Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the [noun sg] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well this this of course erm shuts off the freezer that thing . |
| 2 | Galway , who warned : ‘ When a mining company goes out the door that 's when problems start for the people left behind ’ . |
| 3 | Andy sits in an ancient bulging armchair , its fake brown leather rubbed through to the fabric net underneath in places and burnished to a deep black shine on the arms ; he nurses his whisky and looks into the fire most of the time . |
| 4 | But I shall never lead a normal life because I 'm so short — we 're both short — that 's why Tilda stands on the deck half the day , it 's because somebody told her that you only grow taller while you 're standing up . |
| 5 | I think you have to sort of , lay your ground rules , I mean state your case , quite early on and it , I mean , you know , if , if you 're not good first thing in the morning , you know , you could tell someone you need three cups of coffee before you 're safe to approach or if erm , there 's a lazy slob who sort of lies on the sofa all day , you could throw the dishcloth at him , or erm , and also , I mean if it , if there are sort of badly behaved pets and , and children , erm , you know , just , just do n't invite them , and if that means your guest list is , is somewhat shorter then all to the good . |
| 6 | Advocacy is the skill of good presentation and information , and that starts on the day that you first interview a client . |
| 7 | The Northamptonshire mansion reopens to the public this weekend for the first time since the death of his father . |
| 8 | As it stands at the moment all we 've done is thrown numbers at the typing |
| 9 | Neil MacDonald looks at the havoc this is creating in a coup-prone land . |
| 10 | In thinking about what Stalinism brought to his country , Kundera thinks of the support this despotism has received from the writers of his country , and of other countries . |
| 11 | Cut out a circle , 1cm ( ½inch ) outside the line , and cut snips into the circle all the way round to a depth of 1cm ( ½inch ) . |
| 12 | I mean , it does n't mean what it says in the dictionary any more . |
| 13 | She said , I ca n't believe what it says in the paper any more |
| 14 | Mystical experience as a peculiarly human goal has a long cultural history which bears on the way these writers express themselves . |
| 15 | Conventional electricity generation loses to the atmosphere enough heat for the needs of every home , office and factory in the country . |
| 16 | The procession , which takes place on the Saturday before the first Monday in August , leaves the town hall at 2pm and arrives at the cathedral some two hours later . |
| 17 | It closes off the street half way and you know George Street is a commercial street erm delivery lorries will go up and not know where to turn round and come back or what entrance or exit they can use , and also because traffic ca n't use it it will simply put a terrific amount on another of the main streets , namely Beaumont Street . |
| 18 | Mention of that ground immediately conjures in the mind another typically formidable Hateley goal : from August 1991 , destruction of Celtic , when he pounced upon possession just inside the opposition half , proceeded to forge ahead while defenders were dragging anchors behind him , and rounded Pat Bonner before lashing the ball into the net . |
| 19 | Mr Blackburn said the City would be ‘ scratching around ’ to find profit increases in the industry this year , although falling profits did not suggest societies were financially unsound . |
| 20 | Computing , being a popular science for many , innovates in the vernacular such as ‘ hack attack ’ for a storm of computer hackers while California delivers its own ‘ valspeak ’ for inhabitants of the San Fernando Valley outside Los Angeles . |
| 21 | and he knew who it was see cos he goes up the pub same as he does . |
| 22 | The dissatisfaction stems from the impression some students get of Rag . |
| 23 | A ‘ FLYING squad ’ of experts takes to the road this month and early May to help East Anglian farmers tackle probably their most important office job for years . |
| 24 | A sixth-year pupil at Glasgow 's Kelvinside Academy , he takes to the air this summer after winning a Royal Air Force flying scholarship , which will give him 30 hours at the controls of a light aircraft and see him going solo during his course . |
| 25 | Two scientists from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have observed a fall of as much as 50 per cent since 1982 in what is known as the " Arctic haze " , a cloud of pollutants that forms over the region each spring . |
| 26 | He sits in the kitchen all that time . |
| 27 | And they 've got this doberman or something that barks all the time like , and it 's allowed i in the garden and it sits in the garden all the time and all the rest of it ! |
| 28 | Experiments are strong on causal logic , which accounts for the enthusiasm some social scientists have had for them . |
| 29 | The news was welcomed by members of Darlington Health Authority which has now reversed a trend , after having some of the fastest growing waiting lists in the region this time last year . |
| 30 | It is intended that these articles should be in addition to current missionary writing which appears in the magazine each month . |