Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [coord] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The patrol took some prisoners and drove through the lines until they met up with a British unit , who refused to believe they were who they said they were . |
| 2 | For a second he stood , his arms extended towards the horrified villagers , before staggering a few steps and collapsing into the flames . |
| 3 | She walked a few feet and stabbed at the earth with the fork . |
| 4 | Glance at the sentences and memorize the next few phrases and look at the audience while you are speaking . |
| 5 | Well , he kept taking a few sips and peeping around the door to spy out the whereabouts of the principal . |
| 6 | ‘ Aye , Mrs Urvill , ’ the girl said , taking out some keys and heading for the mini . |
| 7 | We like to concentrate on the pop stuff in a few tracks and indulge in the more experimental stuff with the rest . ’ |
| 8 | As a full stomach makes it even harder for a baby with RDS to breathe he was n't able to feed for the first few days and relied on the drip . |
| 9 | It has 48 pages for you to write down all those important things you have to remember , plus some jokes and puzzles on the back cover . |
| 10 | Mr Norman Tebbit , then secretary of state at the Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) , asked few questions and waved through the Al Fayed bid in ten days flat . |
| 11 | Read the first few pages and flick through the rest . |
| 12 | I rowed on a few yards and anchored for the sixth time . |
| 13 | As I stood watching him for a few seconds and looking at the damage to his farm buildings and the dead and wounded cattle around the orchard , I thought to myself . |
| 14 | Reaching it she climbed a few rungs and looked over the heads of the people and the cockpit where a double ring of candles hung low on iron chains from the rafters , spreading a brilliant pool of light . |
| 15 | He went out for a few moments and stood on the steps between the Greek pillars , looking in the direction of the Residency for any sign of movement . |
| 16 | Claudia called for champagne and someone else suggested they put on some records and dance in the hall . |
| 17 | Some parliamentarian troops in Kidderminster , believing the rest of the army was coming their way , fled so rapidly they left some carriages and supplies in the town square . |
| 18 | He will show some slides and talk about the railways of an entirely different part of the country — the changing scene in East Anglia . |
| 19 | For schools to exploit fully the potential of enhanced staffing after a century of working on the basis of n class teachers plus the head , they needed the imagination to conceive of alternatives ; a shift in attitudes away from the entrenched belief in the inviolability and supremacy of the traditional twin roles of head and class teacher ; and the will to enact such alternatives and live with the discomfort which the changing of professional roles inevitably generates . |
| 20 | The hallkeeper will be asked to make an inventory of such goods and discuss with the school janitors the possibility of having them stored somewhere within the schools ‘ premises . |
| 21 | To model such processes and to discriminate between the various mechanisms that are invoked to account for the genesis of the deposits requires a reliable estimate of the age of mineralisation . |
| 22 | We will strengthen support for such schemes and consult about the possibility of creating a new tax incentive to encourage companies to establish or extend an ESOP or set up a co-operative . |
| 23 | Before setting out such facts and relating to the sentences on the individual offenders as are material for the purposes of these appeals , it is necessary first to describe the procedure followed by the Secretary of State in exercising his power under section 61 of the Criminal Justice Act 1967 , and the steps by which he came to adopt that procedure . |
| 24 | Mention is made of how in the viewing of the mountains " … it is to be seen how the very naturall working of those flood falling from the height in winter stormes have broken down & worn such rifts & slitts in the rocks as hereby the dead leaders or mettall finnes or vaine have appeared unto us above ground which before were hid by the earth & stones formerly covring the rocks some 2 or 3 fathomes deep … " |
| 25 | The meeting was unable to reach a consensus on requests by some members that the government of Bosnia-Hercegovina be exempt from the arms embargo applied to the area [ see also p. 39240 ] , In a compromise , the final declaration noted these requests and called on the UN Security Council to continue to consider the question . |
| 26 | He stoutly resisted these demands and campaigned for the retention of the tramways . |
| 27 | She knew that Constance dealt in other , ill-gotten , commodities on these trips but concurred in the popular , criminal view that nicking a lorryload of underwear was in a different class from stealing wedding rings from old ladies . |
| 28 | Neither of these countries , poor as they are , can hope to recoup these losses and develop in the future without external assistance . |
| 29 | Yes , well , I particularly welcome this erm concentration on areas , I think it 's an excellent idea , particularly in relation to housing , I think what we will find interesting is that a whole number of Oxford citizens , perhaps indeed from Barton , Blackbird Leys , Marston originally , who are badly housed in these areas and waiting in the most appalling accommodation for the opportunity of a council home . |
| 30 | Religious nonconformity remained strong in these areas and combined with the anti-landlord , anti-aristocratic feeling which was the basis of historic liberalism . |