Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lindsay Crosby : 51 , youngest son of the singer Bing Crosby , found dead in his Los Angeles home after apparently shooting himself in the head with a smallbore rifle . |
| 2 | We want to go that step further and win the Bledisloe Cup after narrowly missing it in the Second Test against the All Blacks last year ’ , he said . |
| 3 | How about just keeping it in the bag ? |
| 4 | This has the advantage from the point of view of the courts of largely relieving them of the necessity to enter into the merits of business judgment , a matter to which we will return below . |
| 5 | And er o despite that sort of just said something about the |
| 6 | That 's right , yes I mean , the goalkeeper was fantastic first half , and really we only had one chance second half , and he made a great save from Fossey. erm First half , it was a case of just throwing himself into the right area and the ball was hitting his body and you know , he was just a good example of how to be a good goalkeeper . |
| 7 | These are the products of a technological mastery untempered by a political imagination capable of either managing it in the interest of the planet , or of inventing a machinery capable of arbitrating between differences of interest without condoning the annihilation of one side or the other . |
| 8 | Although it is a means of asserting authority , coming as it does at the start of the shift , parade is very relaxed and , from the point of view of the ordinary constables , serves as a way of casually reorientating themselves to the demands of work . |
| 9 | I recently bought a Series IIA ex-military Land Rover with the intention of completely rebuilding it over the next few years ending up with a vehicle that will last for years to come . |
| 10 | Goma signed up to support Charter 77 , but very few other Romanians , and certainly fewer still of his fellow intellectuals , took the risk of publicly associating themselves with the critics of the fraternal Communist regime in Czechoslovakia . |
| 11 | How could the French people be expected to remember us when we ourselves have devoted fifteen years to the task of being forgotten , when , for fifteen years , the mainspring of the actions of the entire family has been the fear of compromising themselves , and they have avoided every chance of coming forward , the only way of publicly recalling themselves to the people 's memory ? |
| 12 | Few of his peers scoffed , but even fewer followed his example of actually taking it on the course . |
| 13 | Add to that a predilection to falling off buses because you think you see Him on every corner , in every crowd , at every window , and the inevitability of actually seeing Him in the off-licence when you were n't expecting to , and feeling your entire stomach lurch forward involuntarily like waking from a dream of falling . |
| 14 | All these sizes can be worked out well in advance of actually typing anything onto the screen — indeed all design should be done well away from the computer . |
| 15 | The result is quite striking : the richer respondents claim to be more prepared to break the law than the poorer ones , despite their apparent lesser chances of actually breaking it from the conviction statistics . |
| 16 | The original score — the two movements completed by Mozart , and the rest added by Süssmayr in a hand almost indistinguishable ( deliberately so ) from Mozart 's — was given to Count Walsegg , who for once found himself on the receiving end of a little deception . |
| 17 | ( It 's like continually slapping someone across the face — almost a wince . ) |
| 18 | Would you please go to tag L two , six , six to begin with just to lead you into the chronology , you have told us that in August nineteen eighty seven , er there was really no interest in national budgeting , er national advertising budget , we can see this is a memorandum from you Kevin dated the fourth of August and you 're sending out to the regional marketing executives , there 's no national advertising next year which would be eighty eight . |
| 19 | Many of the most committed Calvinists , who had wrestled for lengthy periods with the doctrine of predestination before finally convincing themselves of the assuredness of their salvation , reacted with fury and outrage to Arminius 's teachings , and in the United Provinces the resulting theological controversy provoked a major political crisis , culminating in the defeat of the Arminians at the Synod of Dort in 1618 . |
| 20 | The odds cited above would have given little comfort to the man in Kurunagala who , during a rash of cattle thefts , had to pay a ransom for the same animal seven times before finally selling it for the paltry sum of two rupees . |
| 21 | if they 're not in just slip it through the door you ca n't keep |
| 22 | Nor will the wholesaler commit any offence in supplying the goods thus labelled to the retailer , nor the retailer in similarly supplying them to the consumer . |
| 23 | The idea took shape some five years ago in the back room of London 's Bull & Gate , and it 's taken until now to get it on the road — for 32 days only . |
| 24 | A pulse of pressure from behind threw them against the factor , he turned and jumped for the door , beat on it , it opened abruptly , and he fell inside . |
| 25 | He and his friends would take us , they said , safely to the edge of the airport and from there point us in the right direction . |
| 26 | Healey backed Crossman and pointed out that they would be ‘ blind men leading the blind if they had to go in there knowing nothing about the place ’ . |
| 27 | Nigel , who in any case really delighted in sows ' ears which had the faintest possibility of turning into even cotton purses , beavered away with them for an hour or more before unceremoniously dumping them in the dustbin and banging down the lid . |
| 28 | Minutes later Charlie was outside the tent , buttoning up his jacket before continually slapping himself on the back in an effort to keep warm . |
| 29 | However , he refrained on this occasion from explicitly linking them to the situation around Afghanistan . |
| 30 | We went further down the slope to practise parachute landing falls and ground handling skills — everything you need to know before actually launching yourself off the side of a hill . |