Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While my right hand spooned up the sweet pulp and hefted my glass of Alsace riesling , my left explored the contours of my neighbour 's inner calf and the hollow behind her knee . |
| 2 | My hon. Friend sets out the reasons why I wish we were negotiating in Europe , not the Government . |
| 3 | And may at last my weary age find out the peaceful hermitage , the hairy gown and mossy sill where I may sit and rightly spell of every star that heaven doth show , and every herb that sips the dew , till old experience do attain to something like prophetic strain . ’ |
| 4 | Another time in the same club he turned to me and said , ‘ The fellow on my other side went up the Irrawaddy in 1943 and he 's been taking me back there with him . |
| 5 | I now see the white corpuscles of my immune system streaming down the torch beams , abseiling to the rescue like demented camouflaged commandos in the Arctic . |
| 6 | MR SMITH savaged the Tories for wasting £1 billion in their failed bid to prop up the pound on Black Wednesday . |
| 7 | The weight of the wasp upon its lower lip brings down the upper lip of the flower containing the anthers , to dust the wasp 's back liberally before his eventual , disappointed departure to another flower , carrying the orchid pollen with him . |
| 8 | A " Space " drama in which each class takes on the roles of the inhabitants of different planets , each of which is in trouble . |
| 9 | Her dark-brown skin picked up the deadening light inside the train and reflected it strangely so that her face looked almost silver . |
| 10 | In addition to seeing the plaintiff in court , I have had the advantage of seeing a video , key one , showing examples of her daily routine taken on the tenth of May nineteen ninety one after she had been at home with her parents for a year . |
| 11 | Such apparently secure grounds of objection amount to two narratives ; their intriguing similarity brings out the extent to which poststructuralism challenges not just the politics and institutions of the right but also the politics and theoretical systems of the left . |
| 12 | Cornelius observed that freckles on her left cheek mapped out the Tuamotu archipelago of south-west Polynesia . |
| 13 | Patrick heard her little car passing up the avenue . |
| 14 | Initially , the system worked well : Federconsorzi used its national clout to bid up the price of farmers ' crops and bargain down the cost of their supplies . |
| 15 | Even if the French do not succeed in their present bid to take over the last of the great American GA manufacturers , Piper , it 's hard to see what there is to stop them in their quest . |
| 16 | Her groping hand made out the outlines of a fully-clothed man , who was floating face downwards . |
| 17 | Destiny is also their one chance to beat back the forces of the ‘ Baron of Bellevue , ’ Bill Gates , and his gathering Microsoft NT hordes . |
| 18 | Technology is making its own bid to shoulder out the financial middleman |
| 19 | Quiet , insensitive and inhuman , modern technology is making its own bid to shoulder out the financial middleman . |
| 20 | Fifteen people died in political and sectarian violence in Northern Ireland in January as the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) intensified its military campaign to bring about the withdrawal of British troops and specifically to force the abandonment of the cross-party political talks on the future of the province [ see below ; p. 38300 ] . |
| 21 | The signature no doubt referred to the statues , but the bases show that painting as well as relief was practised in his workshop ; and the style of the low relief on the other bases ( fig. 94 ) with its red background throwing up the figures of athletes is so like Pioneer red-figure that one could easily imagine it produced by one of those artists . |
| 22 | I can almost hear Riva chewing on the inside of her own cheek to keep back the laughter . |
| 23 | It had taken her precious time to track down the people Lori had stayed with , only to discover , when she arrived , that Lori had flown off to Caracas . |
| 24 | We leaned on the railing , and peered down through the littered lattice of cross-angled trees , their backs broken in their last attempt to scramble up the cliff . |
| 25 | She spends her whole life looking out the window watching who 's going up and down . |
| 26 | She had lain with Maggie beside the swimming pool and had let her whole body soak up the sun . |
| 27 | Aliens US tends to rely on its excellent presentation to cover up the low standard of the six sublevels . |
| 28 | Three photos of her dead son hang on the walls of their council terraced house . |
| 29 | Should Wycombe fail in their promotion campaign , there will doubtless be a number of League clubs clamouring to employ the Wanderers manager , who last summer turned down the opportunity of going to Bristol Rovers . |
| 30 | Mr Lamont 's squandering of £1 billion in his vain bid to prop up the pound has not helped . |