Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [adv] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many that was Buncrana or Fahan in County Donegal where they surfed , skiied , took boat trips or just lay in the sun . |
| 2 | This was not uncommon in some mining districts and even existed in the craft trade of hat making , the artisans who took in their wives to pick the coarse hairs from their material saving the 6 to 9s ( 30-45p ) a week which they would otherwise have had to pay from their wage . |
| 3 | ‘ I had ridden Ile de Bourbon for trainer Fulke Johnson Houghton in all of his home gallops and also won on the colt in the King Edward VII stakes at Royal Ascot but when Piggott asked me had the horse made any improvement from then and before the big King George race I had to tell him that I was unaware of it just in case he might want to take over . |
| 4 | They stood on the porch steps and eagerly drank in the invigorating cold air . |
| 5 | He staggered and fell the last few feet and finally collapsed on the mud and grass of the bank . |
| 6 | The USSR won decisively against all their serious rivals , Yugoslavia , the US and England , in the first five rounds and only slackened at the end when the gold medals were assured . |
| 7 | They often attack through the opercular plates but sometimes bore through the , much thicker , wall plates near their base . |
| 8 | They waited several minutes and then went to the back of the building where the family 's living quarters were . |
| 9 | They gathered up their few possessions and almost melted into the wood , close to the river . |
| 10 | I 'd worked at for 18 years and often came to the Terminal to check the weigh-bridge . |
| 11 | For the first time the pupils did not work in six groups but just sat at the tables as they chose . |
| 12 | The area was featureless for precision flying , with large square fields either filled with cattle or recently ploughed after the wheat harvest . |
| 13 | ‘ We touched wheels and nearly went off the road , ’ he grinned . |
| 14 | Two dogs came in to share her solitude , absurd , dignified little Pekinese who regarded her gravely with their blue-brown eyes like marbles and then lay before the fire and ignored her . |
| 15 | An average ant colony might use around 12 different types of signal , most of them conveyed by means of chemical ‘ pheromones ’ secreted on to the ground by various glands and then sniffed in the air by other ants . |
| 16 | The reports , which apparently originated from Western diplomats in North Korea , were widely circulated by Japanese and South Korean news agencies but totally repudiated by the North Korean authorities . |
| 17 | Each classroom is built of sticks and foliage and is either carefully camouflaged under trees or else dug into the sides of rocky hills . |
| 18 | Pascoe 's stomach did a quick flip-over , he beat Dalziel to the door by a full two yards and almost fell into the lounge . |
| 19 | The rest of us watched them disappear among the trees and then continued on the broader path , climbing slowly . |
| 20 | With its varnished mahogany and gleaming brasswork fuselage it managed a few erratic hops but never got off the ground ! |
| 21 | She took part in a number of land occupations and later went to the capital to work for FECCAS there . |
| 22 | He brought with him a bottle of his own herbal remedy for fevers and scarcely looked at the baby before worrying about his fee . |
| 23 | They hovered over the playing fields and even sat on the goal posts . |
| 24 | He looked cautiously out from among the beans and then darted into the hedgerow . |
| 25 | He bought the drinks and then nodded towards the poster . |
| 26 | This work led to our modern knowledge of atomic masses and also led to the discovery of new elements . |
| 27 | Two of these missions were Solar System explorers and therefore came under the scrutiny of ESA 's Solar System Working Group . |
| 28 | After seeing Mr Stephens disappear around the corner , she examined the small room minutely , the books on the shelf — reading out all their titles aloud — the three prints on the wall , " The Education of the Young Raleigh " , " Derwentwater at Dawn " and " The Drunkard 's Children " — drew her boots appreciatively over the mat , picked up the jug of pencils and finally came to the oven which was next to the sink . |
| 29 | The country was conquered by the Afghans but by the middle of the century the Persians had not only thrown out the Afghans but also marched through the Khyber Pass and captured India . |