Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pron] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Besides building an 18-hole golf course , and charging trainers to exercise their horses on the track , he is instigating another new concept in this country by constructing American-style barns so that training can be done at the track as it is in the United States . |
| 32 | Some contained far too much textual information ; some were read out ( there 's no need for this — the audience can read too ) ; and some speakers turned their backs on the audience to read from the screen . |
| 33 | Bollards are to be put up outside Bells stores in Corporation Road , to prevent shoppers parking their cars on the pavement , and near Greenbank Post Office . |
| 34 | Thereafter the appellants never took steps to discharge their obligations under the agreement which was the subject of the Tomlin order , either in relation to the matters to which I have referred or indeed in relation to any other of the terms . |
| 35 | Within two weeks we were encouraging our readers to lobby their MPs concerning the restrictive Night Assemblies Bill , Robert Tripp was regaling us with tales of groupies and interviews had taken on a new air of contention , seriousness and madness . |
| 36 | The scenery all around is magnificent and the town itself with its traffic free high street now has lots of well established shops displaying their wares in the attractive style . |
| 37 | Nor have we been able to reassemble our group of school informants to renegotiate their accounts in the light of other things we know about schoolrooms in particular and young people in general . |
| 38 | The firm traded there for many years and a number of well-known craftsmen served their apprenticeships at the works . |
| 39 | Great domes compose their masses on the air . |
| 40 | A favoured means of hosting a concert was the ‘ kvartir-nik ’ ( flat-nik ) : loyal fans surrendering their flats for the purposes of performance . |
| 41 | Jim saw an open petrol station and cut in front of a two-kilometre queue of Romanian cars to flash his coupons at the attendant . |
| 42 | Analysts , particularly in the advertising world , ceaselessly try to unravel it , to help clients sell their products in the best markets . |
| 43 | Hundreds of eyes gazed dismally out of windows at the rivers gurgling along the gutters , scores of small noses flattened their ends against the dry sides of windowpanes down the other surface of which streamed rivulets of water . |
| 44 | ‘ We can make some reasonable seats with dead twigs to keep our bottoms off the damp ground , if you like . |
| 45 | With every day that passed he became ever more despairing and hopeless as messengers brought him reports of the army 's casualties . |
| 46 | Mr Grierson explained : ‘ You get the real fans stopping their cars at the top of the hill and then playing Dire Strait 's Going Home — the theme from the film — as they drive down the brae . |
| 47 | Their husbands brought their cars to the rally which is being held at the former car-plant at Dunmurry this weekend . |
| 48 | She would watch the harvesters swinging their scythes through the open corn and , towards the close of day , she would appear in the path of the lad who looked strongest and most virile . |
| 49 | Campaigning for carriage of cycles on public transport ( we do n't like people having to use cars to get their bikes into the countryside ! ) ; |
| 50 | Our five chosen readers share their tips from the top . |
| 51 | While many public sector organizations divide their budgets into the activity centres that they operate , they do not undertake programme budgeting . |
| 52 | By its very nature , therefore , things tend to go wrong ; from the original modifier with all the ideas leaving the company , to the clients changing their minds about the facilities required . |
| 53 | Journalists risk their lives for the truth in Yugoslav conflict |
| 54 | All over Britain it was the same story — with shops re-stocking their shelves as the rush to read our stunning scoop continued . |
| 55 | And then we went to a few Western shops to get our costumes for the Urban Cowboy premier . |
| 56 | The durability of the peace will soon be tested as the political parties choose their candidates for the general election due in March 1994 . |
| 57 | All down the line drivers had their hands on the horn button . |
| 58 | This saved Hoc from the beating that would inevitably have followed discovery of his shortcomings when the scowling overseers dipped their yardsticks into the cans at the collecting station . |
| 59 | The aim is to identify companies which can show that they are taking positive steps to improve their ways towards the environment , as well as to raise the level of debate about green issues . |
| 60 | Piers abandoned his efforts with the meal and looked at her with raised eyebrows . |