Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] the [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE nights were still so cold that icicles formed on the outside of the chutes that fed the water-mills , where the water churned white and spilled over . |
| 2 | The view just proposed accounts for the rather curious fact that there are no passive constructions followed by the to infinitive with the verb watch , as both Fries ( 1964 : 21 ) and Mittwoch ( 1990 : 119 ) have pointed out : ( 75 ) He was seen to cross the street . |
| 3 | The Hemingway text selected for the exercise is one of the many vignettes peppered throughout the In our time collection . |
| 4 | Very flat on the bottom and turned up to the bow and that 's what the salmon fishers used in the in the rivers for pulling their nets in and fishing salmon on the . |
| 5 | They also argue that the waste of resources associated with the ex post coordination of supply and demand through markets is as nothing when set against the loss of production associated with the weak incentives of a planned economy and when compared to the inefficiency , bungling and corruption of every economic planning bureaucracy yet devised . |
| 6 | four huge pigeons sitting in the on the grass earlier on . |
| 7 | US and Belgian forces landed at the of Kismayu yesterday , scene of some of the country 's worst clan carnage . |
| 8 | But erm I know my delegates wo n't , wo n't want to book at that er it 's , they , they will expect to book at prices quoted in the in the conference register . |
| 9 | At this level there appears to be little cross-association of elements , e.g. all of those inclusions listed under " form " , in section 2.3 ( all section numbers refer to the under discussion , unless otherwise indicated ) . |
| 10 | I think that 's the the real sort of problem of trying to say the assets belong to the for the pensioner , you know I think there , there are great difficulties unless you 're gon na rule out final salary pension schemes . |
| 11 | You know , in actual fact , one of the men working in the in the in the carpenter 's shop . |
| 12 | and it could be and if if there 's two signatures if there are two signatures require on the on the cheque we need two on the banker 's order and you need both of those people there . |