Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [subord] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The air-gargoyles gently sucked and puffed the aromatic smoke into strange curlicues as if sketching the features of potential daemons which might lurk outside the hull . |
| 2 | ‘ You startled me , Mr Laidlaw , ’ he said breathlessly in English and clamped his hand over his heart as if to emphasize the point . |
| 3 | Harrison drew back his jaw as if riding the blow . |
| 4 | It bowed its ruined head to its chest as if to inspect the squealing assailant now hanging from its buckled shoulder with frantic claws . |
| 5 | His shoulders lifted towards his ears as if to help the grin along . |
| 6 | He twitched his shoulders as if shrugging the burden of Georgina on to the new arrival . |
| 7 | The Rovers directors meet this weekend in an attempt to end the dilemma over whether to sell the club 's England Under-21 goalkeeper Nigel Martyn to Crystal Palace . |
| 8 | It would often be necessary to go back to the user and ask for guidance on whether to broaden the search . |
| 9 | That rule will probably be extended to the upper house , where a vote on whether to lift the immunity of Italy 's former prime minister , Giulio Andreotti , is likely soon . |
| 10 | There has not , however , been adequate assessment of whether improving the oxygen saturation reduces the incidence of arrhythmias . |
| 11 | Whatever the outcome of the MMC investigation is , the final decision of whether to allow the merger to go ahead or not will be made by the Secretary of State . |
| 12 | ‘ He would n't speak to you , Gilbert , ’ continued Rohmer , still staring at the shattered window as if willing the lightning to return . |
| 13 | He cleared his throat and looked down at his feet as if assessing the shine on his boots . |
| 14 | The two women remained motionless , gazing up at the ceiling as if to trace the source and direction of the footsteps . |
| 15 | Charsky leaned back against the pillows and raised his eyes to the ceiling as if thanking the Almighty . |
| 16 | There had been dissent over the issue of whether to contest the forthcoming parliamentary elections on separate party lists . |
| 17 | So , leaving aside for a moment the difficult question of whether to accept the kind of association between kinship system and technological level postulated by Morgan , Marx , and Engels , it is not surprising that modern anthropology reveals no such association between technology and kinship terms . |
| 18 | On 5 August 1991 , the Foreign and Commonwealth Office wrote to Crossman Block confirming that the practice of Her Majesty 's Government was to recognise states not governments and that , accordingly , ‘ The question of whether to recognise the purported ‘ interim government ’ in Mogadishu thus does not arise for us . ’ |
| 19 | She stood up , cheeks bulging , and started to tear off her clothes , walking in a ragged circle as if invoking the spirits of the place . |
| 20 | Rachel asks , touching my cheek as if to capture the thought . |
| 21 | He glanced down at my notes and touched his own chest , first on the left then on the right as if beginning the sign of the cross : ‘ Both . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Oak Lodge , ’ Wynne-Jones breathed , and repeated the name as if savouring the sound of a place he had once known well . |
| 23 | As we drew near he took a step forward shining his lantern with its green light above his head as if to give the driver the ‘ All Clear ’ . |
| 24 | A few seconds elapsed , then Angie shook her head as if to emphasize the denial . |
| 25 | Standing behind him , Annie had shaken her head as if disbelieving the race Kelly had ridden after the excesses of the previous night . |
| 26 | Smacks her forehead as if remembering the obvious . |
| 27 | Alison Walker lay pale-faced and tearful , one hand instinctively resting over her swollen abdomen as if to protect the child within . |
| 28 | She seemed to have dropped her voice and moved in closer to the phone as if to avoid the chance of being overheard . |
| 29 | But he said the Department of Transport had exercised its discretion on whether to buy the property . |
| 30 | But he said the Department of Transport had exercised its discretion on whether to buy the property . |