Example sentences of "the [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She clicked her false teeth together , and announced with something of the normal snap in her voice that she was going to call Margaret right now . |
| 2 | But , because the umbilical goes through the basket , the diver can always find his way back . |
| 3 | Cramped and cold in his hide , he listened as the sounds of the day fell from him into silence one by one , until he could hear the measured pacing of the watch on the walk between the gate-towers . |
| 4 | Their layered structure and microscopic size 100 times smaller than a skin cell — enable the liposome to penetrate into the epidermis easily and integrate with the intercellular tissue . |
| 5 | The simultaneous bringing into play of two senses can be effected either by coordination , as in 32 , where John and his driving licence select different senses of the verb expire , or by anaphora , as in 33 : |
| 6 | But I 'm very annoyed with er , the incessant canting about the John Major government . |
| 7 | On some coals drawn to the side of the neat little fire , strips of meat were laid to grill : with the subtle savour of wood smoke they spread a most provocative smell on the still air . |
| 8 | But all at once the light-hearted feel to the conversation had flown . |
| 9 | Hand in hand , the lovers roam the streets while Loutside ] the drunken and the debauched revel in all kinds of perversities . |
| 10 | The muscular derring-do of our film heroes inspired us to imitative feats of climbing , usually trees ; and their prowess in stalking and sniffing out was echoed in our exploration of sombre , dingy and often damp places . |
| 11 | Feeling that she had given her due of politeness to the curate , the due exacted by her mother and elder sister , she pattered onto Maurice , and , after having a bit of a poke round , shot across the connecting gangplank onto Grace . |
| 12 | What does this legislation do for the low paid in Britain ? |
| 13 | A decline of the sculptor 's reputation derived not only from the political discredit into which the regimes of the years before 1914 had fallen , but also from a distaste for allegory , and a revulsion from naturalist sculpture ( which the young Brancusi expressed forcefully as a dislike for ‘ beefsteak ’ ) . |
| 14 | But while this suggestion is plausible enough , it raises the question whether the shapes of structures are to be explained simply in terms of one another , the political responding to the ideological , the ideological to the economic , and so on . |
| 15 | He returned it to the failed initiate without comment . |
| 16 | 1.2 The Programmer will deliver the Program to the Publisher by the dated specified in Part 1 of the Schedule ( or by any later date agreed between the parties ) ; in this respect time shall be of the essence of the contract . |
| 17 | 1.2 The Programmer will deliver the Program to the Publisher by the dated specified in Part 1 of the Schedule ( or by any later date agreed between the parties ) ; in this respect time shall be of the essence of the contract . |
| 18 | When the Spanish arrived in Mindoro in 1570 , they discovered coastal settlements paying tribute to the Sultan of Brunei . |
| 19 | Well no , the mic belongs to them , they 're gon na come and pick it up . |
| 20 | The honorific stuck in Lexandro 's craw but he managed to utter the word . |
| 21 | A major challenge in the management of electronic records is to bridge the technical divides in how the information is stored and ‘ re integrate ’ information to present the user with the ability to search for information according to their own agenda , not the organisation 's technical architecture . |
| 22 | His eyes scanned the wounded propped against half-demolished walls , lying amidst smashed furniture , or sprawling on the floor , and those who lay with faces covered . |
| 23 | Naturally the wounded had to be got away first , but later that day a plane came back over the mountains , and we were lined up again , and told that we could take only a small amount of personal possessions . |
| 24 | During the desper ate days of July , the wounded lingered in the foul , dark , excrement-ridden vaults of Fort Souville for over six days before they could be evacuated . |
| 25 | The blood of the wounded trickled from the bank , spilling like one of the showers that freshened the earth each day , and flowed downstream towards the sea , which was not so far that its rich scarlet could diffuse before it met the waves . |
| 26 | So great was the carnage that warriors fought over bodies of the dead and ravens feasted on the wounded trapped inside the mounds of corpses . |
| 27 | Lately Ohly excavated further and also removed Thorwaldsen 's restorations ; and succeeded in arranging the surviving remains in what must be very close indeed to the original scheme : a revelation . |
| 28 | Therefore I 'm sure you can imagine the upset felt by this 69-year-old lady to see that young man missing from this week 's issue . |
| 29 | But by hiding in the term ‘ inner city ’ the novel appears as perennial , the strange appears to be familiar . |
| 30 | In the steady-state analysis of the life-cycle model in the previous section , we showed that an increase in debt is equivalent to a lump-sum transfer to the retired financed by a lump-sum tax on the younger generation . |