Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's that or hacking it with the hammers . |
| 2 | And as Joe was saying , he said , all we do is just go back to them and just try and say well look you know when you come to see us again do you want to accept this or regret it on the basis that you 're going to strike , but all the other section in the company 's accepted that . |
| 3 | The local people caught them in vast numbers for food , eating them fresh or drying them in the sun , and until recently they made up 80 per cent or more of the total catch . |
| 4 | In the back of one of my homemade guitars I used a bit of thin foam , rolled up tight , to hold a battery in place ; then I had a brainwave to use a piece of this and lay it across the springs , between them and the rear plate . |
| 5 | ( It would be advisable to make a copy of this and keep it in the ‘ Record of Achievement ’ as insurance against loss of the original . ) |
| 6 | Hopefully the next England manager will realise this and consign him to the scrap-heap as Taylor should have done years ago . |
| 7 | Mike dragged me clear and carried me into the house . |
| 8 | He 'd always been so clean before , so we knew there was something wrong and took him to the vet immediately . ’ |
| 9 | He gathered six double sheets from the drenched berths , folded them in half and left them by the companionway . |
| 10 | tearing tin cans in half and lobbing them into the |
| 11 | I remembered the time Andy and I had let down all the wheels of his dad 's car , folding matches in half and sticking them into the tyre valves . |
| 12 | Cut this waste in half and cramp it to the opposite corner of the block , and drill a 1–1/4in diameter hole where the pieces meet . |
| 13 | All you need to do is drill a hole into the back of the engine to take a piece of thin wire , then fold the banner in half and glue it to the wire with PVA glue . |
| 14 | I had to be told which character was Chaplin ; he was so old and looked nothing like the silent comic I knew so well . |
| 15 | His eyes went to her head and he snatched her hat free and flung it into the back of the car . |
| 16 | The sentence trailed off as Hitch pulled the Beretta free and aimed it at the crewman . |
| 17 | But when researchers cut sections of these rings , ground them down into slices so thin that they were translucent and examined them through the microscope , they found , preserved in the chert , the shapes of simple organisms , each no more than one or two hundredths of a millimetre across . |
| 18 | The Rangers will help the area and visitors by advising , guiding and informing them about the Hills and the many interests to be seen and enjoyed . |
| 19 | Keep close watch on the stitches , it is worth working a little slower to make sure that all the stitches have knitted and should you find that an occasional loop stays over the needle after knitting the row , set the main carriage for EMPTY and move it across the knitting to knit any unworked loop . |
| 20 | Teesdale District Council turned down an application for the sign on the ground of it contravening the town area local plan but the inspector said it was acceptable and allowed it for the next five years . |
| 21 | She would put all the light clothes into one bag and all the dark into another and take them to the launderette in Pevsner Road . |
| 22 | Only with an effort did those who had been to all the other parties locate one another and separate themselves from the mob . |
| 23 | I peeled off five hundreds and gave them to the officer . |
| 24 | One of the younger men charged up to Sabine and pulled her into the circle . |
| 25 | The co-existence of IP 3 Rs and RYRs may somehow help to integrate information coming in from the outside and to relay it throughout the neuron through the process of CICR already described . |
| 26 | Once the momentum of marketing is established the ideas and actions become almost self-generating and weave themselves through the normal contacts and business of the day . |
| 27 | Six was brought up in the family business but declining trade prompted him to retire early and devote himself to the wide range of interests typical of an eighteenth-century intellectual , although there is no evidence that he ever received any formal training . |
| 28 | Six and moving it to the afternoon yes , it 's er a nice question . |
| 29 | Now Lizzy had taken all that her grandmother held dear and dragged it through the dirt . |
| 30 | Phone Rich and ask him about the sound ! |