Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [adj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When my Group first met in the summer of 1988 we soon decided to divide the English curriculum into three profile components : |
| 2 | ‘ My relatives all live in the States — his are in Jersey . |
| 3 | In 1926 would be the General Strike when Welsh miners marched the two hundred miles to London , their trail easy to follow by the black-blood spat along the road , while back at home the troops moved in for fear of revolution . |
| 4 | A group of soldiers were already there , collecting their rifles ready to go to the rifle range . |
| 5 | ‘ Have you found anything , Sergeant ? ’ she asked , pitching her voice high to get over the wind . |
| 6 | At its apex this radiated from the product division to the central organs of calculation and control . |
| 7 | I tuck everything away , his toes , his fingers all swaddled against the wind . |
| 8 | In an instant , all the deadness , the withdrawal was wiped away , leaving his mind clear to operate with the precision of a surgeon 's scalpel . |
| 9 | And it entered his mind uninvited to wonder about the strangeness of human relationships . |
| 10 | ‘ Just another couple of feet , ’ cried Gambo as he nimbly moved aside and poised his cleaver ready to chop through the tortured ropes . |
| 11 | Ex-music journalist Nick Kelly and his band first came into the public eye in 1989 with the release of the excellent single ‘ Arclight ’ , which was voted Single of the Year in the 1989 Hot Press readers ' poll . |
| 12 | His name first appeared in the record of a Society Meeting as No. 32 from the Catalogue of the Foreign Associates , or Honorary Members of the Academy : ‘ Filippo Miller Sopraintendente dell' Orto Medico di Chelsea a Londra ’ . |
| 13 | Theseus , having been helped by his friend Peirithous to carry off the girl Helen , in his turn accompanied Peirithous to Hades in an effort to abduct Persephone . |
| 14 | Mr Paisley was out of the country yesterday but his son , Ian , said that , when his father first heard of the bequest , he had thought it was a hoax . |
| 15 | The family of Vincenc Kramar have consistently refused to make any public statement concerning their claim on the collection since his son first filed for the 1991 round of restitution claims in September of that year . |
| 16 | In our case this provided by the denotational semantics for occam reported in [ R ] . |
| 17 | ‘ Check to see if that was the position when our chaps first came on the scene . ’ |
| 18 | Are your needs likely to change over the next few years-will you have children to cope with ; are you likely to entertain more often than you do at present ? |
| 19 | Only after the mysterious mass extinction of the dinosaurs about 65 million years ago were our ancestors able to emerge into the daylight in any substantial numbers . |
| 20 | As the rescue boat approaches , prepare to be towed by taking the daggerboard out and get your painter ready to pass to the rescue boat . |
| 21 | Nothing dates faster than bathroom colours , so bear in mind that the colour you choose for the bathroom may make your house difficult to sell in the future . |