Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] [vb -s] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parity expects to sell to end users and have the boxes rebranded by an integrator who sells into the petrochemical industry . |
| 2 | A FORMER soldier who lives in the Republic is high on the list of suspects drawn up by intelligence analysts hunting an IRA sniping team operating along the border . |
| 3 | The film is about a murdered rock musician who returns from the dead and , quoting lines from Edgar Allan Poe , seeks revenge . |
| 4 | In future the computer expert will be the outsider who works for the manufacturer or as an independent adviser . |
| 5 | The heavy makeup melting even in the air-conditioning , the legless beggar who sleeps under the office porch and cleans their shoes in gratitude , the slums you can not observe because no roads go through the swamps and whose inhabitants do not exist for the State because the census officials can not reach them , the bomb-carriers serving as flower-pots , the boys selling themselves to the rich English ex-public schoolboys , the girls selling themselves to the fat German tourists , the police raping the boys and the girls they are protecting in the police-stations , the Committee officers boasting to Kate about the elegant jerk-offs in the massage parlours , their ever-decorative ever-bored wives boasting to Kate about their jewellery , the Thai girls saving up for eye and breast jobs , the luxury hotels where the high-class white whores hang out , the students shot by the military during a demonstration against the army regime , the girl students daring for the first time to stay out at night on the streets to picket , the crushing of strikes with bullets and beatings , the barring of political books in the Committee library , the anti-Communist adverts punctuating the Western films on TV . |
| 6 | But there are moments when one is not sure whether Mr Duroselle has really made up his mind who belongs with the Europeans and who does not . |
| 7 | Other winners of the award , sponsored by Reckitt and Colman , included Cherrill Hicks , a freelance journalist who works on The Independent 's health page , for her book Who Cares ; Looking After People at Home . |
| 8 | A lawyer who performs under the name ‘ Mary Lou ’ , she agreed to be interviewed about her amateur pornography videos , provided that her real identity remain concealed . |
| 9 | De facto , it already has — for even for a Marxist who believes in the possibility of ‘ science ’ there exists the multiplicity of meanings of truth and of error . |
| 10 | The crane hooking block 1 : a front punch is blocked by the defender who steps to the side . |
| 11 | Bo Jackson , the outstanding running-back who rushes for the Raiders when not playing baseball for the Kansas City Royals , returns to practice this week , but is unlikely to be ready for the Raiders game on Sunday … against the Kansas City Chiefs . |
| 12 | But woe betide the culprit who trespasses on the wrong side of 50 . |
| 13 | Do n't you remember Jules Verne 's story about the professor who goes to the moon and accidentally kills off all its inhabitants because when he goes there he 's got a cold and they 're not used to it . ’ |
| 14 | Four Quartets offers an image of that " entity " , and the figure who appears in the Dantesque passage is a " familiar compound ghost " in whom Eliot suggested we might recognize Yeats , Mallarmé , Swift and Poe . |
| 15 | The Republic of Indonesia ( comprising some 13,700 islands known until 1949 as the Netherlands East Indies ) is a unitary state in which executive power resides in a President who governs with the assistance of an appointed Cabinet . |
| 16 | Simpkins , a double-glazing fitter who travels from the Isle of Wight , played on despite early injury . |
| 17 | Simpkins , a double-glazing fitter who travels from the Isle of Wight , played on despite early injury . |
| 18 | I 've got a granny who comes from the south isles and she says and that 's . |
| 19 | Richard Vaisey is a mild , well-mannered , old-fashioned type who lectures at the London Institute of Slavonic Studies and is a respected Russian scholar . |
| 20 | You must have a co-ordinator who liaises between the different people , takes the overall view , is good at detail and is ultimately the person with whom ‘ the buck stops ’ . |
| 21 | The bloke who sits behind the ship in the chip shop . |
| 22 | ‘ I told that miserable bloke who looks after the lorries the same fing meself , ’ she told her friends . |
| 23 | Actually , he , he knows that Paul the bloke who looks after the place he goes to St. Andrews . |
| 24 | While not stated overtly by most interviewees , although some were asked specifically about this , there was a tendency to use the word ‘ friend ’ to signify a pre-heroin relationship , whereas phrases such as ‘ this guy I know ’ and ‘ a bloke who lives around the corner ’ were used to describe a post-heroin use relationship even though the user might be spending a great deal of time with that person on a daily basis . |
| 25 | I 've fallen for a boy who goes to the same school as me , but is two years younger than I am . |
| 26 | I saw him at the very moment in his life when he earned the name Elethandian gave him : the boy who listens to the voice of the oak . |
| 27 | One for the master one for the dame and one for the little boy who lives down the lane . |
| 28 | Baa , baa , black sheep , have you any wool , yes sir , yes sir , three bags full , one for the master and one for the dame , one for the little boy who lives down the lane . |
| 29 | ‘ But I suppose that you are consoling yourself after the fashion of a fool who lives in the slums . |
| 30 | But tell me , the English lady who sits with the peculiar gloves drinking sherry wine with your colleague . |