Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In those days I had been doing a good deal of drawing ; and , having come under Wyndham Lewis 's influence , I took my Vorticist efforts round to the Master , and , to my surprise , I found that he thought quite well of them . |
| 2 | I wrapped myself in a beach robe and spread my wet towels out on the winter hedge to dry . |
| 3 | After the long conversation with my brown self out in the street and being confronted now by a blond self , the haze lifted and all the images became clear . |
| 4 | I even got my old room back in the Goethestrasse . ’ |
| 5 | I 've got my old job back on the same terms and I 'm delighted . |
| 6 | I carried my empty mug out to the sink , then stood in the doorway and regarded them . |
| 7 | I put my left hand up on the trailer to jump on and that was it . |
| 8 | I polished the latches a bit with my shirtsleeve , then I put the briefcase back exactly as I 'd found it and took my leaf-trembling self along to the dining car , already regretting , before I got there , that I had n't stayed until the Canadian left , knowing that I 'd wasted some of the best and perhaps the only chance I would get of seeing what Filmer had brought with him on the train . |
| 9 | It 's Dundee and they 've asked me to transfer my medical records up to the local G P up there . |
| 10 | I sent my 14-year-old son out of the room . ’ |
| 11 | I plugged my naked feet in between the empty seats as tears rolled down my cheeks . |
| 12 | ‘ My wife and I are both from Yorkshire and I have spent my whole career up in the north . ’ |
| 13 | She took her frilly cap out of the locker and skewered it to her hair with the pins , adjusting it until she was satisfied that it was absolutely correct . |
| 14 | The balls of course would not stay put , and followed their pirouetting owners down to the front of the stage , with every intention of dropping into the auditorium . |
| 15 | He buried his face against her throat , his mouth tormenting her with its lazy progress down towards the swell of her breasts , and she arched up , silently begging for his caress . |
| 16 | He lay quietly , with a comfortable feeling of pleasant anticipation of the day before him , imagining his mother in her pale blue Sunday outfit getting her European car out of the garage and manoeuvring it down to the United church . |
| 17 | If a predator is nosing close to them and they have not yet rolled tightly into a ball , they may bend and then suddenly straighten their legs , thrusting their spiny backs up into the killer 's sensitive nose . |
| 18 | If a group anticipates no response at all , a blunt refusal , or even an attack upon its very integrity , then it makes good sense to keep its political head down below the level of activity . |
| 19 | An action could force their ill-fated relationship back into the courts just weeks after Mandy received a £500,000 marriage settlement . |
| 20 | My aunt asked a few questions , and ascertained that the lady 's pain was originating from her lower right abdomen — the general area of her right thigh up to the right side of her stomach . |
| 21 | She drew her right hand out from the folds of her apron and thrust a piece of paper at him , averting her eyes as she did so . |
| 22 | She felt sorry for him once more ; she felt for him the compassion of an older sister , and at that point she did something quite unpremeditated : as she kept on walking , she turned her head back towards him , smiled and lifted her right arm out in the air , easily , flowingly , as if she were tossing a brightly coloured ball . |
| 23 | Rachaela took her damp hair out of the towel . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , Ross … ’ she sighed helplessly as he lowered her damp body on to the cool sheets . |
| 25 | She banged her empty glass down on the desk , as though she had expected to find the surface several centimetres lower than it actually was . |
| 26 | He glanced from her empty hands up to the panel . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh , ’ she mourned , and , placing her empty cup down on the table , she felt quite disappointed that , come the time for the fountain to be switched on , she would be back in England . |
| 28 | The Dorset industry must have continued from its Pre-conquest days up to the moment of expansion ; its potters had been supplying the army in the middle of the first century , as is evident from Waddon Hill ( Webster , 1960 , 93 , 95 ; 1965 , 142 ) . |
| 29 | Mrs Stych clutched her groceries more tightly to her bosom and tried to heave her high heels out of the roots of the Frizzell grass . |
| 30 | For a moment she thought it shared her doubts ; there was a hint of a fumble as it doubled its hind legs under for the leap . |