Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I put the list away in my file , lock the room and carefully pick my way down the little staircase . |
| 2 | I just have to be careful as I pick my way past the grubby piles of snow at the edges of the pavement . |
| 3 | The woods crowd in on me as I make my way along the ancient track . |
| 4 | At seven on the Saturday night of the prêt-à-porter showings , I make my way up the mirrored staircase in Chanel 's couture house in the rue Cambon . |
| 5 | I keep crouched and make my way through the low bushes , heading diagonally through the wood towards the estate . |
| 6 | I walk slowly through the tunnel beneath the line , one of a dozen returning commuters , cross over the road with ten of them , make my way through the gnarled little streets beyond the redundant town hall with eight of the ten , and begin to climb the scarp of the South London hills with the remaining five . |
| 7 | I touch my pocket for the reassuring packet of Diocalm . |
| 8 | I propose , therefore , to enjoy this last cigarette , warm my hands above the stumpy candle , and think with due care and compassion about the true story I have to relate . |
| 9 | They base their prognosis on the aggressive new product development and marketing that has been Cadbury 's hallmark in recent years . |
| 10 | And although the majority of materialist philosophers base their belief in the neurophysiological theory of perception on arguments rather than observations , they are , nevertheless , greatly influenced by the apparent successes of neurophysiology . |
| 11 | Some place their emphasis upon the transcendent otherness of God and the traditional ‘ good ’ music which expresses it . |
| 12 | In the early 1980s , the Metropolitan police installed Divisional Information Officers to monitor the rise and fall of ‘ tension indicators ’ ( e.g. violence or abuse towards police officers , increasing numbers of complaints against the police and a decline in public co-operation ) in specially targeted local communities and report their findings to the Central Information Unit within the Metropolitan Public Order Branch ( Lloyd , 1989:273–4 ) . |
| 13 | Editor , — David E Mutton and colleagues report their analysis of the national Down 's syndrome register for 1989–91 . |
| 14 | A program allows one to frequently modify the hypertext database and test its consequences for the linear form . |
| 15 | They still build their houses in the arc-like forms , they say , of the ships which once brought them , and their funeral rites , which for their nobility are unequalled for extravagance , are intended to launch the souls of the dead back to the stars of their origins . |
| 16 | When they were n't , we rafting rookies would leave the boats and watch the guides skilfully manoeuvre their way through the thundering foam . |
| 17 | For the next three weeks or so they wean their babies on the frozen sea of the Gulf of St Lawrence . |
| 18 | One whiff of the opened container will make an on-heat goat wag her tail in the characteristic manner . |
| 19 | A one-parent family , living on scraps from the educational world , too proud to seek refuge and warm her hands on the tepid thickly painted radiators of Leeds , to cast off her jerseys and socks on the radiant central heating of Sussex , to lie half-naked in that ill-starred farmhouse in Tuscany . |
| 20 | Opponents of the party leader say his criticism of the pre-meeting comments to the press as disloyal increased the political temperature which exploded when he pointed out to three executive members that collective responsibility had worked in their favour in past occasions and any comments should be made in private . |
| 21 | Then he saw one of the boys turn his back on the man he seemed to be dancing with , hook his fingers in the skimpy underpants , wriggle them down to reveal his bottom and then wiggle the bottom until it shook like a jelly . |
| 22 | You want his summing-up on the human race , ten years before his death ? |
| 23 | To win tickets send your answers to the following questions on a postcard or on the back of a sealed down envelope to Buddy Competition , PR Division , by Friday July 16 . |
| 24 | Send your entries to the following address : . |
| 25 | Send your entries to the Public Affairs Department to arrive no later than 30 April . |
| 26 | Base your selection on the new symptoms that have appeared . |
| 27 | We send our mandates for the certain death of thousands and ten thousands ! |
| 28 | Mourning leads to happiness when through it we sense our place within the human family , and our need for God 's love . |
| 29 | And make sure that we provide our staff with the appropriate |
| 30 | To view in colour , just plug your monitor into the external VGA video port — also fully compatible with all pre-VGA standards . |