Example sentences of "[subord] [noun prp] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeing Harry coming down the wet , narrow street , she knew straight away that he was bringing bad news . |
| 2 | He had learned one vital piece of information where Riddle went on the night of his disappearance — and he had no wish to persecute these youngsters , who seemed to have acted with good intentions . |
| 3 | Than Tun stepped up the propaganda campaign to end military government . |
| 4 | Second and third produced a 9–9 stalemate , so Harrogate kept up the pressure for a final place after their 13–7 home victory over Winnington Park . |
| 5 | Once Univel softens up the marketplace and the marketplace protests that it has only so much money and ca n't possibly buy both NetWare and UnixWare , poof , Univel is integrated back into Novell . |
| 6 | Conservative Ministers were , then , no more able than Gaitskell to hold back the rising tide of demand for electricity , which , if the system were not to break down and new connections to be refused , the Boards had to follow up with new investment . |
| 7 | After a while , of course , the woebegone aspect of the crossed-in-love becomes very irritating , especially if one is being unjustly blamed for it , so Lydia ripped out the last of the fluff that formed , as it were , the bird 's underclothes , rose to her feet gripping her pheasant by its knees , and then bent over and kissed Beuno . |
| 8 | From here to the final stages it was all uphill , and with six furlongs left St Denis had had enough , so Achilles took up the running until the runners came into the straight . |
| 9 | Nothing annoyed Viola Machin more , as a general rule , than Hilda putting on the broad Lancashire . |
| 10 | ‘ We could see the house was on fire so Mark kicked down the door but we were met by a wall of flames , ’ said Mr Wynne . |
| 11 | The letter had been ripped open so Dexter drew out the note within , a sheet torn from a reporter 's notebook . |
| 12 | Gareth broke his leg while he was clearing snow in 1982 and the milk from the herd of Guernseys could not be got away , so Rachel got out the separator and sold cream locally . |
| 13 | So even if Lisa made up the deliveries , there was no reason why she should make the connection . |
| 14 | Dada contradicted everything Aunt Tossie said , so they stayed at Newmarket until Twomey brought in the pudding . |
| 15 | ‘ It would n't surprise me , ’ Masha said , ‘ if Likud carried out the massacre . ’ |
| 16 | I could n't understand what was wrong with him until Frankie pulled out the other two from behind the boiler and found them in a similar state . |
| 17 | She knew that Faye had issued the invitation to Tom as a deliberate part of her campaign to bring the two of them together , and somehow she had to summon the courage today … or soon … to tell her patient that it just was n't working , it was pointless , and she would prefer it if Faye gave up the idea . |
| 18 | This led to Unionist accusations that the SDLP was boycotting the process ; however , the Ulster Unionist Party announced on May 29 that it was also withdrawing until Brooke cleared up the procedural issues . |
| 19 | Since August 12th Mr Hussein has repeated like a gramophone the refrain that he will not budge from Kuwait until Israel gives up the West Bank and Gaza . |
| 20 | If Claris finishes off the program properly , then it 'll certainly give WindowWorks a run for its money . |
| 21 | ‘ Imagine if Mike picked up the paper and read ‘ Wife lops husband 's head off with a fish slice on a Sunday afternoon ’ and found out it was us . ’ |
| 22 | If Ince sorts out the midfield with Palmer , I 'll be amazed if Shearer and Wright fail to get on the scoresheet . |
| 23 | I did not know what had been done beforehand , and what still required to be done , until Douglas handed over the papers to me on 12 September . |
| 24 | Jimmy has a box of 0 cricket balls , each weighing 1 kg but he found that he had to take two out of the box to make it balance with a 40kg , weight , The equation which describes this balance would be : unc If Jimmy put back the two cricket balls into the box what would happen to the balance ? |
| 25 | The major significance of the Government 's changes is highlighted by the fact that , whereas SERPS held out the prospect of guaranteeing every pensioner an income above the supplementary pension level , no Government minister had felt able to give a similar guarantee for the Thatcher pension reform . |
| 26 | Right now the others are chatting with Guy Holmes and Tamzin , discussing their love lives — in Fred and Rob 's cases matters of quite rampaging heterosexual complexity — while Richard talks down the phone to South Africa , saying ‘ success has a price … ’ |
| 27 | It 's only three months since Dupont took over the factory from ICI . |
| 28 | Yes , things have n't been the same since Fred fell down the cellar steps and broke his neck " |
| 29 | While Venturous bottled up the seaward end of the Swale , Vigilant waited in the Medway near Sheerness for signs of the quarry . |
| 30 | There was silence while Bartocci thought through the implications of this remark . |