Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tisseran itself is now in the Bate Collection ( illus.4 ) : its painted and gilded case reminding us of the harpsichord the princess is playing in The music party . |
| 2 | A broad-beamed fellow like myself should have no difficulty careering it across the ironing board , although a woman or even a bachelor-wimp might sooner resort to an old-fashioned metal iron than attempt to put this monster through its paces . |
| 3 | Erm so in in broad terms the master plan is is unchanged in concept but we think improved in detail the is the other thing at each end erm represents on the left hand side er , what is currently Honey Hill I believe the name may be changed in due course erm and those behind me here are the houses on the Fern Hill side and then , although some of you will have difficulty seeing it at the moment , at the bottom there are detailed drawings showing the internal arrangement of the houses and flats and , and detailed drawings of the elevations with dimensions , so one can have a have a bit of a feel for the the sort of space standards that we 've aimed at , but there are in fact , furniture plans shown on the drawings . |
| 4 | It is an unrelieved black except for the white flanks but a watcher catching it in the right light might see the head has an iridescent purple sheen which can be striking . |
| 5 | Initial charges are up to 5 p.c. depending which of the 14 underlying funds are chosen . |
| 6 | The second lorry ran into the car 's side sandwiching him in the wreckage . |
| 7 | The duo 's set seemed lethargic , a muddy mix robbing them of the textured subtleties that make their records so invigorating . |
| 8 | Then he lay down on her , his weight sinking her in the bed as if in sand . |
| 9 | Perhaps he walks on the right side , with just the metal grid fence separating him from the rolling fields of graves — in no hurry , since there is no class for him to make . |
| 10 | She was not so lucky with Benton , who sprang up and crashed into her , his arms locking around her waist , their combined momentum slamming them against the door . |
| 11 | Now suppose that the electron 's mass is increased 207 times ( so that it is like a muon ) while it remains subject to the same attractive force holding it around the proton . |
| 12 | What if she does n't want to be swollen to the size of an elephant with a bleeding parasite kicking her in the guts day and night ? |
| 13 | Frege argued that in asserting an existential proposition one is in effect saying something about the relevant concept , namely that certain things fall under it , or , conversely , that nothing falls under it , i.e. that the concept is empty , as the case may be . |
| 14 | He walked away , his long , easy stride taking him down the rough path to the lakeside . |
| 15 | Of the Enlightenment as Kant or Voltaire saw it ( see pp. 411ff below ) , as the human mind liberating itself from the self-imposed tutelage of centuries , a new birth of intellectual adventure , they had no inkling . |
| 16 | But while Tony Lesser is once again listing the Treasury 's objections to the topics Jane and I have proposed for discussion papers , a picture suddenly comes into my mind , with the most painful vividness , of Summerchild dragging himself across the hard wet ground , on the morning of June 24th 1974 , to the locked gates of that yard behind the Admiralty . |
| 17 | She could feel his hot weight pinning her against the mattress , her legs helplessly kicking out as he began remorselessly to stroke her silken side , bringing his hand slowly and repeatedly from shoulder to hip . |
| 18 | We slanted across the river , the wind carrying us against the current , and coasted up the far bank . |
| 19 | This is not exactly a character that springs to mind watching her at the Queen Vic jumping into the sack with her husband 's brother . |
| 20 | As we approached we could hear the real Chairman of the Ontario Jockey Club welcoming everyone to the adventure and we could see Zak and the other actors waiting for him to finish so that they could get on with the mystery . |
| 21 | He chose a place between two snoring servants and laid down to sleep , oblivious to the figure watching him from the shadows . |
| 22 | I held Elizabeth close , and as I held her , I saw the monster watching me through the open window of the room . |
| 23 | I ca n't see any horse beating him in the Kentucky Derby . |
| 24 | ‘ At the last pre-inquiry meeting someone from the Department of Transport jumped up and said it was the first he had heard of the pylons , ’ she said . |
| 25 | Their recruitment policy has worked very well for them and they are by far the largest outside America , although they are still having great difficulty establishing themselves in the USA . |
| 26 | The decline in rough grassland/moor may reflect its ‘ better ’ agricultural management bringing it into the category of permanent grassland instead . |
| 27 | At one point they fell out and Schine chased Cohn through a hotel lobby swatting him over the head with a rolled-up magazine , to the delight of the large Press corps , who wrote stories headlined after the dialogue of the famous duo , ‘ Positively , Mr Cohn ! ’ and ‘ Absolutely , Mr Schine ! ’ |
| 28 | Thus , in the context of consensual sexual activity with a girl under the age of 16 , it states : ‘ Most of us think that acts such as oral sex are extremely serious ( perhaps more likely to disturb a young girl meeting them for the first time than sexual intercourse ) . ’ |
| 29 | All the windows in the farmhouse had been shattered , the whole scene resembling something from the Blitz . |
| 30 | Lying on a pallet in the downstairs chamber , the deceased woman laid out upstairs , the only sounds came from the cat cleaning itself by the hearth and an owl hooting raucously outside . |