Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or scratch your crutch with the salad fork . |
| 2 | I said you and I were man and wife , and to lose me would break or damage your bond with the King . |
| 3 | The result is a silent melodrama with a comic touch , as the heroine pilots the wounded hero through the desert to safety or drives her sledge across the snowy Canadian wastes . |
| 4 | I shifted my weight on to my other foot , looked around the landing and up the stairs , half-expecting to see my father leaning over the banister rail , or to see his shadow on the wall of the landing above , where he thought he could hide and listen to my phone calls without me knowing . |
| 5 | Detectives do not know if she was attacked somewhere else and driven to her death , or met her fate in the lovers ' lane . |
| 6 | A hotelier may ‘ so far as he is free to ’ exclude or restrict his liability under the OLA 1957 by means of a notice ( or a clause in the contract of booking vis-a-vis guests ) . |
| 7 | Er I notice the government also talk about job seekers these days as opposed to people who are unemployed but for those who get up early in the morning or raise their head off the pillow as I do , see the business news on half past six on er B B C 1 . |
| 8 | reserve the seller 's title to the goods themselves ( i.e. until either the buyer has paid or else the goods are sold by the buyer or lose their identity in the buyer 's manufacturing or other process ) , and |
| 9 | This is so , for example , if its inclusion is not material for the purposes of giving a true and fair view or if , in effect , the parent is not able to exercise dominance over the subsidiary or holds its interest in the subsidiary exclusively with a view to resale , or the information necessary for group accounts can not be obtained without disproportionate delay or expense . |
| 10 | But it does make clear a belief that the divine being reveals or manifests its nature in the world . |
| 11 | Most people find it easy to drink large quantities of calorific drinks , sweet or alcoholic , without in any way lessening or delaying their appetite for the next meal — and these drinks , and sugar itself , are perhaps the ultimate example of fibre-free calories . |
| 12 | either that or banging his head on the wall ! |
| 13 | But United 's trip to Hillsborough today will provide Fergie with a more revealing test of Cantona 's mettle , because Wednesday fans are unlikely to have forgiven or forgotten his walkout on the Owls 11 months ago . |
| 14 | there is only one exception : if a wife owns the property or has her name on the rent book or has the property because of her job , her husband is regarded as the head of household , provided that he is resident ( our italics ) . |
| 15 | Two slotted benches occupied most of the space and they were high up so that you had to sit with neck bent or smash your head against the ceiling . |
| 16 | So to say , ‘ Jesus is God ’ , does not imply or claim that we have made direct observation of a hidden ‘ divine nature ’ in him , or explored his relationship with the Father from the inside . |
| 17 | Every staff member who leaves , retires or ceases their employment of the Bank , should be replaced by a full-time official . |
| 18 | A NEW directory of scientific research projects at Oxford University is available free for companies looking for opportunities to collaborate with academics or transfer their technology to the marketplace . |
| 19 | There are mothers and daughters who can talk freely about sex , and mothers who send or accompany their daughter to the doctor to get the Pill , as Tracy 's mother had , but they tend to be the exception . |
| 20 | The effect of such imagery is to enrich or enlarge our concept of the male , or of what may truly be said to be ‘ masculine ’ . |
| 21 | The court may order the husband to convey or transfer his interest in the home to the wife absolutely in the following manner : It is ordered that the Respondent shall transfer to the Petitioner absolutely within 28 days from the date of this Order all his estate and interest in the property 1 Blackacre Drive , Blackacre [ subject to the existing Mortgage to the Blackacre Building Society , the Petitioner indemnifying the Respondent against all claims in respect thereof ] . |
| 22 | Chapter 6 deals with those cases where the husband is ordered to convey or transfer his interest in the matrimonial home upon certain terms or settle the same upon certain trusts . |
| 23 | If the court has ordered the husband ( or the husband has agreed ) to convey or transfer his interest in the former matrimonial home to the wife , there is no reason why he should agree , at the request of the wife , to convey or transfer it to herself and her new husband . |
| 24 | ‘ And d' you feel you could sweep them from my ground and deliver me from my past — or reconstruct my life without the shards of my past — or what ? ’ |
| 25 | It is possible to regard the perceived characteristics of the universities as both strengths and weaknesses , to applaud or to regret their commitment to the ‘ guardianship ’ of knowledge and their resistance to performing the ‘ wider service ’ , and in both cases to end up with the binary policy . |
| 26 | I also think that there is n't a woman alive who would n't like to have a companion to be there with a cup of tea when she 's in bed with the flu and a high temperature , or holding her hand at the surgery when she 's awaiting the result of a test . |
| 27 | He declined to explain why or to give his name on the telephone . |
| 28 | They die out , you know , ’ she said without raising her voice or removing her attention from the crowding clouds . |
| 29 | The posters on the walls were all the same old ones of 1950s legionnaires in tanks looking at the desert through binoculars , or cutting their way through the jungle with machetes . |
| 30 | Beginning to take responsibility for their own property , they may be proud to count how many paintings they have done or sort their work from the pile , to take home . |