Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The injuries to the head , consistent with about 15 blows , would have caused her to lose consciousness which made her helpless to resist the acts which caused her death , he said . |
| 2 | Phoebe was surprised ; she had somehow thought that after Rachel 's sterling conduct of the night before , she would now take charge , go on looking after them all , manage everything for them and leave her free to walk the road that she had to walk . |
| 3 | She preferred the hazards of local naval hospitals to leaving her husband and returning to England for each birth , but the strain of pregnancy in hot climates and the diversion of her own children made her willing to billet the older two on their aunt whenever it was convenient . |
| 4 | Much later , when she returned from her walk with Rosie , she found her mama-to-be inspecting the nursery floor with Nanny . |
| 5 | Her little close the door , darling ! |
| 6 | If a match between the gender of the pronoun and the formal gender of the noun introducing its antecedent facilitates the interpretation of the pronoun , at least under some conditions — as we suspect it will — our hypothesis about the involvement of a superficial representation in the interpretation of deep anaphors will be supported . |
| 7 | She got back to her flat to find the phone ringing . |
| 8 | Few literary sources are more revealing of aristocratic culture than the Gesta Consulum Andegavorum and its off shoot the Gesta Ambaziensium Dominorum , produced in the Touraine in the first six decades of the twelfth century , for the pleasure and edification of the counts of Anjou and their castellans , the lords of Amboise . |
| 9 | A greater commitment to this music will ensure its continuing to enrich the worship of the people of God . |
| 10 | Gloucestershire County Council says its reluctant to make the cuts , and blames the Government for forcing its hand . |
| 11 | Mr Oliver says its important to keep the rink for the community , the skaters and the ice-hockey team , which is profitable . |
| 12 | Words which are orthographically regular have at least three routes : the GPC route which uses orthographic components to derive their phonological correlates the lexical route which uses the visual representation of the word to access meaning before generating the pronunciation ; and Glushko 's ( 1979 ) " analogy " route whereby words can be pronounced in the same way as their orthographic associates . |
| 13 | Their faltering affected the hitting power of whole regiments . |
| 14 | So here here 's a case where this conflict of interest leads the parents to actually kind of encourage their young to leave the nest and , and , and wander off . |
| 15 | As the habitat shrinks , parents abandon their young to lessen the competition for food . |
| 16 | The majority are deterred by the garden 's high altitude and exposure to winds , whilst ladybirds or resident blue tits feeding their young devour the remainder . |
| 17 | I think it was that which made her frightened to accept the truth when he was sexually assaulting me . |
| 18 | His mother tells an anecdote about his wanting to join the Cubs , the junior branch of Boy Scout movement , when he was only four or five : much below the permitted age , but he was so insistent that the Cubmaster let him in . |
| 19 | He suddenly swung her into his arms , his tortured breathing the only sound in the darkened barn , and instead of carrying her down the stairs he turned and lowered her to the soft hay that was spread thickly on the floor behind them . |
| 20 | I think we must seek clarification Mr and your willing to take the resolution and drop the first two lines of your resolution . |
| 21 | change , change over and change the tapes and all that sort of thing and erm they give you packets of batteries and your supposed to change the batteries every two to three tapes , every four sides in other words . |