Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [conj] [vb -s] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have the sort of hairstyle that shows up the root regrowth within three weeks , necessitating retouching with either bleach or colourant , consider a restyle . |
| 2 | There is a delightful passage where he addresses himself to the role of dreams and faces out the difficulty inherent in medieval lore which others like Chaucer resolve through ambiguity : namely , that in a situation where some dreams were held to reveal truth and others to be the products of a disordered digestive system , it is difficult to distinguish true from false . |
| 3 | She stammers a kind of apology and wriggles up the bed so her face touches mine . |
| 4 | Guillaume , the third Bretonnian King , defeats a large Orc army at the Battle of Armandur and drives out the last of the Orcs from northern Bretonnia . |
| 5 | Sitting down together to work out what are reasonable contributions to the relationship on both sides satisfies the teenager 's sense of fairness and cuts out the constant nagging , pleading and resentment that so quickly sours the good relationship that parents and children need to enjoy together . |
| 6 | And if I said to you those three elements of communication that makes up the hundred percent of it yes ? |
| 7 | Certainly , in this book , we shall need to include participants ' beliefs about most of the above parameters , including the place of the current utterance within the sequence of utterances that makes up the discourse . |
| 8 | The strength of neo-elitism is best seen against the background of pluralism ; as a critique of pluralism it introduces the concept of non-decision-making and points up the failure of pluralist methods to define properly what is meant by the term ‘ key issues ’ . |
| 9 | But anyway the idea we have to fix up some sort of system that picks up the the targets from that . |
| 10 | He was a bit bird-like , a picky eater ( especially when he was paying ) , fast in his movements and very thin in the sort of way that brings out the motherly best in women . |
| 11 | To be just , that is to say , to justify its existence , criticism should be partial , passionate and political , that is to say , written from an exclusive point of view that opens up the widest horizons . |
| 12 | Conventional wisdom tells us that it is the lure of civilization that breaks up the old life , Tromø 's video games and bars pulling the Lappish kids down out of the forest into the town . |
| 13 | You suggest that Detroit should ‘ join its suburban neighbours in a regional government that does away with redundancies and evens out the huge inequities in school financing and municipal services ’ ( May 8th ) . |
| 14 | Sadly , the city can not do what is most needed : join its suburban neighbours in a regional government that does away with redundancies and evens out the huge inequities in school financing and municipal services . |
| 15 | Teclis returns to Ulthuan and takes up the position of High Loremaster in the Tower of Hoeth . |
| 16 | The new law increases fines for shopworkers found guilty of selling cigarettes to children to £2,500 and tightens up the previous legislation in a number of other ways . |
| 17 | What is it about kitchens at parties that brings out the homing pigeon in everybody ? |