Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those radicals ( among whom Gaitskell was , oddly , not numbered ) who wanted to abolish the public schools , or amalgamate them somehow into the maintained system , persuaded themselves for a time that if this were done , and if everyone had a chance to take the 11 + and compete for a place at a grammar school , then justice would have been done and educational standards would be secure . |
| 2 | Ought I to restrict supplies to certain retailers only , or release them only on the certificate of a doctor or justice of the peace , or simply rely on those who can afford to pay getting them on the black market ? ’ |
| 3 | By diffusing gas in or out of the bladder or expelling it directly through the connecting tube , a fish could accurately control its level in the water . |
| 4 | It was a sensation to me , a novice , but the experienced experimentalist learns the tricks of the trade , knows what mistakes to avoid and when weird things happen tries to investigate or to file them away in the memory — just in case . |
| 5 | If I buy some carpets fitting or do I extra for the fitting ? |
| 6 | It is a problem which seems curiously common to left-arm spinners , and manifests itself with the bowler either failing to release the ball , or propelling it vertically into the air . |
| 7 | They , you , are our inspiration , the reason we 've come as far and done as well as we have , the energy that drives us forward into the future . |
| 8 | She was the spoon that impatiently opened your lips and put artichoke purée between them , the arm that lowered you backwards into the tin bath , the water in which you lay and splashed and did not drown . |
| 9 | The air intake scoops took their final shape ; the chrome trim that divided it longitudinally in the first two cars was finally eliminated . |
| 10 | But before we jump to the conclusion that Pound had simply had a brainstorm , or had been trapped by misplaced compassion for Dunning as a lame duck , we ought to consider another possibility — that imagism , and Pound 's endorsement of Ford 's insistence on ‘ the prose tradition ’ , had never been for him more than an aberration , though in the short term a very profitable one , from a way of feeling that impelled him always toward the cantabile , a proclivity that would , in the interests of melody , tolerate notably eccentric diction . |
| 11 | What better way to test the mettle of the new Calibra 16v than to pitch it directly against the class best , VW 's Corrado G60 ? |
| 12 | Among the most important pieces raised over the summer were two heads , one bearded and probably dating to the fourth century BC , the other with hellenistic features that place it either in the second century BC as a Greek original or several centuries later as a Roman copy . |
| 13 | Love is a strange force like gravity that holds us together in the transcendent and will suffer no parting . |
| 14 | He caught a glimpse of the fair hair and saw that she was talking to someone he recognised as the drummer from the band ; the whole group was there , giving an impromptu concert on tin whistles to the tired hikers sleeping on their rucksacks undaunted by the howl and shriek of the space-invader machines on the other side , a cacophony of mechanical rage that deafened him together with the thin notes of a rebel song . |
| 15 | These medical investigations hardly ever revealed any physical or mental abnormality and if the bed-wetter continued thereafter to deplete the quartermaster 's stock of blankets then the British Army had no answer to this situation other than to discharge him honourably from the service without a stain on his character , whatever there might be on his bedclothes . |
| 16 | We must then continue with a rolling programme of reform that takes us away from the narrow concept of notional rents . |
| 17 | Compare this with the diagonal , twisting advance that takes you directly into the opponent or , if you prefer , the diagonal withdrawal that times your response to coincide with a lull in the attack . |
| 18 | Buckley 's Grimsby Town have won five and drawn one of their last six to ease within sight of the famous names at the top — and nothing would give him greater satisfaction than to leave them behind at the end of the season . |
| 19 | Now Duke and his brothers began trimming sideways across the face of the waves , as their ancestors had done , rather than riding them straight into the beach . |
| 20 | He is hurt and shaken , but he insisted on coming back with me to say thank you for making the message that warned him away from the bog . |
| 21 | And er they drew their truncheons , that I 'd never seen before , policemen with truncheons , er and they started to run and everybody else started to run , and I forgot there was a puppy dog , this puppy dog it it chased it chased towards the er p policemen , and started er barking and d and carrying on , and one of the policemen did no more than thump it straight across the top of the head with a with a truncheon , and er and that was the end of the puppy . |
| 22 | But then there was a sound that sent me swiftly to the door . |
| 23 | This clearly allows the bilingual audience — and one 's knowledge of a language does not have to be particularly broad for one to know the rude words — to appreciate a pun that tells us much of the character of the fabliau : the essential place of the con in the conte . |
| 24 | Throughout the training programme we discussed the ways in which people are disabled — not by limited ability but by a number of barriers that keep them apart from the activities that the rest of their communities are involved in . |
| 25 | But if a particular is to be successfully identified non-demonstratively — it is argued — there must be an individuating fact that relates it uniquely to the " present situation of reference " . |
| 26 | It has been found that taking them away from the contamination and giving them a healthy diet for a month can boost their damaged immune systems for up to 18 months . |
| 27 | The two whippets that accompanied him even at the front and the outsize shako of the Death 's Head Hussars he usually wore rounded out the picture . |
| 28 | One of the things that bothered me most in the villages of the Delta was the treatment given to women in childbirth . |
| 29 | Attention should surely be directed towards eliminating such anomalies , rather than entrenching them further into the law . |
| 30 | It will be appreciated that a single developmental problem , such as defective vision , need not dominate the pupils ' classroom activities , nor differentiate them unduly from the classmates with whom they work and play . |