Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Under the old community the harvest was the climax of the rural year , not merely an incident in the more mechanical and depersonalized round on the farm as it has become today . |
| 32 | The data can then be analysed or altered and placed back in the database . |
| 33 | Sweden is the latest country to suffer from criminals fiddling with mobile phones to re-direct bills — thousands of phones were stolen , altered and sold back to the market as ‘ no charge phones ’ : 10 people have been arrested so far for the crime , which came to light when some subscribers reported bills of $70,000 more than they were expecting ; police said that some of the men arrested were associated with the the Swedish state phone company Televerket and L M Ericsson Telefon AB , Reuter reports from Stockholm . |
| 34 | Before he could close it the crowd swarmed past him in their hundreds and set off towards the castle at a trot . |
| 35 | ‘ And if one man did just what you say is impossible and slipped in on the darkside ? ’ |
| 36 | Well can , can the clerk er ask about getting three tenders , and take the lowest and get on with the job ? |
| 37 | The school librarian can produce a library bulletin or newspaper in an attractive format and pupils can be encouraged to use the library as an information base in the truest sense — where information about the school is gathered , classified and presented back to the school in a readable and attractive form . |
| 38 | If we were to construct a ‘ ladder ’ of non-fatal offences , starting with the most serious and moving down to the least serious , the offence of attempted murder should be placed at the top . |
| 39 | We rose early and sailed back among the flying fish to Kalkan . |
| 40 | Standing stork-like and hanging on to the various bathroom fittings , she cleaned her teeth and made a reasonable toilet . |
| 41 | Sean ( Being really sad and coming in to the library on a sunday to do some work ) |
| 42 | The nice young man could n't argue with that ; I paid the £25 extra and hurried out of the shop before he found a cheap white one . |
| 43 | ‘ If you are feeling bored and fed up with the daily routine , give the WI a try . |
| 44 | I became bored and wandered back to the library . |
| 45 | The successful artiste is neither timorous nor tremulous but leaps around on the high-wire glittering with outrageous élan and gathering applause . |
| 46 | He added : ‘ I qualified in 1948 and came in with the health service . |
| 47 | Conference , could you be upstanding and welcome on to the platform , Catherine and , delegates from the Lancashire region where last year 's congress was held , to unveil the G M B banner . |
| 48 | The times of retiring and getting up on the next morning were noted on the diary sheet and marked electronically by pushing the appropriate buttons on the recording unit . |
| 49 | Finally , the lead pickup alone is placed as usual at the end of the track , so you can still clobber the switch hard right and get back to the classic , hard-edged Telecaster tone . |
| 50 | After he stabbed the girl Cook told her he was sorry and ran out of the shop . |
| 51 | But no , I wind as fast as possible and catch up with the fish which is swimming toward me . |
| 52 | He escaped with Bean from the tea table as soon as possible and slipped out of the house , heading back for the open spaces of the industrial estate . |
| 53 | And what do you do if you 're not very mobile and fall out with the only GP or practice in the village ? ’ |
| 54 | ( a ) Enter the above items on the Postage Book form provided , total and balance off at the end of the day . |
| 55 | And it it it 's called the fog index but the thing that 's interesting about it is that I 've got , I 've got some interesting examples of fog indexes erm and you 'll get people like Churchill who sometimes made speeches and their fog index is quite small you 're going to use this you know example and they might have a fog , fog index that 's fine and what Anne and I are talking about with say something like the Telegraph or the Times or whatever , might have a fog index that people but this is because Churchill was very clear , very concise and going back to the original point about , or some of the original points about this , and I was mak raising these issues earlier this evening one of the great sadnesses that I have is that , is that when I first went into journalism the tabloids as we call them were incredibly well written beautifully styled , well researched and okay they might have been punchier and shorter and everything else , compared to the turning up the er the , the Times or whatever , but they were well written and you might have had , if you can put the fog index test , test on it you might have had a fog index of say six or seven compared to eleven on the Telegraph story , but it was still full of clarity like to read . |
| 56 | She gabbled something polite and slunk out of the door , just remembering in time to bid everybody goodbye . |
| 57 | So what he does now he always comes in over the top , so every time you see John shake hands with anybody he 'll always do that and come in over the top actually I 'm in charge and he sort of er sort of stamps his authority on the individual . |
| 58 | You put two squares of that and stick on to the cone |
| 59 | His buddy did n't seem too concerned about that and reached down for the big gun . |
| 60 | Minutes later we are heading for a small island group north of Vengsøya , to round that and head on for the next . |