Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [noun pl] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | PUBLICANS are campaigning on behalf of their customers to keep down the price of the pint in the Republic . |
| 2 | In spite of complaints by leaders of trade unions many of their members bought up the shares . |
| 3 | Once few dared the wrath of Caledor , for their Dragonriders could ravage a foe 's armies and lands in hours , the great leathery wings of their mounts blotting out the sky with their numbers . |
| 4 | Other birds , however , can be said with accuracy to weave , for they create the fabric of their nests using exactly the same principles as human weavers employ when they interlace a weft thread between parallel warp threads to create cloth . |
| 5 | I like it when when wh it floods in town and you can go down and watch foreigners standing looking at the roofs of their cars floating down the Ouse and you think Yeah ! . |
| 6 | Then , as the rope tightened again , tugging at her , she stumbled on , the tops of her arms chafing where the rope bit into them . |
| 7 | She crossed the room and with a resolute shrug of her shoulders picked up the receiver . |
| 8 | Willie Crosbie , who has been at Castlebrae High School for 15 years , was presented with the Woman magazine award yesterday , in recognition of his efforts to turn around the school 's unenviable reputation . |
| 9 | At the sound of his footsteps approaching down the hall , she rose to her feet and hurried out to meet him . |
| 10 | Neither did he hear Zach repeatedly calling him from outside or the sound of his footsteps running up the tiny pathway to the back door . |
| 11 | The philosopher Francis Bacon and many of his contemporaries summed up the scientific attitude of the times when they insisted that if we want to understand nature we must consult nature and not the writings of Aristotle . |
| 12 | The growing nationalism of his schemes needed only the more autarchic economic plan and the authoritarian nature of political control to turn it into fully-fledged fascism . |
| 13 | Specifically , several of his pictures hung on the walls , and one stood on an easel in the centre of the living-room . |
| 14 | One of his men looked out the window . |
| 15 | That 's why so many of our sons went down the mine — to stop the family becoming homeless . |
| 16 | One of our hacks reeled home the other week after a particularly intensive study of the behavioural effects of alcohol at the ‘ Three Compasses ’ . |
| 17 | However , the repetitive nature of this type of credit is in itself a barrier against its users weighing up the advantages of credit which does not involve weekly collection — and perhaps against them considering cash as an alternative . |
| 18 | He had been accused early on in the play by Agydeus that he was too barbaric to offer Zenocrate any amorous discourse , yet he manages to produce a lovely speech for her where he talks about he stunning beauty and his love for her : ‘ Zenocrate , the loveliest maid alive … whose eyes are brighter than the lamps of heaven … that with thy looks canst clear the darkened sky ’ . |
| 19 | Let us begin with his efforts to clear up the confusion of questions 2 and 3 . |
| 20 | Having taken the field with his directors to become surely the first board to be cheered to the rafters , he was presented with a cheque . |
| 21 | As we proceeded we kept our eyes skinned and whenever we came to a thicket or undergrowth we beat it with our sticks to stir up the prey . |
| 22 | Once it happens we we , our credibility with our customers goes out the window does n't it ? |
| 23 | Finish the entire face , neck and scalp sequence by holding your palms lightly against your partner 's forehead with your fingers extending down the temples , as in Fig 11 . |
| 24 | ( 1 ) Stand with your feet about shoulder-width apart and grip the club above your head with your thumbs extended down the club shaft and your palms facing upwards . |
| 25 | Thus David Reynolds and Christopher Thorne have resorted to such phrases as " competitive co-operation " or " allies of a kind " in their attempts to sum up the famous wartime partnership . |
| 26 | Some companies , including James Capel , the stockbrokers , called in their workforces to clear up the damage . |
| 27 | For once she was early and there were only a handful of girls in the yard , all stamping their feet and huddling in their cloaks to keep out the bitter cold . |
| 28 | The look in her eyes filled in the unspoken words in her sentence . |
| 29 | However , my regional director has worked closely with it in its efforts to bring together the public and private sector throughout Devon and Cornwall . |
| 30 | From their feet stretched away the plain of shaggy grass , a wild lawn of weeds , buttercups , dandelions and lady 's smock in full bloom . |