Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [conj] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Crown accepted that the income of the settlement arose or accrued to the three trustees jointly and not jointly and severally so that none of them was entitled , in law , separately to any particular share or fraction of the income . |
| 2 | He opened his eyes , his consciousness hazed and slowed by the kif he had smoked , and focused with difficulty on the watch on the bedside table . |
| 3 | BGS 's involvement in the Geotechnical Control Office marine fill study continued and increased as the Hong Kong government expanded the search for offshore sand and gravel deposits . |
| 4 | If you withdraw money using your card in a currency other than sterling , your account , will be debited in sterling and the conversion into sterling will be at a rate of exchange decided or authorised by the Bank . |
| 5 | Beer consumption fell as compared to the pre-war period , and did not pick up again to 1945 levels until 1968 . |
| 6 | Armour glinted and dazzled in the sun ; banners bearing the gules and lozenges , lions , wyverns and dragons of the noble houses , fluttered in the faint summer breeze . |
| 7 | Aunt Margaret 's curly , black handwriting skipped and hopped on the paper because Melanie 's eyes were so tired . |
| 8 | The canvas overhead snapped and cracked in the wind , the supporting poles quivering with the strain . |
| 9 | She eased on her jacket when the taxi came and sprawled on the back seat , watching the garlands of Christmas lights slung across the streets . |
| 10 | The landlord turned and spat into the dirty rushes . |
| 11 | Thunder rumbled and echoed in the stairwell . |
| 12 | Two cream crackers with Flora margarine , followed by one fresh apple diced and eaten with the skin on if possible after it has been well washed . |
| 13 | It was postmarked Manchester , the paper was poor , and the writing scrawled and dipped across the stained envelope . |
| 14 | The creature writhed and grimaced in the most horrible manner , malignance imprinted in its every contour . |
| 15 | as if the father spoke and acted through the son . |
| 16 | My mother used to tell me how Grandmother scrimped and saved during the summer months so that precious golden sovereigns could be put away in a padlocked wooden box to ensure survival during the next winter . |
| 17 | Outside the Barbican , the National Gallery is mounting ‘ Edvard Munch : the Frieze of Life ’ ( 12 November to 7 February ) which focuses on the cycle of paintings of that name which the artist codified and modified over the years . |
| 18 | One must remember that Galileo was part of the Renaissance , the centuries-long ferment accelerated and intensified by the invention of printing in the middle of the 15th century . |
| 19 | Use a fine-tooth saw and cut at the shallowest angle possible . |
| 20 | On the whole , the Labour Party took the old radical view that the task of Parliament was to enact the legislation foreshadowed or promised in the party 's election manifesto . |
| 21 | A second later — and I mean one second — the derailleur sheared and jammed in the rear wheel , leaving me pedalling air one moment and swimming in a pile of dead leaves the next . |
| 22 | And yet , she thought , as they picked their way gingerly along under the stooping eaves of the alley that led to the rear of St Chad 's church , to avoid the running kennel thawed and filled by the morning showers , the finger of God had intervened in her life only yesterday , and might again lean down to point out for her an acceptable and fruitful way . |
| 23 | In the nineteenth century , Italians and Alsatians heading for the New World arrived and departed via the great Paris terminals . |
| 24 | The steward turned and spat on the ground . |
| 25 | ‘ The simple case , ’ said Nikos , ‘ is that the matter began and ended with the Zikr . |
| 26 | Fuchs went to jail leaving behind him a world shocked and horrified by the prospect of atomic warfare . |
| 27 | A siren wailed and faded into the sounds of general traffic below prompting them to action . |
| 28 | There were those , again , in Germany as elsewhere , for whom the terms " Hellas " and " liberty " were axiomatically linked : a link symptomatized and strengthened by the warm interest taken by many German writers in the Greek struggle for independence , whose fruition followed in the wake of the French Revolution . |
| 29 | He had olive skin , hollow cheeks and a pencil moustache , his hair brilliantined and parted in the centre . |
| 30 | The track turned and twisted through the desert hills . |