Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Did n't you ever think it might be a shabby move lifting it off the album — a lot of people have mentioned this to me . |
| 32 | Meanwhile , Rudge dismissed recent speculation linking him with the managerial vacancy at Bristol Rovers by insisting : ‘ It 's all paper talk . ’ |
| 33 | His eyes scanned her bare fingers and returned to her face , their icy glitter freezing her to the floor . |
| 34 | An alternative might be the new technology bringing us to the leisure society with machines doing all the productive work and people freed to follow their own leisure pursuits . |
| 35 | Now suppose that the electron 's mass is increased 207 times ( so that it is like a muon ) while it remains subject to the same attractive force holding it around the proton . |
| 36 | Then , there was a mile of deep treacherous water separating him from the Forest of Dean . |
| 37 | In contemporary Britain it seems almost impossible to go a single day without hearing , from some quarter or another , a senior policeman hectoring us on the deteriorated condition of public morals , while assuming the right to deliver homespun history lessons in which the past is lovingly remembered as a time of harmony . |
| 38 | But , standing in her bathroom , with her looking at him with those lovely blue eyes , her whole soul looking him in the face , her integrity undeniable , he knew the truth . |
| 39 | The first I knew about it was a massive gaoler dragging me from the Common side up to the turnkey 's lodge . |