Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [noun sg] [vb past] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In their hands , structural anthropology and semiology took on the study of the structural form of meaningful systems . |
| 2 | In Russia 's stratified society they lacked social and economic leverage of any kind ; their inflammatory proclamations and resort to violence and terrorism alienated even the progressive wing of educated society . |
| 3 | Another rain squall blotted out the harbour and water cascaded down the window panes . |
| 4 | On this day , her mother always took an interest in the weather and the direction of the wind , and almost every year would look out at the white-capped waves and mutter about how the wind and sea looked much the same as it had on the day she lost her Sam . |
| 5 | She goes Dear Doctor Allen , My Mum and Dad went out the other day and I was bored so I started rubbing my dog and my dog got turned on and so did I . |
| 6 | Error , miscalculation or madness seemed perhaps the most likely cause of nuclear war in the early days , before the coming of the ‘ hot line ’ connecting the Kremlin and the White House in 1963 . |
| 7 | The weight of opinion and evidence bore out the view that " Britain has one of the fairest , most effective and most socially accountable forms of cost containment of any country " ( Barr et al. |
| 8 | The wife and family the wife and family did n't the wife and family did n't er benefit in any way . |
| 9 | The hot sun burnt his back and sweat ran down the rags of his shorts . |
| 10 | THOUSANDS of islanders fled in terror yesterday as 20ft walls of boiling mud and ash roared down the slopes of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , my ma and pa said exactly the same things to me when I was a kid , but I took no notice of it . ’ |
| 12 | The local press and radio picked up the story and carried it week after week — for a couple of years the gay struggle was big news for the folks back home . |
| 13 | After the Sun was formed , piercing heat and radioactivity drove out the icy particles which formed giant balls of gas further out . |
| 14 | But it 's only just over two and a half years since the village Post Office and shop put up the shutters for the last time . |
| 15 | An indeterminate mass of concrete and steel plunged down the centre of the stairwell , exploding like a bomb on the ground floor below . |