Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [v-ing] [pron] [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 duo 's set seemed lethargic , a muddy mix robbing them of the textured subtleties that make their records so invigorating .
3 At least this time she had some help loading them into the van .
4 ‘ Well , all this business putting me on the carpet … implying that I might leave you short . ’
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 I was awakened by a French Commando nudging me in the ribs with the toe of his boot .
8 But many teachers feel this will be too late to make the public stop comparing them to the O-level system .
9 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 .
10 Archie Hamilton , son of the third Baron Hamilton , who served as Parliamentary private secretary to Margaret Thatcher , is another example of the old tradition accommodating itself to the new spirit in the party .
11 Indicate erm tt what the percentage was , because we 've always been sitting round this table patting ourselves on the back , saying that er
12 Perhaps again due to Hesilrige 's patronage , he became clerk of the council under the restored Commonwealth of May to October 1659 ; less predictably , however , he seems to have continued to act in this capacity under the ill-fated committee of safety ( October-December 1659 ) , this time committing himself to the service of the generals , notably Charles Fleetwood and John Lambert [ qq.v. ] , rather than the civilian leaders in the restored Rump , among whom Hesilrige was the leading figure .
13 The decline in rough grassland/moor may reflect its ‘ better ’ agricultural management bringing it into the category of permanent grassland instead .
14 He walked away , his long , easy stride taking him down the rough path to the lakeside .
15 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 .
16 She looked up and found Alain 's eyes on her , the dark gaze studying her through the driving mirror .
17 What Mr Byrne 's unpleasant and excitable letter omitted , and what has been omitted from all subsequent debate , is that Mr Smith is unanswerably the only serious contender offering himself for the leadership .
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 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 .
20 Of the Enlightenment as Kant or Voltaire saw it ( see pp. 411ff below ) , as the human mind liberating itself from the self-imposed tutelage of centuries , a new birth of intellectual adventure , they had no inkling .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 On the west side , Ingleborough is a shadowy giant revealing none of the many wonders that attract its legions of pilgrims ; and to the east , green slopes rise with little incident to dark moors forming a distant skyline .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 I saw her and I , I be honest with you I hid , I be totally honest and I 'll tell her the same if I see her because I 've just found out then that they could n't do any more for me dad and I really did n't want to speak or see anybody and I sat in the canteen on my own , I just said to me mum , mum on the phone I said mum I need to do this on my own I said I 'm just gon na have a coffee in the cafeteria and I do n't know if you 've been in there but the cafeteria is all glass and she pulled up in a white van delivering something to the office , I thought oh no it 's Jenny she 's the last bleeding person I want there , I do n't mean that
27 Their recruitment policy has worked very well for them and they are by far the largest outside America , although they are still having great difficulty establishing themselves in the USA .
28 Initial charges are up to 5 p.c. depending which of the 14 underlying funds are chosen .
29 What if she does n't want to be swollen to the size of an elephant with a bleeding parasite kicking her in the guts day and night ?
30 Maltote slumped down on the stool , his long sword catching him between the legs and nearly tipping him over on his face .
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