Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or scratch your crutch with the salad fork . |
| 2 | If you have any questions on this insurance cover please ring Joan Daniels , or bring your queries to the discussion time at our next meeting in March . |
| 3 | I said you and I were man and wife , and to lose me would break or damage your bond with the King . |
| 4 | The result is a silent melodrama with a comic touch , as the heroine pilots the wounded hero through the desert to safety or drives her sledge across the snowy Canadian wastes . |
| 5 | I shifted my weight on to my other foot , looked around the landing and up the stairs , half-expecting to see my father leaning over the banister rail , or to see his shadow on the wall of the landing above , where he thought he could hide and listen to my phone calls without me knowing . |
| 6 | Detectives do not know if she was attacked somewhere else and driven to her death , or met her fate in the lovers ' lane . |
| 7 | A hotelier may ‘ so far as he is free to ’ exclude or restrict his liability under the OLA 1957 by means of a notice ( or a clause in the contract of booking vis-a-vis guests ) . |
| 8 | Er I notice the government also talk about job seekers these days as opposed to people who are unemployed but for those who get up early in the morning or raise their head off the pillow as I do , see the business news on half past six on er B B C 1 . |
| 9 | reserve the seller 's title to the goods themselves ( i.e. until either the buyer has paid or else the goods are sold by the buyer or lose their identity in the buyer 's manufacturing or other process ) , and |
| 10 | This is so , for example , if its inclusion is not material for the purposes of giving a true and fair view or if , in effect , the parent is not able to exercise dominance over the subsidiary or holds its interest in the subsidiary exclusively with a view to resale , or the information necessary for group accounts can not be obtained without disproportionate delay or expense . |
| 11 | But it does make clear a belief that the divine being reveals or manifests its nature in the world . |
| 12 | Oh , they were my daily joy , Dirty Dick , Harry , Bert , Prickwillow , working on the green baize under the bench lights , the elastic band round the grey heads holding the jeweller 's eyeglass or checking their tolerances with the white-coated draughtsmen , or rouging the last tenth of a thou from a newly-turned and bored brass centimetric attenuator . |
| 13 | Amber is for ‘ caution ’ behaviour , which you do n't encourage but tolerate because your child is still learning and making mistakes : something like digging holes in the lawn with his spade or hurling her toys across the room in a moment of fury . |
| 14 | Most people find it easy to drink large quantities of calorific drinks , sweet or alcoholic , without in any way lessening or delaying their appetite for the next meal — and these drinks , and sugar itself , are perhaps the ultimate example of fibre-free calories . |
| 15 | either that or banging his head on the wall ! |
| 16 | But United 's trip to Hillsborough today will provide Fergie with a more revealing test of Cantona 's mettle , because Wednesday fans are unlikely to have forgiven or forgotten his walkout on the Owls 11 months ago . |
| 17 | Others went off for extended periods as migrant ( dekasegi ) workers or severed their ties with the land altogether . |
| 18 | there is only one exception : if a wife owns the property or has her name on the rent book or has the property because of her job , her husband is regarded as the head of household , provided that he is resident ( our italics ) . |
| 19 | Two slotted benches occupied most of the space and they were high up so that you had to sit with neck bent or smash your head against the ceiling . |
| 20 | So to say , ‘ Jesus is God ’ , does not imply or claim that we have made direct observation of a hidden ‘ divine nature ’ in him , or explored his relationship with the Father from the inside . |
| 21 | Deutsche Bank Research says it does not expect northern EC members to revalue or devalue their currencies before the introduction of the single European currency . |
| 22 | Every staff member who leaves , retires or ceases their employment of the Bank , should be replaced by a full-time official . |
| 23 | A NEW directory of scientific research projects at Oxford University is available free for companies looking for opportunities to collaborate with academics or transfer their technology to the marketplace . |
| 24 | Now of course from the special school point of view they will say well many efforts are made to attempt to bring community life into the school and to have children erm or give them experiences in the community , so that you provide both a sheltered environment and also the opportunity to learn in the wider community , and this debate is something of a dilemma erm I do n't know that any body can give a definite answer to it . |
| 25 | I 'll build my own museum in Pittsburgh , or someplace else , or give my paintings to the National Gallery in London . |
| 26 | There are mothers and daughters who can talk freely about sex , and mothers who send or accompany their daughter to the doctor to get the Pill , as Tracy 's mother had , but they tend to be the exception . |
| 27 | Mrs Parkin would take quick sidelong looks at her new daughter-in-law , hoping to catch her out , but there she 'd always be , merry as a chicken , tra-la-lahing amongst the pots and pans in the kitchen , or lipsticking her lips in the frameless octagonal mirror in the parlour , or telling her rosary in front of the Virgin , apparently more devout even than Bernard , the most devout of all her sons . |
| 28 | In an undisturbed home , all domestic cats see themselves as subordinates of their human owners , so under normal circumstances all domestic cats use litter trays or bury their faeces in the garden . |
| 29 | The effect of such imagery is to enrich or enlarge our concept of the male , or of what may truly be said to be ‘ masculine ’ . |
| 30 | The court may order the husband to convey or transfer his interest in the home to the wife absolutely in the following manner : It is ordered that the Respondent shall transfer to the Petitioner absolutely within 28 days from the date of this Order all his estate and interest in the property 1 Blackacre Drive , Blackacre [ subject to the existing Mortgage to the Blackacre Building Society , the Petitioner indemnifying the Respondent against all claims in respect thereof ] . |