeds 30 per cent , then during the first five years the tax is reduced by 60 per cent and thereafter by 40 per cent . |
| 29 | Drill pilot holes and screw down the face plate , then fit escutcheon plates and door handle . |
| 30 | might well succumb to Ottawa pressures and close down the station once again . |