Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next day the policeman went where Mr Banks lived and they rang the bell , hello , hello are you Mrs Banks ? |
| 2 | Looking ahead , I suppose travel would be nice , if only the opportunity arose and I had the courage to go with it . |
| 3 | I must now turn to the decided cases to see whether they refute the prima facie views I have formed and expressed in the foregoing paragraphs based on the construction of the statute and indeed otherwise to see what light they shed on the issues falling for decision . |
| 4 | Léonie licked Thérèse 's fingers to see if they tasted the same as her own . |
| 5 | It is seen in The Facts to belong to the times in which the writer lived when he wrote the novel , when opposition to the Vietnam War , and to a President Johnson perceived as monstrous , took to the street-wisdom of a farcical obscenity . |
| 6 | Who does the heart hurt when it sees the unattended pair of shoes ? |
| 7 | Eventually when one has had enough , he signals submission by contracting the pigment in one set of cells and expanding that in another so that his flank patterns change and he hoists the flag of surrender . |
| 8 | It is then the publisher 's responsibility to see that you receive the money which you are due . |
| 9 | Restriction analysis of the rescued plasmid revealed that it had the expected structure . |
| 10 | Our journeys on the whiteboard suggest that it holds the key to our concepts of beauty . |
| 11 | The reports on ceefax say that he requested the move . |
| 12 | Lands officers in the Road Service division objected because they claimed the one foot high flower beds could restrict a driver 's vision . |
| 13 | Roger exclaimed when he opened the door . |
| 14 | Second , the only way of avoiding this presumption of responsibility is for the defendant to prove either ( a ) that the driving , accident or damage occurred before he took the car , or ( b ) that he was neither in , on or near the vehicle when that driving , accident or damage occurred . |
| 15 | Charlie 's heart sank when he read the orders ; he knew the odds against surviving two attacks were virtually unknown . |
| 16 | ‘ My heart sank when I saw the hill . ’ |
| 17 | However , her heart sank when she examined the bowl more closely . |
| 18 | Most of the shops seemed already to be closed and her heart sank as she identified the unlit frontage of number seventeen . |
| 19 | Her heart sank as she remembered the phone call which for the first time began to make sense . |
| 20 | The driver stiffened as he felt the gun muzzle jab him in the small of his back through the upholstery of the seat . |
| 21 | Kirov 's fingers trembled as he adjusted the fine-tuning dial of his radio set . |
| 22 | The Imperial troops posted to defend the river gates from Kislev fled when they saw the green horde stretched out across the horizon and advancing at full speed towards them . |
| 23 | SHERYL Garratt says her heart dropped when she saw the ages of the jury . |
| 24 | Accounts of their trial suggest that it took the form of a political witch-hunt , with the intention of intimidating other critics of the government . |
| 25 | It was not that the family did not make her comfortable or spare any expense to see that she had the clothes and servants she needed , but rather that she found their way of life , their attitudes , their conversation , humour , tastes and ideas completely alien to everything she was used to . |
| 26 | But the equitable principles established by the authorities require , in my judgment , that creditors who take from married women security for their husband 's debts take reasonable steps to see that they understand the transactions they are entering into . |
| 27 | Dumping the monster hide as I reached the bottom of the shaft , I hurried away along some disused-looking passages , by then moving on bootless , bare and blistered feet . |
| 28 | She glared at him , her eyes flashing as she felt the lingering shudder of sensation rippling across her skin . |
| 29 | Meredith asked as she took the cup . |
| 30 | The aircraft quivered when it penetrated the thin layers of cloud in its path . |