Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nonsense , because almost without exception the candidates themselves will have been selected by that supposedly indifferent party machine . |
| 2 | While here at home the Liederene ploughs on , Though many punters think the magic 's gone . |
| 3 | At the mention of shooting , as though right on cue the faint sound of gunfire erupted on the night wind . |
| 4 | It conveniently marks the beginning of nineteenth-century poetry , though not of course the end of eighteenth-century readers , who lingered on till after 1832 , so that in the first three decades of the new century a great battle of taste was fought out , largely over Wordsworth 's ‘ simple ’ poetry . |
| 5 | For a change the weather was fine , and when shortly after midnight the company second in command went round to visit the soldiers in the trenches , he found morale high . |
| 6 | The main flambeaux along the deck all died out suddenly so as not to backlight the fighting machines . |
| 7 | It does in fact work quite well , provided that you 're actually using the thing , but when out of use the arm seriously impedes any muting of the strings at the bridge . |
| 8 | There was a bridge below , where the track crossed the Glen , and there were three good fording places , level and safe , for even in spate the Glen was not a deep or dangerous river , only an unruly one . |
| 9 | God needs his nourishment , his daily fix of souls as by the million every day we drop off the perch , and so Bernard and Apricot — renamed Ellen as a condition of marriage — if they 're to do God 's will , must reproduce till the cows come home , though nowadays of course the cows never leave home in the first place , they 're linked up permanently to milking machines . |