Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb past] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two months later found him near the edge of the track at Cadwell Park , in Lincolnshire , as racing cars flashed past at over 100mph . |
| 2 | Thin and tiny in stature , her back was as straight as an arrow , but her legs often pained her in the cooler winter and spring weather . |
| 3 | It was also important to think what she should wear , for if any of the Governors who had interviewed her only three months ago saw her at the service they would know why she was there . |
| 4 | People who wanted to get rid of old cars sometimes dumped them on the moor , the kind of behaviour that maddened Stephen . |
| 5 | ‘ Your eyes never left me in the hall . |
| 6 | Chantries were not limited to the laity ; some of the more senior clergy certainly availed themselves of the system and numerous chantry chapels survive in most of the monastic-foundation cathedrals to abbots and priors . |
| 7 | After the war , American occupation authorities disbanded the zaibatsu , but many of these companies later regrouped themselves after the Americans left and restrictions on cross-holdings and other ties were relaxed . |
| 8 | The social workers even followed him into the bathroom . |
| 9 | At the end of one evening Francesco Panetta lost an ill-organised 10,000 metres and thousands of Italians mentally threw themselves into the Tiber . |
| 10 | It was perfectly quiet ( no sounds ever reached him from the rest of the Tolbooth ; it was hard to believe that it existed , the street below was more real ) . |
| 11 | The feeling bound her to the household , just as her own actions now bound her to the nigger , and the two things were tied together yet so opposite they were pulling her apart . |
| 12 | My searches even led me to the absurdity of being directed to the deep freeze in one newsagent when I asked for Spare Rib . |
| 13 | Some of the paintings almost reminded her of the Hudson Valley , but she had n't seen the Hudson River in nearly a year . |
| 14 | And it seemed Fergie 's ten man heroes had squeezed out a momentous victory until the soccer fates suddenly stabbed them in the back in the pouring rain of Moscow . |
| 15 | The two girls instantly shot her into the oven and shut the door ; took their knitting , their comb and brush , and ran out of the hut . |
| 16 | One of the puppies suddenly flung itself through the air and banged its wet nose against my right eye in its flight to a tray of vol-au-vent . |
| 17 | Each had something to fear from Men , though Men now protected them in the Cages . |
| 18 | Meeting within the framework of the UN 's Economic Commission for Europe in Prague , Czechoslovakia , ministers also committed themselves to the creation of a pan-European system to disseminate information on environmental issues and the prompt creation of a European environmental agency . |
| 19 | When she opened the boot of her car to dump her shopping inside , one of the thieves suddenly grabbed her round the neck from behind . |
| 20 | Into the nineteenth century , as I have mentioned , I middle-class houses were regarded as a scaling down of the houses of the great , while a majority of novels still referred themselves to the dominant mansion at their centre . |
| 21 | I would n't say they were lucky against Oldham , but everything ran for them today , the underside of the crossbar and the post saved Charlton on a couple of occasions and as Simpson said I think ‘ Bolder on a couple of occasions really knew nothing about the saves he 'd made , they were point blank , and he just happened to be there . ’ |
| 22 | Their backs even made it into The Times when the newspaper published names of the finishers . |
| 23 | This may seem the predictable conclusion to a scenario involving , as unions and Opposition politicians indeed presented it at the start , the injection of a ‘ private sector hatchet man ’ at the top of a highly sensitive public sector organisation . |