Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [coord] [vb base] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I had the courage to grow out my hair and take on the streets without frill or face paint , bangles or heels and all such accessories of fear and vanity , then I would be seen far less and see much more . |
| 2 | I then deliberately smudge the area with my fingers and pick out the highlights with a plastic eraser . |
| 3 | I then deliberately smudge the area with my fingers and pick out the highlights with a plastic eraser . |
| 4 | I smoke my spliff and switch on the telly ; I am just in time for Neighbours . |
| 5 | ‘ Keep my script and look over the scene we 've blocked . |
| 6 | I retrace my steps and walk up the righthand arm of the T , where the roadway is closed by a second set of iron gates . |
| 7 | Yet even the most productive thoughts and even the bravest of responses to the new dimensions of my predicament could not wholly keep the chill out of my bones or push away the icier gloom from above my head . |
| 8 | Dodging the hurled dishcloth he slipped through the door , leaving me to sip my coffee and breathe in the sweet smells of home . |
| 9 | The vehicles that make up a cruise missile flight will emerge regularly from their base and drive around the countryside to practise . |
| 10 | So often they have to pay the price of innovations , and those who watch their activities and pick out the most promising , usually devise the most profitably and sustainable systems . |
| 11 | Tourist backpackers chattering in high tones ; theatre-/supper-goers gazing nervously at the cluster of dishevelled , ruby-faced lads who wave their cans and bawl out the rallying cry of ‘ 'Ere we go , ‘ ere we go ! ’ at alarming volume ; a comatose figure lying on the bucket seats and crying out an important but indecipherable message about some quite obvious connection betwixt Jesus and Aids ; in the corner a girl with dishevelled hair and a soiled James Dean T-shirt sprawled on the concrete and a man with bloodied chin mouthing profanities as he urinates against the wall . |
| 12 | Members are invited to log on to their computers and call up the Heisei menu . |
| 13 | Maggie looked at him ironically and the dark eyes were turned fully on her , inspecting her face until she had the mad urge to shut her eyes and block out the intent gaze . |
| 14 | Today , five hundred million years after those jawless armour-laden creatures began to wag their tails and blunder over the muddy bottoms of the ancient seas , the fish have evolved into some 30,000 different species . |
| 15 | Five minutes treatment in a fresh water bath ( N.B. this must be dechlorinated , well-aerated and adjusted to within 0.2 pH units of the aquarium water using pH adjuster or sodium bicarbonate and an accurate pH kit/meter ) will cause the flukes to release their hold and drop off the fish . |
| 16 | This tool can be developed to help nurses scrutinise their work or evaluate quantitatively the effects of change within a ward on nurse activity . |
| 17 | He said nothing , merely walked away leaving them to push it open and then shut it after them , and on Philippa explaining to his departing back that she wanted to look for her earring and take back the vases and one or two things ‘ out of his way ’ , he said as ungraciously as he could ‘ I suppose so ’ . |
| 18 | The American embassy in London reported on 23 November 1956 that " anti-American feeling is at a very high pitch and yet is accompanied by the somewhat contradictory but nevertheless complacent assumption that the U.S. is bound to come to its senses and pick up the check " . |
| 19 | It was something that Harriet had particularly noticed and which made her both angry yet hopeful : angry that her daughter could not or would not always behave in such a way and hopeful that perhaps some day Liza would come to her senses and throw off the mask of invalidism behind which Harriet felt sure she was hiding . |
| 20 | The days of mad spending are gone and exhibitors are looking to cover their costs and pay back the bank as soon as possible . |
| 21 | If it does , it will hunch its back and push out the other eggs . |
| 22 | If you think the church you are concerned about is ‘ Fund-worthy ’ , find out what the Council for the Care of Churches and the national societies feel about its quality and do all the lobbying you can . |
| 23 | If you persisted in trying to talk to her , she would heave herself out of her chair and turn up the volume to a decibel level that made your ears ache . |
| 24 | She carefully cleaned her brushes and put away the paints , then realised she was very hungry . |
| 25 | She got her assignment , and the first thing she did was leave her area and roam around the rest of the organization , talking it over with nearly everyone she could find , regardless of field , looking for new directions , new perspectives , new ways to approach it — so what she could bring back would be new and creative . |
| 26 | I clasp the mahogany handle just as the door shivers its infection and walk down the crazy paving path as each stone vaporises one step behind me . |
| 27 | Those who suffer most are the prisoners who allow their mask to sink through all the layers of their personality and blot out the warm , loving , sorrowing parts of themselves . |
| 28 | The CNAA made ‘ a tacit political bargain with the DES … for the CNAA to have had a dagger in its hand and kill off the government scheme would not have done ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ Juries are sympathetic towards people who have been provoked and who are defending their property and go over the top , ’ he says . |
| 30 | They may or may not be articulated in formal jargon or ‘ in languages ’ which restrict their currency and mark off the professional status or their practitioners , as in medicine and the law . |