Example sentences of "[vb base] [pos pn] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a youngster in the 1950s my greatest delight was to run on to the pitch at Murrayfield after the full-time whistle , pat my heroes on the back and not wash my hands for a week , much to the disgust of my mother . |
| 2 | And now I really make my jokes on the spot . |
| 3 | I tap my fingers on the table and look at McDunn 's cigarette packet , hoping he 'll get the hint . |
| 4 | I propose , therefore , to enjoy this last cigarette , warm my hands above the stumpy candle , and think with due care and compassion about the true story I have to relate . |
| 5 | There 's a man cooking chestnuts on the corner and I stop and warm my hands over the fire and look at the Christmas tree . |
| 6 | My fingers are froze , so I warm my hands on the cup for a bit before I try drinking . |
| 7 | The modern veterinary surgeon does not see nearly as many cases of distemper as we used to , simply because most people immunize their puppies at the earliest possible moment . |
| 8 | Most descriptive studies in Britain base their classifications on the Registrar-General 's ranking of occupations from I to V , according to their supposed prestige , with a major division between middle-class or white-collar workers ( I , II , and III non-manual ) and working-class or manual workers ( III manual , IV and V ) . |
| 9 | The public , as clients , equally base their attitudes to the quality of the services they receive on subjective assessments that are more than a little conditioned by their individual social attitudes . |
| 10 | First , there is the question of the correct model on which agents base their expectations of the outcomes of particular policy actions . |
| 11 | The participants place their fingers on the top of an upturned glass or pointer on castors . |
| 12 | The children place their cards in the pack face downwards . |
| 13 | To get the distances correct , have them place their hands on the shoulders of the person in front of them . |
| 14 | At least from the point of with Labour at least they most of them send their kids through the state system so they 've got a little more idea of what they 're talking about . |
| 15 | Food — Farming : Farmers grow their crops in the valleys . |
| 16 | Pilots using them plot their journeys across the uninterrupted emptiness of the Pacific by plotting a course between a series of way-points , random but fixed points above the Ocean that are each given five-letter nonsense names — Neeva , Nytim , Nokka , Nabie , among a host of others — from above which the planes report their positions to the Pacific 's oceanic control centres at Tokyo , Anchorage and Oakland , California . |
| 17 | In addition , the GEMMs , IDBs and SEMBs report their positions at the close of each day to the Bank of England , which analyses them and provides a risk assessment by the next day , although the Bank also takes other broad factors into consideration for its supervisory functions . |
| 18 | In the early 1980s , the Metropolitan police installed Divisional Information Officers to monitor the rise and fall of ‘ tension indicators ’ ( e.g. violence or abuse towards police officers , increasing numbers of complaints against the police and a decline in public co-operation ) in specially targeted local communities and report their findings to the Central Information Unit within the Metropolitan Public Order Branch ( Lloyd , 1989:273–4 ) . |
| 19 | In order that all sections of the Party shall be consulted , area chairmen of the National Union will obtain the opinions of constituency associations , through their chairmen , and report their findings to the chairman of the National Union and the chairman of the Executive of the National Union . |
| 20 | A program allows one to frequently modify the hypertext database and test its consequences for the linear form . |
| 21 | The growing independence of their children , at each successive stage , can be a matter of concern rather than joy for those who over-commit and over-identify their lives with the nurturing of dependent children . |
| 22 | They still build their houses in the arc-like forms , they say , of the ships which once brought them , and their funeral rites , which for their nobility are unequalled for extravagance , are intended to launch the souls of the dead back to the stars of their origins . |
| 23 | A hedge is ideal for ducks to nest in — although they usually build their nests on the ground , using leaves and grass , they like them to be well hidden . |
| 24 | People living within walking distance of the track decorate their houses for the family cookout with checkered flags and banners . |
| 25 | Other candidates spoke of the need to rid West Ham of its slums and provide its children with the opportunity to reach university . |
| 26 | For the next three weeks or so they wean their babies on the frozen sea of the Gulf of St Lawrence . |
| 27 | We are content to acknowledge ourselves beings which sense their surroundings like the animals , but with the power of reason to criticize and to guide the senses . |
| 28 | A one-parent family , living on scraps from the educational world , too proud to seek refuge and warm her hands on the tepid thickly painted radiators of Leeds , to cast off her jerseys and socks on the radiant central heating of Sussex , to lie half-naked in that ill-starred farmhouse in Tuscany . |
| 29 | Not only does allowing the so-called minnows to play the bigger teams provide their players with the highlights of the rugby lives — but it also means that sides like South Korea , conquerors of the Barbarians , get the exposure to top level competition . |
| 30 | Glancing at the animal kingdom as a whole it is apparent that biologically simple organisms regulate their transactions with the environment primarily through a genetic endowment of relatively inflexible action patterns . |