Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [adv prt] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is very easy for a Secretary to fail to capture the feeling of a meeting when he or she writes up the minutes . |
| 2 | The Second Fairy brings Grace and dances slightly faster in such a way that she shows off the lines of her body as it faces forwards and then backwards ( the traditional gesture ) . |
| 3 | She sets out the details of how she feels the patient should be handled , so that the carers and everyone else involved will all help him to move in the same way . |
| 4 | This is done as follows : If the number ‘ one ’ is called she spells out the letters O N E to land on the yellow smartie . |
| 5 | She sorts out the vests trying several against the doll and saying , ‘ It 's only halfway up her ’ . |
| 6 | At the same time it plays down the dangers of pollution . |
| 7 | One of the central features of the company is that it separates out the functions of ownership and management . |
| 8 | doctrine of original sin under the guise of a genetically determined bio-grammar of cultural values , by colleagues who would clearly like to think of themselves as hard-boiled scientific rationalists , both amusing and disconcerting ; but it points up the difficulties of the problem ! |
| 9 | But I do n't drink very much — it slows up the reflexes and I play squash and tennis two or three times a week . ’ |
| 10 | He ladles out the contents of the pot while I am wondering if the laibon thinks it was a handy way to get rid of a rival . |
| 11 | It builds up the foundations of the grammar system and essential vocabulary , as appropriate to the learner 's needs at this level . |
| 12 | An onshore wind will also be difficult since it builds up the waves into difficult chop which can break on the beach with mast-breaking force . |
| 13 | But this may be the grandest folly yet : a totally unsympathetic character ( a man as hard to empathize with as Mick Hucknall , whose ‘ Money Too Tight to Mention ’ graces the second commercial ) in unbelievable situations , doing ridiculous things with no discernible connection to beer at all ( unless , of course , he 's drunk when he tears up the plans , gets fired , breaks back into the offices and holds the board at gunpoint while he sells their cars ) . |
| 14 | Like a detective displaying the only clues in a case in which he has become personally involved , he holds out the croci with a shrug of quiet resolve . |
| 15 | But , because it tones up the muscles and firms the body , you may well lose inches . |
| 16 | When he scrapes back the bolts I wince . |
| 17 | ‘ It mangles up the clothes , she says . |
| 18 | He fills up the streams and the paths , like veins |
| 19 | He fills up the rivers he fills up the roads , like tentacles |
| 20 | When he fills up the gaps within the five hundred and twelve row blocks he gets . |
| 21 | He fills up the rivers he fills up the roads , like tentacles |
| 22 | On his newest album , Double Good Everything ( Capitol ) he measures out the steps a soul man must take to remain on top of the game . |
| 23 | Then , with delicate movements of his webbed hind feet , toes distended so that they form a fan , he gathers up the eggs and gently spreads them over the female 's back . |
| 24 | It evens out the peaks coping with fluctuations in work and ensuring continuous work flow . |
| 25 | It cuts out the effects of the age structure of the population which can confound simpler measures such as the crude birth-rate . |
| 26 | ‘ It shows up the differences . ’ |
| 27 | Budgeting often embraces both dimensions : it marks out the routines through which mothers confront , and struggle to contain , the conflict between individual health and economic survival . |
| 28 | Keeping him in overnight was just a precautionary measure because of his age and past history , but I do n't see why he should n't go , provided he keeps up the antibiotics . |
| 29 | And so every year between Christmas Day and New Year 's Day , he takes over the kitchens at Hampton Court with his forty assistants and runs them . |
| 30 | ‘ It all depends on how he ( Brand ) plays , ’ said the Spanish star , delighted to be back in contention a week after finishing second in Switzerland and two weeks before he takes on the Americans in the Ryder Cup again . |