Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [vb base] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When comparing fractions some pupils may compare numerators only or select as the largest fraction the one which has the largest numerator and largest denominator . |
| 2 | For the pulsing of the walls was slow and vegetal and the pillars soared and rose in a tracery of veins and she was in a hollow in some living thing with no way out above or below nor escape to the sides . |
| 3 | So whatever level of runner you are you ca n't do better than get into the Mizuno powerhouse . |
| 4 | Reading around for background to Shakespeare is valuable , and you ca n't do better than begin with the Harley Granville Barker 's Prefaces to Shakespeare , which analyse the plays from both a scholarly and dramatic angle , without being ponderously academic . |
| 5 | Slice the kidneys thickly and add to the pan with the lemon juice . |
| 6 | They took turns to walk around inside and sit on the bunks and then George left to go home for tea . |
| 7 | When you can feel a steady breeze on your back , pull the line gently and call to the helper to release . |
| 8 | Write your plans below and evaluate at the next C.P.S. |
| 9 | Then as you start to make the point you 'll find your hands will come up naturally and bend from the elbows it sounds crazy to say but if if you suddenly go coo I 've got everything in me pocket but |
| 10 | IN MID-SUMMER , contemplating a day on the beach , Truronians will cast an eye skywards and decide on the instant whether to head for the north coast or the south . |
| 11 | Nobody can seriously suggest that we turn back the clock entirely and return to the world of Constable 's Haywain , where there was a good deal of misery and hunger amidst all that beauty . |
| 12 | Go , get your mum or somebody to get all your paperwork together and go to the C A B. |
| 13 | Such units , consisting of a few closely related families , contain between a dozen and sixty individuals who live together and cultivate under the direction of their elder , whose chief responsibility is the allocation and control of arable land . |
| 14 | Add them together and divide by the number you 've got . |
| 15 | My men , whom I had instructed to keep close together and sing from the time they left the camp until they joined me on the forest road , were not due for an hour and a half , and during this time it was more than likely that the tigress would break cover and try to stalk or rush me . |
| 16 | By the poetry of history the crown of the British sovereign , who ceased to rule in all but name in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 , is the only one of consequence , the papal tiara aside , still used in the rite of coronation . |
| 17 | So rather than sit at the counter and do it they they have rooms which you can go to and erm get interviewed |
| 18 | Ginny managed to take off her coat , put the milk away and turn on the oven before he ran the pad to earth on the table beside his armchair . |
| 19 | A take away and caff at the South end of the main street near sign posts in miles and furlongs , also unique in our experience it serves the finest battered cod we can ever recall eating . |
| 20 | And I went berserk about two nights later and said for god 's sake you 're driving me bonkers , go away and sleep on the sofa . |
| 21 | And then they just smile at each other and look away and talk about the weather et cetera . |
| 22 | So , course a bit later we all went off to bed and er well I , the next thing I remember were was er me father coming grabbing out to me and me brother , and chucking us more or less out of ou get off downstairs and get under the table ! |
| 23 | You went from Street , if you went downstairs and come out the back road and cut across the square you were in Street . |
| 24 | There 's a pretty powerful body of opinion that thinks Germany and Britain will link up one day soon and turn on the States . |
| 25 | A progressive tax on the more productive regions and peasants might have been more just and welcome from the political point of view , but it was not applied for fear of removing the incentive to sow from the better-placed peasants . |
| 26 | Go into a tavern tonight and listen to the music played there . |
| 27 | If the Minister of State wants to see what that is like , she should go into the City tonight and look at the number of people who are sleeping in the cold because there is no accommodation for them . |
| 28 | Their layered structure and microscopic size 100 times smaller than a skin cell — enable the liposome to penetrate into the epidermis easily and integrate with the intercellular tissue . |
| 29 | We did n't have much to do , just sit at a table or something , and when it 's over I go outside and sit in the car , and Peckinpah comes out and gives me this look . |
| 30 | She could not sleep and , remembering that Ronald Travis would be on duty , decided to wait until her parents had gone to bed , then slip outside and go to the signal box to see her lover . |