Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly the huge wooden arched door was sprung open and Fernando Serra stepped out of the gloom of the house and into the almost indecent brilliance of the sun . |
| 2 | Peace People development co-ordinator Patrick Corrigan looks back on the mass rallies of 1976 . |
| 3 | They sat in the parlour , on the evening of Saturday , September 2nd , waiting for Menzies ' man Allan Stewart to come back with the news from Blair Atoll . |
| 4 | The colourful draperies of the various stands and tents billowed and flapped gently , as the denizens of Little Tuckett strolled about on the freshly clipped lawns of the vicarage garden , taking in the various delights on offer . |
| 5 | ‘ Kenneth Baker came up in the House to offer congratulations . |
| 6 | For several minutes Morse looked down at the turbid , turgid river ; and his thoughts were as restless as the waters below him . |
| 7 | Muir , omitted from the event last year after an administrative error , needed just 15 ends to help heal the wounds as he sent New Zealand 's Gary Lawson tumbling out of the championship . |
| 8 | Herr Nordern sank on to the sofa and , astonishingly , found himself holding his wife 's hand , and feeling hers firmly gripping his . |
| 9 | Herr Nordern wove unsteadily across the living-room into the bathroom and plunged his face into cold water . |
| 10 | As Ian Macdonald points out in The New Immigration Law ( Butterworths , 1972 ) : |
| 11 | At the first opportunity Sarah went again to the Foundling Hospital , but she did n't approach by Guilford Street in case the porter came out of his lodge and recognized her . |
| 12 | Programme assistant Ian Edgar stood in at the last minute . |
| 13 | Newport were in shreds as Marcus Hannaford cleaned up for the third try . |
| 14 | As Sabrina stood outside the hotel on the Place de la Gare staring up at the Cathedral 's spire silhouetted against the dark , sombre skyline , she let her thoughts drift back over the hours since their departure from New York 's John F. Kennedy Airport . |
| 15 | Charlotte Fischer , Emma Sokell and Sarah Spittle ran both for the College and the University Blues Team , and Vicki Edwards and Katherine Walker played for the University Women 's Tennis Team . |
| 16 | Lisa Stansfield looks forward to the Eighties |
| 17 | Ngo Van Loc reached out in the darkness and clasped both his sons ' hands tightly in his own . |
| 18 | Roger Courtney went back to the raiding of the SBS which we will follow in later Chapters . |
| 19 | Parry , nicknamed Popeye because of his bulging forearms , dropped two shots in five holes and title favourite Faldo moved menacingly alongside the Australian to share the lead on level par , while Lyle was the last of the 28 starters . |
| 20 | That " No provision for the economic rehabilitation of Europe , " appeared was a profound weakness J. M. Keynes pointed out in The Economic Consequences of the Peace ( 1919 ) . |
| 21 | As we entered the kitchen Pat looked up at the roof and the large gaping hole caused by a shell that had passed through two floors then smashed through the kitchen door , ending up in the garden . |
| 22 | A few weeks later Patrick Ashby came back from the dead and went home to inherit the family house and fortune . |
| 23 | When Photoplay 's editor Ken Ferguson went down to the set of The Devil 's Brigade , a World War Two adventure filmed in England in 1968 , he and the other reporters were warned not to try and interview the star . |
| 24 | ‘ In the stunned silence that followed , Miss Honey walked up to the front of the class and stood behind her table . |
| 25 | Miss Honey looked carefully at the tiny girl with dark hair and a round serious face sitting in the second row . |
| 26 | Miss Honey stared hard into the other woman 's wet grey eyes , and she allowed the silence to hang in the air until Mrs Wormwood became uncomfortable . |
| 27 | Miss Honey stood resolutely before the Headmistress . |
| 28 | To Howard 's stubborn insistence that the Nez Perce move immediately to the reservation , Toohoolhoolzote answered : ‘ The earth is part of our body , and we never gave up the earth ’ . |
| 29 | Since scouts had reported no signs of Howard 's anticipated arrival from the south-west , the Nez Perce remained contentedly on the Clearwater . |
| 30 | Wednesday 's players are still furious over the controversial refereeing that saw striker David Hirst sent off in the 3–1 first leg defeat in Kaiserslautern . |