Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Penguin starts life as a hideously deformed tot who bursts on to the scene years later as a fat , big-beaked freak determined to rule Gotham City and do away with Batman ( Michael Keaton ) . |
| 2 | ‘ Real people — Real problems — a human document ’ declared the poster for There Ai n't No Justice ( 1939 ) , about a boxer who walks out on the crooked world of the professional fighter . |
| 3 | a rather simple girl who hangs about on the outskirts of a village … |
| 4 | And judges Sir John Harvey-Jones and foot writer Jocelyn Dimbleby with presenter Loyd Grossman have to choose the winner who goes through to the final ‘ cook-off ’ in July . |
| 5 | Amanda Harris plays her as a termagant who steams about like the mad woman in the attic , her face set in a perpetual lockjawed scowl . |
| 6 | It seems he is indulging in some extra physio with the little darling who runs on with the sponge for Frampton . |
| 7 | The lecturer who stares out of the window , for example , is unlikely to convey to students much personal interest in their learning . |
| 8 | The person who gets on with the job instead of wasting time in chatter may show up the less zealous and cause the chatterers to feel vaguely guilty , which of course they wo n't like . |
| 9 | Manners , above all , should be about behaving the same way to everyone you meet ; a person who sucks up to the nobs and snubs those he regards as his ‘ inferiors ’ is manifestly not a gent . |
| 10 | A person who holds over at the end of a lease is not a trespasser until demand is made , as only the person in possession can be trespassed against ( Hey v Moorhouse ( 1839 ) 6 Bing NC 52 ) . |
| 11 | From time expired senior registrar who despairs of finding that elusive consultant job to the frustrations of the mature , would be medical student who comes up against the agist admissions policies of many British medical schools . |
| 12 | It is like a man who storms up to the top of a great mountain and then just drops down . |
| 13 | Er , er , a man who grows up under the shadow of his father , as it were . |
| 14 | Come August , when the action is beamed back from Barcelona , they might just recognise that man who works down at the local track . |
| 15 | Although , for the man who checks up on the standard of Britain 's prisons , there 's still some way to go . |
| 16 | Fernando ( Jorge Sanz ) is a deserter who fetches up at the country home of Manolo , a lazy old artist . |
| 17 | Did you hear the one about the rabbi who sneaks out of the synagogue on Shabbos to play a secret game of golf when he should have been praying ? |
| 18 | I do n't mean here , this version necessarily , but you 're not the only person in the world who keeps up with the wider literature , you know . |
| 19 | Or take the many references to God as a being who looks down upon the world from some sort of celestial vantage point . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't want a leader of the country who walks out on the job when things are not going as he wants . |
| 21 | God help the feller who turns up at the factory to work in silk knickers under his overalls , but at Christmas , of course , on a stage , of course , it 's all perfectly all right . |
| 22 | The wife and mother who goes out of the home to earn a wage , to escape being totally dependent on a man , being isolated in the home , and the penny-pinching that trying to make one wage feed the family involves , takes a second job . |
| 23 | Notice the rider who gets out of the saddle briefly . |
| 24 | The winners of the best gross trophy then decide , either by mutual agreement or by a play-off , on the player who goes on to the national championships . |