Example sentences of "['s] [adj] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colour touched her cheeks but she looked him straight in the eyes and was just about to reply when the kitchen door opened and Gerard 's solid footsteps sound along the hall . |
| 2 | People especially did not wish to know about the administration 's private efforts to prop up the contras . |
| 3 | Larder , who quit as Great Britain 's assistant coach to take over the Chemics , will go to any lengths to help Goulding build on that promising beginning — and bring more success to Widnes in the process . |
| 4 | Tina Wilkinson 's striking vocals dart over the aggressive and exuberant title track with charismatic panache . |
| 5 | Tina Wilkinson 's striking vocals dart over the aggressive and exuberant title track with charismatic panache . |
| 6 | Maxham 's pale-blue eyes glanced down the hall to the kitchen . |
| 7 | Despite Adam 's devious attempts to play down the collaboration behind this superb work ( several resplendently bound copies are on display ) , credit is now given to James 's role as project manager , co-ordinating teams of engravers in Venice , Rome and London over the seven years before publication in 1764 . |
| 8 | Such a compelling clash would also put the gloss on the remarkable atmosphere which was generated during Saturday 's Royal Bank international with Wales , Scotland 's 20-0 victory setting up the tantalising finale to the season . |
| 9 | Admired and rejected , the primitive rite is also linked with the city ; the isolated last line of the poem 's second section summons up the field and its dancing , leading to a juxtaposition with the urban world which follows . |
| 10 | Robert Naish was surely surprised at the apparent ease with which he not only achieved support but in so doing effectively acquired the Committee 's crucial agreement to buy out the bondholders ! |
| 11 | As it was , with two glasses of champagne inside her , and as the mannequins displayed the latest fashions from Paris and London , she felt she was once more in heaven , even more so two hours or so later as Mr O'Hara 's chief assistants wrapped up the final choices : dresses , gowns and lingerie made of georgette , and flowered taffetas , moires , silks and satins , subtle lamés , artificial marocain and crêpe de Chine , in colours of white or pastel blue , cerise , pearl-grey , oyster and of course rose-opaline . |
| 12 | Two hours flew by before Justin Feltham 's Tiny Tim brought down the curtain with his ‘ and God bless us , every one . ’ |
| 13 | Nevertheless , Britain 's early filmmakers set about the business of film production with some brio and not a little flair . |
| 14 | When Lubbock was returned to Parliament in 1881 , he persuaded Gladstone 's Liberal government to take up the cause . |
| 15 | The federal project in Europe would in some respects have enlarged Westminster 's competence , because of the capacity it accorded Europe 's national governments to take on the world 's financial markets and thus broaden the taxing , spending and borrowing options that have been , up until now , in the shadow of highly conservative directors of international capital flows . |
| 16 | I believe that Bourdieu 's conceptual framework opens up the social-scientific study of postmodernism in several ways . |
| 17 | Kate 's quick ears picked up the remembered bitterness . |
| 18 | And the rabbit catcher 's great grandson carries on the village tradition , which has been enhanced with the arrival of Capt Tim Forster and his Grand National successes . |
| 19 | The 24-year-old sweeper will lose three days ’ wages for deserting his father 's electrical business to take on the infinitely more difficult job of shoring up the leakiest defence in international soccer . |
| 20 | EDUCATION Secretary John Patten 's relentless attempt to turn back the school clocks continues this week with the release of the proposed new children 's reading list . |
| 21 | Five minutes later a plastic bag containing his wet , bloodstained pyjamas and a bottle of antiseptic fell on his bed and he heard Murray 's heavy footsteps retreat down the bare boards of the corridor . |
| 22 | GRAHAM Gooch 's double dream flowed down the Grace Road drains yesterday as Leicester clinched a NatWest final with Northants on September 5 . |
| 23 | Simpson 's collected sermons set out the Antinomian creed he never retracted . |
| 24 | In spite of the Jockey Club 's apparent determination to play down the doping cases and its hushing up the Flash of Straw investigations until now , it does seem that there is a sinister element at large in British horse racing . |
| 25 | Clarissa 's long blonde hair is her strongest feature — she maintains it with Clairol 's Loving Care to hold back the grey . |
| 26 | The white car with its half glimpsed driver 's familiar face accelerating up the Julians ’ drive haunted her . |
| 27 | Fucking hell Jesus Christ oh dear , you know what that means econom , the America 's biggest airlines goes down the toilet |
| 28 | Eventually one of the studded oak double doors opened and Nadirpur 's Vietnamese manservant trotted down the crumbling stone steps . |
| 29 | Royal author Andrew Morton sat at a table as one of Diana 's close friends poured out the truth about the Princess 's deep unhappiness . |
| 30 | The island 's best beaches lie along the norther and eastern coasts with plenty of sand to choose from . |