Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Luggage appeared behind him and started to lurch confidently down the steps the customers at the rough wooden tables , as one man , looked suspiciously at their drinks . |
| 2 | He says that it is a sad fact that many early RDS receivers failed to perform even basic tasks adequately , and many people have been put off RDS for life because of : ‘ experiences with receivers that performed inadequately and which failed to live up to the promises the broadcasters made for them ’ . |
| 3 | As the roots begin to break out of the grains the barley is transferred to a vast hall heated with warm air and turned by large malt shovels . |
| 4 | In Stunt v. Bolton a man refused to hand over to the police the keys of a car which was causing an obstruction of the highway . |
| 5 | She got home to Kington Square at last , still grubby , very hungry , quite dispirited and having had to hand over to the police the document which had cost her an unreasonable amount of suffering . |
| 6 | But by piecing together all these different kinds of information , it should be possible , if only very imperfectly , to bring out of the shadows the central actors in the whole story , the women in the composing rooms . |