Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Above his head the aerial sang gently in the cold wind and the screen shone blue in the rider 's face . |
| 32 | Troop Sergeant-Major Haines — landed from ML 6 — reported to Newman and early in the fight lay out in the open with a 2-inch ( 51mm ) mortar firing on the guns across the submarine basin . |
| 33 | The skin ended up in the Natural History Museum in Copenhagen and it was only when the corpse was examined that it was discovered that sulukongur was in fact a female ! |
| 34 | of the substance venial alanine it , the level rises up in the blood , it 's a bit like overfilling a jug , if you have a quarter pint jug and you have a pint of milk , when you get to the top you do n't stop pouring , it spills out the edge and in the body it actually goes into the body tissues , nowhere else to go and it causes a devastating result , it causes abnormal mental development , it causes gross retardation . |
| 35 | The neighbours would hear the truck draw up in the middle of the night , the rattle of the tail-board , the despairing slurry of the prisoner 's feet on the dirt . |
| 36 | The mud-slinging splashed back in the face of the accuser . |
| 37 | As the numbers and grades of medreses increased with the passage of time , so also did the numbers and grades of mevleviyets , the term used here in the sense which would appear to have been valid , with minor qualifications , at least from the latter half of the sixteenth century , namely as comprising principally the kazaskerliks and the important kadiliks-the mevleviyet kadiliks — to which one moved on from the higher medreses and through which one moved , if one were fortunate , eventually to reach the kazaskerliks and , by the end of the sixteenth century , the Muftilik . |
| 38 | It looks at the blood flows deep in the brain . |
| 39 | The awful triumvirate of fear , guilt and anger has to be faced and the tension built up in the body dealt with . |
| 40 | Certainly , the complex set up in the city meant that the bishop , appointed in the time of Sigibert , was only too easily suspected of treason by Guntram — and the arrival of Gundovald clearly did not help matters . |
| 41 | The industry grew up in the Lake District because there was a demand for gunpowder in the slate quarries and copper mines of the region , and because of the ready availability of birch and alder for charcoal and fast flowing becks to drive the machinery in the area . |
| 42 | The fabric crumbled instantly in the hot dry air , leaving only a dangling mesh where some threads had been plaited with fine gold wire . |
| 43 | The light went on in the hall and the door opened . |
| 44 | When the light went out in the last room , Bridget began to get up . |
| 45 | And now , as they got back into the car , both men sat in silence as they watched the light switched on in the front bedroom — and then the curtains being drawn across . |
| 46 | It seemed like only moments after Shiona had fallen asleep that the light snapped on in the compartment and a strong hand was dragging her from her bunk . |
| 47 | Licensed dealers still deal in certain shares the punter reads about in the tip sheets . |
| 48 | Active consideration of the future began early in the year . |
| 49 | With the diversification of the colleges the workload increased substantially in the arts and humanities particularly , and the rapid growth of the CNAA 's work in arts and social studies was fuelled by the transfer of courses from London external degrees . |
| 50 | The key turns stiffly in the lock . |
| 51 | The key lay not in the direct transfer of power into the hands of workers on the factory floor but the administration of industry by a ‘ workers ’ state' in their interests . |
| 52 | It had been snowing and , although the snow melted quickly in the lowlands , up here on the heights there were still extensive patches . |
| 53 | The defeat brought home in the most devastating fashion just how far the Empire 's development had fallen behind that of her Great Power rivals in the West . |
| 54 | ‘ Pull yourself together ! ’ she shouted at herself , mentally , like a true public schoolgirl ( one 's education never leaves one : even the religion stays stubbornly in the core of one 's being ) . |
| 55 | They had time to assess the composition and probable loyalties of the force gathered there in the riverside haugh next morning , before the Earl Patrick would see them . |
| 56 | But Mr Bouterse said Mr Shankar had not complained loudly enough , then claimed to be appalled when a Dutch newspaper photographed the president waiting forlornly in the rain for a meeting with the Dutch prime minister , Ruud Lubbers . |
| 57 | The figure curled up in the chair by the fire , stirred and yawned toothlessly . |
| 58 | Gunfire could be heard in the city all day , she said , but the violence escalated late in the evening . |
| 59 | And the wind got up in the night and pretty strong and we had a hut a twenty by twenty five foot fourteen eighteen war hut in the middle of a square and there was a shop and a storeroom besides . |
| 60 | It was evident from the research carried out in the USA that no trace of formaldehyde could be found in surrounding soil or samples from the water table in the area of such burial grounds . |