Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] the [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he scrapes back the bolts I wince . |
| 2 | On the contrary — it uses up the time we 've saved with the dishwasher and the vacuum cleaner . |
| 3 | He fills up the rivers he fills up the roads , like tentacles |
| 4 | Its defence mechanism is not rapid reproduction like the greenfly , instead it surrounds itself with the familiar frothy blob of air bubbles that it forms as it spits out the sap it has taken from the plant — instead of spitting it back into the plant . |
| 5 | The pupil builds up the words he wants in a stand , and can test out his ideas without having to commit them to paper yet . |
| 6 | Inert , mute , untouchable , she seemed uncanny and prodigious to Rosa , who wanted her to protest the hectic fury all around her , to come alive and give a sign , as , below her , the volunteers hauling the lumbering shrine on their backs on poles criss-crossed and tethered grew more obstreperous and howled and the crowd pressed up and obstructed their laborious way ahead ; after three turns around the piazza they at last reached the platform in the middle , only a little distance from the Duomo they had left , and the sweat-streaked bearers put down the skewed tower on which the Madonna stood , and tumbled to their knees . |
| 7 | And the BOR is a friendly fellow too ; he may sometimes be a rough diamond , he may swear and complain about the weather , the food , the British Government , but he shrewdly weighs up the people he meets . |
| 8 | GRIPPING SCENE : Proud pop picks up the tot he once refused to carry |
| 9 | It sets out the ways we intend to support various groups of people in the community and their carers . |
| 10 | ( a ) which sets out the data you assembled during your research in sufficient detail to allow your reader to understand the analysis that is to follow ; and ( b ) which refers your reader to more detailed research data in the appendices to your report . |
| 11 | Nostalgia for simple sensory experience cancels out the pain I did n't recognise then . |
| 12 | Then , as your write a letter the computer interprets it and pops up the letter it thinks you have written . |
| 13 | When a fish sucks in the bait it lifts the bottom shot off the bottom and so allows the buoyancy of the float to take over , resulting in the antenna rising out of the water like the sword Excalibur . |
| 14 | comes out the Navy he will have to pay then . |