Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shortly afterwards officers smashed their way into Mrs Curran 's bungalow where they found the victims ' bodies in separate rooms . |
| 2 | The proposals covered are development in a conservation area , works to a listed building or which affect the setting of a conservation area or a listed building , and developments in Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty . |
| 3 | She went to the headquarters of the Special Air Services in Hereford where she underwent a ‘ terrifying ’ driving course where she learnt the basic techniques in handling a possible terrorist attack or kidnap attempt . |
| 4 | These dramatic spectacles are caused by charged particles , which are accelerated in solar flares , being diverted towards the poles by the Earth 's magnetic field where they enter the upper atmosphere causing ionisation and producing light . |
| 5 | Tom 's pay rise or his leaving the company are events , and attributes of the entity EMPLOYEE will be referred to following these events . |
| 6 | It is obvious to me now , though perhaps it was not then , that every revolution will evoke a response from those who fear change or who question the wisdom of moving too far or too quickly from the comfort which traditional practice gives . |
| 7 | To minimize confusion , I shall use consumerism where I mean the first , and the consumer movement to denote the second . |
| 8 | TNF α additionally induces expression of the powerfully procoagulant tissue factor , released only at sites of endothelial damage where it activates the extrinsic limb of the coagulation cascade . |
| 9 | This is just like the sweep stroke where we extend the reach to apply more force . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's evolution ; when we still lived in caves we used to go out and hunt and whoever brought back the mammoth or whatever ate the best meat and got to fuck the women , and all that was good for the human race . |
| 11 | This picture is added to in the next chapter where we examine the informal relations that exist within organisations , and in Chapter 6 where we examine power . |
| 12 | Richard touched his finger reflexively to a light dressing on the left side of his neck where it met the collarbone . |
| 13 | There was coppa , made from the muscular part of the pig 's neck where it meets the shoulder , and prosciutto , Parma ham , which comes from the same part of the pig as English gammon , and is cured in specially air-cooled rooms up in the foothills of the Apennines above Parma . |
| 14 | Huy felt he could get drunk on the smell of Taheb , sinking his lips into the base of her neck where it joined the shoulder . |
| 15 | A harsh judgement would occasionally be reprieved by intervention from his sister , who sat by his side where she judged the women . |
| 16 | There was , Aunt Margaret said , a safe in their bedroom where he kept the money until he took it in to the bank at the end of the week in the massive , gleaming , opulent-looking calf-skin briefcase with a very large lock . |
| 17 | She has hung ‘ Christabel ’ in her bedroom where it catches the morning sun and shows up my imperfections . |
| 18 | ‘ Even has a secret little den where he takes the other members of his gang . |
| 19 | A mortgage is an annuity where you pay the building society a regular sum that eventually reduces the balance of debt to nothing . |
| 20 | Reconnection takes place at X , converting closed field lines , c , into open field lines , o , which form a rotational field discontinuity where they cross the magnetopause ( dashed line ) . |
| 21 | Before her a green sea rippled , melting into azure where it met the sky . |
| 22 | He has also played the lover , as in Green Card where he played the Frenchman in search of a permit to stay in America . |
| 23 | He keeps her a prisoner in a fish pond where he stores the catch . |
| 24 | As your child grows he or she will pass from the totally secure , almost self-contained , world of the Lower Primary Department where we lay the basic foundations of the entire curriculum , good work habits , and mutual respect , into a carefully planned and ever widening educational experience . |
| 25 | If you are a person who is classified as being ‘ at risk ’ , that is elderly , frail or disabled in some way , then you should seriously consider either living in a sheltered housing complex where you have the safety net of alarms in every room rigged to a 24-hour warden service , or subscribing to a medical alert system . |
| 26 | This so impressed the then president of the Canadian branch of the Anglo Jewish Association that he invited the young man , scarcely more than a boy , to be its secretary ; the start of a highly successful and very wide range of business and charitable interests . |
| 27 | The EP was ‘ brought in ’ in response to the teachers ' perception that they lacked the skills to manage George 's behaviour . |
| 28 | Seth flew forty miles an hour face first into the piling with such force that he uprooted the eight telephone poles . |
| 29 | The defendant struck with the knife into her throat on the left-hand side just near the jugular vein , with such force that it severed the spinal cord , causing almost instant paralysis . |
| 30 | It is to facilitate the translation of the dramas of sub-conversation and activity below the surface of consciousness that she abandons the conventions of linear narrative , normal chronology , plot and characterization . |