Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was not so lucky with Benton , who sprang up and crashed into her , his arms locking around her waist , their combined momentum slamming them against the door . |
| 2 | The savings on operating costs alone were immense , some experts putting it in the order of £2 million a year . |
| 3 | The first session , after I have finished speaking , will involve 12 speakers addressing you on the theme of the conference , each from his or her specific perspective . |
| 4 | The duo 's set seemed lethargic , a muddy mix robbing them of the textured subtleties that make their records so invigorating . |
| 5 | At least this time she had some help loading them into the van . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , all this business putting me on the carpet … implying that I might leave you short . ’ |
| 7 | But all good things must come to an end ; back on the old routine mixing it with the Luftwaffe and all they could muster — and their reaction was tremendous . |
| 8 | When I ran back to the girl , there were a couple of railwaymen on their way to work and another policeman carrying her to the Out-patients . |
| 9 | I was awakened by a French Commando nudging me in the ribs with the toe of his boot . |
| 10 | But many teachers feel this will be too late to make the public stop comparing them to the O-level system . |
| 11 | On June 1 End Product Duty — the system that assesses the tax on beer as it is about to leave the brewery — replaced the old system assessing it at the beginning of fermentation . |
| 12 | The decline in rough grassland/moor may reflect its ‘ better ’ agricultural management bringing it into the category of permanent grassland instead . |
| 13 | He walked away , his long , easy stride taking him down the rough path to the lakeside . |
| 14 | He eventually slumps back into his seat , his smarting face and aching eyes reminding him of the misled thought journey that took him back round to before where he started . |
| 15 | From time to time , too , Jenna caught Alain 's dark eyes watching her through the driving mirror , and she was greatly relieved when they began to skirt Paris . |
| 16 | So the real question facing us at the moment is not whether there should be a relationship , or whether there should be a link but in what way we should modernize it and arrange it today . |
| 17 | She looked up and found Alain 's eyes on her , the dark gaze studying her through the driving mirror . |
| 18 | The clonk may be several things , but is most probably the ball joint on top the rear axle joining it to the rear ‘ A ’ frame . |
| 19 | A policewoman with long experience in dealing with sexual abuse did express the opinion that policemen can sometimes be more effective than women in encouraging very young male victims to talk about their experiences : and this policewoman was in favour of male colleagues joining her at the RUC 's specialist sexual abuse unit . |
| 20 | erm I have two children and I have found that it was quite a full-time job persuading them of the virtue of certain old-fashioned ways of going about things . |
| 21 | Matheson 's defeat by Witt was disappointing following his first round victory over 13th seed Jakob Hlasek but hardly surprising given the 372 places separating them in the world rankings . |
| 22 | Matheson 's defeat by Witt was disappointing following his first round victory over 13th seed Jakob Hlasek but hardly surprising given the 372 places separating them in the world rankings . |
| 23 | He must have a suitcase of handkerchiefs , Trent thought as he met the Latino 's cold eyes studying him over the crisp white linen barricade . |
| 24 | Imagine : I was a bit pissed for a start , the object of my complete love was nesting in my rear-view mirror , the corpulent groom — my best friend — who had spent three weeks pleasuring her in the Hellenic sunshine was sitting beside me with a clank of duty-free between his calves , I 'd lost my job , and the other drivers on the road were all tuning up for Formula One . |
| 25 | Leith , with two very large problems staring her in the face — the mortgage and Naylor Massingham , despite his action yesterday still there metaphorically breathing down her neck — thought a denial preferable to dampening her mother 's present happy frame of mind . |
| 26 | Pig iron you know er pig iron was what they had I 've seen them pouring furnaces pouring it onto the pig beds , and you know when I was a kid when we lived in Caldmore from about half past nine at night all across West Bromwich , Wednesbury all over that area , you 'd see the sky light up and it was due to the pouring of er pouring the pig iron . |
| 27 | Right at the very beginning , in the prayer which arises from the memory of Christ 's anguish in the garden of Gethsemane when the narrator remembers " swattest blod for angwysche " , the shorter version identifies this sweat with that which marks the healing and turning point of human fever conflating it with the sweat of human anguish struggling against evil . |
| 28 | Not only does the text tend to be repetitious but each item of gear if prefaced by an otherwise blank page informing us of the Key Point to be gleaned in that section , pearls of wisdom such as : ‘ A file is useful for sharpening the edges of your … hooks . |
| 29 | If I was n't being held up by the man 's gripping hand hauling me through the ferns I feel like I 'd fall down . |
| 30 | Nor did Hincmar say more about a king 's daughters : in Charlemagne 's later years , the political influence of his womenfolk ( mistresses as well as daughters ) at court had been notorious , but his successors had either used their daughters in marriage-alliances , or , more often , placed them in convents , either way removing them from the political centre . |