Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | He steeled himself as Epitot drew back the sheet . |
| 32 | He and wife Sally Ann show off the card ( above ) . |
| 33 | Moving like the late Dick Emery in his ‘ Ooh , you are awful ’ guise , Standerline eats up the role of the camp gay explaining his troubled yet amusing life in brisk gag-heavy declarations . |
| 34 | Christopher Hill has emphasised how Milton explicitly has Samson bring down the temple on ‘ Lords , ladies , captains , counsellors , or priests , /Their choice nobility and flower ’ ( 11.1653–4 ) allowing the vulgar [ i.e. the common people ] ‘ who stood without ’ to escape . |
| 35 | And Andy written down the back if you want to scratch it . |
| 36 | He had described as " a fraud " the recent attempts under KGB chairman Gen. Vladimir Kryuchkov to clean up the KGB 's public image and stress its role in fighting genuine crime . |
| 37 | In another case Mansfield spelt out the advantages of certainty , that merchants could then depend upon rules , ‘ easily learned and easily retained ’ , rather than upon ‘ subtleties and niceties ’ or ‘ upon speculative refinements from the law of nations or the Roman jus post liminii ’ . |
| 38 | When Blyth came back the next year he was even more unpleasant than before , having lost his left leg from above the knee in a road accident ( the boy he was playing'chicken ’ with was killed ) . |
| 39 | Manville played up the empathy he had established . |
| 40 | Corbett trudged down the beaten , muddy track ; the sky was overcast and a light rain began to fall . |
| 41 | This last symbol , however , is much narrower than the pencil lines inserted by Michell to pick out the alignments , and about 0.25 mm is probably nearer the mark for the lower limit of alignment tolerance . |
| 42 | Mrs Singh came down the hall and opened the door , smiling . |
| 43 | Microsoft asked computer distributor , Keydata SA to set up the Institute four years ago . |
| 44 | The optimised X-Winserver speeds up the performance of X-Windows : DOS and Windows emulation facilities have been built into the kernel . |
| 45 | Waiting for Scott to pick up the telephone , Annabel could visualize the scene at the TV station . |
| 46 | Not very early , you can sleep in I 've got ta go to Waitrose to pick up the stuff . |
| 47 | Pauline and Pat climb out the window |
| 48 | Watson , who turned to crime after moving to London , slumped in the dock of Inner London Crown Court as Judge Brian Pryor handed out the sentence on Monday . |
| 49 | ABOVE : Old man Roberts checks out the family album . |
| 50 | Schellenberg turned up the collar of his greatcoat and leaned back in the corner pulling the peak of his cap over his eyes . |
| 51 | At a recent meeting of the party 's Central Committee , President Gorbachev opened up the prospect of a future coalition government when he talked of ‘ equal possibilities for the Communist party and other political and social organisations . ’ |
| 52 | Corbett handed over the coin , let the man go and leaned against the wall . |
| 53 | In a series of bloody encounters in 1796 Napoleon threw back the Austrian , liberating the Italians — again — and created several new republics , one of which , the Cisalpine Republic , had Milan as its capital . |
| 54 | EDWINA CURRIE turned down the offer of a job in Mr Major 's Government yesterday , saying that someone else could do the job far better than she could . |
| 55 | Yanto drained the last dregs of cider from the stone jar and watched Molly clear up the remains of the picnic . |
| 56 | Zach threw back the lid in triumph and the twins and George gathered round to look at the contents . |
| 57 | Out in the car park , Lucy handed over the car keys to Virginia and wedged herself into the passenger-seat , glancing rather apprehensively at Virginia as they accelerated slightly too fast out of the car park . |
| 58 | In June of last year , Koons handed over the fourth ‘ String of Puppies ’ to Art Rogers before a court deadline for doing so , and no fines were levied . |
| 59 | Meredith poured out the tea carefully , gathering her thoughts . |
| 60 | ‘ Killer Kurt ’ Herwald threw down the best-out-of-three challenge when Southwest adopted his company 's slogan . |