Example sentences of "the [noun] [pers pn] [adv] [vb base] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the last decision he says : ‘ Most of the winter I never see daylight . |
| 2 | Tamed instincts may protect the individual from vulnerability to external aggression or from emotional abandonment by one to whom he or she is fully committed in an act of love ; but in the process they also render life experiences flat and stand in the way of necessary instinctual release . |
| 3 | Slowly , gradually , in those areas which favoured starchy vegetation such as cereal grasses , the plants we now call wheat , barley and rye were eventually bred around 6,000 years ago . |
| 4 | The trouble is that people only start to read these magazines after they think of themselves as computer users — and the point they most need help is when they are deciding what to buy . |
| 5 | At the classes I usually play light , modern and rhythmic music . |
| 6 | But although I played lead for a long time in the group I never cite lead players like Clapton or Beck . |
| 7 | Well apart from allowing them to breathe , and apart from the sheer fun of it , it appears that by leaping out of the water they actually conserve energy when swimming at high speeds ( Journal of the Marine Biological Association . |
| 8 | In the UK we traditionally give grain based feeds but remember that these would not naturally be present in the feral horses ' diet . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll do what I can , ’ Parmedes said resignedly , cursing the day he ever set foot in Club Eleusis . |
| 10 | As a technical achievement Castle Master is a work of art , but at the end of the day you either like Freescape games or you do n't If you 're into this sort of thing , check it out — it 's the best yet ! |
| 11 | ‘ The day you ever feel contrition for your actions is the day the sea freezes over , ’ she said scathingly . |
| 12 | With so much inspiration in the pages of this month 's magazine let's hope that after reading all the features you still have time for knitting . |
| 13 | With these , during the period of the loan you only pay interest on it . |
| 14 | But such is the skill of the production that in the end you just suspend disbelief , accept that you are absorbing a different way of looking at the world and take whatever comes . |
| 15 | ‘ In the early stages of the painting I often apply colour loosely and blend with fingers or tissue . |
| 16 | When the rabbits are removed from the net I always toss mine belly upwards to the ground so that the white hair on the underside makes the rabbit more visible in the darkness and I can then collect it later once the killing operation has been completed all along the net . |
| 17 | By the time they actually start work , they 've got an idea of the sort of Home that it is , what kind of clients are here , how many residents , how many staff and so on . |
| 18 | Rather , many speakers " construct " the language they variously call Creole , Patois , black talk , bad talk or Jamaican on the basis of a collection of stereotypical features which are associated with JC as spoken in Jamaica . |