Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | I mean the main thing is people can borrow on the true price of the house and then they can have an 80 or 90 per cent mortgage and when they come to pay the mortgage they have the £500 subsidy for twelve months or take them into the next twelve months . |
2 | The muscles are strengthened by an increased flow of blood , as are the ligaments that attach them to the bones . |
3 | Polar stocks are generally assumed to have accumulated , and still be accumulating , adaptations that equip them for the polar environment ; endemic polar species , that are found only in polar regions , are assumed to be derived from temperate or subpolar stocks , via intermediate stages that no longer exist . |
4 | They can see and smell lines and shapes that lead them through the darkest night , point out lines of demarcation , isolate territories . |
5 | Pot up a hew clumps and bring them into the kitchen . |
6 | For more than a decade , Lloyd 's has been riven by scandals of various kinds ; professionals employed to assess the riskiness of insured risks and apportion them among the rich risk-takers have been discovered to have salted funds away on their own account . |
7 | ‘ Hang 'em , burn 'em , torture 'em , throw 'em to the wolves , cut off their ears and nail 'em to the notice board , ’ shouted a particularly excited worshipper . |
8 | At the point where in her first aria the prima donna expected from him an angry gesture , he exaggerated his anger so much that he looked as if he was about to box her ears and strike her on the nose with his fist . |
9 | First , take the legs and heave them up and over ; then grab the body by the arms or legs and drag it to the edge … no , that would n't be practicable , that way the killer would be moving backwards and be the first to fall . |
10 | It is quite commonplace for me to thrust my hand past my ferrets , grab a rabbit by its hind legs and pull it past the ferret . |
11 | On the whole socialist feminists were suspicious of allowances on the grounds that they would undermine male wage-bargaining and preferred to argue , like Ada Nield Chew , for services in kind to support mothers in the ‘ drudgery ’ of child care ; Fabian women preferred direct payment to mothers in order to maintain their economic independence from their husbands and free them from the need to take on paid work which would distract them from their primary task of mothering ( Alexander , 1979 ) . |
12 | Must go back to the kids and see them to the bus . |
13 | The law student learns much of his or her law from decided cases , public attention is inevitably focused upon the adversarial contest , civil and criminal procedure is lengthy and complex , books on the English legal system ( including ours ) devote a considerable amount of space to litigation , and procedure tends to individualise grievances and tailor them to the adversarial model . |
14 | But in order to understand the problems faced in accounting theory students must often look to the literature on business organizations and apply it to the public sector context , albeit with great caution and common sense . |
15 | It is also the centre of a men-only pilgrimage in February , when local farmers bring in handfuls of hair cut from the tails of their animals and burn them before the sanctuary as an offering to St Blaise , as the patron saint of stock-breeders . |
16 | The pinder , whose job it was to round up stray animals and keep them in the pinfold , to be released on payment of a fine , was also known as the axeman . |
17 | They are always ready to rescue and support sick or injured animals and help them to the surface to breathe , in the same way that mothers and ‘ aunts ’ will help their young to take their first breath . |
18 | Can you name the animals and match them to the correct countries ? |
19 | If only she could shut these eyes and open them on the past and try again . |
20 | You select which device you want , put it on the end of the drain rods and push them down the drain or the rodding point . |
21 | Send us a cartoon or a caricature on the theme of 20th-century Oxford and we 'll publish the best two entries and display them at the Ashmolean . |
22 | We begin , however , with an examination of a recommendation which , when introduced , will take much of the control of pre-trial procedure out of the hands of the parties and place it under the control of the court . |
23 | For I remember us doing a flipping er a family came to Wyre once and we were on the same old coble we were er doing the flipping and we thought we had nothing to do but take the rope off their heads and push them over the side of the coble onto the side of the small jetty . |
24 | A crowd of eager customers would be awaiting his arrival outside the shops and attack him for the particular colour , size or style of dress they had been waiting for . |
25 | In verse erm thirteen , I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries and bring them into their own land . |
26 | ‘ Well , in that case we can open the presents and put them round the tree . |
27 | She signalled that they should lower their voices and follow her round the building to a new window smashed through the wall of the cottage . |
28 | Still holding her , he locked the door behind them , then released her wrist to take her by the shoulders and pin her against the wall . |
29 | The Gamegear reflects this desire , allowing youngsters to play their favourite games at home but also to take them away from their homes and enjoy them on the move . |
30 | ‘ Following the surrender period there will be a three-month-long spell to detect those carrying knives and put them before the courts , ’ he said . |