Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun] [prep] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She crouched down to retrieve a comb from underneath the seat in front , and her fingers brushed what appeared to be a small piece of card . |
| 2 | If we decide to be less cynical , we could suggest that God triggered a supernova at exactly the right time to draw the Magi towards the place where His son was being born . |
| 3 | How awfully dull it would be if all our teachers approached a class in exactly the same way , with exactly the same movements , all executed at the same pace and with expectations of the same rigid standard of achievement . |
| 4 | It implies the existence of a unified global economy that has a dynamic beyond simply the interaction of separate domestic economies . |
| 5 | From the look of things , it was odds on he 'd done a runner with either the till , a barmaid or the Christmas Club fund . |
| 6 | ‘ That will have to change if I do n't land a job with much the same salary , and jobs like that do n't exactly grow on trees , you know , particularly when you 're over fifty . ’ |
| 7 | Ordering ‘ two Bristols ’ when you want a couple of glasses of Harvey ‘ s Bristol Cream sherry can land a visitor in much the same embarrassment as assuming that ‘ cobblers ’ were the right people to mend shoes . |
| 8 | There are more dog cards than you shake a stick at yet the bookies are peddling this tripe from South Africa through the morning . |
| 9 | Before the dog could say more , there came a hissing from outside the wall . |
| 10 | It reckons a year from now the industry will be at $4,000 . |
| 11 | It is extremely difficult for any practitioner to administer a test in exactly the same way on two occasions , even if the same child is being tested . |
| 12 | After a five-minute standing ovation , Rune , who appears to have been asleep throughout , raises a hand to still the multitude . |
| 13 | Thus a Representative from a Midwestern State will not want to serve on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee , but would probably covet a place on either the Agriculture Committee or the Appropriations Committee ( especially its Agriculture Subcommittee ) . |
| 14 | The youngster has been offered a place in both the Liverpool and Everton schools of excellence . |
| 15 | Here for simplicity we shall take the frame to be a single arm suspended at its centre as shown in Fig. 2.2 ; Fig. 2.2(a) shows a view from above the North Pole , and Fig. 2.2(b) shows a side view . |
| 16 | The best of these often give a sense of both the science and the doing of science . |
| 17 | In the first quarter of 1980 the ICI group was making profits at a rate of six hundred million pounds a year and in the third quarter we posted a loss for only the second time in our history . |
| 18 | You may need new clothes and , perhaps , a briefcase ; the price of travel can make a hole in even the deepest pocket ; and depending on where your job is , you may need to pay advance rent on new accommodation . |
| 19 | It is most suitable for lightweight curtains , nets and café curtains , and requires a fullness of twice the length of the curtain fixture , but this is adjustable . |
| 20 | The Social Democrats jumped to 44.8% from 38.8% and can choose to form a coalition with either the Greens or the Free Democrats , which is likelier . |
| 21 | Models too can be constructed to give a view of both the interior and exterior of a structure . |
| 22 | In sum the archaeological evidence confirms in rather a striking manner the impression conveyed by writers who held to the view that ivory connoted luxury and in itself constituted a treasure in much the same sense as gold , silver and precious stones . |
| 23 | ‘ This report surely demands a rethink by both the Government and the senior management of BR of the policies that they have adopted over the last 10 years . ’ |
| 24 | The leading party , the National party of Nigeria ( NPN ) , forms the Federal Government but does not have a majority in either the Senate or the House of Representatives . |
| 25 | It will come as no surprise to learn that colleges have serious concerns about the current problems — ‘ overspent , ’ ‘ underfunded ’ hospitals indicating a flaw in either the underlying principles of health care or their implementation . |
| 26 | As a result they push it beyond its design — a bit like trying to fly a plane at twice the speed and height that it was designed for . |
| 27 | Understood in this way a duty to serve the interests of the enterprise can sensibly only mean a duty to further the commercial success of the business . |
| 28 | Until things collapsed , I had planned to hold a conference in either the last week in January or the first week in February because , as a result of discussions with the Shopping Hours Reform Council , SOS , the Union of Shop , Distributive and Allied Workers , the Keep Sunday Special campaign , the consumers and other groups , I am confident — |
| 29 | it 's cost a fortune to actually the caravan sited pay out six thousand quid right ? |
| 30 | It was no accident that medical misogyny , with its powerful definitions of moral and immoral female behaviour , reached a peak at precisely the moment when middle-class women were beginning to challenge the hegemony of the male professions . |