Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [coord] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Athelstan turned to the porter and tossed him a silver coin . |
| 2 | So I 'm afraid you 'll just have to contain your Aries impatience a little longer — unless , of course , you intend to call the porter and have me put out … ’ |
| 3 | The visitors might have replied almost immediately when Mark Stepney rounded the defence but put his shot wide . |
| 4 | Northumberland National Park were pleased at the response and felt it was a very worthwhile event , while in the Peak District 17 schools took part . |
| 5 | To achieve more precise control over the response and quantify it , the researchers immobilized the slug by pinning it to a stage and standardizing the tactile stimulus by using a jet of water delivered with a water-pick . |
| 6 | Now does that have a er I , I know you lose the income but does it , does it penalize you at all ? |
| 7 | ( See Hall v Marians 19 TC 582 , Wild v King Smith 24 TC 86 , IRC v Gordon 33 TC 226 cf Lord Radcliffe in Thompson v Moyse 39 TC 29 at 337 ; it is not felt that Harmel v Wright 49 TC 149 at 159 alters the position because if one is " keeping one 's eye " ( p157E ) on the income and benefit it does not find its way to the United Kingdom ( it is hardly the case that the income and benefit " come in at one end of a conduit pipe and pass through certain traceable pipes until they come out at the other end to the taxpayer ( in the United Kingdom " ) ) . ) |
| 8 | All the Official Custodian was doing was receiving the income and paying it over to the charities . |
| 9 | They came before the tent and prostrated themselves on the ground before following their chief to prison . |
| 10 | The evening was cloudless and warm and after pitching the tent and cooking something called " Hunter 's Goulash " ( a freeze-dried meal that I 'd brought home from a trip along the Appalachian Trail — it tasted like fried sofa stuffing doused with monosodium glutamate ) , I walked up the narrow lane above the youth hostel to watch the sun going down behind Pikedaw Hill tingeing the sky a dusky orange — a wonderful sight . |
| 11 | It was a means of providing controlled access to the unspoilt beauty of the Park and keep it that way . |
| 12 | Her eyes were clear of tears ; she looked from a great height down into the park and saw its order and its beauty so determinedly brought forth . |
| 13 | Magnus seized the opportunity and led his troops forward . |
| 14 | Pople seized the opportunity and applied his mathematical skills to carbocations — renegade molecules that violate conventional structural rules , square planar as opposed to tetrahedral four coordinate carbon . |
| 15 | She said a tiny minority were making life miserable for the majority and said it was time to tackle the root causes of crime . |
| 16 | She said a tiny minority were making life miserable for the majority and said it was time to tackle the root causes of crime . |
| 17 | When the crowds had left after the second home match , Chapman met the helpers in the stand and asked them to take him on trust , asserting that the changes were in the club 's interest . |
| 18 | If you just put the figures in the calculator and write it down and it 's wrong or this one times that one . |
| 19 | I strode over to the bookstall and bought myself a map of the place . |
| 20 | The difference between a direct hot water cylinder and an indirect one is that the latter has a heat exchanger , often in the form of a coiled pipe , which takes the hot water from the boiler and passes its heat to the domestic hot water in the cylinder , the two never mixing . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | To round up clans of Ayoreo Indians with the dubious intent of rescuing them for Christianity , massacring those resistant to ‘ taming , imprisoning the remainder and allowing them to sink into ill-health and torpor , seems monstrous . |
| 23 | Due to the timescale involved in ordering the guitar and building it , this competition will close a little earlier than would normally be the case — on 19th February 1993 . |
| 24 | Anyway , I was living in Boston at the time , but I was in a studio in Oslo and saw a Lexicon there , noticed that the company was in Boston and said , ‘ Can you put it on the guitar and see what it sounds like ? ’ |
| 25 | At that point were both of you behind the shield or had he stepped out from behind ? |
| 26 | I know schools up the [ place in West Belfast ] who would welcome us , but what happened one time , a school up there won the trophy and the next day some boys [ i.e. from the IRA ] came demanding the shield and threatening what they would do to certain teachers if it was n't handed over . |
| 27 | Suddenly there were policemen everywhere who ran into the suite and made everyone get up against the wall with their hands above their heads . |
| 28 | A phenomenon which can occur on a high speed reach when air bubbles work their way down the skeg and cause it to lose its grip in the water . |
| 29 | Death will quickly draw the veil and make us see how near we were to God and one another , and did not sufficiently know it . |
| 30 | An unsuspecting crew member intercepted a call destined for the prince and passed it on to Diana . |