Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 There 's a nurse is in bed and the next thing the nurse wakes up to find him at the bottom of the bed .
2 The most noticeable of them is a throbbingly emotional ballad — as if from some oriental Tom Jones — which intermittently wells out to remind you of the popular nature of the love dramas you are witnessing .
3 As my bus drives up to ease me from the pitiful world outside , Clary waves , a week hand emerging from his dark shadow huddled from the cold .
4 When a moth flies into range , it works out the exact speed and position of its victim and then flies out to pluck it from the air .
5 The valley takes its name from the Entlen torrent , a tributary of the Little Emme , which races down to join it from the slopes of the Glaubenberg mount which separates this valley from the parallel valley in which lie the Lungern and Sarnen Lakes ( and the road from Brunig Pass . )
6 An RIB ( Rigid Inflatable Boat with a ninety-horsepower outboard engine , capable of nearly forty knots ) races out to meet her with the operations captain and a customs officer on board .
7 The fact that it was profoundly a work of synthesis was obviously much less important at first , and may even seem not very important now , as one settles down to enjoy it for the first or umpteenth time .
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