Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [noun sg] [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 | It was dark , and all the fiddly jobs like clipping in the dogs or tying kit on to the sledges meant taking off gloves . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The drift had become a tunnel of overgrowth that dripped water on to the roof of the van . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Do you know any plants that put nitrogen back into the soil ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Bremner loved nothing better than to kick hell out of the opposition . |
| 9 | Later in the century , Francis of Assisi began to develop a more romantic spirituality that took mysticism out of the cloister into the world . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This child has a metal prosthesis and kicks hell out of the others at football . |
| 12 | By strictly controlling the money supply they would restore sound finance and squeeze inflation out of the system . |
| 13 | At the start of the 1980s , it seemed to me that until we knew more about the answers to such questions then it would be hard to compare and make sense out of the varied and possibly conflicting results that were coming from different labs . |
| 14 | He says it means they 'll have to start again and buy straw in for the winter . |
| 15 | It allows a relatively modern driving position with straighter arms than the slightly foreshortened and big-wheeled Healey , but the stubby gear lever and handbrake lever down on the central tunnel are very similar car to car . |
| 16 | Take the track out of the car park and zig zag up to the viewpoint . |
| 17 | Girls cheered and threw money on to the stage , but the curtain came down , the head hit him again and , with the curtain back up , the youngster was caned in the middle of the performance . |
| 18 | Robinson , bowling enthusiastically and getting life out of the pitch , forced Hayhurst and Richard Harden into edging catches before being replaced by Peter Hartley , who had Neil Burns splendidly caught at second slip by Byas . |
| 19 | While I am not denigrating individual interpreters working for the immigration service or the Home Office , many of whom work extremely hard and do a very good job , it is essential that those seeking political asylum have an absolute guarantee that the person doing the translating is independent , is fully aware of the importance of an asylum application , is fully familiar with the cases and is somebody whose background has been inquired into to make sure that he or she is not in a position to infiltrate the immigration service and pass information back to the regime from which the individual may be fleeing , thus putting their family at risk . |
| 20 | She left the table and walked straight-backed out of the dining room and across the hall to the library door , where the same constable was waiting outside . |
| 21 | They roused the occupants of some houses by knocking on the door and holding Bartle up to the windows to be seen by those inside . |
| 22 | ‘ I wonder if it 's that Jack the Ripper , ’ she laughed , and followed Dad out to the shed , leaving me with Liza who had just come in . |
| 23 | Over the years I have done all kinds of work with horses , hay-making , spreading and harrowing manure and hauling coal down from the road on a sledge . |
| 24 | The vital veins from her lungs — the pulmonary veins — were n't draining in to her heart , but into a chamber which bypassed it and sent blood down to the liver instead . |
| 25 | But afterwards , when you 're packing up and taking equipment out to the car , you suddenly find yourself surrounded by pupils and teachers firing questions at you . |
| 26 | Putting science next to godliness goes hand in hand with rolling back the Copernican revolution and putting Man back at the centre of the universe , a reactionary project that makes the New Right look like tinkerers . |
| 27 | But the citizens of Sinkport were far too busy with fishing , boat-building , buying and selling and making money out of the tourists to take much notice of such happenings . |
| 28 | Together they scaled the remaining rope , rolling over the railing and falling flat on to the deck with practised ease , short stubby muzzles of the Uzis weaving and probing the long narrow passage . |
| 29 | It 's a good card tonight anyway and people may want to get out from the snow and have night out at the stadium . |
| 30 | We also managed to get tins of the famous , unappreciated Spam and bully beef back from the looters and , knowing that the English liked strong tea , we boiled up more of their mixture for them , producing something of an indescribable colour that was more like a meal than a drink . |