Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | He mumbled his thanks and strode on up the road . |
| 32 | But there was no punishing flame , only orange tongues consuming the huts and reaching out into the dark sky . |
| 33 | She was slurring her words and holding on to the bar-top for support . |
| 34 | It does not matter whether the golden spike is hammered in somewhere in England or in France or in China , so long as we can make an arbitrary decision , stop arguing about words and get on with the much more difficult ( but much more rewarding ) task of correlation . |
| 35 | Behind him Grey Sombrero took a crashing fall at the Chair and broke his shoulder , but all eyes were on Crisp as he skipped over the water in front of the exhilarated spectators in the stands and swung out towards the second circuit . |
| 36 | Each table was fitted with transfusion stands and connected up to the piped oxygen laid on throughout Casualty . |
| 37 | But as the runners made round the left-hand bend in front of the stands and set off into the country for the first time she was joined in the lead by Run And Skip , and the company clearly put her off , for she hit the third fence hard . |
| 38 | He measured out thirty paces and stared up at the crenellated boundary wall which was about twenty feet high . |
| 39 | He wore a red bandana and drank white Russians and quoted Kerouac and spoke loudly in superlatives and sang along to the radio in a shrill and grating soprano . |
| 40 | Birkett shrugged his shoulders and went on with the fish cakes . |
| 41 | He waited another second , then shrugged his shoulders and went in through the double doors . |
| 42 | Later , well into the night , Mina and Kāli wrap blankets round their shoulders and walk out through the village . |
| 43 | She straightened her shoulders and gazed up at the unremitting blue of the sky . |
| 44 | He shrugged his shoulders and clambered out of the hole with his retinue following on behind . |
| 45 | He 'd expected it and just shrugged his shoulders and sat down on the stool . |
| 46 | He looked at himself in his mind 's eye , squared his shoulders and carried on down the stairs . |
| 47 | He removed his arm from her shoulders and leaned back against the wall , his gaze still on the fair-haired young girl who sat on the bicycle , ready to move off , the wind blowing her skirt and hair . |
| 48 | The sense of shared knowledge and teamwork has been further accentuated by the numerous glimpses and views up into the studio spaces , the upstairs offices and surrounding meeting rooms . |
| 49 | The shallow burial phase was dominated by pore waters that were derived from surface environments and percolated down through the buried sediments ( Fig. 6 ) . |
| 50 | When the transistor came along , we thought that with valves and relays out of the way , electronics would never ( well , hardly ever ) break down . |
| 51 | Here , in an empty silence , he unpacked his bicycle panniers and went up to the pantry where the bulk of the xerox squatted amongst unsavoury tea-towels beside a tea-stained sink . |
| 52 | Disconsolately , we got back into the rickshaws and set off to the next address . |
| 53 | Imagination contracted the distance and made it surprising to fall for so long , and then he was tearing through dogwood and elder bushes and tumbling in a shower of twigs and leaves on to the ground . |
| 54 | At the well they left their books and went down to the shore . |
| 55 | Elisabeth was hot ; she took off her raincoat , set down the knapsack containing her lunch and some books and sat down on the bench opposite a thicket of hazel , through which a path had been cut . |
| 56 | The next morning Carolyn stayed in her room and read , dipping in and out of Clare 's books and staring out of the window , feeling surprisingly content . |
| 57 | If only such projects could be taken off the government 's books and handed over to the private sector , to get on with them . |
| 58 | Sharpe slammed back his heels and took off down the road as if the demons of hell were at his heels . |
| 59 | Marian sat back on her heels and smiled up into the old woman 's face . |
| 60 | The priest rested his elbows on his knees and looked down at the floor . |