Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb -s] [pers pn] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Once she tells us where the book is or she leads us to it , she dies . ’ |
| 2 | If someone pulls you out the river when you 're half drowning , you just lie on the bank coughing and spluttering , and no one expects you to say anything . |
| 3 | In the contrasting situation , when there is no convention but only agreement in conviction , everyone follows the same rule but principally because he thinks it independently the best rule to follow . |
| 4 | He kidnaps her in the hope that she will accept and return his affections and when he ties her up the sexual and emotional metaphors of the title abound . |
| 5 | This part of the solution is indispensable as it tells us how the group can achieve its aim of profit maximisation . |
| 6 | Groom ( if much more than ten years older than bride ) can look a bit of a Lothario as he escorts her down the aisle . |