Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you break down on a motorway , do not leave your car , just wait for the motorway patrols to find you . |
| 2 | Nor did it , for the patrol men knew her , and her stirrup light was in order . |
| 3 | Most papers did not mind , however , for the government restrictions kept their paper and printing costs low and enabled them to make good profits from the big demand for advertising space . |
| 4 | Tranmere Rovers verses Swindon Town.Now all it needs is for the Swindon players to hold their nerve and hold on to their two goal advantage . |
| 5 | Absolutely right , and Lindsay said the same , you know , because there is sufficient time for the tour operators to get their act together now and promote the holidays , and given the British tradition , you know , we they will take their holiday , I 'm pretty sure . |
| 6 | In the War , distribution expenditure had been running at only a fifth of the prewar level , and the plans prepared by the undertakings for the Electricity Commissioners show they expected to continue to spend more than half of all their capital on developing distribution , as they had in the 1930s . |
| 7 | Whether handing over stretches , or allowing light railway lines to be built alongside BR lines , it insists on running special training programmes for the LRT workers to ensure their security on the track . |
| 8 | The summer of 1925 was hardly the most propitious moment for the textile unions to make their stand against further wage reductions . |
| 9 | The draft prospectus was accompanied by balance sheets for the water authorities projecting their finances 10 years ahead . |
| 10 | Now all we need is for The Stone Roses to resume their proper business ( which is making records ) and clear away all the current rubbish in the chart ( That would surely mean that The Stone Roses would have to release 100 singles which would all have to chart . |
| 11 | Paul Stock dale , the Secretary of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions ( CSEU ) for the Tyne yards stated their position in the Journal of 24 March 1986 : |
| 12 | So it 's okay in a modern Labour Party for the trades unions to have what is effectively still a block vote ? |
| 13 | He shivered in shop doorways as he waited for the traffic lights to give him green . |
| 14 | The demand for gas soon became too great for the coke ovens to supply it , so gas works were set up . |
| 15 | There is not a lot of case law for the adjudication officers to base their decisions on . |
| 16 | As to what the hon. Gentleman said about those who worked for Karl Construction , the building firm that was decimated on Friday , let me pay here , on the Floor of the House , the most profound tribute to those in civilian employment in the Province who go to work to make it possible for the security forces to do their job . |
| 17 | This is when the pilots who have been hibernating during the winter months get their gliders out and start flying again . |
| 18 | Nevertheless those who frequented Soho during the war years found its post-war existence disappointing . |
| 19 | For example in Belfast , information collected during the community studies enabled us to attempt such an explanation in terms of group pressure to adopt vernacular norms exerted upon an individual whose interpersonal ties were largely local , dense and multiplex . |
| 20 | As the NOSTRO accounts rise they reduce the US domestic money stock . |
| 21 | Three Birmingham children 's homes are to close as the council attempts to bolster its foster service . |
| 22 | As The Thompson Twins solidified their position as ‘ The band Simon Bates likes to name drop most often ’ , as Bronski Beat ( despite their obvious sincerity ) continually resembled a whistling kettle , and as Depeche Mode turned sado/masochism into such a lightweight subject that it would n't cause offence if your four year old daughter played ‘ Master and Servant ’ , The Smiths were to be heard crooning the very odd ‘ William , It Was Really Nothing ’ : ‘ And everybody 's got to live their life and God knows I 've got to live mine ’ . |
| 23 | Quite how shares will move in the next few weeks and months is unclear at this stage and will take some to clarify as the pension funds decide what strategy to adopt in the wake of the unwelcome attack from Mr Lamont . |
| 24 | Jim Kelly threw three touchdown passes and Thurman Thomas rushed for 155 yards as the Buffalo Bills won their AFC showdown against the Pittsburgh Steelers 28–20 . |
| 25 | " Unfair " workers , " knobsticks " as the calico printers called them , were not to be worked with , and in this defence , fundamental to all other purposes such as maintaining or improving wages or hours , the artisans were able to claim a legitimacy not only from the " customs of the trade " but from the statute of artificers passed in 1564 and popularly known as " 5 Elizabeth " . |
| 26 | A kind of traumatized folk-punk , shifting fitfully between grace and frenzy , extremes of heat and cold , their debut album is the choreography of a body possessed and scattered by dread : as The Stud Brothers put it , music like ‘ a punch , accentuating and projecting every hiss , mutter and scream … so exact and punctual it 's simply sublime . ’ |
| 27 | The ballot becomes the test of the candidates ' success , and it involves a contest — for example , a contest between the party machines to get their voters to the polls . |
| 28 | Anyway , Irene always complained about the way lupins shed their petals all over the polished table . |
| 29 | One day , flicking through the music papers like we did every Wednesday , I spotted an ad in the Melody Maker for premises in Tin Pan Alley — Denmark Street . |
| 30 | The draught coming in through the ventilation ducts made it tremble continuously . |