Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my personal opinion I prefer the original ending because it keeps up the style and tone of the rest of the novel and also keeps the characters the same . |
| 2 | In the morning providentially we set off for the frontier , and there to my great delight I saw the familiar face of Mr Derrick Robinson , Rhodesia 's Assistant Commissioner of Police , standing beside a BMW motor car which was to convey me to Salisbury . |
| 3 | Now it is my beautiful Ma who has the wrinkles ! |
| 4 | When I walk through my front door I hear the TV playing loud . |
| 5 | One of these was my own brother who led the resistance in the countryside around Nantes . ’ |
| 6 | In my earlier reply I told the House what action the United Kingdom Government have taken , in concert with our partners in the European Community and other civilised countries , to condemn utterly the conduct of the Burmese Government and to call for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi . |
| 7 | In my last message I listed the impressive accolades won by you for Rentokil in the past year . |
| 8 | In my last garden I grazed the herbage with geese until mid-May , then left it uncut well into October for the goldfinches to take a part share of the seeds . |
| 9 | With her lower lip she tucks the upper lip into her mouth for a moment . |
| 10 | Holding the dead creature in her right palm she squeezed the pink plasticine , the white coat , the cotton hair into one amorphous lump . |
| 11 | Belgium and Luxembourg on March 2 , 1990 , abolished the dual exchange rate used within their monetary union which pegged the Luxembourg-Belgian franc for current commercial transactions while allowing the rate for financial transactions to float freely . |
| 12 | In her normal state she had the head and teeth of a savage wolf and the wings of a bat , although she would endeavour not to allow any mortal to see her thus . |
| 13 | There are a variety of methods of attachment but to ensure a tight connection ( which is essential ) the inhaul rope should be tied when the boom is parallel to the mast so that when swung down to its normal position it tightens the rope . |
| 14 | They believed , you see , that the tortoise was an animal of great purity — in its hard-soft form they saw the meeting of Yin and Yang , of Heaven and Earth . |
| 15 | With her free hand she took the golden decoration from him , examining it with care . |
| 16 | Banks tend to be tiered in this market according to their perceived creditworthiness which determines the overall cost of a bank 's funds . |
| 17 | In its second paragraph it accepted the overload thesis : |
| 18 | Demant 's own chapter would have been all the more attractive to Eliot because of its wide-ranging view which combined the primitive and the sophisticated . |
| 19 | It printed a [ bleached out ? ] picture of the river in its white state which over-emphasized the width of the river in a very misleading way . |
| 20 | In her left hand she held the arm of — I presumed — Mr Tuckett , a short , wide , ruddy-faced man with white sideburns . |
| 21 | In her left hand she held the hand of a small child dressed in a raincoat at least eight sizes too big . |
| 22 | Prison staff say it was only their quick action which saved the jail from being burned down . |
| 23 | In her rear-view mirror she saw the two men hurrying back towards the administration block . |
| 24 | . Newlands School F.C.J. Headteacher Mrs Joan Pickering with her unruly form who invaded the staffroom . |
| 25 | With her long sight she saw the size of the fire , and — well , she realised it would need at least five fire-engines . |
| 26 | Slipping her hand into her dressing-gown pocket she felt the cold slippery plasticine of her model of Dr. Lorrimer . |
| 27 | With the penknife from her dressing-gown pocket she sawed the piece of chicken into two portions and handed one to Thérèse . |
| 28 | After its first year it had the widest appeal of any soap opera . |
| 29 | Her first day there confirmed the differences between the regulars and the outsiders . |
| 30 | To retain its hegemonic dominance it criminalised the inner city uprisings of disenchanted youth , marginalised the youth of the black communities and removed trade-union struggles from the field of civil law to the arena of public disorder . |