Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This risk might come from subsequent investigation of the audit , or from investigations carried out by any of the various regulatory bodies such as the Inland Revenue Investigations Branch or one established under the Financial Services Act . |
| 2 | Either the mermaid was energetically breasting the waves or she sat on the upturned keel of a drowned vessel and combed out long and improbably yellow hair . |
| 3 | It is also true that the growing body of scientific evidence has had one effect in that the agreed levels of exposure to both people who work in the industry or who live in the vicinity of power stations have become steadily more stringent since the early days when it was thought unnecessary to warn military personnel that there was any risk in their presence a matter of miles from an atomic test explosion . |
| 4 | We 're constantly reworking songs and I imagine in the next few months we 'll probably be reworking members too . |
| 5 | Later I descended with the songs of the skylarks still in my ears and I listened to the grumbling of the men in the mist of the grey streets . |
| 6 | They have lent forms and skills even to the great serpent who beguiled Eve , who swallowed Jonah and who wrestled in the wilderness with the young man from Nazareth . |
| 7 | Well once again if you look at the er er if you look at the full page which costs nine hundred pound on a on a golf club score card and you look at the full page in the A five booklet |
| 8 | Ultimately , their efforts brought those ‘ Peace People ’ the Nobel Peace Prize in December 1977 , but controversy over that award added to the movement 's inability to sustain its momentum and it faded from the newspaper front pages . |
| 9 | Ward 's voice smashed into my consciousness and I slammed on the brakes . |
| 10 | As she ran down the driveway of the semi-detached house , a shot was fired from an upstairs front bedroom and she fell to the ground . |
| 11 | I remember being at primary school and the boys went to play football and you sat in the corner playing talking or the boys played football and the girls , would you believe it , got sex education ! |
| 12 | then er a week ago last night erm Jean and I went to the Lyceum together to see Arsenic and Old Lace . |
| 13 | Jean and I dashed to the back of Danny 's truck and wrenched open the door . |
| 14 | Anyway this man without the arms , he went to and he had er he had er a pocket outside his jacket here , and he he erm got the brooch and he called on the at the house where this woman was and he says , Put your hand into that pocket , he said , and she puts her hand in , Oh , she say , she says , You 've got the brooch . |
| 15 | Gradually the haze and sweat cleared from their eyes and they focussed over the open valley they had cycled up from . |
| 16 | There was still a little awe in her wide grey eyes and it added to the astonishingly innocent look that intrigued everyone . |
| 17 | The Corporal and I shouted at the Sergeant to step on it , as the explosions were getting closer . |
| 18 | We always march in the parade on Armistice Sunday and this year erm I picked my poppy wreath up from the vic from vicarage and I said to the Vicar , you do n't mind if I wind some white poppies in this one do you , because it was the Earl Hague poppy you know . |
| 19 | He had forgotten to take off his spectacles and he peered over the top of them . |
| 20 | Er , perhaps I could make er one comment , maybe Mr Gordon will ma wish to make a a technical comment on it , but certainly when we began the programme and we discussed with the other nations in the early stages of of the collaboration . |
| 21 | The mayor , councillor Ray Turner says : ’ When the king , that 's Charles the second , was proclaimed King in Scotland , he made his way south trying to raise an army and he was turned away from everywhere until he came to Worcester and the mayor there proclaimed him king of England and in recognition the king knighted the mayor and he rode with the king around the city to raise an army . ’ |
| 22 | Elissia tickled the back of her neck and she leapt in the air . |
| 23 | He had told her that he had wanted her that night at the house , but he needed no words now — his body was evidence enough — and sheets of flame seemed to shoot through her as her arms wound around his neck and she arched against the demanding , hardening muscles . |
| 24 | Making our way through the crowds — great busloads of excited if baffled-looking Rajasthani villagers — Dr Jaffery and I passed over the moat and through the outer gate , part of the indecorous additional defences erected outside Shah Jehan 's fort by Aurangzeb . |
| 25 | ‘ Our club accountant discovered the shortages and we called in the police . ’ |
| 26 | Certainly there were new developments after 1660 which created new sources of political tension and which fed into the emergence of party , whilst over time the parties modified and adapted their positions to cope with new problems , issues and contingencies . |
| 27 | Two shells hit the roof and one exploded in the corridor during the night . |
| 28 | The height , the sky and the distance went to their heads and they skipped in the sunset . |
| 29 | She bust her moorings and she belted into the coal-tips , ready for loading . |
| 30 | of Friday and we looked at the individual steps but we know , everybody says yes we ask the business , we came across and to put Gareth , can you take it through and explain what it is , and explain each stage so let's hear from Gareth then . |