Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The traveller was then grilled by the corrupt Indian border officials : ‘ Their custom was to take a quarter of everything brought in by the merchants and to exact a duty of seven dinars for every horse . ’ |
| 2 | To someone brought up in the relative austerities of the Church of Scotland , all this gilt and marble , colourful painting and painted statuary seems rather extraordinary and , somehow , secular . |
| 3 | This bird , too , is indifferent to the angry bees and not only feeds on anything left over by the ratel but also on the wax combs in the nest , having the ability to digest wax by means of bacteria in its gut . |
| 4 | For anyone brought up in the European tradition of Claudeian vision , the picturesque , and so on , the impact of all this can be startling and pictorially disconcerting . |
| 5 | Suddenly alerted by something seen out of the corner of his eye , one of the young Marines felt an icy death-grip on his spine . |