Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 More often than not , the producer 's money comes out of the artist 's record company royalty payment .
2 Whenever we went there , Salvo and I expected Hasan 's ghost to leap out of the darkness and slit our throats with his dagger .
3 Only a sixth of Paris 's milk came in on the Nord network , the biggest importer being Etat .
4 Lannaman 's exaltedness stood out against the bleak , colourless squalor of working-class Aston , cluttered with roads of derelict , condemned or should-be-condemned houses .
5 YORK Minster 's bells rang out over the city for the first time in six months at the weekend their longest break since the Second World War .
6 But is not the Prime Minister 's decision to opt out of the social charter — — ’ opt out ’ were the words that he used — an admission that , after 12 years of Tory rule , the economy is not as sound , robust and healthy as the Government try to claim but is so fragile that it can not support the most basic workers ' rights that will be enjoyed in the rest of Europe ?
7 Garrett 's decision to set up in the business of metal detector manufacture was a brave one for there were in his immediate locale several rival ‘ cottage industries ’ vying to capture a share of the young and burgeoning market .
8 ENGLAND look clear favourites to stage cricket 's next World Cup following South Africa 's decision to drop out of the bidding .
9 ENGLAND now look clear favourites to stage cricket 's next World Cup following South Africa 's decision to drop out of the bidding .
10 Yesterday , the union claimed the first jobs casualty of the base rate rise — the Automobile Association 's announcement of 500 job losses , in the wake of the company 's decision to pull out of the air package holiday business .
11 Thousands of staff at two of Britain 's biggest aerospace companies are worried there may be yet more redundancies following Germany 's decision to pull out of the European Fighter project .
12 And thirdly increasing emphasis , not on the socialist politics of the Communist Party in the nineteen twenties , but on the development of a nationalist ideology which could appeal to all classes in Chinese society who were interested in getting the Japanese out and who were angered by the Kuomintang government 's inability to stand up to the Japanese .
13 And this is how Freud explains Wilson 's inability to stand up to the other men , like Woodrow , like Cle Clements or Lloyd George , who were rather aggressive , and er , were , were kind of pushing all the time , what they could out of the , out of the peace settlement , and what , er the book shows , is that Woodrow Wilson would have confrontations with them and say a lot of fine words , and then the next day , he would , he would give it all away , as it were , he would , he would be ill or he 'll backtrack , or when the actual agreements came to be signed , he , he would n't do what he said he would , er , wh what he did .
14 BRITAIN 'S struggle to climb out of the worst recession since the 1930s has seen Ministers return to the old ‘ belt-tightening ’ rhetoric of more than a decade ago — a move less than popular with Liberal Democrat Steve Cawley .
15 In another account of youth work , Hubert Secretan rehearsed the same complaint : ‘ Every boy 's sympathy goes out to the lithe and resourceful crook …
16 Much of the Bible 's teaching goes back to the way we are made ; it goes back to creation itself .
17 Philip 's Mum came out of the house .
18 Barry 's Mum got up from the desk as they went into the waiting-room , and put her coat on .
19 But then , Bella 's home-help came out of the bungalow and it was no use any more trying to pretend that it was n't happening … .
20 Mett 's luck ran out in the final .
21 The path from Billy 's cottage wound down towards the river bank .
22 Jahsaxa , kneeling on Zambia 's hair spread out on the floor , roughly put her taloned fingers in hir silently screaming mouth , and jerked hir head backwards .
23 Gabriel 's heart went out to the playmaster .
24 ‘ Brother , ’ he whispered , ‘ we have the Regent 's permission to go down to the Springall house now , to examine and take anything we wish .
25 Forster 's breathing whistled out of the one-way valve .
26 He watched Simon 's trainers padding around to the back door only inches from his face and he wanted to scream , to rid himself of the unbearable tension .
27 The marquis 's lips turned down at the corners .
28 Annie 's mind cast back to the number of his children who had defied Jonadab round this very table .
29 Theodora 's mind flashed back to the tall washed-out figure of Mrs Gray and her sudden passionate support of her husband 's good intentions .
30 Then the feeling faded as the sun 's light shifted round through the billowing walls of the tent .
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