Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked covertly across the table at her , at the vital face , the dark eyes , the generous , amused mouth , the blue-black hair loosely knotted on to the crown of her head , so that curls and tendrils clung around the perfect oval of her face . |
| 2 | Cecilia eventually hit out against the home 's petty rules and forced the social workers to come up with an alternative . |
| 3 | If the tax is not based on where people live , how will the money eventually end up with the local authority in which they live ? |
| 4 | A second application of this technique only leads back to the original solution , apart from an arbitrary complex constant . |
| 5 | Tory asked suddenly , pointing down to a strand of granite pebbles by which a group of bright blooms apparently sprouted out of the shallow water . |
| 6 | An hour , and an hour perhaps to get back into the town — still plenty of time , as she had judged it , to catch the ten-forty-five for Bleasham . |
| 7 | A rough scramble alongside leads up into the upper reaches of the beck ; here is an untidy tumble of boulders fallen from the enclosing heights but there is one gem where , just above the waterfall , the stream slides smoothly over an immense slab of naked limestone . |
| 8 | Every now and then I can see it all so clearly ; a nice log fire and a little round table with a tablecloth , and hot toast with great slabs of butter , and crumpets with honey all oozing out of the little holes , and a china cup with steaming tea — ’ |
| 9 | At first he refused to answer , then realised that no assassin would make such a noise so went down to the door and called out : ‘ Who 's there ? ’ |
| 10 | When the adventurers are halfway across the room four foul , mutated forms suddenly spring up from the corpses and attack . |
| 11 | Waves burst over the cockpit into the saloon only to pour out through the manhole each time the bridge-deck broke free for a moment . |
| 12 | To achieve this we shall be drawing upon the products of archaeologists ' research mostly carried out during the present century . |
| 13 | The car hummed nearer as the view to one side slowly opened up through the dunes to reveal the shining beach and blue-green ocean . |
| 14 | However , looking more closely at Fig. 6.5b , we see that in the cases and there is no chance that there are any trajectories which remain forever within the region of interest except for the homoclinic orbit itself at r = r* ; for all other trajectories the modulus of the a-coordinate increases on each pass through the top of B and so all trajectories eventually wander out of the region of validity of our analysis ( and , in fact , spiral into C1 or C2 ) . |
| 15 | While Hazel gazed , the wind slowly veered round into the west , as Cowslip had said it would , and brought the rain driving into the mouth of the hole . |
| 16 | Its satisfactions are of their own kind , though they are satisfactions intimately bound up with the life of each individual reader , and therefore not without their bearing on his attitude to life . |
| 17 | The explanation is relatively straightforward ; the glucose slowly diffuses out of the capillary into the surrounding liquid , creating a gradient of sugar concentration . |
| 18 | Clear perspex sheet behind the terraces prevents gravel eventually seeping out between the bricks . |
| 19 | The trapdoor in the floor is intact and a set of stone steps below lead down to the basement , location 3a . |
| 20 | Across the road a large grey car suddenly pulled out of the Downshurst-bound traffic and stopped on the grass verge beyond the estate-car and the police busy with tape-measures and notebooks . |
| 21 | Imagine that you can hear the waves gently lapping on to the soft sand . |
| 22 | In the end she made the decision to combine Episodes Three and Four together , losing one whole episode entirely to tighten up on the drama . |
| 23 | Why it should suddenly be important to prove this to a number of people that she had n't even met , she did n't stop to question , and she firmly suppressed a naggingly persistent image of Tom Russell and Marise Wyspianski last Saturday all dressed up for the annual Christmas ball given by the Coronation Hospital board . |
| 24 | ‘ Look , ’ Forester said urgently , and Carson could imagine his knuckles going white as he gripped the payphone receiver hard in an attempt to get his point across , ‘ my chance at having a kid 's been ruined , and the police and the government have got their heads together to cover up for the killer . ’ |
| 25 | By now you will have stimulated the circulation enough to move on to the next stage , which is kneading . |
| 26 | Abel suddenly bent down to the letterbox and called through , ‘ Grandfather Gebler , it s me — Abel . |
| 27 | The Bishop of Dorchester all dressed up behind the beer pumps at his local giving a blessing and then leading the congregation in the Lord 's prayer . |
| 28 | Without going into matters which might be the subject of the inquiry , can the Secretary of State confirm , first , that there have been recurrent problems with the signalling at either end of the line , as a result of the damp ; and , secondly , the system in case of an emergency and a red light was for the relevant engine drivers physically to get out of the cab and use a telephone near the tunnel ? |
| 29 | SO BBC1 's Trainer finally galloped off into the knacker 's yard , leaving nothing but the memory of bad acting and even worse scripts in its wake . |
| 30 | His digital watch and the clock on the wall of the administration building foyer tallied at three precisely when Manville finally strolled in through the glass swing doors and headed for the reception desk . |