Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There was no real panic but when we landed and got off the plane the window looked like a spider 's web . |
| 2 | And they used to stage , well when we used to go for a penny the stage , they used to perhaps have competitions for the childrens what used to want to go on . |
| 3 | I thought er that God wanted me to be a doctor and I did n't have a place to go to , I took my A levels having had five chances of places to be a doctor and everybody saying no , we do n't want you and erm I had everybody praying for me at church and quite miraculously at the end of the August , when I should start in the September , I had a phone call at half past ten at night from a surgeon at the London Hospital asking me to go for an interview the next day . |
| 4 | His chief undertaking , Fowey Consols , became for a time the second largest producer in Cornwall . |
| 5 | In the 870s , his successors Hadrian II and John VIII exploited an impending imperial vacancy ( Louis II of Italy lacked a male heir ) to claim for the papacy the right to choose emperors . |
| 6 | He is unlikely to drive through the party the change in the culture of Labourism that would give any realignment depth and substance . |
| 7 | Now the Anyons will be returning on dives to search for the boat the sword guard came from . |
| 8 | Where value has at any time been given for a bill the holder is deemed to be a holder for value as regards the acceptor and all parties to the bill who became parties prior to such time . |
| 9 | They are attached to an alarm and when the child wets during the night the circuit is connected which activates the alarm . |
| 10 | ‘ Secondly , I believe you will begin to see during the night the cracks opening at last in the moulds that have held British politics in sterile opposition between two major parties for so long . |
| 11 | I mean for the Republicans the purpose is a united Ireland . |
| 12 | This methodological study investigates the relative strengths and weaknesses of panel and cross-sectional approaches to the measurement of attitude data , using as a vehicle the British Social Attitudes Survey . |
| 13 | Having dealt with the general principles of the UCTA it is now possible to analyse its effect in detail on various contractual relationships using as a framework the definitions and different combinations of the factors set out above in the section devoted to the basic rationale of the UCTA . |
| 14 | Work out how you would do the entry procession using as a guide the accompanying paper . |
| 15 | Indeed , in using as an example the books of Joyce Porter featuring the gross , lazy and self-indulgent Inspector Dover we have already touched on this difficult combination of crime ( which is , after all , a serious matter almost all of the time ) and farce , and these two types of book are , of course , closely linked . |
| 16 | Lavandera illustrates this point , using as an example the tendency for cocoliche speakers to avoid indirect speech , which in certain types of Spanish clause is an obligatory environment for the subjunctive . |
| 17 | Producers were so busy fighting their own corner , and so mesmerized by the success of Hollywood , that they did n't have the strength to argue that keeping the industry fragmented and flexible , learning from Hollywood 's example without simply imitating its outward forms , might be a better way of catering for a market the size of Britain than heading up the road of monopoly . |
| 18 | Born in 1927 , Denis Serjeant qualified as an architect the hard way , by taking external examinations whilst articled to an Oxford architect . |
| 19 | And just to round off the day the rain stops , the Cleveland cocktail lifts and a pale , weak sun sticks his nose out from behind the clouds . |
| 20 | To round off the evening the pope awarded prizes to the men who had enjoyed the favours of the greatest number of dancers . |
| 21 | Constable McLennan conveyed through the secretary the fact that a Neighbourhood Watch was about to be established covering Foulis Crescent and Woodhall Avenue and a preliminary meeting would be held in the Village Hall on Monday 25th January . |
| 22 | Constable McLennan conveyed through the secretary the fact that a Neighbourhood Watch was about to be established covering Foulis Crescent and Woodhall Avenue and a preliminary meeting would be held in the Village Hall on Monday 25th January . |
| 23 | Where the plaintiff sues as an assignee the action shall be commenced only in a court in which the assignor might , under the above rule , have commenced the action but for the assignment ( Ord 4 , r 2(2) ) . |
| 24 | Chris Nicholls from Plymouth asked for a Turbo The Tortoise infinite lives poke , so thanks go to W Keenan from Tyne and Wear for his/her help . |
| 25 | When the Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales , and the Gwent and Brecknock Wildlife Trusts met council officers and their advisers they asked for an assurance the council would proceed with the bill ( 2 ) . |
| 26 | Ranteallo simply looked sheepish when we first asked for an explanation the following morning , and it was left to Werner Meyer to give us an explanation , when he finally arrived to join us . |
| 27 | Portman , however , makes no demands , but recommends that borrowers should take buildings and contents insurance , and if this is arranged through the society the premiums can be combined with the monthly interest payments , thus avoiding separate standing orders or direct debits . |
| 28 | Disputes arose as to what should be done with the cargo and the shipowners issued an originating summons on 12 March 1991 in this court naming as the defendants the charterers of the vessel . |
| 29 | a statement that it was made or subsisted during the year the names of the directors and connected persons concerned principal terms |
| 30 | The highest court in Britain is the House of Lords , but when they sit as a court the Lords consist only of a panel of members who have long judicial experience and who have been appointed as Law Lords . |