Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [noun] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | do you want strangulating ? , or hanging upside down on the clothes line by your toe nails ? |
| 2 | I would also like to point out that antivivisection organisations , do not hatch up their facts or repeat facts out of the air ; they come from individuals as knowledgeable as any vivisectionist . |
| 3 | A recent report from the EOC found that ‘ overall the Youth Training Programme does little or nothing to widen girls ’ horizons or to provide ways out of the low-paid and dead-end jobs which are a feature of many women 's lives in Northern Ireland today ’ . |
| 4 | It was dark , and all the fiddly jobs like clipping in the dogs or tying kit on to the sledges meant taking off gloves . |
| 5 | The milkmen have been watching out for customers who lay their part in the community , are good neighbour , keep a watchful eye on elderly residents , or putting nuts out for the birds . |
| 6 | There is increasing independent evidence that the first trusts are proving that bringing management back into the hospitals is already bringing benefits to patients and staff . |
| 7 | I never dared to ask , but I understand now what it is that drives addicts back to the needle time and time again whatever the cost to their health and sanity ; I understand now what the mystics lay claim to when they speak of the peace that passeth all understanding . |
| 8 | The drift had become a tunnel of overgrowth that dripped water on to the roof of the van . |
| 9 | Another thing that distinguished Mario back in the very earliest days was that he always wanted to win at everything . |
| 10 | In most species there are at least three distinct classes of ganglion cells in the retina that conduct information through to the visual cortex in physiologically distinguishable streams . |
| 11 | It was this same Spirit that drove Jesus off into the desert to be tempted after his baptism , that pioneered the mission of the early Church often in the most bizarre , unexpected and ‘ unorthodox ’ ways ; that gripped a man like Philip , removed him from a flourishing evangelistic campaign in Samaria and drove him into the desert because there was one man who needed his help . |
| 12 | The cool milk tasted delicious — a steadying , soothing drink that transported Robyn back to the days when her mother had cosseted her with supper in bed as a child . |
| 13 | Do you know any plants that put nitrogen back into the soil ? |
| 14 | Yes , but er I think that erm , before we champion er , or back er people like Mr Yeltsin and say that they rep represent progressive forces , I 'd like to be clear about where those forces see themselves going , because I do n't see nationalism as a progressive force in the er , in the last decade of the twentieth century , I think we need to be concentrating on those people who are trying to build a new international order rather than splitting things up in the Soviet Union in a way which may be catastrophic . |
| 15 | He also had to watch out for the bears that pounced on you if you stepped on the lines in the pavement , and the killer bats that hung upside down in the shadows under the roof of the railway arch , and the rats that came out of the cracks in the brickwork and infected you with their deadly diseases simply by breathing out into the same air that you breathed in . |
| 16 | Charles had decided on battle as the only way to cut through the competing loyalties and quite literally , reduce the number of Carolingian competitors : thus , as the only way to secure himself a kingdom that included Aquitaine along with the lion 's share of Francia ( as promised originally in 837 ) ; but also , as the only way to secure an outcome all would accept as definitive — a Judgement of God . |
| 17 | Bremner loved nothing better than to kick hell out of the opposition . |
| 18 | Later in the century , Francis of Assisi began to develop a more romantic spirituality that took mysticism out of the cloister into the world . |
| 19 | They all made it clear that handing patients over to the press was a regular occurrence ( a point that none of the committee commented on or asked questions about ) . |
| 20 | Rare is the production these days that lets critics in without the benefit of at least half a dozen previews . |
| 21 | Of the goal that puts Scotland out of the tournament |
| 22 | The Cheltenham firm is doing more than putting classics back on the road . |
| 23 | Grade decided that the complaints from parents and teachers that kids were arriving late in class because of the series — not to mention that nagging suspicion that placing Neighbours on before the evening 's news bulletin could be a ratings coup — should be ignored no longer . |
| 24 | For very large tanks a power skimmer performs better than an air driven one , however , there is one disadvantage with the former — on those models that take air in at the aquarium 's surface — when used with ozone . |
| 25 | This is an in-cab computer system that transmits data back to the home base using RAM 's network . |
| 26 | The axon of the cell is the fibre that carries signals out from the cell body to the dendrites of other nerve cells . |
| 27 | If you have sensed an undercurrent of discord and discontent running through your home you should take the initiative and drag things out into the open . |
| 28 | This child has a metal prosthesis and kicks hell out of the others at football . |
| 29 | Harry laughed as he refastened the windows and led Madeleine back into the hall . |
| 30 | Cranston roared with laughter and led Athelstan over to the far corner where a table and stools were set apart from the rest of the customers . |