Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] [pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The highest earning dealers only take back OTC stock if their client needs the funds to pay for another stock ; or if it is a stock that the directors want back , so allowing the dealers to retrieve in their names , and thus to evade a cut in their own commissions . |
| 2 | I had hoped he and I might snuggle in the back of the car while his mate did the driving . |
| 3 | The van gave an erratic burst of speed as his foot prodded the accelerator . |
| 4 | He swung the bike downriver as her weight hit the pillion . |
| 5 | For many years she delivered the mail when her mother ran the post office . |
| 6 | ‘ Ow ! ’ cried Zach as his knee hit the step ladder . |
| 7 | We 've had no trouble with deliveries because my husband brings the stuff in at five o'clock in the morning . |
| 8 | Previously he had been elected chairman of the Falkland Islands Committee because his determination to keep the Falklands British was such a boost to the morale of the islanders . |
| 9 | Once he has come reasonably to the conclusion that this will happen , the question whether his decision to issue the particular instructions that he gave was a reasonable one in the circumstances is subject to a further test of reasonableness . |
| 10 | But Bob Champion 's immediate duties after his victory included the obligatory press conference , and his words there sum up why the 1981 Grand National has gone down in history not only as one of the most emotional races ever run , but as perhaps the most inspirational : |
| 11 | The buyer 's right to treat the contract as repudiated arises in the same circumstances as his right to reject the goods , i. e. if the seller commits a breach of condition or a breach of warranty which deprives the buyer of substantially the whole benefit of the contract ( see paragraph 7–04 , above ) . |
| 12 | If you blow dry hair , concentrate on these Crucial Zones when your hair reaches the Conversion Point . |
| 13 | There was a thump as his shopping hit the floor . |
| 14 | His angry yells sounded from the corridor as their father closed the door . |
| 15 | Beneath one of them — in which a maiden seated by a statue was glancing about in fear of discovery as her lover scaled the garden wall to press his suit — stood Natasha , apparently lost in thought . |
| 16 | Yet if Elizabeth relied more heavily than her predecessors on direct taxation to carry her through the years of peace , she showed a greater reluctance than her father to squeeze the country heavily in times of war . |
| 17 | We 've asked the people for half past three , they 'll all be here by four , so we need n't sit down to the tea until half past five , and we would n't have got to the cake until your father has the business closed , and is back here . ’ |
| 18 | You will then be allowed to vote by post or proxy if your application reaches the registration officer before noon on the sixth day before polling day ( not counting the days mentioned above ) . |
| 19 | When she was allowed through to the nave she discovered dancers rehearsing a performance and robed guides discouraging visitors from proceeding to the site of St Thomas 's shrine because their passage disturbed the troupe . |
| 20 | But he needed a job because his family needed the money . |
| 21 | The girls all became Ladies , Charles , then aged eleven , was made a Viscount while their father became the 8th Earl and inherited Althorp . |
| 22 | In the nine years since your majesty ascended the throne of Annam in 1916 , your kingdom has continued to enjoy the unselfish and benevolent protection of France and it is our sincere hope that this mutually rewarding state of affairs will continue far into the distant future to the benefit of both our peoples . |
| 23 | Five years after his illness began the patient complained of progressive visual impairment . |
| 24 | Thus he was a supernumerary stoker on a tramp steamer ( how Thesiger hated appearing before the ambassador in Constantinople in his flannels when His Excellency cabled the boat with an invitation ) . |
| 25 | He then fainted and there was a loud bang as his head hit the floor . |
| 26 | Richard Fish , 24 , told from his hospital bed last night how he fractured his spine in three places when his bid to equal the world canoe free-fall record for a second time went ‘ horribly wrong . ’ |
| 27 | Just how far does Britain have to go into the red before our Government recognizes the problem and moves to tackle it ? |
| 28 | ‘ If it were n't for me giving you a roof over your head after your mother had the gall to die on me , you would have ended up in the bloody workhouse ! |
| 29 | In the early hours of that same day , June 6th , a little while before her mother heard the official news , Liza Carrow was woken by the sound of throbbing engines in the skies above south Wiltshire . |
| 30 | To the west , the intricate pinnacles of the clock-tower suddenly jumped black out of blinding light into the narrow stone frame where my forehead received the first raindrop big as a grape and cold . |