Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Justin Simpson , in his article on the Stamford waits in The Reliquary in July 1885 , describes them crying out in the night after the performance of a tune these words by Shakespeare ; |
| 2 | Phil Bellto , 46 , not only reads the post to the blind former civil servant , but even takes her washing around to the launderette . |
| 3 | It prevents us falling back upon the familiar ideas of a ‘ father in heaven ’ who is thought of in much the same way as Santa Claus or an uncle in Australia . |
| 4 | This resistor absorbs the network signals and stops them bouncing back down the wire . |
| 5 | He raises it over his head and brings it crashing down on the back of the man 's head ; once , twice , three times . |