Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was not so lucky with Benton , who sprang up and crashed into her , his arms locking around her waist , their combined momentum slamming them against the door . |
| 2 | The duo 's set seemed lethargic , a muddy mix robbing them of the textured subtleties that make their records so invigorating . |
| 3 | But all good things must come to an end ; back on the old routine mixing it with the Luftwaffe and all they could muster — and their reaction was tremendous . |
| 4 | I was awakened by a French Commando nudging me in the ribs with the toe of his boot . |
| 5 | But many teachers feel this will be too late to make the public stop comparing them to the O-level system . |
| 6 | On June 1 End Product Duty — the system that assesses the tax on beer as it is about to leave the brewery — replaced the old system assessing it at the beginning of fermentation . |
| 7 | Archie Hamilton , son of the third Baron Hamilton , who served as Parliamentary private secretary to Margaret Thatcher , is another example of the old tradition accommodating itself to the new spirit in the party . |
| 8 | The decline in rough grassland/moor may reflect its ‘ better ’ agricultural management bringing it into the category of permanent grassland instead . |
| 9 | He walked away , his long , easy stride taking him down the rough path to the lakeside . |
| 10 | So the real question facing us at the moment is not whether there should be a relationship , or whether there should be a link but in what way we should modernize it and arrange it today . |
| 11 | She looked up and found Alain 's eyes on her , the dark gaze studying her through the driving mirror . |
| 12 | What Mr Byrne 's unpleasant and excitable letter omitted , and what has been omitted from all subsequent debate , is that Mr Smith is unanswerably the only serious contender offering himself for the leadership . |
| 13 | The clonk may be several things , but is most probably the ball joint on top the rear axle joining it to the rear ‘ A ’ frame . |
| 14 | erm I have two children and I have found that it was quite a full-time job persuading them of the virtue of certain old-fashioned ways of going about things . |
| 15 | Of the Enlightenment as Kant or Voltaire saw it ( see pp. 411ff below ) , as the human mind liberating itself from the self-imposed tutelage of centuries , a new birth of intellectual adventure , they had no inkling . |
| 16 | Right at the very beginning , in the prayer which arises from the memory of Christ 's anguish in the garden of Gethsemane when the narrator remembers " swattest blod for angwysche " , the shorter version identifies this sweat with that which marks the healing and turning point of human fever conflating it with the sweat of human anguish struggling against evil . |
| 17 | Not only does the text tend to be repetitious but each item of gear if prefaced by an otherwise blank page informing us of the Key Point to be gleaned in that section , pearls of wisdom such as : ‘ A file is useful for sharpening the edges of your … hooks . |
| 18 | On the west side , Ingleborough is a shadowy giant revealing none of the many wonders that attract its legions of pilgrims ; and to the east , green slopes rise with little incident to dark moors forming a distant skyline . |
| 19 | If I was n't being held up by the man 's gripping hand hauling me through the ferns I feel like I 'd fall down . |
| 20 | I saw her and I , I be honest with you I hid , I be totally honest and I 'll tell her the same if I see her because I 've just found out then that they could n't do any more for me dad and I really did n't want to speak or see anybody and I sat in the canteen on my own , I just said to me mum , mum on the phone I said mum I need to do this on my own I said I 'm just gon na have a coffee in the cafeteria and I do n't know if you 've been in there but the cafeteria is all glass and she pulled up in a white van delivering something to the office , I thought oh no it 's Jenny she 's the last bleeding person I want there , I do n't mean that |
| 21 | Their recruitment policy has worked very well for them and they are by far the largest outside America , although they are still having great difficulty establishing themselves in the USA . |
| 22 | What if she does n't want to be swollen to the size of an elephant with a bleeding parasite kicking her in the guts day and night ? |
| 23 | Maltote slumped down on the stool , his long sword catching him between the legs and nearly tipping him over on his face . |
| 24 | They rose to go , Giles Hawick with the politician 's automatic competence escorting them to the lift and warmly asking Catherine Crane where she had trained and how she liked her job . |
| 25 | Watching a small , speckled lizard sunning himself on the trunk of one of the trees , Luce made an attempt to push her uneasy fancies aside and fulfil her half of the bargain . |
| 26 | It was time to ring Holly Chase at the office with a brief story about the faintly ducal connection roughing it on the beach . |
| 27 | Psychobiology , the study of the biological bases of behaviour , is a broad area covering everything from the evolution of mating systems in the toad to the functions of subregions of the human cerebral cortex . |
| 28 | Whatever the merits of the arguments against Mr Soley 's proposal for a Select Committee in place of the Commissioner , they are much less convincing when applied to the more modest proposal put forward at the time by the SDP that there could be a Select Committee confining itself to the Commissioner 's report ‘ so that in turn it would report and give some reality to parliamentary accountability ’ . |
| 29 | A further door led off to the right , with a tiled passage taking her to the bathroom , and another large square room at the end , which was probably the dining-room . |
| 30 | ‘ And so , my children , ’ she said , dominating the staff room as inevitably she dominated whenever she chose , ‘ so we all troop along an hour early , as commanded by the Great God Crumwallis , to usher the parents from their Daimlers and along to the glittering scene awaiting them in the Crumwallis quarters . |