Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mind cast back to the winter of last November when I stood on this same platform awaiting the arrival of a new intake . |
| 2 | I had my ideas worked out by the time I left for the 1960–61 Tasman series , and on the 24-hour flight to New Zealand I sat with a slide rule and drew the car as a pin-jointed structure , stressed it and arrived at all the tube sizes . ’ |
| 3 | my song torn out in the dried flowers |
| 4 | And also I 'm going in on the fourteenth of July , er in to have my knee washed out on the fourteenth of July . |
| 5 | Janet had my breakfast laid out on the table and sat there grinning an insane grin at me . |
| 6 | With my impressions stored up from the initial set of interviews , I came to see an intriguing challenge . |
| 7 | When , at the end of the Second World War , France was liberated , those who had collaborated excessively with the Germans often had their hair cut off by the French Resistance . |
| 8 | But when she was over here , she sold up and her sister sold up at the same time . |
| 9 | He stood looking down at her as she lay with her hair spread out on the pillow , her eyes still half shut by the heaviness of sleep and her lips smiling . |
| 10 | Only 18 to 25 per cent of the survey sample relied on or had their income topped up by the then supplementary benefit . |
| 11 | The drapes were drawn over all the windows , the enormous marble-topped table that dominated the room lit by overhead lamps , the wash of their light thrown up on the six members , two of them women , sitting around it . |
| 12 | At other times he would come running in answer to her call to find her seated before the stove with her legs stretched out to the fire and her face softened by smiles . |
| 13 | The winning team is the one which has all its frogs lined up at the other end of the room . |
| 14 | Unfortunately two anglers now had all their gear spread out amongst the greenery . |
| 15 | It swims , with its legs tucked out of the way alongside its flanks , by sinuous movements of its body and by beating its tail . |
| 16 | I feel that the PR team have their work cut out at the best of times without the likes of Mr. Wigmore and his cheap , sensationalist style of so-called journalism . |
| 17 | Many of the cahiers ( the statements of grievances and proposals for their rectification drawn up for the guidance of the States-General when it met in May 1789 ) proposed the building of public monuments to Louis XVI in recognition of his action in calling the States-General and thus restoring the ‘ liberties ’ of his people . |
| 18 | On the magazine , Jane 's main task was to wrestle with the anglicising of indifferent American short stories , while the particular harpy who was her boss gazed out of the window for ninety per cent of the time . |
| 19 | The consolidated financial statements include those of the Company and all its subsidiaries made up to the end of the financial year . |
| 20 | There was a flurry of constitutional activity between 1906 and 1914 , and the House of Lords had its powers cut back by the Parliament Act , 1911 , so formally putting the " balanced " constitution to rest . |
| 21 | This is why comic picture-postcards of the time show people at the seaside , paddling in the sea with their trouser-legs rolled up to the knee , or little girls with their dresses tucked into their knickers . |
| 22 | Most important of all , back on the pitch I learnt which customers did n't pay their debts and so could never be allowed to have their names chalked up on the slate . |
| 23 | During January it also became clear that both Buchanan and , more especially , David Duke — the third Republican candidate and a former Ku Klux Klan leader — faced increasing difficulties in getting their names entered on to the Republican ballot papers in many states . |
| 24 | Perhaps only a minority would like to see their island taken over by the Miami exiles . |
| 25 | There were times when the ministry of her Son left her feeling cut out of the action , and she was amazed and perhaps frightened at what she had unleashed on the world . |
| 26 | If we return to the example of our widget-making factory after the introduction of the new production process , with half its workforce put on to the labour market ( or , putting it more bluntly , sacked ) , then many of them are likely to be eligible for unemployment benefit . |
| 27 | She turned , arms flailing , head back , eyes open — but the gaping mouth would utter no more prophecies , her breath cut off by the red garrotte cord round her scrawny neck . |
| 28 | As he stood at the door trying to persuade her of the importance of other more pressing political issues , one of her cats shot out of the door , into the road and under the wheels of a passing lorry . |
| 29 | Rayo , who is running lead for me today in harness with Kaisa , gets her leg caught up in the trace . |
| 30 | He imagined them lying close , arms round one another , Annie , perhaps , with her leg drawn up over the other girl 's haunch , and breathing softly on to one another 's faces . |