Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every sunset the apes would return from their day 's foraging to sleep in the branches of this giant tree , and we were driven to distraction by our repeated attempts to film them properly in the few seconds after they arrived and before the sun set . |
| 2 | He urged them on through the mounting waves until they too reached the Rebecca , and he was able to ram one hole , fill it with pitch , then another , and another , round the hull beneath the overhang of the bows , in a rain of missiles , with fire sizzling around him , and his fellow fighters hanging on , hoping for the moment when the timbers would be ablaze . |
| 3 | It has become a specialist in adding value to chemicals and selling them on to the major companies . |
| 4 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
| 5 | Impels me onward through the glowing orbs |
| 6 | And he 's he 's turned over this and just gon na slap one on me and I 've turned my head and gone like that and he 's fucking caught me right on the fucking lips ! |
| 7 | He pulled rank and went to bed at half past eleven , leaving me on for the late-night drinks . |
| 8 | This is almost certainly because the decision to send them in during the later stages of the accident was political ( western-made robots might have been used instead , had the new Soviet leader , one Mikhail Gorbachev , been willing to let the West learn the extent of the disaster ) . |
| 9 | But if I can move on just for a second , erm when you get over and above that , we have problems where people that are purchasing those sort of vehicles can not afford , with the best will in the world , to take them in to the main agents and have a full service , although they should do , but if you ca n't afford to do that and these are the problems that we had , so we actually changed that . |
| 10 | It 's very good good erm good thing for the party and they 're usually quite starved of practical campaigning ideas and so we regularly try every at least every year to go and do a tour and erm we 've been giving them we we 're trying to rope them in on the various activities because they 're crying out for |
| 11 | Er , you would n't call them in for the petty things . |
| 12 | Would you like to see them in against the outside candidates if we look at this |
| 13 | Coming from eighty throats , it swept with them down from the wooded foothills and made them sound like a flock of scavenging birds disturbed from their carcass . |
| 14 | A double bed with two entirely different types of springing to suit the needs of each partner exactly ; to ease them gently into the right positions to keep the spine relaxed and flexible ; to help lift the pressure off bones , muscles , tendons , nerve endings and joints . |
| 15 | 10.3 The Academic Parties shall , notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement , have a licence to use for the purpose of further internal research and teaching work all the foreground technical information that they themselves have generated together with such of the background and results as is communicated to them hereunder by the other Parties and is necessary for such use of their own result , but such use shall be in conformity with the confidentiality conditions of this Agreement . |
| 16 | They vied with each other to fill me in on the gruesome details . |
| 17 | Iain filled me in on the essential details while I was devouring that gargantuan breakfast . |
| 18 | I wanted her to fill me in on the blank spots , and I wanted to hear it from her , not anybody else . |
| 19 | Art is not , as the metaphysicians say , the manifestation of some Idea of beauty or God ; it is not , as the aesthetic physiologists say , a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy ; it is not the expression of man 's emotions by external signs ; it is not the production of pleasing objects ; and , above all , it is not pleasure but it is a means of union among men joining them together in the same feelings , and indispensable for the life and progress towards wellbeing of individuals and humanity . |
| 20 | My priestly friend set me down outside the two cathedrals and I bade him a fond farewell . |
| 21 | The crane then lowered me down towards the two men underneath me who shouted for me to put my arms out so that they could grab me . |
| 22 | The elephants were n't swimming in the pond , they were floating on their backs , and one of them was balancing me gently on the flat tops of its upturned feet . |
| 23 | Yes , my husband wanted them exactly as the old ones . |
| 24 | The Linnets are desperate for a win which would drag them away from the lower reaches of the table , and Kettering 's record of only two points from their opening eight away games suggests a home win . |
| 25 | They leave their civilian jobs , and instead of heading for home and a quiet night in front of the television , report in to their company bases , change into military uniform and are briefed for the night 's patrol tasks , which will take them through until the early hours of the morning , When they again become civilians . |
| 26 | I do n't like any of the transistor stuff and some of the modifications did n't work , but nowadays they 're making them just like the old ones and they 're brilliant . ’ |
| 27 | They do it in and up the road in Peterborough they 've got about thirty eight community centre and the labour run council there is handing every one , every one of them over to the local communities . |
| 28 | Sara and Matthew ate theirs companionably with the two teachers and the bus drivers sitting outside in the sunshine , sharing Lizzie 's meat pies and coffee and chocolate cakes . |
| 29 | The last two goals are the most important , and we shall consider them further in the following sections . |
| 30 | So you can carve up the remains and sell them off to the highest bidders ? ’ |