Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [adv prt] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't use soap , which dries up skin on the face . |
| 2 | She picks up speed in the late evening , after most of the passengers have eaten . |
| 3 | If the question be ( as , in the actual state of the law , I think it is ) , whether consideration is , or is not , given in a case of this kind , by the debtor who pays down part of the debt presently due from him , for a promise by the creditor to relinquish , after certain further payments on account , the residue of the debt , I can not say that I think consideration is given , in the sense which I have always understood that word as used in our law . |
| 4 | ‘ A fossil hunter is one who seeks out evidence of the past from the natural history of the rocks . |
| 5 | It would , of course , be fiercely resisted because it gives back power to the people . |
| 6 | It carries on south-west by the water to cross by a bridge over toward Minniwick Moss . |
| 7 | Operating like a huge vacuum cleaner , it sucks up gravel into the dredge where it is sieved to retrieve the fine , black , gold-bearing sand . |
| 8 | The extension of the LFA has left this gross anomaly unaffected since it brings in land at the lower elevations outside the original LFA boundary . |