Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pron] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The blue eyes studied her lazily in the mirror , and she had the strangest sensation he was toying with her as a cat would a mouse before a kill . |
| 2 | Ladies , two , with ample flesh flapping from the bones of their legs spread themselves thickly on the tube train seat and gather in their posh polythene well-advertised shopping receptacles like a doting mother with five children . |
| 3 | He is conscious of Marjorie 's watery blue eyes scanning him speculatively over the rim of her teacup , inviting further discussion of Sandra , but he ca n't face it , not this morning , not with a day 's work ahead of him . |
| 4 | Guido took a mouthful of his whisky , his eyes scanning her amusedly over the top of his glass . |
| 5 | He says the countryside brings in tourists and the attractions teach them more about the countryside . |
| 6 | In the 1760s Catherine II of Russia had in self-defence to issue decrees ordering her subjects to petition her only through the appropriate officials and not by the direct personal presentation to her of their grievances and requests . |
| 7 | Mickey Morris ' continued involvement in spite of his parents ' derision , Carlos Francis ' determination to defy his parents ' ridicule of football as a career , former British and European middleweight boxing champion Bunny Sterling 's refusal ‘ to let on to ’ his parents about his boxing : these are typical examples of black kids cutting themselves away from the strings of their parents and locating the vital , influential figures in their lives elsewhere . |
| 8 | Antoinette 's high heels tapped her away over the wooden floor of the landing , towards the front stairs . |
| 9 | The boys ' father Ben said : ‘ The lads took me straight to the baby and it was freezing . |
| 10 | Security considerations kept him away from the frontline base of Vitez , but soldiers from the mountain stronghold travelled 30 miles through bandit country to see him . |
| 11 | The Haldane partisan , Morris , moreover , said openly that he defied Captain Cunningham and all his friends and supporters to remove him again from the town . |
| 12 | As a cross-bencher in the House of Lords he had steered clear of party politics , but his writing and speeches put him firmly on the side of the underdog . |
| 13 | The voting continued throughout Monday night , eight candidates putting themselves forward for the honour . |
| 14 | ‘ No reason , ’ he said easily as he sipped his tea , his eyes watching her steadily over the rim of the mug . |
| 15 | The explanation that is usually given as to why we do n't see broken cups gathering themselves together off the floor and jumping back onto the table is that it is forbidden by the second law of thermodynamics . |
| 16 | Would they see broken cups gathering themselves together off the floor and jumping back onto the table ? |
| 17 | Alexander had smiled and risen to his feet to kiss her lightly on the cheek . |
| 18 | I was a boy of about thirteen snows when my parents sent me away into the hills … to find my Wyakin . |
| 19 | This prevented the girl 's parents taking her away from the home of her 18-year-old boyfriend . |
| 20 | BR staff and preservationists pulled out all the stops to have everything right on the day even though they were hampered by high winds and heavy rain . |
| 21 | It 's 412 grams pit it closer to the specialist motion control trainers of the market than the general all-round shoe it is designed to be . |
| 22 | Ox-eye or moon daisies establish themselves quickly in the wildflower meadow |
| 23 | He also gives sanctuary to Tom Gradgrind , and arranges for Childers to see him safely aboard the ship that is to take him to foreign parts . |
| 24 | ‘ You 'll need some externals to tap you properly into the Dream . |
| 25 | König had from student days interested himself deeply in the life and works of Rudolf Steiner ( 1861–1925 ) , the Austrian philosopher and founder of anthroposophy . |
| 26 | In the decade since Mr McGuinness professed to have turned his back on the IRA and to have become a Sinn Fein politician , more than 40 witnesses and statements placed him firmly at the scene of violent incidents — and at the heart of the IRA 's decision-making process . |
| 27 | The technique of rotational coherence spectroscopy illustrates particularly well the advantages of working in the time , rather than the frequency , domain — even if some of its most useful applications move us away from the femtosecond world . |
| 28 | Wolski survived because his brother Avram put a hand to his back and despite his father 's protests pushed him forward from the line when the Germans said they wanted shoemakers and tailors . |
| 29 | It was true that the chains ' capacity for negotiating good deals made it hard for the family-run business to keep going , and they had many letters offering businesses for sale , and the price of shops was coming down all the time . |
| 30 | The proposal on the Fifth Directive concerning the structure of public limited companies is based on Article 54 ( right for natural and legal persons to establish themselves freely in the Community ) . |