Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Free-scoring Ally McCoist has a modest international record — only 13 goals from 43 games — and no-one else can be relied on to fire the bullets . |
| 2 | It is common commercial practice for the auditors of a private company to be called on to value the shares . |
| 3 | These days PCs are to be had for half that price , which has dragged down in turn the prices obtainable for software . |
| 4 | THE Limit has teamed up with chart-toppers The Shamen to launch a truly wicked competition . |
| 5 | A report by the Worldwide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) has set out in detail the changes to the nature and composition of the seabird communities in the North Sea as a result of human activity . |
| 6 | The firm was not taken on to implement the proposals . |
| 7 | Rafaelo Falah , a Libyan-born Jew who lives in Rome , was downing his houmous alongside Israel 's tourist minister in the ceremony put on to welcome the Libyans to Israel . |
| 8 | When she was allowed out of bed the nurses ( who presumably had not received the instruction ) no longer assisted in washing her and the patient said that she would be glad to get home so that her legs and feet could be washed . |