Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [modal v] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over on the other side they could make out the chimney of the paper works among rising woods . |
| 2 | If you can imagine and would like to discover the reality of Slaley Hall you can take up the offer of a special two night inspection visit for only £95 including golf which Slaley will run throughout the spring of 1991 . |
| 3 | When he was in the dining room she would be in the dairy ; when he wandered out to look at the home fields she would be over the lake by Burtness Wood ; when he made his way to the wood she would retreat up the fell and it was pointless , he rightly guessed , as well as being too open to comment , to pursue her onto the tops . |
| 4 | From the front attic window we could see down the rue de Fleuve to the river . |
| 5 | He looked up at the house and through a dormer window he could make out the outline of a figure , seated and immobile , facing the sea . |
| 6 | By covering the food during microwave cooking you can speed up the cooking procedure . |
| 7 | As a last resort you can call out the total number of those present ! |
| 8 | If you are keeping several different types of aphid you can work out the figure for each type separately and compare them . |
| 9 | So she went to Madras , in whose pleasant climate she would live out the few remaining weeks of her life . |
| 10 | Clearly there is some chicanery going on and perhaps in due course we will find out the truth . |
| 11 | One day I will pluck up the courage to quiz her . |
| 12 | Each night I could take out the Vitou dog , a fine little white fox terrier called Mitsy . |
| 13 | Right I 'll work out the current I 'll work out the resistance |
| 14 | Mark the spot on the surface just beyond the distance you can see down the burrow , and this is where you dig your first hole . |
| 15 | If you 've got a minute you could fill up the coffee machine again , and I 'll have a word with Jerry when I get back down . ’ |
| 16 | Moving on from the , the dredger back to when you were a stevedore you used to sort out the different work for the , for the men , where did you used to congregate first thing in the morning ? |
| 17 | So what they did eventually , they put sort of call boxes occasionally , in different parts of the borough so during the night you could ring up the station . |
| 18 | In the breeding aquarium they could suck in the fry and result in heavy losses . |
| 19 | Even at this distance he could make out the faint octarine glow in the air that must be indicating a stable magic aura of at least — he gasped — several milliprime ? |
| 20 | I have given instructions to Brian Lewis that if members of staff are found trying to abuse this facility he should switch off the lift system entirety . |
| 21 | They thought if I became England manager I would take over the FA — and I would have done ! ’ |
| 22 | According to classical mechanics , in theory you could write down the position and momentum of every single particle in the universe ; you could therefore work out how everything is going backwards and forwards in time , obviously by highly complicated equations , but in theory , everything 's predicted so everything 's totally determined from beginning to end ; but quantum mechanics says that you can never record the momentum and position of everything identically because of the Uncertainty Principle . |
| 23 | If the Prime Minister is walking in his garden on a summer 's morning you could push up the rickety sash — like this — and call down to him . |
| 24 | She 'll do a good two hundred miles an hour , and though she 's got dual control you can take out the second seat next to the pilot 's to make room for a stretcher . ’ |
| 25 | In 1985 , its Labour majority was bigger than that of the Tories and the people of Derbyshire re-elected it in 1989 : they are satisfied with Derbyshire county council 's policies , and when we have the general election they will kick out the Under-Secretary of State and the hon. Member for Amber Valley ( Mr. Oppenheim ) , the man with the Pampers on . |
| 26 | If they take up that space you must offer up the back page . |
| 27 | So by measuring just one substance we can work out the overall total salinity . |
| 28 | ‘ One of the things he did was this : On the quiet he 'd heat up the ends of two thin iron rods . |
| 29 | She has suffered much in the last decade but that experience has given her the inner fortitude to shoulder the emotional burden she must carry on the next stage of her life 's journey . |
| 30 | I still have the big iron mangle she used to wring out the clothes . |