Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I completed my 100 metre strides after they 'd gone , my heels flicking up the divots on to the back of my head . |
| 2 | I closed my eyes to shut out the glow from the cloverleaf window and tried for sleep . |
| 3 | I do n't paint from dark to light or light to dark in any special sequence , but as my eyes flit over the paper I add bits of colour here and there . |
| 4 | But I was a little person in er a commu community of little person and er my brothers worked down the pit and I believe it was an advantage not to be much greater than five foot in height down the pits . |
| 5 | When I return my headlights sweep over the boss and this woman . ’ |
| 6 | My breath rasped in my throat , and a slight light-headedness I had started to feel owing to hyperoxygenating earlier waned as my muscles took up the slack of the extra power in my blood . |
| 7 | I frantically started to use my hands to bale out the water in an attempt to avoid the seemingly inevitable embarrassing swim in to the beach and the awaiting crowd of families and friends . |
| 8 | Once few dared the wrath of Caledor , for their Dragonriders could ravage a foe 's armies and lands in hours , the great leathery wings of their mounts blotting out the sky with their numbers . |
| 9 | Moreover , its attempts to weed out the next Barlow Clowes are not considered impressive . |
| 10 | Insurance market 's ‘ momentous ’ decision will spark head-on confrontation with leading corporate rivals Lloyd 's of London rewrites its rules to take on the European competition . |
| 11 | Insurance market 's ‘ momentous ’ decision will spark head-on confrontation with leading corporate rivals Lloyd 's of London rewrites its rules to take on the European competition . |
| 12 | Why did she feel no embarrassment or fear at letting her fingers trace down the hair-roughened muscles of his chest to skim the flat planes of his stomach and then move on ? |
| 13 | Thus David Reynolds and Christopher Thorne have resorted to such phrases as " competitive co-operation " or " allies of a kind " in their attempts to sum up the famous wartime partnership . |
| 14 | Seen from a distance at night , the dimly lit vehicles resembled ‘ the folds of some gigantic and luminous serpent which never stopped and never ended ’ On either side of the road their headlamps lit up the bowed backs of the endless columns of marching men . |
| 15 | I like it when when wh it floods in town and you can go down and watch foreigners standing looking at the roofs of their cars floating down the Ouse and you think Yeah ! . |
| 16 | She crossed the room and with a resolute shrug of her shoulders picked up the receiver . |
| 17 | She moved when he came in , her shoulders sliding up the curved enamel , her breasts breaking the surface . |
| 18 | The story goes its designers drew up the plans in millimetres and the maker mistook the measurements for inches . |
| 19 | In 1889 the NAS&FU 's instruction to its members not to sign on with any company until all Liverpool shipowners had acceded to its demands stiffened up the resolution of the thirteen principal lines affected . |
| 20 | Their eyes open around the ninth day . |
| 21 | Her lips pout around the filter and her cheeks collapse in as she draws deeply . |
| 22 | The look in her eyes filled in the unspoken words in her sentence . |
| 23 | She pushed him away , closing her eyes to shut out the present image of his face . |
| 24 | ‘ Anything might have happened , ’ she said , putting her hands over her eyes to shut out the horrors of the market , remembering with longing the cellophane-wrapped , refrigerated coolness of the shops at home . |
| 25 | Her eyes ran down the black jacket to where the man 's watch was half hidden by a white cuff . |
| 26 | Madeleine started adding up again , nodding her head as her eyes strayed down the page , moving her lips . |
| 27 | She closes her eyes squeezing back the tears . |
| 28 | They insist she puts a blanket over her knees to damp down the chief rabbi 's blood pressure . |
| 29 | Gardeners have been inviting the public to look round their allotments to show off the advantages of organic methods of growing vegetables . |
| 30 | ‘ Jeez , I could do with that cup of tea , ’ Mrs Bennet said , putting her hands over her ears to shut out the tumult above , and Anne decided to go upstairs to see if the gas was still on . |