Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wonders if you filled in the forms correctly . ’ |
| 2 | Some of them will be practising meditation exercises before they swoop down the ramp from a platform to begin their few minutes of profound torture . |
| 3 | Mr Morrison says that he took on the job ‘ because they said that it would be difficult but it had to be done and that 's what appealed to me ’ . |
| 4 | Yeah but what happens when you come down the other end ? |
| 5 | What happens when you open up the market twenty years down the line , you realize that these industries are dinosaurs , they 're using technology that 's thirty years out of date . |
| 6 | Mortality rates among the adult working population parallel the progressive incidence of illness that occurs as one moves down the social hierarchy . |
| 7 | Despite the two question marks that I put over the Bill , I believe that the Government are right to proceed with the reforms that it contains . |
| 8 | He desires that you take over the keepership of the royal castle of Berwick . ’ |
| 9 | The presence of Free Presbyterians increases as one moves up the party hierarchy . |
| 10 | Its defence mechanism is not rapid reproduction like the greenfly , instead it surrounds itself with the familiar frothy blob of air bubbles that it forms as it spits out the sap it has taken from the plant — instead of spitting it back into the plant . |
| 11 | Rain said : ‘ My conscience dictates that I drive down the Cap and interview Peter Leary . |
| 12 | A slightly different picture emerges if we sift out the figures relating to personal injury negligence actions alone — the category most discussed in relation to the efficacy of settlements . |
| 13 | Through each point on the c 1 c 2 curve in Fig. 8–3 we can draw a line with slope ( ) , noting that r falls as we move up the curve . |
| 14 | Nigel : ‘ It beats as it sweeps as it plugs up the hole in the ozone layer ? ’ |
| 15 | The process of running a program means that it carries out the CPU instructions in the program file , some of which will involve telling the PC to look for certain data files on disk which it will use for its own ends . |
| 16 | This means that you thunder down the approach at Spitfire cruising-speed till , upon reaching a point one minute from the runway , you almost stop the aircraft in mid-air ( sending anyone inside towards the windshield ) , then bring it down at Bonanza-pace to a landing which , with practice , can be as short as 1,100 feet . |
| 17 | Pamela suggests that we walk down the Prince of Wales Road to the Aegean Sea . |
| 18 | But Sue is quick to justify the power she wields since she took over the editorship in 1989 . |