Example sentences of "[subord] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , his capital city of Aachen ( Aix la Chapelle ) was partly chosen because of its hot springs , where Charles swam daily in the great bath . |
| 2 | Although Pakistan inched forward in the eight overs following the welcome tea-break , England were pulling the strings . |
| 3 | Although Liphook strove hard for the equaliser , they were unable to take advantage of the many opportunities created . |
| 4 | Schwer saw his unbeaten record slip away on cuts , although Burke fought splendidly on the way to an upset victory . |
| 5 | Although Franco seemed well on the way to having Hedilla in his pocket in late October , Falangist support for merging with the Traditionalists was not yet guaranteed . |
| 6 | The team was the same as for the West Ham game , except Hodge played instead of the injured Speed . |
| 7 | Just as he reacted strongly against Richards 's suggestion that The Waste Land had severed poetry from belief , which carried the implication that the poem was a cultural museum , so Eliot campaigned now for the preservation of London 's churches not as museum pieces , but as centres of religion . |
| 8 | He explained his change of mind by pointing to the danger that if Stockholm went ahead without the Allied socialists , the case for the Allied war effort would be lost by default : |
| 9 | If Cipriani achieved little in the way of goals , he did , as C.L.R.James put it in his biography of the man — ‘ expand our conception of West Indian public personalities ’ . |
| 10 | so the most-talked-about terrace-player gets another half-page over here — if Frank play well in the US that might make it easier for him to get a new club . |
| 11 | If Israel stays permanently in the West Bank , the Arabs will not offer peace ; and the American Congress is not likely to support sanctions against Israel . |
| 12 | Eventually , and after due consultation with Melissa , the plat du jour of lamb spiced with juniper was agreed upon and a bottle of mineral water requested , whereupon Huguette moved majestically towards the kitchen . |
| 13 | If Pippa got home from the alright |
| 14 | It was because Pound behaved always in the spirit of this remark that he could not fail to offend Englishmen of the type of Beerbohm and Bowra , and that he continues to offend their likes and their successors ( in all social classes ) at the present day , as , for instance , his confrere T.S . |
| 15 | While Buckmaster sat impatiently in the rear and drummed his fingers on his knee , Morgan put on an expensive black overcoat , the collar trimmed with astrakhan , buttoned it up , got back behind the wheel and resumed driving . |
| 16 | Richard leaned against the wall while Murray lumbered past to the lavatory . |
| 17 | He came out of the library when he saw it was me , shook my hand and said ‘ Terrible thing , terrible thing ’ a few times , while Beethoven sounded loudly from the opened library door and his wife tutted and tried to smooth his errant hair . |
| 18 | As Edward looked around he saw everything determinedly perpetuating itself — buds forming , leaves unfurling , seeds setting , the whole place off again on the same mindless uncaring cycle , while Edward stood there in the midst of it , quite alone . |
| 19 | While Moses looks forward to the ‘ good ’ to come , their minds are fixed on the ‘ evil ’ of the present . |
| 20 | Before a concert in Manchester on the ‘ Bizarro ’ tour , Gedge was holding court with about six fanzine editors while Solowka sat just outside the circle , counting out huge wads of money from a leather briefcase . |
| 21 | The Italians lost to North Korea , showing us what negative , cowardly football they exemplified ; the Germans looked arrogant but were n't strong enough to stop themselves being beaten by England ‘ again ’ ( as in two world wars ) ; while Argentina misbehaved temperamentally at the ‘ home of football ’ , Wembley . |
| 22 | Isobel looked at the muddle with distaste , then quickly washed her hands , put a kettle of water on the gas stove and assembled cups and saucers on a tray , while Hank ambled curiously around the old-fashioned kitchen . |
| 23 | The three disciples were told to pray while Jesus went further into the garden to pray by himself . |
| 24 | With Matthew clutching at her apron , Ann , who was servant as well as mistress in her house , bustled to open the door , while Jill peered cautiously round the kitchen door and Nathan began making those deep crooning noises that indicated he was becoming excited . |
| 25 | He strode to the desk while Claudia waited listlessly by the lift . |
| 26 | She handed the airbag to the registrar while Jack pressed rhythmically on the patient 's sternum . |
| 27 | Whereas Palmer focusses exclusively on the non-actual character of the infinitive 's event , we wish to draw attention here to what his observations imply about the nature of the modal auxiliaries and the relation between the latter and the bare infinitive . |
| 28 | While Fleury hurried away for the stores Dr McNab wrote down the details of the Collector 's illness … |
| 29 | Since Fokine broke away from the rigid categories of dance or mime , twentieth-century choreographers , following his example , have usually created a continuous design of expressive movement which interprets the story by means of mimed dance or danced mime ( see page 58 ) . |
| 30 | Whilst Riley speaks specifically of the primacy of sight , her paintings constantly allude to states at the limits of meaning . |