Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pos pn] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She flinched as Stephen laid his hands on her naked shoulders and planted a hungry kiss on the side of her neck his fingers fumbling in the thick folds of the towel , seeking her breasts . |
| 2 | The revolutionaries might as well have come from another planet for all the relevance their schemes had to the real concerns of the peasantry . |
| 3 | For a moment her eyes blurred at the memories of happy days , days of innocence . |
| 4 | I sat in front of him watching as he ate , my eyes following his hand from the moment his fingers plunged into the bowl until it rose into the air , and carried the food into his mouth . |
| 5 | Francis also plucked Penrice and Martyn from non-League football and is getting almost blase by the attention his players attract from the bigger clubs . |
| 6 | The ball their bowlers used in the morning session was sensationally taken from them at lunch by match referee Deryck Murray . |
| 7 | In a fast sweep her eyes ran from the top of his dark head down to the tips of his elegant feet , and she bit back a groan as she realised that that tempting glimpse of his body had done nothing to prepare her for Luke Calder in the magnificent flesh . |
| 8 | Two days after leaving Dire Dawa my parents camped in the highlands beside Haramaya Lake , a small stretch of water teeming with wildfowl , not far from Harar . |
| 9 | This policy sets out the Company 's objectives to control the impact its activities have on the environment and shows its commitment to being an industry leader in its awareness of and approach to environmental issues . |
| 10 | ‘ This policy sets out the Company 's objectives to control the impact its activities have on the environment and shows its commitment to being an industry leader in its awareness of and approach to environmental issues . |
| 11 | At that age their faces reflect with the most uninhibited intensity every changing emotion , that goes with every separate circumstance of every single character in the story . |
| 12 | A mist of liquid desire clung to the perfumed skin between her breasts and he lowered his tongue and lips to the tiny oasis of moisture , and as he drew erotically on her flesh his hands moved to the clasp and released her , burying his face against her satin skin as he tore the lace away . |
| 13 | Well firstly the bill did n't have that rough a passage in the House of Lords , because there are only two basic amendments , er that we 're dealing with in the House of Commons that matter , and one of them is the one you 've just mentioned , the answer to it is this , er I 've had a lot of criticisms of giving B R the untrammelled right to bid , er right from the outset their criticisms to do with the danger that you would n't get competition for the franchises the private sector would be afraid , and incidentally this is not a sell off it 's it 's a way of getting the private sector into British Rail with all the advantages that brings , they would be afraid that they would face subsidized and unfair competition , above all , perhaps , British Rail ge=management would feel if they were bidding against their employer that would be a real discouragement to bid , and we 've a lot of evidence er that they feel that and that there are many who do wish to bid in management/employee buy outs , so what we 've done in the amendment is we 've preserved the right for British Rail to bid , but we 've dealt with those criticisms and worries which have come from a lot of quarters not least from within British Rail itself . |
| 14 | As he conducted Divine Service in the old Seagoe Parish Church his dogs scampered around the churchyard . |
| 15 | My uniform was soaked and each time we dipped down at arm 's bend our faces went into the muddy ice and water . |
| 16 | In this case his studies lead to the making of a creation but this creation murdered members of Frankenstein 's family and caused the deterioration of Victor 's health . |
| 17 | General practitioners have gained influence over the care their patients receive through the fundholding scheme and through their influence on health authority purchasers . |
| 18 | Sheldukher whispered in the Doctor 's ear His fingers tightened around the trigger of his laser pistol . |
| 19 | In each country my talks centred on the serious economic situation and military issues including proliferation . |
| 20 | She hated the way her skirts strained at the seams , the way her thighs lolled on her chair , rubbed together when she walked . |
| 21 | But manage it she did , eventually , and with a sense of elation her fingers closed on the knife . |
| 22 | The way his bullets plucked at the fat bag was slightly obscene . |
| 23 | Ronni followed behind him , her eyes on his back , watching the way his muscles rippled beneath the T-shirt . |
| 24 | Robyn could smell the freshness of his cologne , see the way his eyes crinkled at the corners , notice for the first time the thickness of his lashes , the way his ebony hair would curl if allowed to grow long . |
| 25 | I could see that from the way his knuckles whitened around the telephone . |
| 26 | Lucien secretly disapproved of the way his colleagues fawned over the lady of the house . |
| 27 | Being ethnically dissimilar to any of their neighbours , their origin gives rise to conflicting anthropological theories , but when the Toraja themselves are asked where they came from they reply : " Before the dawn of human memory our ancestors descended from the Pleiades in skyships . " |
| 28 | So you 're better having it within one pool , and then you can decide locally the way your priorities lie within the area . |
| 29 | ‘ Because of concern about the future of the school our parents decided on the petitions , which we hope will improve the situation . ’ |
| 30 | We owe our liberty , our power of social organisation , our ideas of the propriety and dignity of public virtue and of private purity , to the resistance our forefathers made to the tyranny and immorality of the Stuart dynasty ’ . |