Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Various items get gulped up into my mouth , and after skilful massage with tongue and teeth I transfer them to the plate for additional sculpture with knife and fork and spoon . |
| 2 | I 've got a potential describing Inverness I met her on the train the other day , a friend of my , he says |
| 3 | I knew before I started out that , weatherwise , the end of March is not the time to plan a journey to the Islands and my misgiving proved to be well founded as on Tuesday 23 March I found myself in the lounge at Dalcross Airport , Inverness watching gale force winds sweep snow across the runways . |
| 4 | But erm when we , by the time we got into Hull I heard it on the radio what had happened and we went to the toy fair and then we came back and there was er you could see all the ambulances and everything still there . |
| 5 | ‘ Of course I know nothing about the process of childbirth , ’ she said , with an austere expression about her lips … . |
| 6 | when she came up yesterday I said , we 've had our dinner , I said do you want , want some dinner ? of course I put it in the oven for her |
| 7 | So this afternoon I had him on the settee |
| 8 | ‘ An' where 's the money I gave yer fer the pictures ? ’ he demanded . |
| 9 | Finding myself in the coal bunker at the back of the bungalow I did nothing till the morning of dawning when maximum light was to be utilised for a rather essential cold water wash under an outside tap , and I was soon back on the solid road remarking that the hedgerows ' newborn leaves utter great things . |
| 10 | Perhaps it was just the times I saw him in the Div II Championship year and the season after that . |
| 11 | Yes it 's great , I mean in the first year lecture on Tuesday erm in the break I gave them in the middle of it the the corridor was like thick with tobacco smoke y'know you could hardly |
| 12 | I did n't approve of what he was doing , but if I refused his money I would be more and more visible , so I took it , and when he had gone off in relief back towards the dining car I gave it to the barman . |
| 13 | Still on the subject of pets , I must n't forget Mrs. I found her under the millstone table outside the kitchen on a cold November evening . |
| 14 | rush and Summer slack I sell it by the yard . |
| 15 | a considerable collection of under-utilised data , possibly with some characteristics which differentiate them from the main archive collections ; and , |
| 16 | He had reached six when he played at a ball down the leg side which hit him on the thigh , with the bat some inches away , and was taken by Dujon . |
| 17 | Duosome Cream is a beauty product whose active ingredients include Elastin , Collagen , Vitamins E and F , together with liposomes which carry them beneath the skin to the cells below . |
| 18 | I 've heard also of courses of injections which remove it in the short term but result in a worse incidence of cellulite after the treatment has worn off . |
| 19 | Our patrol area during that time was mainly on the south coast and the west country , with a longer patrol northward on the west coast which took us into the Bristol Channel , then to the Isle of Man , Workington and Northern Ireland . |
| 20 | The eyes which met his across the table top were bright with horror and with an excitement which was too close to relish to be comfortable . |
| 21 | The car which took us to the station drove as sedately as a Daimler in a royal procession although the people of Amsterdam were on their way to work and provided admirable subjects for baiting . |
| 22 | However , he soon found a car which took us up the hill to Maymyo , and Madriya and his wife and daughter came with us . |
| 23 | Much later in the books of Samuel we find another story concerning the ark which reminds us of the battle with the Philistines . |
| 24 | A vast impenetrable openness which froze him to the spot where he was as if he was caught in ice . |
| 25 | The relatively high completion rates for the ‘ Other NSEs ’ reflects the fact that this includes students with ‘ professional , nursing , technical or secretarial qualifications ’ The pattern which emerges is that students who have been selected on the basis of success in some form of study which prepares them for the demands which will be placed on them in higher education respond as least as well if not better than the traditionally qualified A-level entrants , while those with less evidence of success of this kind find the transition to higher education difficult and are more likely to drop-out . |
| 26 | Traditional examinations rely on a single mark or a grade to indicate the level of performance relative to other pupils , although it is an indication which says nothing about the nature of the achievement . |
| 27 | ( Left The Lycett & Conaty radial gear , with which S.M.E.T. Nos. 1–16 were originally fitted and ( right ) the Warner gear which replaced it in the 1920s . |
| 28 | Again after the middle ten lines there is another break which takes us into the last section of the poem with the words ‘ at last ’ . |
| 29 | Laurie , known to the boxing boys as Lol , believes boxing can give ‘ lads with fire in their belly ’ an ambition which keeps them on the straight and narrow . |
| 30 | For a few decades , too , the English also used hobelars with success along the borders which separated them from the enemy in France , and in particular at the siege of Calais in 1346–7 , where they had some 600 or so to help them keep the French at a distance . |