Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She holds up the American education system as an answer to the supposed link between language and class mobility . |
| 2 | Gilligan repeats this problem when she parcels up the unconscious and sexuality in a bundle with carer-infant relations , and deals with it by labelling it ‘ Chodorow ’ . |
| 3 | Look where you are , and then , ’ she reaches out the undamaged arm to drape it cosily over Rainbow 's hunched-up shoulders , ‘ look where I am . |
| 4 | She cleans up the Black Prince and puts him back on his table . |
| 5 | ‘ No , it 's just that my sister 's going out , ’ she says , as she picks up the various plastic carrier bags already waiting in the hall . |
| 6 | Her manner and her uniform will secure the patient 's trust as she carries out the necessary investigations , while her understanding of the aims of the study will ensure that she can offer the research team more than columns of figures . |
| 7 | ‘ I warn you — I 'm not going to pull any punches , ’ Howard tells Miriam when she comes back the following week with the film crew . |
| 8 | They are , what , there , they goes up the Catholic school where your sister 's kids go |
| 9 | When he wins he turns up the next week as if nothing 's happened — and as if he has n't got a penny to his name , that 's the difference between Seve and others — what sets him apart a bit , I suppose . |
| 10 | It insists that this is therefore the best guide to what they should do , that it points out the right direction for continuing and developing that practice . |
| 11 | He 's extremely cheerful , if somewhat misguided , as he points out the many features of the room , and mentions that the public rooms in the Cottage will be opened at seven o'clock . |
| 12 | He points out the surprising truth that an accurate random sample of 1,000 people will work whether it is taken from a population of 5,000 , five million or 50 million . |
| 13 | oh just shoving sheets of plate into a , a machine that comes down and it take , it goes out the other end and you put another one in all day long |
| 14 | I 'm gon na have a wee Bill 's bloody worse , he stands there , he looks out the bloody window as much as any bugger . |
| 15 | She was afraid then , rather as a skier might feel when he looks down the steep whiteness of a dangerous slope , or a high diver who seems far above the water , but the sensation was so unusual to her that she could n't be sure that it was entirely unpleasant still strongly mixed , as it was , with curiosity . |
| 16 | But another thing is you see where Sandra lives , you saying that where she lives is apparently erm P C , now I do n't know him , but she does he lives up the same road and when people park did n't she tell you this when we were coming down ? |
| 17 | Tonight he holds back the ill-concealed shudders and caresses the swelling head , he bends and kisses the skin exposed . |
| 18 | Well I must say I much prefer it like that cos it covers up the ugly fence . |
| 19 | Filigree Street crosses its turnwise end in the manner of the crosspiece of a T , and the Broken Drum is so placed that it looks down the full length of the street . |
| 20 | The top riders never appear to be hurrying — in fact Mark Todd often appears to be quite casual as he clocks up the fastest time of the day . |
| 21 | And the next morning when they get up Ruth makes his way into the town , and he goes to where all the , the men sit and they talk , the city gate , and there he he searches out the nearer relative of Ruth 's . |
| 22 | The route this year will once again start from Bournemouth Pier , run along the promenade up to Hengistbury Head , before leaving the line of the sea as it heads up the scenic cliff tops and down to Boscombe Pier . |
| 23 | At the instant of applying the excess rudder , it speeds up the outer wing-tip , creating more lift there , and gives the inner wing ‘ sweep back ’ in relation to the airflow , thus increasing the tendency to tip stall on that wing while reducing it on the other . |
| 24 | He digs up the bloody garden round the |
| 25 | Woods ' concepts of reality and illusion become blurred and he ends up the living incarnation of the television lie , developing a slit in his stomach that can accept video cassettes , guns , hands — anything . |
| 26 | You lay the Axminster carpet on top of the cable , trampling all over it , over a number of years and again the old thing happens , it wears down the outer protective cabling , it breaks down the insulation and then you get a fire situation burning away , smouldering away underneath your carpet because while ever your er electrical appliance is switched on heat is being generated . |
| 27 | Impressively placed and considerably exposed , it hangs on the vertical right wall of the corner with a straight drop to North-West Gully , an uninterrupted 150ft ( 45m ) below . |
| 28 | ‘ I think it has something to do with the word counselling ; people seem afraid of it — maybe it conjures up the wrong image — that they feel they 've failed in some way if they have to resort to counselling . |
| 29 | It conjures up the bad image about opiates on a general scale , y'know . |
| 30 | It conjures up the same emotions that have led to the horrors of ‘ ethnic cleansing ’ in Bosnia , with rival religious and political groups staking out new dividing lines . |