Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This winsome description fits in with the descriptions of the messianic age in the book of Isaiah , with the wolf lying down with the lamb , the lion and the ox eating straw together , and the little child playing happily and fearlessly with them and even putting its little hand unhurt into the hole of the poisonous viper . |
| 2 | WHILE my heart goes out to the parents in the baby-swop drama , I have to agree with the midwife interviewed on TV who said that it was ‘ a disaster waiting to happen ’ . |
| 3 | ( Actually ‘ Boggers ’ is really called Mister Jones , but his hair stands up like the bristles on a bog er … toilet brush , hence his nickname . ) |
| 4 | The very important interest JCI has in the diamond industry goes back to the days when Barney Barnato , together with Cecil Rhodes played an important role in the establishment of De Beers in Kimberley . |
| 5 | Now one of them seizes me , and it is n't a man , it 's an octopus with claws — it holds me in its tentacles , its talons dig into my flesh and my blood drips out through the holes in my flesh and my blood is n't red human blood , it 's black like tar , like drops of liquid evil … |
| 6 | Another famous hillside figure harks back to the days when , according to legends , giants walked the land . |
| 7 | STEPPING OUT The Director of SHIRLEY VALENTINE teams up with the stars of EDUCATING RITA and CABARET |
| 8 | Beyond that I suspect that 1,000dpi will become the breakpoint at which imagesetting based on optical methods takes over with the prices reducing significantly in that market as volumes increase . |
| 9 | Landmark rises up from the ashes |
| 10 | Damon Hill walks back to the pits after colliding with Italy 's Alessandro Zanardi in the South African Grand Prix yesterday . |
| 11 | McDunn 's mouth twists down at the edges ; he sucks through his teeth , and for some reason I feel encouraged . |
| 12 | Money in the Royal Life and Hafnia funds rolls up inside the bonds tax free , because they are offshore . |
| 13 | Yes , I think for a lot of people that 's true and I do n't denigrate that because I think a lot of good work goes on in the Women 's Institute , but what we are particularly interested in is in the professional craftsman , the craftsman who has trained for a number of year to produce extremely good work , and what we try to do is to make that work more available to the public in a number of ways . |
| 14 | An imposing wooden staircase and gallery leads up to the suites which have a bedroom and a sitting area or sitting room , a bathroom , TV and telephone . |
| 15 | The CAP still takes up two thirds of the EC budget , but only £1 in every £3 gets through to the farmers . |
| 16 | McAuley will see how the Vortec shapes up against the Swifts and Van Diemens — and against his Comber neighbour Johnny Kane . |
| 17 | It is inevitable then that repressed racial anxiety seeps out of the edges of these texts , returning to defy its containment in liberal discourse . |
| 18 | The debate over Matthew Maynard 's appointment as vice-captain of Glamorgan rumbles on in the pubs along the banks for the Taff , Hugh Morris , who was overlooked , remains tactfully silent . |
| 19 | ‘ Nothing belonging to your friend Willard matches up with the fibres we found on the dead girl . ’ |
| 20 | However , rugby union and racing fans are well catered for on BBC this week as both the Five Nations Championship reaches its exciting climax and the Cheltenham National Hunt Festival gallops out of the stalls . |
| 21 | Later in April Arctic skuas will arrive as the kittiwake population builds up near the shores , back from their pelagic winter wanderings , and timing their return to coincide with the arrival of shoals of immature fish which swarm in the surface layers of the sea . |
| 22 | The grounds lie at the foot of the south Antrim hills , and the land fronting the main buildings slopes down to the shores of Belfast Lough . |
| 23 | The grounds lie at the foot of the south Antrim hills , and the land fronting the main buildings slopes down to the shores of Belfast Lough . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , much of the opium produced by the plants ends up in the bloodstreams of drug addicts . |
| 25 | John Dugdale tunes in to the arguments |
| 26 | One can not help but reflect on how much all of this emerging artistry stems back to the exhibitions of Tom Van Sant 's work in the USA and UK during 1976 . |
| 27 | On Saturdays , during July and August , a discotheque opens up in the evenings . |
| 28 | As α increases , a critical value α c is reached each time the i th layer of target atoms moves out of the cones , allowing for head-on collisions and , hence , back scattering as shown in Fig. 1 . |
| 29 | Climbing the waterstair , Princess Volupine moves on to the piles to meet the Jew who ‘ is underneath the lot ’ . |
| 30 | Day and night toxic waste pours out of the factories straight into the sea , poisoning the waters which once provided them with a living as independent fishermen . |