Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pos pn] [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would n't demean myself or give your ego the satisfaction ! ’ |
| 2 | Beneath the tick and scrawl that made her name the paper was lightly wrinkled . |
| 3 | Thanks to the intoxicating venom that floods his brain the Forest Goblin Shaman has great powers of mental control . |
| 4 | In addition , retinoic acid is insoluble in water and so would remain where we put it in the limb for some time ; this was important because we already knew that to exert its effect the grafted polarizing region needed more than 12 hours . |
| 5 | In the silence that followed their departure the muffled movements of the other occupants of the house became surprisingly audible . |
| 6 | An option is a contract that gives its holder the right , but not the obligation , to buy or sell a specific quantity of a specific quality of a specific asset at a specific price ( the " exercise price " or " strike price " ) on or before a specific day ( the settlement day ) . |
| 7 | But ask me about Boy George 's first time on the show — looking gorgeous in a dress , with make-up and ribbons through his dreadlock extensions — and I can still remember the fevered speculation about his ambiguous sexuality that gripped my school the next day . |
| 8 | — One explanation is that when visitors to West Africa pointed at the land around them and asked its name the local people though they were indicating a group of nearby women . |
| 9 | as if to signal their displeasure the Dutch parliament passed a constitutional amendment in 1952 incorporating West New Guinea into the Netherlands and closing off further discussion of the issue . |
| 10 | And satisfied that this sacrifice would satisfy the spirits and make his kiln the best one ever , Dai Huang slept peacefully in the fine house beside the kiln . |
| 11 | She wrote a family biography , So Laugh a Little ( 1962 ) , and co-wrote her autobiography The Sound of Laughter ( 1979 ) . |
| 12 | I went home and visited my GP the next day , and he gave me calamine lotion . |
| 13 | But Hutchinson slipped and dislocated his shoulder the night before the match and Cumbria pipped Durham and Cleveland 3–2 . |
| 14 | Perhaps the manager , who is still registered as a player , should get out there and show his side the way . |
| 15 | But the more I fished for bream and studied their behaviour the more I began to question the correctness of this theory , for I became aware that sizeable bream are rarely taken near to the margins . |
| 16 | Quigley had sat there while the good people from the Mutual Life provident Association had come round and told my mum the news about her death benefit . |
| 17 | The years spent at Cass enabled Rod Morris to evolve at his own pace and allowed his intuition the subtle space it required . |
| 18 | The years spent at Cass enabled Rod Morris to evolve at his own pace and allowed his intuition the subtle space it required . |
| 19 | She sets out before the sun , driving a team of horses which pull her soft blue chariot up from the depths of the ocean , and shows her brother the way to rise . |
| 20 | Once you are on the course , be positive and give your horse the best chance at each obstacle , by giving him a good approach to each one and plenty of encouragement with the legs ( and voice and whip if need be ) . |
| 21 | Why do you have go and tell your mum the truth for ! |
| 22 | You spoke to no one and tell your sister the same . ’ |
| 23 | er go and get his haircut the cost of everything . |
| 24 | ‘ I love being spied on by the enemy , ’ I mutter , and turn my face the other way . |
| 25 | Should your foot drop to the outside of the opponent 's leading leg , you could try hooking it around his ankle and dragging his foot the way it is pointing . |
| 26 | Er that you , you had to have your sleep otherwise you were , you were n't er you , you could n't a attend to your lectures and , and do your work the next day . |
| 27 | She was a Baptist Sunday-school teacher , and gave her son the name ‘ Carey ’ after a leading Baptist preacher in Leicester . |
| 28 | This production , which updates the play and sets it in the sixties , toured the Continent and gave our company the reputation it now enjoys there . |
| 29 | Botha equalised from 45 metres and gave his side the lead on 20 minutes with an identically tricky penalty . |
| 30 | Unix Labs , by virtue of its position as Unix mama , wanted to be first , and did its pitch the week before last with X/Open Co Ltd explaining the fast track process and Hewlett-Packard observing . |