Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she comes to Henry VIII in her History of England , she observes that ‘ nothing can be said in his vindication , but that his abolishing Religious Houses & leaving them to the ruinous depredations of time has been of infinite use to the landscape of England in general ’ . |
| 2 | He was running on three legs and holding me in the fourth . |
| 3 | Had the Presbytery been selecting candidates and foisting them on the DUP , Smyth 's view would be more plausible . |
| 4 | Nona stared at the grey river where the wind was picking up little waves and throwing them against the walls of the river walk . |
| 5 | We prop the grating open with another branch and spend the next half-hour pulling fallen branches and logs from all over that part of the hill , dragging them into the clump of bushes and throwing them into the shaft ; we snap dead branches off trees and bushes and haul and peel living ones off ; we scrape together armfuls of dry leaf litter and throw those over the edge of the chimney , too ; everything goes under the grating and down into the shaft . |
| 6 | They started doing ‘ breakdown ’ [ lifting the boys above their heads and dropping them on the ground ] . |
| 7 | He was an inflexible , even fanatical supporter of the ultramontane line taken by Wiseman and Manning and often machinated against the other English bishops , exacerbating disputes and misrepresenting them to the pope . |
| 8 | As we go to press , however , LEAs are still drawing up their formulae and submitting them to the DES for approval . |
| 9 | The researchers found that a change of curriculum from traditional academic subjects to topics of local relevance forced a change of roles for teachers and pupils ( the latter becoming knowledge-holders ) and a change of methods and time-tabling which in the end proved non-acceptable , least of all to parents who favoured the traditional approach as a gateway to success , and resisted innovation ( 17 ) . |
| 10 | He moved with incredible speed , seizing her by the shoulders and propelling her towards the closed door , a hard violence etching the bones of his face into a mask that would have just done justice to a Viking warrior at his most rapacious . |
| 11 | Impatiently he finished the task , ripping the material from his shoulders and tossing it to the floor . |
| 12 | Absolutely , ’ he said , hooking an arm around the man 's shoulders and leading him from the porch . |
| 13 | Then he was smiling and laying a soft kiss against her lips before slipping one strong arm around her shoulders and leading her across the beach back to the house . |
| 14 | This would involve a small bus ferrying disabled shoppers from their homes and taking them into the heart of the town before returning them direct to their front door . |
| 15 | A single simulation is made by generating random numbers from these probability distributions and adding them to the observed geographic coordinates ( defining point , line or area features ) with these random values . |
| 16 | Some of them aid the deception by raising their tails and wagging them at the approaching attacker , while keeping the rest of the body still . |
| 17 | It may help to twist drain rods when pushing them down the drain . |
| 18 | Each combatant aims to floor his opponent , by knocking him off his feet or biting him behind the elbow . |
| 19 | Harvey was there in a red-coat uniform , smiling and doing his neat little dances and pretending to drop plates and saving them at the last minute , and the girls were saying ‘ Ooo ’ and slyly studying each other 's hairdos and shoes . |
| 20 | When I arrived on tie scene there appeared to be hundreds of people there , but a civilian — the works and bricks engineer seemed — to be the boss , and even the station commander was happily taking orders from him about filling sandbags and placing them on the Bund to strengthen it against the rising tide . |
| 21 | Instinctively he waved it from his face before getting to his feet and brushing it from the lapels of his overcoat . |
| 22 | Suddenly the man bent and grabbed the leather thong , swinging the hound off its feet and hurling it against the tree . |
| 23 | The Black Amulet is good for reducing your own wounds and shifting them onto the enemy , pushing up your all important combat result . |
| 24 | ‘ I have n't the faintest , ’ said Shirley , taking off her outdoor shoes and putting them on the rack , putting on her indoor slippers , and guiltily , belatedly , bending down to wipe the shoe marks off the linoleum with spit and hanky . |
| 25 | But getting a job after years spent bringing up a family is n't necessarily an end in itself For many women , it 's all part of changing their lives and pointing them in the direction they want to go in-of being in charge of their own destiny . |
| 26 | Where this is the case , some teachers experiment with ways of collecting examples of lectures and using them as the basis for the language lesson . |
| 27 | In Chicago on June 17 she attacked those attempting " to create a new artificial state by taking powers away from national states and concentrating them at the centre " . |
| 28 | Whenever you go to a new site , start your search by burying a couple of coins and reminding yourself of the different note each one makes in your headphones . |
| 29 | ( g ) one disadvantage with convertible loan stock is that there can be a tendency for stockholders to convert when profits and share prices are rising ( thus diluting the equity profit of existing ordinary shareholders and depriving them of the advantage of the cheaper gearing which such stock provides ) and to retain the stock when profits and share prices are falling , thus maintaining the debt burden of the company at a time when it may be least able to service it ; and |
| 30 | Within south Korea policy should be aimed at consolidating democratic groups and drawing them into the military administration . |