Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the summer certain to be dominated ( again ) by sequels ( Legal Weapon 3 , Batman Returns , Alien³ ; , Honey I Blew Up The Kids ) , Hollywood pundits are keeping busy predicting this season 's sleeper hits . |
| 2 | Several times I went up the valley with my father in the evening and sat with him behind a rock , hoping he would get a shot at the leopard . |
| 3 | When it reached about 3ft I pinched out the top to make it branch , which it did most satisfactorily . |
| 4 | In the car I rolled up the windows and screamed all the way to the Sawtelle Veteran 's Hospital in Los Angeles where we were filming . |
| 5 | After I made the cut I folded back the turf ( still using the spade ) and saw the nest . |
| 6 | That 's right , so I filled it in because that 's what you do if you get stuck on Keele you fill in the bits that the computer has n't |
| 7 | I should be grateful if you would let me know what action you take on the above matters . |
| 8 | To re-seal a half-used cartridge , take the piece you cut off the end of the nozzle and push it into the nozzle the other way round |
| 9 | Sylvie could barely remember the woman who had drowned herself , but through his words she took on the grand status of a tormented romantic . |
| 10 | With an anguished whimper she gave up the fight and kissed him back with a fervour born of all the long , lonely nights she 'd spent without him , her arms snaking up round his neck to pull him closer still . |
| 11 | After hitching her cover more firmly round her shoulders she made up the smouldering fire and sat on the pouffe . |
| 12 | Every day we had tackled a different walk , each enriched by the gentle Gozitan kindness we net along the way . |
| 13 | Thomas enthused : ‘ It 's quite a feat to beat Liverpool on a normal outing , but the side we put out the other night was straight from the creche . |
| 14 | Therefore , in the test runs described in the next chapter we cut down the utterance length to no more than 10 words . |
| 15 | The next Friday they load up the bus and set off for Oxford . |
| 16 | As soon as I mentioned an Easter wedding they brought up the Royal . ’ |
| 17 | Cos all the other schools they filled in the rest part of the week . |
| 18 | ‘ Watch me , ’ said Amiss , as at high speed he put on the clothes Pooley had just brought him . |
| 19 | Reaching into his car he hauled out the powerful pair of binoculars he always carried . |
| 20 | When the virus takes over a cell it takes over the master-plan or system of instruction of that cell and the cell is thereafter directed to reproduce itself with the virus already in command . |
| 21 | The Empress was in great beauty … the Emperor also looked very impressive , and when after the ceremony he held up the child in his arms to present him to the multitude , the enthusiasm was genuine and great . |
| 22 | In other words he opened up the circles , squares and longways sets to show what gave rhythm and life to the movements . |
| 23 | And when Lugard came to look back on what had been accomplished in the early years of British administration he singled out the improved character of the native rulers , which he attributed to ‘ the unceasing efforts and devoted ability of the British staff , who have by precept and example made them what they are today ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ Certainly , Cabannes did superbly at the back of the lineout today but he was a regular target and in all other areas I gave Back the edge . |
| 25 | At many revolutions per second I came down the green slide into Brixton and beyond . |
| 26 | To the south you look down the steeply falling park to where the river slowly bends around Dittisham on the western bank , and to the west a view cut through the trees shows the river almost encircling the Sandridge promontory , its last wide stretch before it narrows upstream to Totnes . |
| 27 | I said I told you if you want chips you go down the chip shop . |
| 28 | Like a small child being told by stern parent she picked up the drink and tossed it back at a gulp . |
| 29 | Whether nationalization improves the efficiency of resource allocation , or whether we would do better to privatize existing public corporations , is an issue we take up the next chapter . |
| 30 | Mr and Mrs Singh kept most of their official correspondence between the pages of their telephone directory and on my weekly visits we sorted out the milk tokens , rates demands , post office giros , all of which made linguistic demands which were beyond the level of their competence . |