Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [vb base] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I do n't paint from dark to light or light to dark in any special sequence , but as my eyes flit over the paper I add bits of colour here and there .
2 When I return my headlights sweep over the boss and this woman . ’
3 The European Commission 's COMETT programme is aimed at high-level technology training , and its projects bring together the providers and users of training .
4 Her lips pout around the filter and her cheeks collapse in as she draws deeply .
5 Computer-aided learning ( cal ) is , for me , a portmanteau term for all cases in which computers help along the learning process .
6 I follow the line of the hedge along the side of the road , ducking once as a car drives past on the road ; its headlights sweep along the hedge above me .
7 Their lives revolve around the home , unlike in earlier cult shows like Dynasty ( the office , the hotel lobby ) or EastEnders ( the community square ) .
8 Although the therapist was probably correct in initially providing a chance for Pamela to express her worries to someone outside the family , she should have progressed as soon as possible to helping Pamela and her parents tackle together the problems surrounding their communication and lack of mutual trust .
9 In the final analysis , much of the success or otherwise of a policy will depend on which firms carry out the operations .
10 The various patients ' , reactions to their awakenings fill out the picture .
11 We operate a postal lending service for books and journals , for which members pay only the return postage .
12 Time and again the women stressed their loss of independence and with that loss came frustration , insecurity and a sense of worthlessness ‘ commensurate with that which men experience over the loss of their breadwinner status ’ ( Coyle , 1984 , p. 107 ) .
13 For example , Robertson ( 1976 ) used real road distance and estimated population for 5 km squares in Argyll to test an algorithm in which services search over the population surface until locations are found which minimize the cost , time or effort involved in people travelling to these services .
14 Working men and women , whose lives revolve around the business lunch , and often an evening meal out as well , sigh for good ‘ home-cooked ’ food .
15 ‘ operations whose implications bring up the question of a girl 's right to privacy about her sexual life .
16 I just said to my hubby this morning , I said , ‘ The sooner its the Sixth of January and we 've got a they decorations back up the loft and poked all they clogged-up pine needles out the Hoover tube with a Knitting needle and its back to auld claes and parritch the better pleased I 'll be . ’
17 His views show how the proponents of national efficiency linked together a concern for a renewal of leadership qualities with the generation of a cultural mystique through education .
18 She saw his fingers close around the butt of a .45 .
19 Obligations under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 are therefore transferred to the supplier of the item , and his obligations continue where the equipment is subject to a further lease in continuation of the original one .
20 Note that although the actions of the mother , father and child might well have been part of one connected incident , the cuts to the first shot of the older child and to the shot of the father getting to his feet open up the possibility that the actions could in fact have been parts of separate but similar incidents which took place over a very much longer span of time ; the shot of the father could well have been contrived specially , with the help of a little direction from the cameraman in between shots .
21 But though his mind was , and remained , romantically anti-Establishment , at once Catholic and mildly left-wing , his fiction never seemed impelled by any serious desire to alter the social system of a nation from which , after the war , he was willingly an exile , and his arguments concern rather the writer 's alleged duty to refuse all favours from the state — even ‘ the bourgeois state ’ , as he calls it — and to live in romantic independence , royalties apart : surviving ( in Joyce 's famous phrase ) by silence and cunning .
22 What falls there are , we know not ; what rocks beset the channel , we know not ; what walls rise over the river , we know not .
23 Just what chemicals make up the cocktail in the mine shaft .
24 Our eyes seek out the inhabitants fleeing distracted , or returning to look for the dead .
25 It refers not only to a present which is constantly breaking down to form reveal the fragments of the past , but a view of our surroundings which may seem whole and contiguous , but which in fact is forever splintering and reshaping itself as our minds piece together the fragments that our eyes actually perceive .
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