Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martha shook her head , feeling tiredness descend on her like the low cloud on the mountains , muffling all her emotions . |
| 2 | While each of the principal lacunae is developing , a tracheal branch and a nerve grow into it from the base of the wing , the lacunae apparently offering the paths of least resistance . |
| 3 | More abstractly the particularities of circumstance which attended both Julian 's and Margery 's report of their experiences illuminate the position of women and the roles open to them within the heirarchy of spiritual authority in the late medieval period . |
| 4 | The best action open to you at the moment is to undertake a re-entry course which conforms to the criteria outlined in the UKCC 's Guidelines for Good Practice . |
| 5 | So the black-backed gulls wait for them in the air in front of the cliffs , wheeling and circling on the up-draught created as the wind , blowing in from the sea , is deflected upwards . |
| 6 | By their day-to-day actions , children can also affect the way in which their parents react to them in the most powerful and direct manner . |
| 7 | We make them at just under a pound but what the record companies charge for them in the shops is up to them |
| 8 | Managerial autonomy has been fostered by the growth of public sector commercialism based on the principle of allowing managements to operate freely within the framework of targets set for them by the state , and on the promotion of an ‘ entrepreneurial ’ approach to the management of the railways . |
| 9 | This is that city which readers of Crime and Punishment carry with them for the rest of their lives . |
| 10 | My arm was tingling , like it 's supposed to do when the Neptunians come at you through the undergrowth , foetal implants in hand . |
| 11 | To help your GP prescribe for you in the best possible way , from April 1991 , what is called an ‘ indicative prescribing scheme ’ will be introduced . |
| 12 | ‘ Experts refer to it as the post-modernistic simulacrum , although I believe Knudsen himself thinks of it as fantasy realism , ’ he returned blandly . |
| 13 | I gave her the carrier and watched her jaunty backview disappear with it into the crowds , and I was more and more sure that what she was carrying was harmless . |
| 14 | So when your managers speak to you at the beginning of a er of your Monday morning meeting to say Gerald how much business have you got landed for next week you can say with conviction , two , two definite cases . |
| 15 | If things go against me on the ninth , then I go somewhere serious . " |
| 16 | Although it 's a bit on the big side to lug around the mountainside , I advise you to keep a copy handy as the cold nights draw in — it 'll ensure your skyline walking dreams stay with you through the winter . |
| 17 | Accordingly I ought to be able to say that at this stage his comments seem to me beside the point , or more exactly in excess of it . |
| 18 | Bugs creep around him through the tendrils and quite near a thrush is singing . |
| 19 | People talk about him in the pub on Sundays . |
| 20 | Do n't become disenchanted when you fail , keep on striving forward , keep your ego under control and never believe the things people write about you in the press ! ’ |
| 21 | Four great panthers crash into them at the pavement with a thud like a sledgehammer hitting a mudflat . |
| 22 | How many birds did my true love send to me on the twelfth day of Christmas ? |
| 23 | Ice floes circulate with it across the Pole from eastern Siberia toward Ellesmere Island , Greenland , and out into the north Atlantic Ocean , mostly along the east Greenland coast . |
| 24 | Although it may have taken only an instant , the person to whom this sentence refers had to make the logical jump from what he could see of the possible escape routes open to him to the realization that flight was impossible . |
| 25 | I have demonstrated this knitting technique at my local knitting club and now the members refer to it as the ‘ Sylvia Glenister buttonholes ’ ! |
| 26 | she was nearly retiring by the , no still the girls go to her at the school so she must have been going for , two or three years after we came up here , but I would be in the choir just , maybe two or three years . |
| 27 | Young men leap past us from the roof above , splashing into the water to catch up with their canoes , beer bottles held aloft . |
| 28 | ’ The criminals look for you amid the filth and decadence of this world , . |
| 29 | Anny Evason 's atmospheric evocation of the Piazza del Erbe , with its salamis , live chickens , fruit barrow and cafe tables , is spectacularly wrecked as the young bloods go to it in the first of Terry King 's convincing fights . |
| 30 | I have hinted that the dawn has many times come to me through the leaves of the willow , but it is less the tree itself nowadays that transmits things seen to my mind — than something of which the willow is a visible type . |