Example sentences of "[coord] the [noun sg] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 He bashed away at it with the A.S.M. solidly from eleven fifteen , when he arrived at the theatre , until half past two , without any break for lunch or the drink he desperately craved .
2 Scorpius is setting , and the Cross is more or less out of view , though as seen from anywhere south of Sydney or the Cape it never drops below the horizon .
3 If he shies away from them , he should reflect that this Autumn Statement will be the tonic that saves his Government or the poison which finally destroys it .
4 As a result it is common in mandatory transfer notice provisions to see " good and bad leader " provisions , so that management who " walk out " within a specified period after completion are penalised by receiving an amount equal to the lower of market value or the amount they initially subscribed .
5 Position positional isomers branch chain functional group and there 's one other odd one which has a very peculiar name and the name it normally goes by is a fairly old name , now I 'm not sure at this stage if that name is still used but what I 'll do is to describe the form of the isomerism first and let you decide what you would prefer to call it .
6 Such voluntary transfers of possession are called bailment , and the person who so acquires possession is a bailee of the goods .
7 We are vulnerable , like everyone else , to prejudice , and are conscious of how much havoc bigotry , the excesses of blind faith , and the tyranny which often accompanies it , can inflict on the world .
8 My three-piece was wringing wet , but eventually I dried it out , and the rest I just bagged together .
9 erm and the rest you just have to fill it all out .
10 As she spoke , joy brightened her face , and the love she still felt for this man was alive in her every word .
11 A detailed description of the hut approach and the climb itself then follows , and if necessary the descent is described as well .
12 But although upset by the discrepancy between what voters told them and the way they actually behaved , the pollsters do not admit defeat .
13 He was not a happy man , and the stern set of his jaw , and the way he hardly ever looked at his two operatives , made Ray Doyle realise that the fat was really in the fire this time .
14 I know , all too well , how it can outweigh everything else — the disgust I feel for you and the way I consequently despise myself , for instance . ’
15 Well one of way doing it is actually to expand , be very up front in terms of the information you 're supplying and the way you actually supply it .
16 Reminds you of the US Interstate Highway system and the way it instantly snarled as soon as Washington residents tried to exit en masse during the riots of the late 1960s , does n't it … that blizzard coming on top of the New York World Trade Center bombing was just the kind of disaster the disaster recovery industry has been dreading : according to the New York Times , a heavy accumulation of snow caused the roof of the computer centre in Clifton , New Jersey that supports 5,000 automatic teller machines US-wide , 6% of the total , to collapse , putting the machines out of action — and the centre could n't transfer its operations to the North Bergen , New Jersey site where it had disaster recovery facilities arranged — because the site was full up with work transferred by Trade Center tenants …
17 It is now clear to Earth scientists that the extent of ocean water and its depth and shallowness , and the way it periodically invades the land and then retreats , has been a major climatic determinant .
18 But they still received some protection from folk like the English kings who found profit in them , and especially from William Rufus , who seems quite sincerely to have disliked the Church 's intolerance ; and the Church itself strongly condemned violent persecution .
19 The choir , and all about it , and the church I rather enjoyed because as as I were growing up most of the p people that came were the business people and the people that were conscientious towards that area , St. John 's .
20 POLICE yesterday rapped social workers for allowing baby Harry to be discharged from hospital with a fractured skull into the care of his mother and the man who finally killed him .
21 And the man who eventually wins you will be the luckiest man in the world , I think , ’ said Carlo .
22 It was immediately clear , as Max had said , that there had earlier been much blood ; soon clear , too , that the body was that of a comparatively young man ; the body of the man whom Morse had interviewed ( with such distaste ) the previous evening ; the man who had been cheated of the Wolvercote Jewel — and the man who now had been cheated of life .
23 Galatians 2.20 must be among the most marvellous words of the Bible : ‘ I have been crucified with Christ ; it is no longer I who live , but Christ who lives in me ; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God , who loved me and gave himself for me . ’
24 May we all say with St Paul in Galatians 2.20 : ‘ I have been crucified with Christ ; it is no longer I who live , but Christ who lives in me ; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God , who loved me and gave himself for me . ’
25 However , the concern to increase intra-party democracy and change the balance of power within the Labour Party bespeaks of a profound commitment to create a kind of democracy in Britain very different from that entrenched in the established constitutional set-up and different from that desired by the constitutional authorities and the Alliance who both wish to see legal limits on Parliament as well as a revival of the autonomy of parliamentary government itself .
26 In practice village elders were usually jointly responsible for the payment of the dues of village members as a whole , and as long as the correct amount was forthcoming , and the village itself reasonably peaceful and law-abiding , the domain authorities tended to concern themselves little with how this was achieved .
27 10% discount on stuff in the shop ( not shirts and the stuff you really want to buy , if last season is anything to go by — it 'll probably be Cantona keyrings and suchlike )
28 And his face itself had taken on an almost gaunt look , the strong bone-structure rigidly marked , and the skin itself only lightly tanned , despite the hot summer they had just enjoyed .
29 and the skin you just had to press the skin and , and the oh it was all , you know you could just
30 The context of the event and the event itself often went unreported , simply because the journalist assigned to the ‘ story ’ covered only the opening speech .
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