Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [verb] [pron] [adv] the " in BNC.

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1 Well , let me tell you , ’ she flung at him acidly , ‘ you 're a bygone species , you 're on your way out , and if you do n't turn that wheel and head us back the way we came I 'll see you in gaol for this faster than you can say pieces of eight . ’
2 Only two and a half hours more to go , I told myself , and fixed the old lady with a hard stare that I hoped somehow conveyed to her what pleasure , what deep and lasting pleasure , it would give me to haul her off her seat and push her out the window .
3 Out of all the bands the NME posse catches at the CMJ , RATM are by far the most brilliantly relevant : the first to grab political issues by the scruff of the neck and ram them down the toilet pan .
4 I also made a documentary about the U-boat campaign which in two world wars had nearly brought us to our knees ; and I have always regretted that after the last war , when we sank so many of them in deep water , we did not keep one as a trophy and bring it up the Thames into the heart of London : it would have been a perennial attraction for every schoolboy in the country .
5 They were all in a room near the adjutant 's office , waiting for Woolley to get off the phone to Corps H.Q. and tell them where the day 's flying would be .
6 ‘ The guy that was sober told him to get a grip and pulled him out the shop .
7 With a final gesture she put the key on the sill of the narrow window and pulled herself up the stone steps .
8 Shall I hire a gondola and take you up the Grand Canal to the sound of trumpets ? ’
9 During this rest period I interviewed Chris by telephone and asked him how the wedding of the year had gone .
10 After long deliberation , they settled on a dark bottle-green , and the elderly assistant measured off the required length , pulling yards of cloth from the bale and running it down the length of the counter , measuring it against a fixed brass rule .
11 The landlord then relented in part and gave her back the keys to the bedsit .
12 Here are , race that fucking whore and get her out the bloody way
13 This account gives rise to two questions , both of them large and difficult : first , how do ideological state apparatuses ( ISAs ) constitute individuals ; and second , how can Althusser justify his claim that his theory escapes the tentacles of ideology and tells us how the world really is ?
14 Well we may as well have got that money and thrown it down the toilet !
15 People who were doing nothing in particular took up the cry and chanted it down the block , like priests in some strange pagan mass :
16 The tongue acts as a pump , helping to suck in small forms of water-life and squeeze them down the throat .
17 ‘ You can get a man inside it , and they 'll tie a heavy stone to the King 's body and push it down the pipe .
18 The second policeman managed to get a shot off in panic , but before he could take aim properly , one of the skinheads smashed his shoulder with a baseball bat and knocked him down the aisle steps .
19 Turn the right side ( smooth side of knitting ) to the inside and fold it so the two side edges of the knitting can be sewn together to make a tube .
20 You can buy them one day and bring them back the next
21 No talk of the tittle tattle of erm the citizens charter that gets watered down one day and becomes something else the other day and you might get a free train ticket out of it some time .
22 I tell you , one night , if we knew he was coming , we would wait for him round the back and pitch him down the falls ! ’
23 Pour it in a glass and look at it , or a spoon but pour it out the bottle , hold your breath and Bob 's your uncle !
24 I stole the father and gave Him back the son ! ’
25 Sally took the strip of paper and stuffed it down the front of her skirt .
26 He would probably have halted the advance and ordered me up the front .
27 Simply order them a couple of days in advance and pick them up the night before or on the day they are required .
28 Then she grabbed a handful of ice cubes from a nearby wine cooler and stuffed them down the front of her partner 's trousers .
29 He picked up my suitcase and carried it up the last flight , putting it down outside my door and turning to me .
30 She jangled a ring of keys , opened the door and led him up the bare , creaking stairway which climbed steeply out of the hallway .
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