Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Bates hopes to finalise a deal that will reduce his payment from the asking price of £22.85 million to £13 million — and mean Fulham moving in at the end of this season . |
| 2 | Later I turned a page and uttered a gasp of stunned surprise that made Edward look up from the manuscript he scrutinized . |
| 3 | Sarah had come to the car with them and Julia asked Pat to go back to the reception . |
| 4 | He invited Patrick to sit down in the hall and took him in detail through events from the moment the car had stopped in front of the house . |
| 5 | She had expected Fernando to turn up at the airport with his arms full of red roses and promises . |
| 6 | DERYCK FOX helped himself to 13 points with a try , four goals and a drop goal to take the man of the match award and send Widnes crashing out of the Regal Trophy . |
| 7 | Five Railway Cup medals with Ulster and representing Ireland stand out as the highpoints of Jim Reilly 's marvellous career . |
| 8 | Benedict watched him go and then turned to find Theda leaning back against the mantel , white to the lips , one hand at her bosom . |
| 9 | When Morton came in , a few minutes later , he found Bragg staring out of the window , his dead pipe clenched between his teeth . |
| 10 | He made Hodkinson step back in the second with a fierce right to the body . |
| 11 | City will be kicking themselves for allowing Cranfield to get back into the game , but the visitors must be given credit for a spirited second half performance . |
| 12 | About Eddie ? ’ asked an anxious Phil Aldrich , when the frowning Morse walked back into the bar . |
| 13 | One can picture Hoskyns looking down from the skies and being grateful for his pupil ; and Bethune-Baker looking down and thinking that he always knew where Hoskyns might lead the Churches . |
| 14 | Ace snapped savagely , causing Benny to step back from the unexpectedly vicious tone in her voice . |
| 15 | When Sarah forces Katheryn to face up to the reality of the emotional impact the rape has had on her ( Sarah 's ) life , Katheryn 's allegiances switch . |
| 16 | This piece of information caused Makins to slow down for the first time and look at me more carefully . |
| 17 | Picking Gwen Bear up from the bed , and hugging the soft toy to her for comfort , she stood at the window and stared out at the cloudy night sky . |
| 18 | I imagined Saad lying down with the English boy and the two of them flirting and giggling together . |
| 19 | ‘ I said I 'd seen Sam hanging about on the towpath with a bunch of yobs . ’ |
| 20 | She had seen Amy drive up to the house on Saturday morning . |
| 21 | The Foreign Office lawyers were caught on the hop , leaving junior minister Garel-Jones to tell the Commons that if the Labour amendment went through , excising the protocol which allows Britain to opt out of the social chapter , the whole treaty would have to be torn up and all 12 countries begin the painful process again . |
| 22 | Tess Lemmon went down to the farm , looked a pig in the eye and , in the spirit of the continuing BBC1 series ‘ Lifesense ’ , went away with a new pig perspective . |
| 23 | Lewis , though , pushing apparent naivety to incredulous proportions , said : ‘ I could n't let the WBC down by allowing Bowe to duck out of the commitment he made . |
| 24 | The treaty is being put to the vote again because last December 's EC summit in Edinburgh allowed Denmark to opt out of the treaty 's terms on defence co-operation , a common currency , supranational co-operation on police and legal matters , and ‘ union citizenship ’ . |
| 25 | But costly turnovers allowed Washington to creep back into the game , despite the dominance of the Cowboys defence . |
| 26 | Peace within the new boundaries allowed Milan to make up for the time lost during the bloody years of Napoleon 's campaigns and the Risorgimento . |
| 27 | In his rage , the clergyman ‘ who is used to having everyone give in to him when he 's in a passion ’ told Vincent to clear out of the house if he could n't mend his ways . |
| 28 | GEOGRAPHY lessons in Yugoslav schools used to start with the teacher pointing out that the first letters of the names of the states surrounding Yugoslavia added up to the word brigama , ‘ worries ’ . |
| 29 | They would like Britain to opt back into the social chapter , but join other EC members in attempting to renegotiate its contents . |
| 30 | Nigel Mott made sure of the three points two minutes from time , and he could see Milton going back to the top of the table this evening . |