Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cardiff slowly pushed at the door , widening the thin jet-black wedge . |
| 2 | Newton only learnt of the charge on Monday , two days before the county appeared in front of the TCCB . |
| 3 | Naturally , the Hagen make the ‘ Muss es sein ? ’ phrase , to the questioning figure which Beethoven thereby put into the musical vernacular , severe and demanding ; so it is , but the answer has a positive affirmation which does not exclude merriment . |
| 4 | Tommy Pickernell duly won on the horse with ease . |
| 5 | However , with their playmaker Turner injured , and his replacement Yendle not really hitting it off with scrum-half Llewellyn , Newport rarely threatened behind the scrum . |
| 6 | Accommodationist states like Jordan and Kuwait only dealt with the Soviet Union because of favours withheld by the United States . |
| 7 | Rex suddenly sobered to the rifle butt which struck him between the shoulder blades . |
| 8 | He said that Ken constantly referred to the ‘ guilt ’ that he felt . |
| 9 | MISS SELFRIDGE manageress Jenny Beckett largely agreed with the River Island theories . |
| 10 | First he made a gourd spring up to protect Jonah from the sun ( by ‘ gourd ’ we are to understand something like the castor-oil plant or Palma Christi , with its rapid growth and all-sheltering leaves ) ; then , with no more than a wave of the silk handkerchief , he sent a maggot to destroy the said gourd , leaving Jonah painfully exposed to the heat . |
| 11 | Hari quickly moved to the foot of the stairs , her head bent to hide the blush that warmed her cheeks . |
| 12 | When the issue of international monetary reform had been seriously debated in 1972 the United States started from the position that ‘ the system should neither bar nor encourage official holdings of foreign exchange ’ , suggesting that ‘ the United States still thought of the SDR as providing a substitute for gold rather than for the dollar ’ ( Williamson , 1977 , p. 176 ) . |
| 13 | Willis and Tilda usually stopped on the way at a little shop in the Vauxhall Bridge Road , which seemed glad of any kind of custom , to buy a quarter of aniseed marbles . |
| 14 | Based on a series of works by Picasso collectively known as the Antipolis cycle , made in 1946 to 1947 , the images have been engraved on to metal plates by Claude Rodrigues and printed uninked ( a technique known as gaufrage ) . |
| 15 | By this conditional statement , Edward clearly referred to the non-performance of the territorial clauses of the 1259 treaty . |
| 16 | Manville nearly choked on the small cheroot he was in the process of lighting up . |
| 17 | Lucy nearly choked on the stuff , but kept it down . |
| 18 | As Gwenellen now worked in the Out Patients Department , which closed at 6 P.M. from Mondays to Fridays and at 12.30 on Saturdays , she was enjoying one of the most envied and regular off-duty shifts in the hospital . |
| 19 | The second day continued where the first day left off : four catches by Hick to equal the record for a Test against Pakistan originally set by the little-remembered spinner Jim McConnon of Glamorgan in 1954 , and then my researches led me to the remarkable fact that John Birch , who played for Notts from 1973 to 1988 , was known as ‘ Bonk ’ . |
| 20 | Mick Ronson : ‘ After the tour , we recorded the album , ‘ Pin-Ups ’ , an album which was just a collection of songs that David really liked from the 60's period , and shortly afterwards , we went to Italy for a holiday . |
| 21 | Greenidge and Fredericks immediately laid into the bowlers , bringing up 50 in 8.3 overs , 100 in 18.2 overs , and at lunch after 27 overs they were 147 without loss . |
| 22 | Proposals to alter Zimbabwe 's Constitution , following the ending in April 1990 of the 10-year moratorium on constitutional changes , precipitated disagreements within the leadership of the ruling ZANU party , with President Robert Mugabe reportedly opposed by the majority of the politburo over his proposals to introduce a one-party state structure . |
| 23 | At his trial , Nicolae Ceauşescu simply switched into the public half of the doublethink which he had imbibed for five decades . |
| 24 | Lands to the value of 300 marks were found for him in England , but half the endowment was found by persuading Guy de Blois , another French hostage , to surrender to Edward the County of Soissons , worth 500 marks a year , which Edward then granted to the new Earl of Bedford . |
| 25 | Whitlock closed the door behind Eddie and Rachel Kruger then returned to the lounge and slumped dejectedly onto the sofa . |
| 26 | In 1935 Louis Aragon proudly proclaimed to the world that his encounter with communism and the revolutionary society of the Soviet Union had transformed him into an entirely new man , had rejuvenated him , re-educated him , and in the process cured him of the social disease of his bourgeois class origins . |
| 27 | Meredith almost crumpled from the erotic sensuality of his practised movements . |
| 28 | His deeds had made his name synonymous with victory ; the Almoravids feared and hated him ; he had overcome all his enemies and won his way back to the position of Alfonso 's vassal — although , in fact , he overshadowed the King in such a way that Alfonso virtually faded from the scene in the next few years . |
| 29 | After the death of Lucius Titius , Publius Maevius again demanded from the heirs of Lucius Titius either the office or its price . |
| 30 | He recalls the car trips across Malta with Frankie firmly lodged in the passenger seat . |