Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I 've had my hair highlighted regularly for the last ten years it gets really dry . |
| 2 | Of course , my horizons broadened considerably after the documentary . |
| 3 | I kept my fingers crossed figuratively during the first few months of our acquaintance that neither of us would be sent elsewhere on a permanent posting — permanent until demob , that is — because I had seen quite a few promising romances nipped in the bud by one or the other partner being whipped away by the unfeeling powers-that-be , and when a relationship is developing you do need a few weeks of togetherness to allow it to mature . |
| 4 | My mind cast back to the winter of last November when I stood on this same platform awaiting the arrival of a new intake . |
| 5 | My mind wandered away from the disembowelled calves . |
| 6 | I had my ideas worked out by the time I left for the 1960–61 Tasman series , and on the 24-hour flight to New Zealand I sat with a slide rule and drew the car as a pin-jointed structure , stressed it and arrived at all the tube sizes . ’ |
| 7 | my song torn out in the dried flowers |
| 8 | And also I 'm going in on the fourteenth of July , er in to have my knee washed out on the fourteenth of July . |
| 9 | Janet had my breakfast laid out on the table and sat there grinning an insane grin at me . |
| 10 | My brain adjusted slowly to the Russian language and to Victor 's hair . |
| 11 | With my impressions stored up from the initial set of interviews , I came to see an intriguing challenge . |
| 12 | Only the church band — two clarionets , a serpent , a bassoon and an ill-tempered violoncello — brought much vigour to the services ; after the harmonies of King 's their enthusiasm fell stridently on the Rector 's ear . |
| 13 | Almost all wore skirts , make up and appeared to have had their hair done especially for the benefit of the cameras . |
| 14 | When , at the end of the Second World War , France was liberated , those who had collaborated excessively with the Germans often had their hair cut off by the French Resistance . |
| 15 | We have seen that the Stonors and their associates served together on the Commission of the Peace , and the records of proceedings before the justices of the peace , although few in number , show how important such a group of local men was , acting along with one or two professional lawyers . |
| 16 | But when she was over here , she sold up and her sister sold up at the same time . |
| 17 | And we know what the Iraqi government would like , which is the release of their money frozen here since the Gulf war . |
| 18 | Its European outlet , Pinnacle Data Systems UK Ltd , is currently in talks with a European manufacturer to get its products made locally for the UK and continental markets . |
| 19 | He stood looking down at her as she lay with her hair spread out on the pillow , her eyes still half shut by the heaviness of sleep and her lips smiling . |
| 20 | Only 18 to 25 per cent of the survey sample relied on or had their income topped up by the then supplementary benefit . |
| 21 | The drapes were drawn over all the windows , the enormous marble-topped table that dominated the room lit by overhead lamps , the wash of their light thrown up on the six members , two of them women , sitting around it . |
| 22 | Gary and Bean were looking understandably nervous by now , their eyes fixed hypnotically on the ramp of the horse-box . |
| 23 | Her lips parted avidly to the questing thrust of his tongue . |
| 24 | Dorothea Shottery , her eyes fixed unseeingly on the cream paint of a radiator , heard the sigh and wondered about it . |
| 25 | When he came back Breeze was sitting curled up by the fire in the quaint but attractive parlour , her eyes fixed thoughtfully on the dancing flames . |
| 26 | At other times he would come running in answer to her call to find her seated before the stove with her legs stretched out to the fire and her face softened by smiles . |
| 27 | The winning team is the one which has all its frogs lined up at the other end of the room . |
| 28 | Unfortunately two anglers now had all their gear spread out amongst the greenery . |
| 29 | It swims , with its legs tucked out of the way alongside its flanks , by sinuous movements of its body and by beating its tail . |
| 30 | I feel that the PR team have their work cut out at the best of times without the likes of Mr. Wigmore and his cheap , sensationalist style of so-called journalism . |