Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [art] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the interest charges involved , the longer a defendant can spin out the negotiations the better . |
| 2 | The bed creaked , and she lay even stiller , listening intently , conjuring up the pictures the sounds made in her own mind . |
| 3 | To fill in the gaps the usual band of trainers and experienced teachers will do their best to give you worthwhile sessions . |
| 4 | This follows the realisation that if the hunters succeeded in wiping out the goats the vegetation might swiftly regenerate , making it impossible to see the wary pigs . |
| 5 | The military were fully alerted and when the village priest read out the details the police were in attendance to stifle the groans of disbelief with which they were met . |
| 6 | Then I noticed the Bible lying all on its own on the other side of the bunk ; the Bible on which I had laid out the relics the night before last , Night Zero . |
| 7 | Whilst the class were actively engaged in carrying out the transactions the students went from pair to pair and helped out . |
| 8 | Write down the claims the manufacturers make about their products . |
| 9 | Prior to independence many local authorities topped up the amounts the polytechnics received from central government and from fees : the total addition to resources from topping up was between £60 million and £70 million a year . |
| 10 | My fingers ca n't spell out the words the way I want them to . |
| 11 | The punt tipped over and started to clatter down the rollers the other side . |
| 12 | It also brings in the bases the the basic the bases and the alkalis . |
| 13 | Dennis Sciama , of the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Trieste , teased out the consequences the neutrinos could have for the dark-matter debate in a journal , Nature , a week before the conference . |