Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb past] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wide , dry eyes followed them from the kitchen as they took their leave . |
| 2 | A white dog with torn ears followed him into the room . |
| 3 | One of the undulating shapes detached itself from the wall and advanced towards the shining executioner as though blind to its danger . |
| 4 | In any event , a few particularly strident voices denounced me over the agreement . |
| 5 | Our nervous Iraqi guards kept us inside the small bungalow that was ‘ home ’ for the 12 of us . |
| 6 | Mangen and Castel relate an appalling tale of how the circumstances in which the French asylums found themselves in the Second World War prompted experiment with alternatives . |
| 7 | The trials of his childhood and teenage years turned him into the perfect Prince , but they did not alter his fundamental nature . |
| 8 | Further attempts at fostering were not tried , and the residential workers saw themselves as the main people in Michael 's life . |
| 9 | I joined the others with great anticipation , of , possibly , hot coffee , French bread , maybe fried eggs awaited us in the barn . |
| 10 | She began walking towards the depression , as four suited figures followed her from the ship , still arguing about the paperwork . |
| 11 | Some hours later , I do n't know how many , two abysmal and free-hanging abseils deposited us below the fangs of the bergschrund . |
| 12 | The Scottish Jacobites withdrew themselves from the Scottish Convention which met on 14 March 1689 , and as a result the settlement north of the border was worked out predominantly by Whigs . |
| 13 | Here these Cornish sappers dedicated themselves to the work they knew best , digging defensive trenches and building parapets as well as blowing up houses blocking the range of the gunnery . |
| 14 | One can easily understand the ferocity with which the more creative British filmmakers positioned themselves against the new development . |
| 15 | In my teens , similar doubts lured me into the darker recesses of the family 's medical encyclopedia , there to discover I was Britain 's first recorded case of Futtock 's Syndrome . |
| 16 | We had climbed together a couple of weeks before at Goat Crag , where I was once again reminded how suited Fanshawe is to upward progress ; a powerful frame and seemingly hydraulic legs brought him to the crag aeons before I arrived . |
| 17 | Nietzsche was not present , but whereas the premiere of Tristan in 1865 had not prompted any discernible reaction in him , on this occasion he took a much livelier interest and during the following months familiarized himself with the work through the score . |
| 18 | Now , returning across the Hungerford Bridge , those same thoughts came to haunt him a little as the overhead lights stained everything to the colour of dull old parchment . |
| 19 | And it was n't until the end of the Second World War that the tiny trees made it to the west . |
| 20 | A few easy moves brought him to the sanctuary of the belay ledge . |
| 21 | Warwickshire unsurprisingly lost to Notts in their first four-day game but Smith 's five first-innings wickets kept them in the game until the final day . |
| 22 | The school seemed cold and it was certainly dark for the main windows faced north and tall buildings surrounded it on the other three sides . |
| 23 | The fact is that men and women of that day inhabited separate worlds ; their social rounds and domestic activities kept them in the society of their own sex much of the time . |
| 24 | Two quick steps took her to the vacated table where she seized the bottle of aquavit , neatly topping up both glasses . |
| 25 | Young 's lifetime passion for the large molluscs led him from the squid to the octopus . |
| 26 | Two vaguely serpentine exters detached themselves from the group . |
| 27 | Towering mossy oaks led her to the edge of the wood , and soon she could smell the smoke of a fire , and sense the open field ahead . |
| 28 | Elaine scrambled to recover her bikini and fell over , laughing as the relentless waves pulled her under the water , time and time again . |
| 29 | I spent most of my childhood holidays chasing our tent along the tops of cliffs in the middle of the night as gale-force winds carried it towards the sea . |
| 30 | Three powerful strokes brought her to the rail where she went straight into an underwater turn and headed down the pool . |