Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb -s] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is one and only one element which stands in the relation R to all the other members of the set ( if R is transitive ) , or which stands either in the relation R or some higher power of R to all the other members of the set ( if R is intransitive ) . |
| 2 | The person ‘ goosed ’ then chases round and tries to catch the runner before he or she gets back to the space where the goosed person was sitting . |
| 3 | Perhaps the first task facing Mr Chris Patten , or whoever takes over from the current Governor , Lord Wilson , will be to break the deadlock over whether the People 's Liberation Army of China should set up shop in the glossy commercial heart of Hong Kong island . |
| 4 | Either the individual can not get to sleep in the first place or he wakes frequently during the night . |
| 5 | Now the emphasis is on families and communities , and everyone comes together for the feeding of the 30,000 . |
| 6 | But that , it does n't say after the SAT , the written comment can be made er , where we send er D and I reports home at the moment , i.e. er , just after half term in the second term . |
| 7 | The tide is low and someone points excitedly into the clear water to where a couple of large sea-urchins are making their sedate way along the rock-face . |
| 8 | The no-arbitrage band is ( S - D ) ( 1 + r ) - Sr ( l - f ) >or= F >or= ( S - D ) ( 1 + r ) , which can be rewritten as S ( 1 + rf ) - D ( 1 + r ) |
| 9 | competition from the new commodity , the new technology , the new source of supply , the new type of organization … competition which commands a decisive cost or quality advantage and which strikes not at the margins of the profits and the outputs of the existing firms ( and possibly even entire national economies ) but it their foundations and their very lives . |
| 10 | The waterfall is a part of the enormously extensive and complicated subterranean water system that has been traced now through this limestone mass if and which links up with the astonishingly deep fissures or gouffres that the speleologists have explored in the mountains to the east . |
| 11 | Who goes up and who goes down in the rugby union leagues has still to be sorted out too … |
| 12 | And she goes up to the two blokes and she grabs them by the balls and goes mm not bad , nice butt , you know ? |
| 13 | And she goes out into the street and she pulls her skirt up . |
| 14 | James pushes Sandra and she falls over onto the cake that Sharon has just baked in cookery . |
| 15 | And she gets up in the night and sits by the telephone in the hall in the dark . |
| 16 | Aunt Elena is a concert pianist , and she plays all over the country and in Europe , too . |
| 17 | And she comes back to the Counts of Lusignan to foretell deaths — she is a kind of Dame Blanche , or Fata Bianca . |
| 18 | And she was coming back along towards and she comes all along the dual carriageway and this car in front of her |
| 19 | But then I 've got ta meet Emma and she stands up at the top . |
| 20 | Insectivorous shrews are confined mainly to the forest-tundra and tundra edge ; only the arctic shrew and masked shrew , both holarctic species , are widespread on the southern tundra , and none penetrates far to the north ( Bee and Hall , 1956 ) . |
| 21 | They were things that you took to enhance your experience and to make it more intense — to make your personal development became part of your life , It was a very high-minded approach and when one looks at what has happened to the drug scene today and one looks back to the prevailing attitudes at the time , one can see the absolute , total abhorrence among drug takers that I knew in those days of amphetamines , heroin , barbiturates , mandrax — all those things that had an adverse physical effect which were considered to by highly dangerous to one 's personal development and to one 's daily living . |
| 22 | And they comes up to the edge of the box and they 're growling and barking . |
| 23 | He does , he likes to get in the bedroom and , and he fiddles on with the erm |
| 24 | And he smiles afresh at the thought of what that particular victory meant to everyone who witnessed it . |
| 25 | Yet the practising Christian remains as ignorant as his predecessors of centuries ago ; and he subscribes essentially to the same simplistic accounts he heard when he himself was a child . |
| 26 | Beckett remarks in Our Exagmination Round his Factification for Incamination of Work in progress , that Joyce 's work is ‘ not about something : it is that something itself ( Beckett 1929 and 1972 : 14 ) , and he goes on in the central part of his oeuvre , the trilogy Molloy , Malone Dies , The Unnamable ( 1950 — 2 ) , to create a kind of autonomy of his own — — as the Unnamable remarks , ‘ it all boils down to a question of words … all words , there 's nothing else ’ ( 1959 and 1979 : 308 ) . |
| 27 | And he clips them in and he goes all over the cars . |
| 28 | So he cries and he goes back to the beach . |
| 29 | It is necessary to preserve this style and he does so despite the modernity of some of the movements . |
| 30 | When he has not seen the man he has hoped to see , his long spine slackens and he falls back upon the red vinyl of the booth with his eyes closed and his foot shaking in a livid tic . |