Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Simmons drives to town each Saturday afternoon to shop at the market . |
| 2 | ‘ I think though that I 'll soon have to open another murder investigation to add to the one on Mills — yours . ’ |
| 3 | The red-haired woman in the house next door most certainly heard it , and hurried to another upstairs window to look out the back , for the cry seemed to have come from the yard of her neighbour 's house . |
| 4 | It exploded in Joe 's head like a grenade , yet another battering shock to add to the effects that had gone before . |
| 5 | Ah well cos I think the newer one will be this is some government thing to do with the gas . |
| 6 | If the home was judged to be satisfactory , the prospective foster parent , or ‘ befriender ’ as the RCM preferred to call them , was given some reading matter to prepare for the day . |
| 7 | Next I gave her some lavender essence to put in the bath ( a tin bath in front of the kitchen range ) . |
| 8 | Can you see it requires more in a static holding , this is building muscle power and you have to do things , and muscle can build it if , it c if you asked that those legs to do that every day they would get better at it , because what the body would then do would be build in more muscle fibre to cope with the job , so can you see it , what you ask the body to do , you 've got to ask it the right amount , not too much or else you damage and you 've got to ask it regularly and gradually increase it if you want to improve the muscle power . |
| 9 | Monthly close down of costs will usually occur at the end of each calendar month to coincide with the similar close down of the financial accounts . |
| 10 | In that situation failure to accumulate in the face of rapidly rising real wage costs spells disaster . |
| 11 | Two knights were to be elected in each county court to appear before the Council ‘ with full power to assent for the community of the county as to what shall be ordained … concerning the forests ’ : all landowners who wished to claim the disafforestment of their lands and woods were to be there to substantiate their claim . |
| 12 | If , as now seems certain , that is not possible , then Flushing Meadow , where every regular tennis journalist has his own horror story to tell about the failures of the elevators which carry them to the Press Box in the sky , will remain ‘ the place we love to hate ’ . |
| 13 | It seems extremely unlikely that light single production at Piper would continue , since Socata has its own TB range to push in the States . |
| 14 | Some netware ( ie software for running LANs ) provides its own operating system to run on the server . |
| 15 | Whatever the size of land or terrace you have at your disposal , a little lateral thinking will prove that there are always ways and means of providing yourself with enough plant material to experiment with the very enjoyable pastime of pressing flowers . |