Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are likely to be allowed less freedom to go out on the streets and stay out late . |
| 2 | The story got about over the years that his lectures were very obscure . |
| 3 | Some geezer got down into the tunnels and found his way out . ’ |
| 4 | This winsome description fits in with the descriptions of the messianic age in the book of Isaiah , with the wolf lying down with the lamb , the lion and the ox eating straw together , and the little child playing happily and fearlessly with them and even putting its little hand unhurt into the hole of the poisonous viper . |
| 5 | Moreover , the examples Couturier gives are of multiple discrete points of view carefully distinguished within the novels in question ( The Sound and the Fury , Pale Fire ) , whereas the mutable point of view employed in Verbivore is a technique developed out of the possibilities inherent in print , but moving toward the mutability of cybernetic text . |
| 6 | Well erm David said that he did n't think the strike would have gone on or they would n't have the heart to go on without the women ? |
| 7 | WHILE my heart goes out to the parents in the baby-swop drama , I have to agree with the midwife interviewed on TV who said that it was ‘ a disaster waiting to happen ’ . |
| 8 | They were afraid of their shite to come out of the towns . |
| 9 | When Sir Bryan Thwaites , chairman of Wessex Regional Health Authority , spoke out during an election about the impossibility of NHS funding keeping up with the expectations of patients and doctors , he was promptly told by the government to keep quiet . |
| 10 | My tranquillity was rudely interrupted as a wave crashed down on the rocks and sent a shower of spray over us as we huddled amongst the rocks on the headland . |
| 11 | Word of the display travelled fast and so many people were drawn to it that Porter International had difficulty keeping up with the crowds . |
| 12 | ( Actually ‘ Boggers ’ is really called Mister Jones , but his hair stands up like the bristles on a bog er … toilet brush , hence his nickname . ) |
| 13 | I 'm grateful to you for your readiness to fall in with the proposals made , and er , I have enjoyed the opportunity to chair this A G M. The meeting is now concluded . |
| 14 | As he reached for Steen 's hand , he heard a car drawing up outside the gates . |
| 15 | It would not be possible to talk of error of law at all unless such elements did have a ‘ given ’ meaning because , says Gould , such language implies a departure from a criterion laid down by the courts . |
| 16 | The very important interest JCI has in the diamond industry goes back to the days when Barney Barnato , together with Cecil Rhodes played an important role in the establishment of De Beers in Kimberley . |
| 17 | The home selectors have been shuffling their resources in recent matches and they take this opportunity to have a look at some members on the fringe of inclusion for Italy with one or two experienced players , such as flanker Martin Pepper stepping down to the replacements ' bench . |
| 18 | This is entirely due to excessive muscular tension building up over the years and pulling the bones of the spine closer together , by as much as two or even three inches . |
| 19 | ‘ But I think it is a pointless exercise , ’ said Floy , somewhere towards morning , a thin , cold light filtering in through the windows to where he sat at a great desk , his black hair tumbled , hollows in his cheeks , his face white with fatigue . |
| 20 | The plan to make unions responsible for unofficial action arose out of the strikes in the summer on the London Underground , where an informal group of drivers and guards led a long series of stoppages over pay . |
| 21 | Pouf , man , you 've let yourself be scared by a figure plucked out of the clouds . |
| 22 | Nor did the general public have a very high regard of embalming , believing it to be another unnecessary luxury meted out to the corpses of the rich . |
| 23 | The light had almost gone from the day now and the forest was becoming bathed in soft , subtle hues of the Purple Hour , Dark blue and turquoise light slanted in through the trees , turning the Wolfwood to a place of dark secret shadows and heavy ancient magic . |
| 24 | She watched it keenly through opera glasses from the third row of the empty stalls , and I do n't know how the poor actress carried on under the circumstances . |
| 25 | Its tough pale grass grows on mud and clinker dredged up from the docks . |
| 26 | Willie carried on following the dots between the lines and then stopped . |
| 27 | As she sucked thoughtfully on the cigarette her mind wandered back to the contents of the dossier they had prepared on Benin . |
| 28 | As the medics were carrying him away I could see blood oozing out of the eye-holes of his boots and dripping on the ground . |
| 29 | In particular the attention of the court was drawn to clause 1 of the agreement which referred to the practice carried on by the parties as a " practice of general medical practitioners " . |
| 30 | A sampling programme carried out in the Coins and Medals Department in 1979 checked some 10,000 of the estimated 600,000 objects in the collections . |