Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking ahead , I suppose travel would be nice , if only the opportunity arose and I had the courage to go with it . |
| 2 | It is seen in The Facts to belong to the times in which the writer lived when he wrote the novel , when opposition to the Vietnam War , and to a President Johnson perceived as monstrous , took to the street-wisdom of a farcical obscenity . |
| 3 | Who does the heart hurt when it sees the unattended pair of shoes ? |
| 4 | It is then the publisher 's responsibility to see that you receive the money which you are due . |
| 5 | Restriction analysis of the rescued plasmid revealed that it had the expected structure . |
| 6 | Our journeys on the whiteboard suggest that it holds the key to our concepts of beauty . |
| 7 | The reports on ceefax say that he requested the move . |
| 8 | Lands officers in the Road Service division objected because they claimed the one foot high flower beds could restrict a driver 's vision . |
| 9 | Second , the only way of avoiding this presumption of responsibility is for the defendant to prove either ( a ) that the driving , accident or damage occurred before he took the car , or ( b ) that he was neither in , on or near the vehicle when that driving , accident or damage occurred . |
| 10 | Charlie 's heart sank when he read the orders ; he knew the odds against surviving two attacks were virtually unknown . |
| 11 | ‘ My heart sank when I saw the hill . ’ |
| 12 | However , her heart sank when she examined the bowl more closely . |
| 13 | Most of the shops seemed already to be closed and her heart sank as she identified the unlit frontage of number seventeen . |
| 14 | Her heart sank as she remembered the phone call which for the first time began to make sense . |
| 15 | The driver stiffened as he felt the gun muzzle jab him in the small of his back through the upholstery of the seat . |
| 16 | SHERYL Garratt says her heart dropped when she saw the ages of the jury . |
| 17 | Accounts of their trial suggest that it took the form of a political witch-hunt , with the intention of intimidating other critics of the government . |
| 18 | It was not that the family did not make her comfortable or spare any expense to see that she had the clothes and servants she needed , but rather that she found their way of life , their attitudes , their conversation , humour , tastes and ideas completely alien to everything she was used to . |
| 19 | Dumping the monster hide as I reached the bottom of the shaft , I hurried away along some disused-looking passages , by then moving on bootless , bare and blistered feet . |
| 20 | ( You are not just at the interview to see if you suit the company but to see if the job genuinely suits you ) |
| 21 | One , to protect the members ' you know , interests in each department to see that they got the , a , a time limit you know , to go onto the scheme , that the consultation took place . |
| 22 | Dimensions — The Clio feels like a larger car to drive because it has the longest wheelbase and widest track in its class . |
| 23 | After spending two weeks in Edinburgh and London , discussing plans for the final publication of her surveys in the Golan undertaken while she held the Lady Carlisle Fellowship , she returned to Oxford and enjoyed the hospitality of Somerville S. C. R. for a fortnight 's intensive work in the libraries . |
| 24 | I almost had a Vulcan mind melt when I saw the colour graphics on this version of Star Trek . |
| 25 | I almost had a Vulcan mind melt when I saw the colour graphics on this version of Star Trek . |
| 26 | But our first experiment found that he neglects the left side of perceptual figures at a subsequent stage of attending to them . |
| 27 | How does the postulated discontinuity appear when we consider the enormous Schrödinger equation embracing the totality of all that is involved in the measurement process ? |
| 28 | Where the plaintiff delayed having his car repaired until he knew the defendants would pay the cost , the cost of hire of a replacement car was recoverable ( Martindale v Duncan [ 1973 ] 2 All ER 355 ) . |
| 29 | Has the fella said when he left the note , |
| 30 | Nicolo 's mouth twisted as he watched the show , for that was certainly what it was , one in which the women were as much for sale as were the clothes . |