Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first type is that of new general orientations of a very wide sort , basic themes that keep coming back across the documents and hence can be said to characterize the Council 's mind and achievement as a whole . |
| 2 | The problem is , as each head hits the ground it bursts into a thousand little crabs that go skittering off into the far reaches of my body . |
| 3 | As Simon Frith puts it ( 1978 : 195 ) , ‘ Adorno 's is the most systematic and the most searing analysis of mass culture and the most challenging for anyone claiming even a scrap of value for the products that come churning out of the music industry ’ . |
| 4 | I have finished my letter and sit staring down through the orchard thinking about those who have occupied the slit trenches since 6th June : Taff , the mortar team , the others who have gone and have been replaced by new faces . |
| 5 | Here there was a powerful tradition of French interest and influence tracing back to the Crusades , and some history of earlier French educational effort . |
| 6 | The name of the game , ‘ Grandmother 's Footsteps ’ is already a hint : the young and fit creeping up on the old , the halt and the lame . |
| 7 | Mr Tate said although they felt quite safe on the eighth floor it was disconcerting to see armed security guards and smoke bellowing up through the skyscrapers . |
| 8 | Go left , down , right , then fall down , push the crate onto the button and go up on the lift , then left along the lower platform , push the crate left onto the switch , fall down , then go up on the lift , collect the speaker , fall down , go right and up on the lift , go left along the top platform , go up and left , go up on the lift , and continue going up on the platforms . |
| 9 | Some 18 companies originally bid for contract , with Compagnie des Machines Bull SA , IBM , ICL Plc , IQSoft and VTSoft losing out in the later stages . |
| 10 | Some 18 companies originally bid for contract , with Compagnie des Machines Bull SA , IBM , ICL Plc , IQSoft and VTSoft losing out in the later stages . |
| 11 | I get up and start walking over to the bridge . |
| 12 | After studying her for a moment in silence , he added , ‘ What possessed you to take off your shoes and come charging out of the alley like that ? ’ |
| 13 | If yours has n't reached you by the end of July , or you live outside the London area but fancy coming up for the occasion , please phone Pensions Department on freefone 0800 262 072 . |