Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The DHSS were playing me up over the removal grant , so one of my sons went up to the house to see if there were any letters — everything had been smashed , crocks were smashed and the beds were slashed . |
| 2 | Then one of my sons went down into the village to see if the army had left , He came back to tell us that they had destroyed everything , that they had taken all the maize , all the cows and had burnt every house in sight . |
| 3 | WHILE my heart goes out to the parents in the baby-swop drama , I have to agree with the midwife interviewed on TV who said that it was ‘ a disaster waiting to happen ’ . |
| 4 | My heart goes out to the people who are being raped , pillaged and murdered just because they are Bosnian Muslims . |
| 5 | ‘ My heart goes out to the people who are being raped , pillaged and murdered just because they are Bosnian Moslems . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ My heart goes out to the father and to all the family . |
| 7 | My hair falls out at the slightest touch , sometimes leaving little bald patches . |
| 8 | ‘ My enthusiasm for my cooking spills over into the restaurant , ’ he said . |
| 9 | and my knickers fell down in the snow . |
| 10 | My contract runs out at the end of this trip . |
| 11 | ‘ I could ask him and Tim and you , and make my mum go out for the evening . ’ |
| 12 | Look , ’ he lied , q have in my wallet a warrant from the Chief Justice and I shall stay here whilst my clerk hurries back to the city and brings men from the under sheriff to search this house . |
| 13 | ‘ My sympathy goes out to the people of Gateshead who have suffered a similarly sickening attack and I believe the government must now ensure that there is a positive and rapid response to meet the concerns of local residents . ’ |
| 14 | It so happened that on one of these Sundays my CO strolled by at the same time , and the AOC asked him why he had not seen Mahaddie for a pilot 's course . |
| 15 | Now one of them seizes me , and it is n't a man , it 's an octopus with claws — it holds me in its tentacles , its talons dig into my flesh and my blood drips out through the holes in my flesh and my blood is n't red human blood , it 's black like tar , like drops of liquid evil … |
| 16 | My mind cast back to the winter of last November when I stood on this same platform awaiting the arrival of a new intake . |
| 17 | I had just winched in the staysail 's port sheet when the explosion sounded , or something so like an explosion that I instinctively cowered by Wavebreaker 's rail as my mind whipped back to the crash of practice shells ripping through the sleet in Norway . |
| 18 | My mind goes back to the original fifteen-year Hospital Plan , published in January 1962 . |
| 19 | My mind went back to the scene in that bedroom and the sliding doors to the paved patio . |
| 20 | Only when she fumbles with the tiny metal flap of my zip does my mind shake back to the present . |
| 21 | My mind flew back to the sight of The Fat Controller 's cigar . |
| 22 | My mind turned back to the man Mrs Bradshaw had accosted in the garden , but I knew of no one who bore me that kind of grudge or , if he did , would take it out on me in such a petty and spiteful way . |
| 23 | My eyes light up at the sight of her even though she 's hitting me about the head , so to speak . |
| 24 | My weight settled back on the earth and I felt nothing but staggering agony and could n't think connectedly until it abated . |
| 25 | Agnes is losing patience and revenue , I 've practically got my legs sticking out of the Boomerang window , when there 's this heavy handslap on the roof of the car . |
| 26 | Due to my forward speed the mat and my feet ended up under the AOC 's desk at the same time saluted , and my Wolseley sun helmet sped to the opposite corner of the room . |
| 27 | I also loved The Flintstones , I wanted to have a car like Fred Flintstone 's with my feet poking out of the bottom , ’ said Kylie . |
| 28 | My work came out of the social situation within which I found myself … ’ |
| 29 | Yes I remember my granny coming out with the word |
| 30 | As Frankenstein 's gaze had recently done , my gaze turned up to the ceiling , beyond which lay the laboratory — with all its gruesome secrets now accessible to me ! |