Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [pron] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that is excellent news for Reds manager Frankie Parks who is increasingly worried he wo n't have men fit enough to write their names on the team sheet . |
| 2 | All Mr Clinton 's talents will be required not merely to stroke his allies in the Capitol 's anterooms , but to keep the country focused on what he is aiming at . |
| 3 | The cod , he reported , were so thick in the water that his sailors had only to lower their baskets over the side to fill them with fish . |
| 4 | Those bold enough to put their heads above the parapet — still by no means the majority — feel that to make demands even for basic freedoms is radical , in the present climate . |
| 5 | Even in the worst years of the Depression there were still people wealthy enough to give their cast-offs to the poor , and they did n't come much poorer than a Salvation Army officer 's family . |
| 6 | See if you can ease forward sufficiently to relax your elbows onto the ground . |
| 7 | She now flapped her hand as if shooing something away , then went out of the kitchen and onto the landing , and here , as she had before , she stopped , but only long enough to raise her eyes to the whitewashed ceiling as her mind said , Dear God , do n't let anything come of this . |
| 8 | While Dreadlocks held him hard another man — gold incisors glinting — stepped in and pulled open Estabrook 's coat , then reached in to empty his pockets with the speed of an illusionist . |
| 9 | Natural selection obviously favours the most successful caterpillars , and these are the ones that hatch out early enough to get their jaws into the young , tender , comparatively tannin-free leaves . |
| 10 | She suggests that the people studied by Ellis were mainly those who were merely powerful or influential enough to get their names in the Dictionary of National Biography , rather than necessarily being intellectually creative . |
| 11 | Throwing him a look of haughty disdain , she bent down to push her boots into the ski-bindings , furiously aware that he was watching her every move . |
| 12 | He grabbed her hand and hurried her after the group who were moving down to take their seats beside the long deep Lago Martel . |
| 13 | It is Vic 's impression that English wildlife is getting streetwise , moving from the country into the city where the living is easier — where there are no traps , pesticides , hunters and sportsmen , but plenty of well-stocked garbage bins , and housewives like Marjorie , softhearted or softheaded enough to throw their scraps into the garden , creating animal soup-kitchens . |
| 14 | The NL had managed successfully to screen its activities from the attention of historians and political commentators to this day , but it was not so lucky with the relevant authorities . |
| 15 | E. P. Thompson , in criticising Lawrence Stone 's reconstruction of The Family , Sex and Marriage , warned that : ‘ the point of history is not to see their occasions through the mist of our feelings , nor to measure them against the Modern Us . |
| 16 | At the same time , UK paperbackers are contractually bound not to issue their paperbacks into the UK before the hardback editions of the same titles have had a chance to prove themselves in the bookshops . |
| 17 | Jacklin instanced the case of Jim Colbert , a good friend and a solid journeyman professional on the regular US Tour in his heyday , who has now made $1.8 million on the US Seniors Tour and pays his caddie $140,000 a year just to drive his clubs around the course in a golf kart . |
| 18 | Although God specifically warned Job 's comforters not to postulate his sins as the cause of his sufferings , the Middle Ages preferred , like most ages , to ignore what God said . |
| 19 | Taking care not to scratch his hands on the holding spikes , he rummaged through the weed feeling for that spasm of movement which would indicate a dying fish . |
| 20 | There was silence for a moment after the front door too slammed , and then George said carefully , ‘ I would prefer you not to discuss our disagreements with the children . |
| 21 | Quietly , Connor crossed the room , opening the door cautiously so as not to waken his parents in the big bedroom at the other end of the landing . |
| 22 | ‘ I will happily drive you to your front door , little one , ’ he said dryly , ‘ but I have the feeling you would prefer not to waken your parents with the noise of the vulgar Alfa revving off into the night . ’ |
| 23 | I often thought her blindness was not entirely physical : she wanted finally to shut her eyes to the sorrows and miseries of the son she still adored , for she could not bear to see me suffering . |
| 24 | Other companies still in dispute with Disney have agreed not to press their claims for the time being and will call off plans for a demonstration at Sunday 's opening ceremony . |
| 25 | Notes saying what to get for supper , notes telling him not to leave his shoes by the bed … sometimes she left him notes telling him how she felt . |
| 26 | The Financial Reporting Review Panel , which oversees financial reporting and ensures accountancy standards are adhered to , has accused two publicly quoted companies of failing to comply with Statements of Standard Accounting Practice ( SSAP ) and the 1985 Companies Act , but in both cases the Panel has decided not to use its powers under the Companies Act to apply for a court order revising the defective accounts . |
| 27 | Both said they had decided not to put their families through the ordeal of the embassy occupation and appeared to believe the assurance of Wolfgang Vogel , special envoy of Erich Honecker , the East German leader , that they would all be allowed to leave for the West with their dependents within six months . |
| 28 | ‘ She wants to tell us to sit up straight and not to put our fingers on the nice furniture . ’ |
| 29 | Tell her not to do her nails at the table . |
| 30 | Luke took her hand , but instead of shaking it lifted it to his mouth and turned it over to press his lips to the very centre of her palm , watching the shock that widened her grey eyes at the tingling contact . |