Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some , like David Young , who had abandoned the law for a career as a property developer , she put in charge of great statutory bodies , in his case eventually raising him to the Cabinet as Lord Young of Graffham . |
| 2 | Relating an interlude of bad weather in 1873 , Bonington suddenly whisks us to the ( almost ) contemporary Chamonix campsite : ‘ Sitting out bad weather is another familiar experience . |
| 3 | He walked into the corridor , tiredness suddenly overcoming him with the prospect of a few hours off , and very nearly knocked Catherine Crane over in his preoccupation . |
| 4 | One of the Taï chimpanzee mothers , Ricci , was kind enough to provide us with the first record of observable active teaching ( acceptable to a psychologist ) in a non-human animal in the wild . |
| 5 | Gilly could feel Miss Ellis 's fingers on her backbone gently prodding her through the doorway and into the house . |
| 6 | So in two years flat , after riding on the crest of a wave , people who had been cock of the walk in ICI suddenly found themselves at the bottom of the league . |
| 7 | To follow the close-up of the pre-headed letter , the first shot should show all the performers together to establish them in the setting . |
| 8 | Herbs too are a practical addition so keep them near the back door , perhaps framed with a fragrant low hedge of lavender or santolina . |
| 9 | ‘ A bit stiff leaving me in the lead bucket . ’ |
| 10 | Hoskyns badly wanted him for the post . |
| 11 | Innocent of intrigue , Meredith suddenly discovered it in the dark depths of Lucenzo Salviati 's eyes . |
| 12 | Since it can not be known as a concept that will realize itself in the future , Sartre argues instead that the totality only produces itself in the moment : ‘ The incarnation as such is at once unrealizable except as totalization of everything and irreducible to a pure abstract unity of that which it totalizes ’ ( II , 58 ) . |
| 13 | Tomorrow , of course , Kathleen Long joins us for the Phone the Doc slot . |
| 14 | Luke covered the microphone with his hand and leant towards her , his lips just brushing hers in the tenderest of kisses before he whispered softly , ‘ I love you , Fran . |
| 15 | Meredith soon forgot everything but the endlessly fascinating unfolding scene . |
| 16 | UP THE road , veteran boogie-meal beasts Blackfoot are packing the Marquee but Charles F easily outbids them in the none blacker rock stakes . |
| 17 | UP THE road , veteran boogie-meal beasts Blackfoot are packing the Marquee but Charles F easily outbids them in the none blacker rock stakes . |
| 18 | Mr Gorbachev still lacks them in the two areas that matter most . |
| 19 | But except for a brief interval , Blaize ruled for 10 unmemorable years until Gairy decisively beat him at the polls a few months after Britain granted the island wide autonomy in 1967 . |
| 20 | " The problem , dear lady , " he said quietly , his accent more pronounced now that he had calmed down , " is that a certain Madam Lundy was sent a telegram yesterday informing her of the whereabouts of a certain Patrick Lundy . " |
| 21 | This vulnerability further endeared her to the public . |
| 22 | But the mind always expresses itself through the body , consciously or unconsciously , just as it does in humans . |
| 23 | You have the intention permanently to deprive me of the petrol . |
| 24 | In November 1989 Bishop Ioan of Zhitomir proclaimed himself head of a revived Ukrainian Autocephalous Church ( abolished in 1929 ) and was summarily excommunicated by the Russian Orthodox Church ; the Constantinople Patriarchate also dissociated itself from the revival . |
| 25 | This high degree of concentration also manifests itself at the most localized scales . |
| 26 | Two months later found him near the edge of the track at Cadwell Park , in Lincolnshire , as racing cars flashed past at over 100mph . |
| 27 | Would readers also know anything about the Art Quilt Co. , which could have been part of , or an offshoot of , Morris Bros ? |
| 28 | I 'm grateful , that 's for today , erm my Lord it may sound slightly more erm contentious , but I 'd also ask for certificate for counsel for the thirteenth of August hearing , may I say the reason for that , it 's a matter that has n't come before you , you wo n't know about , it 's this , this reason , because at that period it was n't just the application under twenty eighty or twenty eight , four for delay there was another application er , which was unsuccessful which has n't been proceed today , but cost were also disallowed with more serious reason , I submit that said showed er negligent or that improper conduct , there was a substantial attack mounted , and I can use no other words fairly describe it on the professional conduct of and for that reason my Lord er both cos the seriousness of the allegations , but of course also because of the potential conflict that they acted for themselves and it would of been in situation for us solicitor hence to turn up , er they instructed counsel and my self , and so for that double reason in my believe we should be entitled to at , at first stage , ordinarily I would n't of had a very good run for argument but I , it 's my suspicion my clue recollection , be backed up by those behind me , and indeed by the documents that a substantial attack was mounted and it was in , I have to say in full flight terms , and much hence could n't be said to be unreasonable to deem if necessarily , unusually to send counsel in front of a taxing master , well I wo n't say any more on the point , but that is my suspicion |
| 29 | Its 24-hour-a-day , satellite-directed tentacles now wrap themselves around the entire Spanish-speaking world from the USA to the southern tip of Argentina and across the Atlantic to Spain in an effort to duplicate the success of the North American Cable News Network in the English-speaking world . |
| 30 | Thin and tiny in stature , her back was as straight as an arrow , but her legs often pained her in the cooler winter and spring weather . |