Example sentences of "[noun sg] the [noun] [adv] [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one direction you will see the normal wave movement of the needles knitting , but in the other direction the needles hardly move at all , that is they SLIP ( and , even if you 'd had yarn threaded and stitches on the needles , they would n't have knitted on this row ) . |
| 2 | On this hypothesis the spits both start from their respective headlands and converge towards the centre of the bay . |
| 3 | Secondly , and in contrast with this respect for the state 's monopoly of violence , because the provisionals seek to destroy the Northern dominance of protestant loyalists with a view to restoring ‘ the historic integrity of Ireland ’ , there is and will remain substantial support from among the Southern population for the violence the provisionals actually commit in the North . |
| 4 | The only way to reach the bottom rung is to jump from the roof of a wooden hut the builders occasionally use for storing things . |
| 5 | When frozen , some of these waterfalls can offer ice-climbing practice , but in a hard winter the cloughs often fill with deep snow and their ascents can vary in difficulty from Grade I to impossible . |
| 6 | The people up there speak a Tibetan dialect , and in the high pastures along the border the nomads still live in their black tents with their yaks . |
| 7 | ‘ It mus ’ be a lot fer 'er , what wiv the baby ter care for as well . |
| 8 | Moreover they will tend to be Catholics from just the sort of background the universities here have for years wished to see represented more adequately among students . |
| 9 | In performing this duty the directors usually act on the advice of the issuing house and the lawyers acting . |
| 10 | This is not the way the workers usually speak to a queen bee . |
| 11 | In later stages of the disease the sprees often end in unconsciousness . |