Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [vb base] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , although I recognise that the powers of the Director are circumscribed by section 1(3) and the opening words of section 2(1) , so as to relate only to the investigation of suspected offences , it remains true that the powers which I have summarised are concerned with ‘ the affairs ’ of the suspect , and these must to my mind extend beyond the matters which have caused the charge to be laid . |
| 2 | ‘ My wee cousin gets kept off on Thursdays to help my granny go to the shops . |
| 3 | Did you hear my teacher say about the book ? |
| 4 | He lived in at that time just over the road er down the road here and then something went wrong during the war that was over my father and er cos matter of fact when my father come off the dredger erm the Harbourmaster wanted to give him er he give him the push and turned round and he said my father name was . |
| 5 | And they all jump on me from great heights till corns on my hand seem like the fringe benefits of delirious joy . |
| 6 | I come from quite a large family but most of my family live in the same area . |
| 7 | Science must pursue its course secure in the knowledge that it will not be challenged by dogmatic superstition posing as religion , and religion , for its part , must be able to develop unthreatened by science . |
| 8 | She and her Mum go to the pictures often , and on Saturday nights they fry steak and listen to the radio , and talk until the last embers have faded to ash . |
| 9 | ‘ All those cosy pictures of the family around the fire , all that stiff upper lip during the war — and now she is determined not to see all her work go down the drain . ’ |
| 10 | Rows of the many splendoured jugs which became something of a trademark in her work dangle from the ceiling beams , and one of her own last canvases from the 1980s rests on a paint-splattered easel at the window . |
| 11 | See I know why cos you see her husband he do n't and cos when her husband come for the kids Bob was there and he said I ai n't bloody well going out to them . |
| 12 | National official and technical standards by virtue of their difference have in the past fragmented the European market . |
| 13 | Hastily she ties a negligent knot with her hair , and loose locks on her forehead pry into the dark of her eyes . |
| 14 | For detailed information on PCF and its use refer to the manual entitled IBM Virtual Machine Interactive Productivity Facility Problem Control ( SC24 — 5229 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ Profit-centre ’ managers in their turn submit to the iron law of quarterly or annual return-on-investment ( ROI ) calculation , which hardly encourages them to become far-sighted captains of industry . |
| 16 | AccuCard and its ilk sit between the power supply and the motherboard. so they 're too far downstream to help . |
| 17 | The principle that the courts will not interfere with any decision of a local authority relating to a child in its care save in the most exceptional circumstances relates to the law as it was before the Children Act 1989 . |
| 18 | GLORIA HUNNIFORD takes a trip home to present her show live from the Elmwood Hall . |
| 19 | Her aisling falter in the breeze , |
| 20 | Pascoe saw her hand go towards the puckered scar on the underside of her breast . |
| 21 | The company seems to have been forgiven for its oil spill in the Mersey estuary in 1989 ; it came third in ‘ community and environmental responsibility ’ , only one place down from last time . |
| 22 | She saw Charlton Heston standing up in a jeep , dressed as a desert general , his shirt open to the waist , binoculars hanging against his hairy chest . |
| 23 | He was strolling down the steep narrow street towards the sea , his hands deep in his pockets and his shirt open at the throat , very pale and Londonish , looking about him with the fond , proprietorial air of an Englishman returning to a favourite spot abroad . |
| 24 | He was sweating slightly , overheated from the bath , his shirt open at the neck . |
| 25 | She continued to stand there , eyes closed tightly , long after the front door had closed behind him and she had heard his car disappear down the drive . |
| 26 | At 9.15 am , after his sand save on the 18th , he said : ‘ I 'm going for another kip . ’ |
| 27 | All this the Doctor and his group learn from the aged Keeper of the Conscience , Arbitan . |
| 28 | In the Fiction , before he and his uncle arrive at the farm , Philip the narrator describes the image of Catherine that remained from the earlier encounter : |
| 29 | The letters were written from the point of view of Ingrams 's offspring and mentioned obliquely , among other things , Ingrams ' secession of Private Eye , his ‘ prank ’ affair with Pamela Bordes , and his fashion shoot for the Observer clad in ludicrous youth garb . |
| 30 | The surviving accounts of his triumph dwell on the size of the booty , but of greater interest to us is its dispersal : statues were dedicated in Italian and even in Spanish towns , where Mummius had earlier served as praetor ( judicial magistrate ) and provincial governor . |