Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chauffeurs peel themselves off the walls , put down their fifth or sixth freebie rock'n'roll drink , and take us all in convoy to a club somewhere in Kansas City . |
| 2 | Bob and I are progressing as a piano/clarsach duo , and of course some of the accompaniments to his songs tax me to the limit , or have to be vetoed altogether . |
| 3 | waves push me to the side |
| 4 | The Jews provide us with the single most illuminating incident of the episcopate of Avitus . |
| 5 | It 's just that most offices put them in the open near the coffee machine or the Ladies loo and anybody can see what 's coming over . |
| 6 | Her next whimpered , broken words cut him to the heart . |
| 7 | He had been about to open the door into the kitchen , but now he turned and looked at her , and his next words cut her to the bone as they were apt to do when they spat the truth at her . |
| 8 | You know , every week pop fans stop me on the street , the noo . |
| 9 | You know , every week pop fans stop me on the street , the noo . |
| 10 | Two lifts link it with the private sun terrace , bathing platform and sea water swimming pool below . |
| 11 | So , naturally , many insect-eating animals pursue them in the air . |
| 12 | Jesus ' sufferings draw us into the love of God and show us how much he loved us . |
| 13 | If any readers know anything of the current whereabouts of Tin Tin , Milly Molly Mandy , Jennings and/or Derbyshire , Rupert Bear , any of the Famous Five or Secret Seven , Billy Bunter , My Naughty Little Sister ( presumably now in freelance tax-free employment round the back of King 's Cross ? ) or any of the many others , I 'd like to hear about it . |
| 14 | Structuralists trace it to the workings of a permanent arms economy , necessary both to capitalism and to state capitalism . |
| 15 | In doing so , General Nelson Miles ' own words tell everything about the nature of Chief Joseph and his brave people : |
| 16 | And unless all nations commit themselves to the elimination of ozone-depleting chemicals , the agreement is compromised . |
| 17 | It 's just I mean as philosophy just very standardly takes words from ordinary language gradually gets a technical meaning , er which is different from the original meaning and then when ordinary speakers use it in the original meaning they get told off . |
| 18 | The present generation of British and American literary Marxists remind me of the small boy in Joyce 's story , ‘ Araby ’ , who got to the bazaar just as it was closing . |
| 19 | A mule clattered past , its straw panniers thrust us against the adobe wall . |
| 20 | These songs remind us of the deeds and of the character of God , as does the psalmist who sings : |
| 21 | From the corner of her eye she saw the security guards wrestle him to the ground . |
| 22 | Only people with soft heads stick them in the sand and wait to be kicked up the arse by little cheats and liars . |
| 23 | When the screen is completed , a local builder and about half-a-dozen husbands take it to the peace well at the corner of the village green on the Saturday morning . |
| 24 | This is necessarily caused by the fact that the intrinsic differences between the services provided in different organizations reflect themselves in the respective budgets . |
| 25 | Elsewhere , individual protesters were being held down while Mosley 's guards beat them over the head and about the face . |
| 26 | These illogical curiosities have something of the wit of Cervantes ' Sancho Panza , and look forward to Alice in Wonderland . |
| 27 | The umpires check it at the end of every over . |
| 28 | Their leaves , stems and branches orientate themselves to the light , while their roots seek out minerals and water . |
| 29 | In some respects today 's songs have something of the character of the Psalms , in their expression from the heart without the cerebral and linguistic demands of hymnody . |
| 30 | In Chile , in an address to the Congress , Bush stated that the country 's economic policies put it in the " forefront of the free-market movement now taking hold across Latin America " and that this made it a " prime candidate " for debt relief proposed under the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative . |