Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think for er even for upgrades we er the contracts do it sometimes which to me 's wrong cos they are n't engineers |
| 2 | The crowds made it painfully obvious who was the new star of the show the Princess of Wales . |
| 3 | Then we 've got the rig , the mast comes in two parts , the boom , the sail and all the ropes to put them together . |
| 4 | When both trunks had been hauled on to the far bank they used the ropes to bind them together at various points along their length . |
| 5 | As an 11-handicapper who does not play quite as often as she would like , I found the clubs gave me more consistency and greater ‘ feel ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ Some of them were , as a matter of fact , but at the time they did n't have the signs to tell them so . ’ |
| 7 | The surveyors said they really did see , hear and feel all the exhilarating sensations of flying . |
| 8 | On television , detective series end at just the right moment , after the criminal has been caught and before the courts turn him loose . |
| 9 | The courts made it very clear that they equated the interests of the state with the interests of the government then in power . |
| 10 | Anyway , the Perm leapt up and booted Charlie a couple of times in the ear with those famous feet until the heavies pulled him away . |
| 11 | The Germans took them away in secret , at night . |
| 12 | This addition to the maps made them more useful , especially for agricultural purposes , but it entailed resurveying ground already covered and slowed the progress of subsequent work . |
| 13 | There is no evidence that the judges at any time protested to Her Majesty 's government in or out of Parliament against the proposals to involve them directly and indirectly in the administration of the act of 1971 . |
| 14 | At Knossos , several different kinds of textile or garment were stored and doubtless some were exported ; the tablets describe them variously as ‘ with wedge pattern ’ , ‘ with white fringes ’ , and ‘ of better quality ’ ( Driessen and Macdonald 1984 ) . |
| 15 | He stood out among them not only because he had a surer command of his people at home , but also because Cuba is where it is , so the Russians helped him much more than the rest . |
| 16 | Even the snails found it too wet for comfort … climbing fifteen feet up house walls to escape . |
| 17 | It has been roundly criticised because of the risk of cervical spinal cord injury , and there has been a plea for changes in the rules to make it safer ( Burry & Calcinai , 1988 ) . |
| 18 | Bacteria then work on the nitrates converting them firstly to nitrous oxide and then to free nitrogen gas . |
| 19 | Jed drove north to begin with , his wrist a rectangle of heat and all that numbness just behind his eyes , but after two days the roads drew him inland , over high mountains , and soon he was heading due west . |
| 20 | Madeleine came up to see me last Monday for a couple of days and arrived with a sore throat too , so she had a well deserved rest after the excesses of their very social Christmas and life and also encouraged me , the weather and the throats keeping us indoors , to do some MUCH needed turning out . |
| 21 | ‘ But the authorities make it quite clear … that before the constable is in a position to choose between a specimen of blood or a specimen of urine on the defendant 's claim that one or other specimens should be substituted for the specimen of breath , the defendant must be made aware not merely that he can have the breath specimen substituted by some other specimen in general terms , but that the alternative specimen can be one either of blood or of urine , although in the last resort , subject to the proviso to subsection ( 4 ) as to medical practitioners , the choice is that of the police officer . |
| 22 | There may still be time to persuade the authorities to relocate her rather than remove her from the wild . |
| 23 | 16 ) of the evacuation of Attica that the Athenians took it so badly because it was like leaving one 's polis ; this is on the face of it a paradox because they were going from their country demes to the polis . |
| 24 | The employers put it even higher : from 10 to 12s ( 50-60p ) to 18 to 21s ( 90p — £1.05 ) . |
| 25 | The house is a mobile home , carried about as the caddis walks , like the shell of a snail or hermit crab except that the animals builds it instead of growing it or finding it . |
| 26 | Prevent snow and ice damaging upright conifers by winding twine or netting around the branches to keep them upright and in place . |
| 27 | But the eyes give him away : sometimes they are all-seeing , giving the impression that he is quietly dissecting one 's soul . |
| 28 | We are lucky to have such an eminent man on call , and the drivers trust him absolutely as I 'm sure you know . ’ |
| 29 | The boys ' father Ben said : ‘ The lads took me straight to the baby and it was freezing . |
| 30 | One of the lads saw him there and stopped the line . |