Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb base] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turning the machine over reveals the high and low speed switch on the top . |
| 2 | The snakes and the tardy remedy make up the entirety of God 's response . |
| 3 | Madness had a smell , as Kathleen Lavender had watched the very old body move down the garden path . |
| 4 | What you have to do is rip the old keyboard overlay off the Spectrum , remove the membrane and replace it with the PCB which plugs into the normal connectors . |
| 5 | When will the right hon. Gentleman summon up the courage to make a decision on the applications ? |
| 6 | Holmewood 's ‘ whistling ’ bridge ( it made noises if the wind was blowing through the rafters from the right direction ) has just been passed by K3 No. 60896 as it heads a southbound coal train up the 1 in 100 in about 1961 . |
| 7 | To arrange for a free survey fill in the post-free coupon on the back page or contact your local Eastern Electricity office . |
| 8 | He saw a tall boy slide down the door of the shop and lie still on the pavement . |
| 9 | Once you have gained the groove line the climb unfolds in a quite compelling way : superb bridging , solid locking finger jams and perfect protection lead up the plum vertical line . |
| 10 | Daniel Digby , provost of the G-Mek Orbital , has issued a formal denial to allegations by Ayatollah Bakhtiar that fugitive graphic novelist Neil Gaiman has been in hiding in the facility , and has requested that the Pan-Islamic congress stand down the Inter-Satellite Ballistic Missiles currently targeted on them . |
| 11 | ‘ Wrapped in your VR equipment , your brain and nervous system fill in the gaps . |
| 12 | There was then an open toughness about party tactics ; before the Buckingham Palace Conference in 1914 he had Central Office work out the electoral effects of excluding nine , six or four counties of Ulster from an independent Ireland the concern of a calculating pragmatist not of a bigot . |
| 13 | Diesel offers immediate fuel saving of between 20 to 30 per cent , and when such developments as the direct-injected , two-stroke , supercharged diesel come along the savings could be higher , 70 or 80 per cent , which would reduce carbon dioxide emissions . |
| 14 | But the awareness of what might have been had not some stalwart Cornishman come along the beach in the nick of time and the thought of the possible after-effects on both Celia and Liza haunted him . |
| 15 | An optional helicopter ride down the canyon can be arranged for you by your escort . |
| 16 | This was not surprising as , after the race , the route of the descent was marked by one giant skid mark down the face of the fell . |
| 17 | But in that case the expression " I was alone " would have been banal : it is only after we have felt the isolation of the speaker in all its particularity , and have seen the last vestige of human life disappear over the horizon , that we can understand the force of the simple statement . |
| 18 | I saw a white hand draw back the hood and my master 's innocent face grinned at me . |
| 19 | In order to avoid making nasty marks on the wall when you are experimenting with the hanging , it is best to decide on the overall shape of the arrangement first — a square , oblong , diamond or triangle — and on a painted wall mark out the area with light pencil which can easily be rubbed off , or with chalk on a paper wallcovering . |
| 20 | A full remission was maintained by avoidance of dairy products but in long term follow up the sensitivity was not persistent . |
| 21 | Both guitars have solid spruce tops , although the D-32's is closer-grained and prettier , and both are bound in faintly-flamed maple for a combination of looks and durability , with a decorative maple stripe down the centre of the back . |
| 22 | She turned and walked the long clicking walk down the floor ( the shop strangely quenched of sound and movement ) , tugged back hard on the glass door and with a shake of shiny hair had passed into the random straggle of the street . |
| 23 | I do n't know what it was , the mist , the way it hung , hot and heavy like a blanket , the weirdness and the exhaustion of the long night drive up the coast , but I suddenly realised I was scared . |
| 24 | And curious peach call up the ticklish nipple , even when |
| 25 | The report , the result of a three year survey and third in a series named Seabirds at Sea , found that more than half of the world 's total number of breeding pairs of Manx shearwater , puffin , gannet and black guillemot live off the west coast of Scotland and in the Irish Sea . |
| 26 | A substantial oil spill off the costs of Ireland or Britain could therefore wipe out more than half of the world population of these species , the report said . |
| 27 | A friend of both of them , who has watched this unhappy saga unfold over the last decade , now concedes : ‘ I am sorry for the tragedy of it all . |
| 28 | ‘ I just saw a little skitchy guy come down the fire escape and slip into that alley . ’ |
| 29 | None of the fish in any of his tanks are what you could call unusual — Corydoras , Barbs , Livebearers , a couple of splendid wild Angels , and a Red Tailed Black Shark make up the majority of the stock . |
| 30 | Muslim descendants of Slavs who converted to Islam under the Ottoman Empire make up the largest ethnic group , accounting for 43 per cent of the republic 's 4.3 million inhabitants . |