Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The local people caught them in vast numbers for food , eating them fresh or drying them in the sun , and until recently they made up 80 per cent or more of the total catch . |
| 2 | The Rangers will help the area and visitors by advising , guiding and informing them about the Hills and the many interests to be seen and enjoyed . |
| 3 | Understandably , perhaps , there is a strong temptation to try to avoid these difficulties by taking qualities as basic and confining oneself to the idea of a plurality of qualities , with particulars being interpreted as bundles of qualities . |
| 4 | The Eskimos of Alaska were collecting amber and trading it at the late summer fair held at Kotzebue on the north-west coast down to recent times . |
| 5 | Yet , there also appear dangers in resting content with proposing apparent similarities between past and present and leaving them on the table , as it were . |
| 6 | The men deny taking nude pictures of the girls while they themselves were naked and showing them to the children 's mother . |
| 7 | Largely instrumental , it 's like warm soapy water , soothing and enveloping you in the last bath of the day . |