Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Alternatively , you could select spiky , upright plants like agaves or yuccas to transport you across the world , figuratively speaking , to the great deserts of North America . |
| 2 | Its part is generally written in the treble clef on B or G to distinguish it from the side-drum . |
| 3 | We might conceive of the aside as occupying a zone midway between the play and the audience ; we continue to experience the play , but we do so via the new information or attitudes given us by the character or characters speaking the asides . |
| 4 | ( b ) having entered any building or part of a building as a trespasser he steals or attempts to steal anything in the building or that part of it or inflicts or attempts to inflict on any person therein any grievous bodily harm . |
| 5 | If you need to bring an umbrella , a street guide or anything other than a briefcase or handbag leave it in the reception area during the interview . |
| 6 | His Lordship then suggested that , subject to the test of reasonableness , the court would permit seizure of any other evidence of any crime committed by the suspect or evidence implicating anyone in the crime being investigated . |
| 7 | Boni homines or échevins ousted them in the self-governing towns ; and slowly the day-to-day work of running courts in the non-franchised areas was taken over by knights or clerks with special knowledge of the law , leaving castellans to revert to their military role . |
| 8 | It undeniably happens to be the case that these phenotypic effects have largely become bundled up into discrete vehicles , each with its genes disciplined and ordered by the prospect of a shared bottleneck of sperms or eggs funnelling them into the future . |
| 9 | And because she happens to live reasonably near a park , she walks Sandy or Sandy walks her in the park , she meets other dog walkers and they are her human contacts . |
| 10 | In some of the odes , this compositional method has a wayward look , perhaps leaving the modern reader with the suspicion that the poem is structurally flawed.1 It is not particularly troublesome in " Diffugere nives " ; even so , there are throughout the poem points at which a reader needs to take connections on trust , or ventures to read them into the text , because they are not foregrounded or overtly articulated . |
| 11 | ‘ No other man has approached our convent walls , nor have travellers or pedlars reported anyone on the roads . |
| 12 | Stars of stage , screen & radio welcome you to the ‘ World of Entertainment ’ . |
| 13 | Being in a noble house , they discussed inheritance of land by means of ‘ entails ’ , the settling of land upon members of a family in a predetermined order to prevent any one owner or inheritor bequeathing it outside the family . |
| 14 | The displays demonstrate the reality , provide live plants to look at , and assure us that nothing larger than an unfortunate lizard or rat makes it into the green traps . |
| 15 | Maybe I should get Michael or Cheta to take me into the tower with them when they deliver meals . ’ |
| 16 | Reimbursement of medical , hospital and treatment expenses while on holiday ( including emergency dental treatment ) and hotel and repatriation expenses to the British Isles necessarily incurred arising from injury sustained or sickness declaring itself during the period of the holiday ( including those of any one person required on medical advice to accompany the Insured Person ) . |
| 17 | We had no friends or family to accompany us to the church . |
| 18 | Neither rejection , protest nor availability prepares us for the demands which celibacy is making on us nowadays . |
| 19 | The Woman gave him one look and then switched off the light and Doyle settled himself in the chair and sat silently in the shadows . |
| 20 | Last year the Republic refused to extradite Mr Ryan to Britain to face terrorism charges , including conspiracy to murder and cause explosions , on the grounds that allegations in the Press and Parliament linking him with the IRA meant he would not receive a fair trial in Britain . |
| 21 | This coexistence of change and resistance owes something to the limits set by nature . |
| 22 | The National Curriculum 's aims — to give pupils knowledge , understanding , skills and attitudes to equip them for the responsibilities and challenges of adult life and tomorrow 's world — will be widely supported . |
| 23 | Data could pop up in boxes around the screen , and in due course graphics , mice and icons led us into the wimps era ( window , icon , menu , pointer ) . |
| 24 | Then between us we carried her to the river and rolled her in and Nour washed himself at the edge of the crocodile pool . |
| 25 | And Miss gives it to the student in n it ? |
| 26 | When she was leaving , John reappeared and he and Sarah accompanied her to the corner of Magdalen Street . |
| 27 | She confessed that the bitter jibes and over-exposure led her to the precipice . |
| 28 | If the bat 's brain hears an echo from another bat 's cry , and attempts to incorporate it into the picture of the world that it has previously built up , it will make no sense . |
| 29 | ‘ I am asking for a mandate from the supporters and shareholders to put me on the board . ’ |
| 30 | The McCullochs turned into their cottage with a brief good-night and Cameron , James , and Allan let themselves into the tall , silent house along the road . |