Example sentences of "[vb base] [pos pn] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They offer a few scholarships but are mainly attended by boys from well-to-do families who want their sons to get into the officer corps . |
| 2 | We are coming to an end , let me remind you that er of this particular hundred , sixty three of whom have the use of a car , fifty seven have been involved in an accident , fifty seven and I 'm sure it ca n't be a , er it must be a coincidence say their personalities change behind the driving wheel |
| 3 | Most families in a village like this expect their children to work on the farm when they get older , but in this case it was different . |
| 4 | I expect his notes went into the university archives , and the rest of his belongings would have been sold off . |
| 5 | All you have to do is grow a beard and look rugged , take a bunch of gullible kids from good homes , make their parents pay through the nose to let them sleep in bunks and eat beans , and then pretend that mundane things are difficult or unusual . |
| 6 | Publishers often make their appointments to coincide with the parties . |
| 7 | She closed her eyes and let her fingers burrow through the tissue paper until she felt the lace of the collar . |
| 8 | Paige let her eyes go to the window . |
| 9 | Charity let her eyes move to the view again . |
| 10 | She paused to give her words maximum effect and let her eyes flit over the assembly . |
| 11 | Katherine gazed into the fire , the leaping flames , let her eyes play over the fine marble hearth , the painting by George Grosz above it , with its hectic planes , its lurid faces , a satirist 's black view of life in the metropolis . |
| 12 | She pulled away , surprised eyes sparkling , and let her hands play with the back of my neck : I tasted sweet lipstick . |
| 13 | He started to unstrap his belt and then let his trousers fall to the floor . |
| 14 | He turned and let his eyes lock with the laird 's , the minister 's , and the factor 's , each one in turn , while they stared back and tried to look perfectly blank . |
| 15 | He looked up and let his eyes move across the rows of faces before him . |
| 16 | Before leaving he stood for a moment at the door and let his eyes range round the room as if he were seeing it for the first time . |
| 17 | It may be that , in his desire to show how little support his findings give for the Blauner and Mallet theses about the determining influence of technology , Gallie underplays the role technology can play . |
| 18 | Screw them up again and flex them out and let your feet drop to the side . |
| 19 | Let your arms swing in the opposite direction to your legs . |
| 20 | Alternate legs and let your arms swing in the opposite direction . |
| 21 | Let your arms swing in the opposite direction to your legs . |
| 22 | Let your arms swing in the opposite direction . |
| 23 | Let your arms swing in the opposite direction . |
| 24 | Let your arms swing in the opposite direction . |
| 25 | Both could do worse than go back to Tony Crosland and update his ideas to allow for the issues of gender , race , environment , low growth and others of which he was ignorant . |
| 26 | And our parliamentary reporter Rae Stewart will be reporting on that Save Our Railways lobby at the Commons tomorrow . |
| 27 | It could be peeping from the eye-socket of any of the saurian skulls with jewels atip their horns mounted on the walls . |
| 28 | Tuna are sometimes landed when they try to swim through holes in fishing nets and get their teeth caught in the mesh ; once trapped in this way , they can be dragged on to the beach with the net . |
| 29 | All flower several weeks after the species in the jug , are much larger , get their flowers eaten by the birds , and are n't half so much fun . |
| 30 | Some tenants pay their Rates DIRECT to the Council . |