Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [coord] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She walked a few feet and stabbed at the earth with the fork . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I rowed on a few yards and anchored for the sixth time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He stoutly resisted these demands and campaigned for the retention of the tramways . |
| 6 | Religious nonconformity remained strong in these areas and combined with the anti-landlord , anti-aristocratic feeling which was the basis of historic liberalism . |
| 7 | The committee shared these sentiments and adopted as the major focus for its library proposal the theme " The Challenge of Change " . |
| 8 | The Conservatives remained dissatisfied with these arrangements and returned to the matter in their manifesto for the 1987 General Election . |
| 9 | Plea that the note was given to secure the loan ; that , subsequent to the loan and the giving of the note , the defendant had complained to John Bluett that he had not received equal favourable treatment with John Bluett 's other children ; that John Bluett had conceded the truth of these complaints and agreed with the defendant that , in consideration that the defendant should cease his complaints and also out of his natural love and affection for the defendant , he would discharge the defendant from all liability in respect of the loan and the note . |
| 10 | To the Sufi the divine is in all things and manifested to the seer , and it is this divine attribute that he sees and which is transferred to the work of the poet and the mystic ; and that work is authentic in so far as it depicts faithfully the himma or emotional part of the event . |
| 11 | The Committee had four more meetings and reported to the House of Commons on 18th July , 1856 . |
| 12 | Gober 's exhibition comprises four rooms wallpapered with the artist 's own designs and filled with the sculptures for which he has become celebrated : several untitled wax legs with candles , the wax hermaphroditic torso , the wedding dress , the bags of cat litter and the drains sunk into the gallery 's walls . |
| 13 | By mid-1940 their mouthpiece , The Pensioner , claimed sales in excess of 500 in several branches and reported on the ‘ phenomenal growth ’ of the movement — to 600 branches — within its first sixteenth months . |
| 14 | An old car which had been driven across in front of the shooting targets was ideal , so we attached fifteen kilos of the explosive to it in different places , fixed up the detonators , trailed fuse wire back several yards and clipped on the incendiary devices which would activate the firing process . |
| 15 | When the old house was practically uninhabitable , they or their sons built a new farmstead in the midst of their own fields and migrated from the village . |
| 16 | Then they quietly washed and dried their own hands and returned to the general room . |
| 17 | Early last month , a Russian war veteran took matters into his own hands and delivered to the German embassy in Moscow a cache of drawings , prints and paintings , among which , according to the German Foreign Office , is a Durer . |
| 18 | Two lucky winner will be able to choose a brand-new , fully-fitted , state-of-the-art kitchen from Magnet 's extensive range ( not necessarily the two shown here ) , planned and fitted to their own requirements and equipped with the Neff appliances of their choice . |
| 19 | It must be approved , in the same form , by both houses and ratified by the President ( whose power of veto can be over-ridden by two-thirds of the members of both houses ) . |
| 20 | Then he grabbed both cases and made for the airline counter to buy a ticket . |
| 21 | The brothers seized both heiresses and hung onto the family lands themselves . |
| 22 | The brothers seized both heiresses and hung onto the family lands themselves . |
| 23 | But there was also a huge skylight , facing both ways and divided across the middle only by the roofbeam of the house itself . |