Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By keeping it more or less behind them and to their left they could be sure of travelling north-west which was the direction they believed right but the inequalities of the ground often forced them out of their way and although they always returned to their line they had to guess what corrections to make to allow for obstacles . |
| 2 | The building they stayed in and entered from the ( largely unchanged ) foreshore may now be found behind a later front ; the walls of the Raasay House Johnson slept in are held prisoner within the nineteenth-century accreted façade ; one or two corridors may be seen and touched . |
| 3 | Every time that he had been inside the Citadel he went home as soon as his day 's work was finished and scrubbed his body from toe to scalp . |
| 4 | He got one a week later — the prefab we lived in until I was eleven . |
| 5 | And a call … ’ he wiped his hand across his face , looking down at the moisture he rubbed off and laughing almost ironically . |
| 6 | closely followed by Dennis Irwin , Terry Phelan , Andy Linighan , Scott Sellars Loads of them , Sunderland twice , Chester , Colchester , Bristol City , Watford The worst must be Oxford 4–1 1983–4 , and 5–2 1984–5 , bcause of the stick I took Also when we lost a home game to Spurs 2–1 in 1978–79 , Spurs played half the with 10 men ( Miller sent off ) and Hoddle in goal because of injury . |
| 7 | It was there as confirmation of the course he sailed rather than as an ever-present guide , as were the slowly changing figures on the Loran 's small screen on the bulkhead beside the companionway . |
| 8 | When I asked him about the college he volunteered only that it was an experimental community of researchers and students — ‘ the kind of imaginative endeavour you will find only in the States . ’ |
| 9 | Without turning on the light she sat up and reached for her bottle and glass , faintly alarmed to discover she could find them both by feel alone . |
| 10 | And the other side is quite dry , yeah , that is the side he keeps on but that 's quite erm dry . |
| 11 | They train the labour they need rather than import it ( but note the exceptions like the Korean expatriate workers ) and often give these workers the sorts of skills that can usefully be hired by indigenous rivals ( UNCTC , 1988a ) . |
| 12 | At the doorway she reached up and slotted the new dā telo twig between the stones above the lintel . |
| 13 | Darius looks as if he 's stuck his eyes open with superglue , and because he 's too tired to stand waiting in the doorway he slouches in and says , ‘ Hi . ’ |
| 14 | After getting out of the car she bent over and pushed open the gate , then closed it behind her , walked up the short path and rang the doorbell . |
| 15 | As the Programme became established , and as coordinators became a part of the staff team , they were increasingly judged on the practice they delivered rather than the power they seemed to represent . |
| 16 | At the window they laughed together and bit a knuckle , like children or housemaids — watching avidly , they saw the two boys get out of a car that could not be Robert 's . |
| 17 | She backed in a gentle arc to face the open sea , and as Neil gunned the engine she jumped forward and then settled to a smooth , fast pace . |
| 18 | This led to a certain amount of friction , as Matthew was in the habit of practising on his flute when he went to bed , and this was not appreciated by the men trying to sleep over his head , let alone those in the next room to him , and one day in the Mess they protested strongly and threatened to flatten him if this continued . |
| 19 | The charm he switches on and off like an electric fire . |
| 20 | However , for most of the winter it remains still and cold , giving every appearance of being dead . |
| 21 | In a two-dimensional composite such as a fibre-reinforced plastic where the symmetry axis is along the 3-direction they write where and and are defined as follows , using the notation of Equation ( 4.17 ) : is the composite modulus k , p. or m. is the corresponding fibre modulus and is the corresponding matrix modulus is a measure of reinforcement which depends on the boundary conditions . |
| 22 | The model is a short-run model and this assumption means that , in the short-run , producers will respond to changes in demand by changing the quantity they produce rather than price . |
| 23 | And finally , if I may , the question you raised earlier and I did n't respond to it as erm I might of done , er the question about whether North Yorkshire is particularly unique . |
| 24 | Well somebody said to me , when I get to traffic lights instead of turning right and going through the bar I turn left and go , as if I 'm off up to North Cross . |
| 25 | Use the information in this chapter to draw up your own advertising campaign for the shop you work in OR the shop of your dreams . |
| 26 | I 'm interested in the process you go through when you look at a painting . |
| 27 | In using the former , however , it is sometimes difficult to explain how things are actually working at the moment they occur rather than understanding what we see in retrospect after some factor such as clouding of memory or change of opinion may have occurred . |
| 28 | ‘ He drank from the moment he got up and continued throughout the day , although it did n't show . |
| 29 | It was a grim reminder of the moment he knocked down and killed road worker Kevin Lawlor earlier this year . |
| 30 | I suppose you may say : ‘ Why should I be more green ’ ? and what I say to that is : ‘ I do n't know what the reason is for you but I do know that for me it 's about showing compassion for the planet we live on and trying to hand on as much beauty and good-will as we possibly can to future generations ; while improving our own quality of life . |