Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Terrorists and other criminals must not be allowed to escape justice or to retire abroad with the proceeds of their crime . |
| 2 | He seemed to see men in winged helmets lounging around Frost 's , the late-night delicatessen , or peering oafishly into the windows of Sturgis , the estate agent . |
| 3 | Many wild and evil creatures are spawned in the mountains or drawn there on the winds of magic . |
| 4 | And before those following could rein in and look for cover , or dismount and string their bows , or drive headlong into the trees from which their death was launched , the second volley followed the first . |
| 5 | In any case , there are almost certain to be many transactions which are difficult to discover or to understand merely from the books and papers of the company . |
| 6 | We can make a choice between struggling on or surrendering forever to the forces of death . ’ |
| 7 | In the opinion of most ministers , however , the next election , like past ones , will be won or lost primarily in the pockets of the people . |
| 8 | Before the 1979 election the party took advantage of the Winter of Discontent to toughen its manifesto proposals , promising to curtail flying pickets , or picketing away from the pickets ' place of work , and provide funds for pre-strike ballots of union members and for the election of union officials . |
| 9 | Bob Johnston , chief inspector with the Department of Economic Development 's Trading Standards Branch , said : ‘ The Order allows for the selling price to be indicated on the goods themselves , a ticket or notice close to the goods or grouped together with other prices on a list close to the goods to which it refers . |
| 10 | These towers were transeptal or set just behind the apses and were polygonal or circular in form . |
| 11 | Indeed , retaking may be his only opportunity of doing himself justice , for delay may mean destruction or conveying away of the goods by B , who may be quite incapable of paying their value . |
| 12 | On the one hand , private enterprise is presented as efficient , cost-effective and competitive while public provision is shown as wasteful , inefficient , and concerned more with the interests of the workers involved than with the consumers of the service . |
| 13 | You can hasten this recovery process by relaxing , resting and eating well in the days following your run . |
| 14 | With some deliberation , he withdrew his arms from under the bedclothes and gazed tiredly at the backs of his hands . |
| 15 | ‘ So am I. ’ Heather turned again to the opening and gazed hard over the fields to where the spirals of smoke were rising behind the bushes . |
| 16 | It crossed the River Carrow and led directly to the estates of the rich . |
| 17 | The longer upper tusks grow upwards through the skin and curve backwards over the eyes . |
| 18 | The horns are quite different to those of other White Parks : they are much more upright , and curve inwards on the females . |
| 19 | A girl , overcome by enthusiasm for the occasion , took off her clothes and sprung forward through the crowds . |
| 20 | Third , he exercised jurisdiction over the pagenses ( the " men of the pagus " or county ) : replicating the assemblies of the realm at local level were the county assemblies which were supposed to be held three times every year , and met either in the civitates or elsewhere in the county . |
| 21 | He cuts out the middle men and women — the dreaded parents — and goes straight for the hearts and minds of kids . |
| 22 | It was nice and cool here in the bowels of the earth and the sounds muffled as if from the bottom of a swimming pool . |
| 23 | I turned and stalked away to the servants ' quarters . |
| 24 | With that he spurred his horse , and rode away across the marshes to his castle , three long days ' journey distant . |
| 25 | And with a wave Glenda Grower remounted and rode stylishly through the gates . |
| 26 | At midnight Sapt , Fritz , and their men left and rode quietly through the woods towards the castle . |
| 27 | As soon as they had left the room , Nancy took off her shoes and crept silently up the stairs to listen in the passage — as she had done once before . |
| 28 | Shamed Souness said : ‘ I 'd rather not talk about the goals we gave away and concentrate instead on the pluses . ’ |
| 29 | That was in Norway , and got away from the Nazis |
| 30 | Eventually I gave up hope of ever seeing my Mom again , and stealing a penny from beneath a milk bottle , bought a platform ticket and stowed away in the goods wagon of a train bound — I thought — for Sheffield and my beloved Grandfather . |