Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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1 | In a few short weeks the scoops had torn a channel twenty feet wide from end to end , ripping the backbone out of Adventurers ' Fen … |
2 | The sending off of Rangers ' Mark Hateley , which came in between the opening goal from Ian Durrant and an equaliser from Lorenzo Staelens , was questionable in the extreme . |
3 | It remains to be seen whether or not Darren Jackson will recover from the stomach injury which kept the striker out of Hibs ' Cup win over Cowdenbeath . |
4 | It 's functional and cheap and takes the work out of mothers ' work — the opposite of the colour supplements ' fascination with food and its production and the backlash against junk food , which present a chic counterculture of cooking not as work but as leisure and pleasure . |
5 | They too drain the vitality out of women 's tears and replace them with passivity , penance and guilt . |
6 | Figures like these have taken much of the fizz out of brewers ' forecasts . |
7 | ‘ What reason did he give you for coming all the way over to Otters ' Bay when he could perfectly well have slept in his boat ? ’ |