Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [verb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was illogical to accept that an accord and satisfaction fell within s 286(5) but fell outside s 287(1) , which referred to where a company releases or writes off the whole or part of the debt . |
| 2 | After sewing the neck shape I either overlock the shoulders or pick up the stitches on a darning needle using the same colour yarn . |
| 3 | A quiet little fishing village on the northern-most tip of the island , where you can sample the day' catch in traditional-style restaurants or browse around the shops and bars . |
| 4 | Some may even be clinging to the arching aerial roots of the mangroves or clambering up the trunks . |
| 5 | Fine to medium paintbrushes are useful for moving flowers and leaves around , and for brushing hairs and fluff off the design once you have finished it . |
| 6 | All around him , squatting on the ground , were his followers ; and beyond them , around the outskirts and blocking up the mouths of the little streets which gave on to the square , was a wider , more disinterested audience . |
| 7 | Use of PLATO has the disadvantage that special PLATO terminals have to be used for the instruction ; this means that users can not be taught in their own congressional offices and carry out the training as and when required . |
| 8 | A mob attacked Kano government offices and burnt down the state radio station . |
| 9 | Sometimes a single boulder bounds and clatters down the scree pile , echoing loudly , sometimes a larger mass breaks away , sometimes the scree itself shifts and readjusts itself in a prolonged rattling clatter — a noise rather like the sea swashing back over pebbles . |
| 10 | Away from her mother and father and sister and grandmother was bad enough , but the worst thing for Belle was opening her eyes and seeing only the walls around her . |
| 11 | Claudia opened her eyes and blinked away the tears . |
| 12 | Griselda opened her eyes and licked up the tear . |
| 13 | We should have knocked in a couple of goals and killed off the game . ’ |
| 14 | As a politician and a realist , Citrine recognised that his plans needed the support of his new colleagues , and consequently that he would have to make tactical concessions and choose carefully the issues on which to fight . |
| 15 | In many of the prisons , CAB sessions are geared to deal with prisoners ' pre-release anxieties and to explain how the CAB on the outside will be able to help them when they are released . |
| 16 | Alphonse Blaguet , a mediator appointed by President André Kolingba , was charged with setting up a preparatory committee , consulting with political parties and drawing up the agenda . |
| 17 | When approached by a possible killer they hide their real heads and raise up the tips of their tails . |
| 18 | ‘ There they were , all three of them , scratching their heads and wondering where the body was — ’ |
| 19 | When , in 1124 , the Emperor Henry V planned an invasion , Louis summoned his nobles to Rheims to debate tactics and draw up the battle-lines . |
| 20 | According to a Dataquest Japan survey , Apple Computer Inc was the only personal computer maker in Japan to increase its shipments in 1992 — increasing by 45.8% to 185,000 units and jumping up the market share league table to third place from sixth last year , taking 8.3% of the market , writes Anita Byrnes . |
| 21 | ‘ Now work out the profit I made on each of the five cars and add up the total . |
| 22 | When the thumping and cheering had died away Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke rose to her feet fingering her pearls and smoothing down the flounces of her garden party frock . |
| 23 | It 's nearly time to give up the tights and get out the sandals . |
| 24 | She cut short the stumbling thanks and put down the phone . |
| 25 | Cockroaches crawl inside machinery such as tape recorders and computers and gum up the works . |
| 26 | Members are invited to log on to their computers and call up the Heisei menu . |
| 27 | It is hoped to attract 500 people to each of the two performances and to follow up the event with an ‘ Open Day ’ to be held the next week at which the public will be encouraged to try Medau for themselves . |
| 28 | She closed her eyes to the image , waiting to hear only the words and shut out the pain . |
| 29 | They unfolded the stiff green branches and set up the metal stand . |
| 30 | It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness . |