Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the goods have been dispatched , the manufacturer sends an advice note to the retailer informing him of the date and time of dispatch . |
| 2 | We see the struggle asserting itself in the preface to his poem ‘ The Glass Dog ’ ( Flowers for Hitler ) : |
| 3 | An oriental Korean card game , played for points with the computer facing you as the opponent . |
| 4 | There was a moment 's hesitation , then the boy 's prints were flashed up on the screen , the computer superimposing them over the others . |
| 5 | A speaker had been set in one of the trees , like some modernistic bird's-nest , and Sara noticed the long snaky trail of the cable connecting it with the hi-fi in the house . |
| 6 | The car plunged into the ocean in the Bahamas and was seen emerging off Corsica — with an ordinary sweeping brush covering up the tell tale tracks in the sand left by the cable pulling it from the sea . |
| 7 | He chose a place between two snoring servants and laid down to sleep , oblivious to the figure watching him from the shadows . |
| 8 | We slanted across the river , the wind carrying us against the current , and coasted up the far bank . |
| 9 | I held Elizabeth close , and as I held her , I saw the monster watching me through the open window of the room . |
| 10 | She was very conscious of the girl following her towards the drawing-room and a sudden sense of jealousy bit like sharp teeth as Emily imagined them together , Craig , and this girl who , however poor she might be , had beauty as well as dignity . |
| 11 | Additionally , the holder clamp for the lower bearing of the main rotor drive shaft had torn away from the bracket mounting it to the airframe structure . |
| 12 | They stood holding each other , the sun warming them through the window . |
| 13 | Lying on a pallet in the downstairs chamber , the deceased woman laid out upstairs , the only sounds came from the cat cleaning itself by the hearth and an owl hooting raucously outside . |
| 14 | I took stock of the bees in the wisteria and the cat stretching itself under the table . |
| 15 | While all this was going on , of course , Carol was flitting about the opposite side of the shop helping herself from the shelves and tossing things into the pushchair , which with the canopy zipped up was acting as an oversize shopping trolley . |
| 16 | A spokesman said : ‘ The damage may have been caused by the surf dragging them over the rocks . |
| 17 | They were expressive eyes , she decided , at the moment reminding her of the softness of brown velvet . |
| 18 | It was so incongruous to hear the Maggot aligning himself with the forces of law that I was forced to ask the question . |
| 19 | It was n't the truth awaiting her at the château that she feared , but one much closer to home . |
| 20 | With all the rain emptying itself over the Feyenoord Stadium it was hard to put last night 's match in the context of a World Cup which is more likely to present problems of heat than waterproofing . |
| 21 | It was also reported that a new chapter in Andrew Morton 's controversial biography of the Princess would include details of a letter from the Duke warning her of the damage she was causing the Royal Family . |
| 22 | The result is that the club only hits the top half of the ball sending it through the green illustration below ) . |
| 23 | They produce press releases and they send it off and they feel terribly bitter and twisted and unhappy because nobody takes any notice of it , but they do n't realize that what they 've actually produced makes no sense at all to the person receiving it on the other end . |
| 24 | It has been said that regard must be had to the nature of the contract broken , the position of the parties to the contract , the grounds for the breach , the means employed to procure it , the relation of the person procuring it to the person who breaks the contract , and the object of the person procuring the breach . |
| 25 | The detectives who were not detectives after all stepped forward to meet him , one of them shaking hands , the other slapping him on the back . |
| 26 | This looked promising : 3 He is produced by fusion , there is an excessive abundance of the substance in volcanic gases so maybe here was the evidence staring him in the face that fusion is taking place among the volcanic rocks . |
| 27 | I became seasoned , gained experience , all the while preparing myself for the lucky chance that would surely come . |
| 28 | I always knew I would be apprenticed to Joe as soon as I was old enough , and so I used to spend most of the day helping him in the forge . |
| 29 | One of the students banged his fist loudly on the partition separating them from the driver . |
| 30 | They filed downstairs , the dog following them with the air of a dog doing his duty . |