Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The umpires check it at the end of every over . |
| 2 | The Jews provide us with the single most illuminating incident of the episcopate of Avitus . |
| 3 | Even when lightning lit the skies and the floodgates opened when she was still twenty miles from her destination she merely flicked on the car 's wipers and peered out into the black night , letting the piercing beam of the headlights guide her along the road . |
| 4 | The feathery and delicate fronds of the ferns make them among the most beautiful of the foliage plants , and they attract a fanatical group of devotees dedicated to growing exotic species in inhospitable cities . |
| 5 | The policemen controlling the pedestrians beckon them across the road . |
| 6 | The Cattle of the Cottagers are impounded when the Forest is driven by the Keepers , as all other Cattle are ; and when the Owners take them from the Pound ( paying the usual Fees to the Keepers ) they turn them again into the Forest , having no other Means of maintaining them … the Cottagers … are detrimental to the Forest , by cutting Wood for Fuel , and for building Huts , and making Fences to the Patches which they inclose from the Forest ; by keeping Pigs , Sheep etc. in the Forest all the Year ; and by stealing Timber . |
| 7 | The strings provide us with the most expressive and appealing medium ( with perhaps the exception of the human voice ) that exists in the whole range of music . |
| 8 | If that is the case , then the only feasible way of including such shares is if the holders assent them to the scheme by separate undertakings . |
| 9 | I shall have the prefects chase you down the corridor and out of the front-door with hockey-sticks ! |
| 10 | At least the days of Friday night being the night the neighbours report us to the NSPCC for malicious blinding of offspring with intent are over . |
| 11 | To abuse my hospitality in such a way , take advantage of my trust — never enter this house again , I will have the servants throw you in the street — ’ |
| 12 | Kick him in the bollocks kick him in the head . |
| 13 | The friends accompany me to the jetty . |
| 14 | ‘ The bishops keep it within the circle . |
| 15 | I mean , if the police stop you on the motorway , you know you 're for it , whether you 've done anything or not . |
| 16 | Here the monster is alive and well , but the children identify her as the Medusa of the legend . |
| 17 | The boys spear them on the reef . |
| 18 | The drums lead us through the warren of narrow alleys to a courtyard whose entrance is blocked by a knot of people . |