Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The few moments that Merrill spent in front of the mirror told her that she had made the right decision to wear the black dress which exposed one bare shoulder . |
| 2 | As I have already made clear , the issue in that case concerned the second decision which the Secretary of State has to make , whether to release the prisoner at the end of his tariff period or to detain him in custody . |
| 3 | With the greater part of her days work done and since she did not have to cook Alisdairs lunch , ( he would likely stop in a pub near the market ) , she went back into the cottage to enjoy the only pleasure she got from life on the croft , her weaving . |
| 4 | ‘ But that 's all the more reason to stay on and take the opportunity to redress the lamentable impression you seem to have had of my country . ’ |
| 5 | The right-angled Swastika symbolizes the centrifugal force which strives to release all things from the gravitational pull and propels us towards mental activity , growth and evolution . |
| 6 | In Kilronan churchyard lies the blind harper who , it is said , wrote the music for the tune that became ‘ The Star-Spangled Banner ’ — Turlough O'Carolan , led across Ireland on a white horse by his servant , and sleeping with his harp in the bed so as not to let the instrument 's wood warp in damp rooms . |
| 7 | Pugin 's strict rules and principles were upheld in part to counteract the inordinate sadness he had suffered at the age of twenty-two , when his first wife died giving birth to their only daughter . |
| 8 | Arriving , triumphant , in Ulm in the late afternoon , I had within half an hour found the worst hotel I had been in in years , with the modest staff and a parking ticket to boot . |
| 9 | I even 'eard Mum say the other day she was goin' over there to get a loan . |
| 10 | While the episode revealed the enormous power which the USA could wield in the American hemisphere , such actions provided no permanent solution to the fundamental causes of instability in Latin America — and they led to widespread anti-American feeling . |
| 11 | Until these underlying images of individual and society are recognized , and their study given the explicit attention it deserves , the significance of geographical knowledge for social practice will not be realized , nor the constraints it currently imposes overcome . |
| 12 | He was esteemed to excel in the art of mining , and at his own expense built the beautiful church which was completed in the amazingly short space of seven months . |
| 13 | One of these many memories I find myself repeating , even today is to retrace our Sunday morning walks from my home in Pilrig , Leith , to a hotel near the Tron Kirk ( where my aunt worked as a housekeeper ) stopping first at a statue , halfway up the Mound , of a kilted figure representing the Black Watch who died in the Boer War . |
| 14 | Yet the statute did not in practice provide the absolute ban which it seemed to promise , nor did it deprive the church of acquisitions . |
| 15 | However , on the last service I had to check the tappets — after removing the rocker cover the only way I could turn the engine over was to put the car in gear and push it backwards . |
| 16 | He was a rugged but skilful wing-half , first for Oxford City where he had his roots , and latterly for Corinthian Casuals , a club embodying the Corinthian spirit he did so much to preserve . |
| 17 | It was also necessary to fabricate and fit a new rotating cowl to replace the louvred terminal which was missing from the apex of the south-east roundel . |
| 18 | High remuneration , excellent prospects and an immediate cash bonus await the successful applicant who will present himself at twelve noon today . |
| 19 | Northumberland lost 15–3 to Lancashire in their opening match , so Cheshire will be looking to grab another two points in their bid to regain the Northern title they won in 1990 and 1991 . |
| 20 | A light wind stirred the coarse grass which grew thick and rough on the eroded banks , but thinned to the odd clump as it reached the river 's thick , iodine coated mud |
| 21 | Although at first he had to consolidate his position at home , it was always his ambition to undermine the European order which had come into being after the defeat of his uncle . |
| 22 | The husband not only forked food into his mouth with an almost non-stop movement of his right hand , but he also held a corn bun in his left hand so that food could be put into his mouth to fill the split second it took to reload the fork . |
| 23 | A customer returns a skirt because the zip broke the first time she wore it . |
| 24 | But the reasoning of the leading scientific intellects of the age had nothing like so much effect as an obscure little Japanese fishing boat named the Lucky Dragon which was 85 miles from Bikini Atoll when Dr Teller 's H-bomb went off . |
| 25 | If the wind blew to the South-East they would be mostly in the U.S.S.R. … if the wind blew the other way they would extend well back up into Western Europe . ’ |
| 26 | In slow motion she saw the jagged indigo from his mind outpace the reciprocal movement he made . |
| 27 | They had formulated some vague ideas which would let them use this effect to shorten the perceived time it took to play the games they had to play , but the castle clocks , or perhaps the castle itself , seemed unwilling to cooperate . |
| 28 | He spends the day with the shepherd and helps him milk his ewes , and at the end of the day he sees that the shepherd puts the best milk he has in a wooden bowl , which he places on a flat stone some distance away . |
| 29 | The housing aid said the only thing they could offer me is bed and breakfast . |
| 30 | Such counter-examples have led some philosophers attracted to the logico-linguistic conception to take the audacious course which involves , in part , simply ignoring the very large part of consciousness which does not fall under the conception . |