Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I eventually found my parents in the sponsor 's tent in a huddle with Jack and his delightful wife , Jenny . |
| 2 | The Home Secretary deftly referred their claims to the expert , and non-political , Advisory Council on the Treatment of Offenders . |
| 3 | With his accountant 's help he eventually moved his accounts to the Midland , which gave him the overdraft on reasonable terms , but he is critical of the way banks look at small businesses , believing that many only look at the business sector rather than at the person running a particular business . |
| 4 | The return to rock means the supercession of demystification by re-mystification , giving people back their sense of worship , rather than forcibly opening their eyes to the nuts and bolts of how ‘ myth ’ is constructed . |
| 5 | The round-headed boy who had been polishing the Daimler 's windows ambled up and competently placed his hands on the rein either side of the black mare 's mouth . |
| 6 | Preventing dental and gum disease will not only make your visits to the dentist more pleasant , but will mean that your mouth feels fresher and you can have a bright smile . |
| 7 | His geopolitical ( some would say his neo-imperialist ) strategy similarly demanded the continuance of a strong British Commonwealth , especially given his doubts concerning the future of democracy as relatively backward peoples gained their independence . |
| 8 | Indeed , the very property of being conscious might undo the force of these arrangements since it is the characteristic of conscious thought to change , work-over and constantly review its operations against the datum of the senses and the inner needs of the organism . |
| 9 | When the various occult organisations get wind of the non-existent secret 's existence , of course , they take it in deadly earnest and will stop at nothing to discover it and so make themselves Masters of the World . |
| 10 | gingerly crosses his legs in the beam — a double-cross performed on screen . |
| 11 | And that is excellent news for Reds manager Frankie Parks who is increasingly worried he wo n't have men fit enough to write their names on the team sheet . |
| 12 | Even the Nato arms controllers meeting in Vienna , whose job it is to negotiate East-West reductions in conventional armed forces , can only pursue their objectives on the basis of confrontation between their alliance and the Warsaw Pact . |
| 13 | Organisations can only achieve their goals by the coordinated efforts of their members . |
| 14 | I mean York City Council will obviously er Mr Curtis will obviously give his views on the situation , erm the particular issue that seems to have changed the mind of York City Council is the reference in P P G thirteen , transport to sizes of new settlement not being erm er desirable in in in transport terms , small scale resettlements . |
| 15 | To Sara , more hard-pressed than ever at Lime Street , the intellectual and emotional sympathy binding Coleridge and Dorothy must have been both apparent and distressing , even if Dorothy , in De Quincey 's words , was a woman possessing ‘ no personal charms ’ : on only the second day of the visit Coleridge and Dorothy were occupied together correcting his poems for the new edition while Sara was left to carry the domestic burdens of the teeming cottage . |
| 16 | All Mr Clinton 's talents will be required not merely to stroke his allies in the Capitol 's anterooms , but to keep the country focused on what he is aiming at . |
| 17 | Customs and beliefs deriving from a pagan past may have been frowned upon , but they did not necessarily exclude their adherents from the community of Christians . |
| 18 | The cod , he reported , were so thick in the water that his sailors had only to lower their baskets over the side to fill them with fish . |
| 19 | Sixteen thousand people watched an astonishing scene as Johnson was knocked to the canvas in the twenty-sixth round and made no attempt to regain his feet , merely shielding his eyes from the sun . |
| 20 | Variety wrote , ‘ Though an actor since age 13 , Crawford had never before danced and he is surprisingly successful at it , in some measure due to Gene Kelly having personally helped him weekends during the shooting . ’ |
| 21 | So what the philosopher has to do is to look at these , all these various factors and begin to try and make people conscious of the inadequacies of the way in which they live , and of the new possibilities which are open to them , if they will only project their minds outside the established bounds . |
| 22 | Though I had the distinct impression that Edward would have preferred me to leave too , he said nothing , merely drummed his fingers on the desk top , then snapped , ‘ Well ? ’ into the receiver . |
| 23 | Van Rensburg perhaps fancies his chances in the red and white . |
| 24 | Mackay died , personally leading his troops into the thickest of the fight at the Battle of Steenkirk in July 1692 . |
| 25 | When the sail is out of the water the uphaul has served its purpose , so transfer your hands to the comfort of the solid mast . |
| 26 | Ivan the Terrible had not only decimated their ranks during the oprichnina but had eroded the distinction between their hereditary property ( votchina ) and the conditional terms of the pomestie by establishing a norm of military service to be borne by all estates . |
| 27 | Placing his hand on the top of Joe 's thigh , he gently brushed his knuckles against the man 's groin . |
| 28 | Pembroke , who finished lame when last in the 2,000 Guineas , should better advertise his abilities in the Jersey Stakes . |
| 29 | The drawback is that if your debt is under £3000 you can only recover your costs on the County Court scale and the difference in scale can make it an expensive exercise . |
| 30 | Those bold enough to put their heads above the parapet — still by no means the majority — feel that to make demands even for basic freedoms is radical , in the present climate . |