Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] [noun] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | MOVES to demolish a historic former engine shed near Whitby railway station and to build two blocks of flats and a house on the site have been given the thumbs down by the Department of the Environment . |
| 2 | A hole had been dug for the coffin , next to the place where Eileen had been buried only two short years ago , and boards propped the soil up at the sides . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's ripped the guts out of the radio . ’ |
| 4 | This may have been the case when Lady C. first frightened the servants back in the twenties , but now that kind of behaviour would probably land Mellors in the hot water he so obviously needs . |
| 5 | And apparently these other lads further down , to the tune of about a hundred and fifty yards , had all lifted the boards up on the belt and so all their slack and that was coming to me . |
| 6 | ‘ But we ca n't really invite anyone there until we 've lifted the codfish out of the tapestries . ’ |
| 7 | Curtis had dropped the Echo on to the dining-room table , where she was drinking her morning coffee , and he remained beside her . |
| 8 | Now that Viola had let the cat out of the bag , she felt she had no option but to come clean . |
| 9 | Even if Jack Bernstein had n't let the cat out of the bag I would have known ! ’ |
| 10 | Jubilant Tory Euro-sceptics immediately claimed that Mr Bangemann had ‘ let the cat out of the bag . ’ |
| 11 | He 's just let let the cat out of the bag there did n't you ? |
| 12 | He had been recruited by Alfred Sherman specifically to provide a counterblast to the Treasury advisers , because Whitehall was deemed to be the source of the advice which had let the country down in the past . |
| 13 | IBM Corp 's dismantling of the Armonk politburo to follow Chairman Mao 's ‘ Let 100 Flowers Bloom ’ dictum has really let the genie out of the bottle , and Infoworld has been talking to consultants that say the company is planning to enter the tents of the enemy by putting a version of the DB2 database up under Windows NT . |
| 14 | IBM Corp 's dismantling of the Armonk politburo to follow Chairman Mao 's ‘ Let 100 Flowers Bloom ’ dictum has really let the genie out of the bottle , and Infoworld has been talking to consultants that say the company is planning to enter the tents of the enemy by putting a version of the DB2 database up under Windows NT . |
| 15 | He seems to think that it is fair that I should have first crack since I am the one who has carried the worms about for the last umpteen days . |
| 16 | Over at The Wine Cellar , Keith Meerza , the joint owner , has sat a customer down in the corner and is trying to persuade him to go to the police . |
| 17 | Nathan helped me to my feet and very cautiously picked a way up through the boulders and small crags towards the road . |
| 18 | The Sinking Fund can be considered a success up to the point when the outbreak of the " Great War " of 1793 removed any likelihood of a revenue surplus . |
| 19 | I go along with that one , and we 'd commandeered the scullery back of the kitchen to pollute our bodies with addictive anti-stress-related poison . |
| 20 | He provides the influence they needed and , together with the best centre-back combination in England , Steve Bould and Tony Adams , the Dane 's strength has turned the clock back to the season when Arsenal last won the title through defensive ability . |
| 21 | Here , the community deputy has turned the argument around on the other deputy by suggesting he does not understand the issues that are central to bringing school and community together in one institution . |
| 22 | The drivers had turned the vehicles back towards the highway to be ready to move the moment the men , weapons and ammunition were loaded . |
| 23 | A foresighted Air National Guard officer was instrumental in having the Airacomet saved and in 1955 the Air Guard transferred the airframe back to the Air Force for placement in the USAF Museum . |
| 24 | In the case , the Dutch local authority terminated its funding to the Dr Sophie Redmond Foundation , which was principally concerned with providing assistance to drug addicts , and transferred the funding along with the building in which the Foundation worked , to the Sigma Foundation . |
| 25 | She 'd moved the furniture around at the manor , he 'd noticed , and got rid of Amabel 's chintz chair covers by the look of it . |
| 26 | He says it 'd be devastating — we built the bungalow just 6 years ago and I 've built the farm up over the years and now it 's all going to go under water . |
| 27 | And minced the hens up with the blocks . |
| 28 | I have never met anyone who heard that broadcast , but the Indian superintendent and I felt we had seen the job through to the end . |
| 29 | The result , they hoped , would be a virus that had incorporated the HbsAg along with the rest of the DNA in the plasmid . |
| 30 | In this context such formulations have a slightly ambivalent status : " the place where the sun had gone down " ( p. 216 ) or " the water had scooped a bowl out of the rock " ( p. 217 ) are reminiscent of the language of the first part of the novel , but need not , in another context , appear deviant . |