Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Play another sound effect — perhaps a door opening , keys jangling , a car moving off , a bomb exploding , or a dog barking — and it becomes difficult not to link the two sounds together and make them part of the same story . |
| 2 | I put the list away in my file , lock the room and carefully pick my way down the little staircase . |
| 3 | I just have to be careful as I pick my way past the grubby piles of snow at the edges of the pavement . |
| 4 | The woods crowd in on me as I make my way along the ancient track . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I keep crouched and make my way through the low bushes , heading diagonally through the wood towards the estate . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | No , I 'll treat you to them , I make my lot to the nearest bottle with Unicare if I can , how many you 've got ? |
| 9 | I touch my pocket for the reassuring packet of Diocalm . |
| 10 | They base their prognosis on the aggressive new product development and marketing that has been Cadbury 's hallmark in recent years . |
| 11 | Typically organisations require employees to obtain two or three estimates and base their payment on the lowest one . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Some place their emphasis upon the transcendent otherness of God and the traditional ‘ good ’ music which expresses it . |
| 14 | Editor , — David E Mutton and colleagues report their analysis of the national Down 's syndrome register for 1989–91 . |
| 15 | You know , she 'd say , they cook their cabbage in the same water as the bacon . |
| 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 | One whiff of the opened container will make an on-heat goat wag her tail in the characteristic manner . |
| 18 | In his rage he declared war on the whole animal tribe , swearing that he would exterminate the lot of them , and recapture his daughter at the same time . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I understand perfectly well why that should be so , as the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) made clear in the Second Reading debate his support for the higher education reforms , which account for quite a large part of the bulk of the latter part of the Bill . |
| 21 | You want his summing-up on the human race , ten years before his death ? |
| 22 | Send your letter to the fourteenth floor |
| 23 | Base your selection on the new symptoms that have appeared . |
| 24 | Mourning leads to happiness when through it we sense our place within the human family , and our need for God 's love . |
| 25 | To view in colour , just plug your monitor into the external VGA video port — also fully compatible with all pre-VGA standards . |
| 26 | The riverbank rushed towards her with dizzying speed as the stiffness in her legs caused her stumble and lose her balance on the uneven ground . |
| 27 | Now the larger giant supertankers bring their oil to the deep water terminal at Finnart , on the western fjord coast , and a new pipeline carries it to Grangemouth . |
| 28 | The men fish and sell their catch along the little promenade . |
| 29 | At this meeting the divisions review their performance in the current year and present and answer questions on their plans for the following year . |
| 30 | Entrants had to pick one of the four sections and develop their design from the abstract ideas that they found there . |