Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He comes pounding down the ladder , and grabs the wheel and stampedes back into the waves . |
| 2 | The recurrent nerve leaves the hypocerebral ganglion as a median or paired lateral oesophageal nerve and passes back to the hinder region of the fore gut , where it ( or each branch ) terminates in a ventricular ganglion . |
| 3 | ‘ OK , here we are , ’ Sadat says unnecessarily , and pulls his bag off the back seat and gets out of the car . |
| 4 | But woe betide any minister who does not possess a country seat and sets off across the Channel to ‘ abroad ’ . |
| 5 | Ponds , marshes and mires fill the hollows , alternating with higher ground which emerges first from under the snow and dries out in the course of summer . |
| 6 | A man stranded on a desert island builds a rowing boat and sets out for the nearest land . |
| 7 | So my suggestion and this is only a suggestion , the beards which in the past have been interpreted as a kind of erm epigrammatic signal , in other words a kind of erm sign on the face of the male as they 're deceived , my guess is that , th that beards may actually have evolved to protect the throat because erm the critical thing in , in killing somebody is to block the , the windpipe and that 's and in fact even , even lions do this , you saw in the film when a lion kills an antelope or something , he does n't go to all the trouble of making horrible gashes , he grabs the , the windpipe and holds on until the antelope or whatever it is is just er |
| 8 | The Headless Horseman appears on the carriage and swoops down on the adventurers . |
| 9 | If there are no more loans to be entered , the user presses the RETURN key and goes back to the options list . |
| 10 | Finally , the pilot centralises the rudder and eases out of the dive . |
| 11 | Its last hours are like those of Camembert ; it becomes a liquid smelly mess and runs out of the joint , leaving only a dirty mark behind . |
| 12 | How true were the observations of Ecclesiastes : ‘ The wind goeth towards the south and turneth about into the north : it whirleth about continually and the wind returneth again according to his circuits . ’ |
| 13 | Michael is just becoming interested in this last point when , for no discernible reason , the signing student becomes deeply agitated , screams abuse and storms out of the room . |
| 14 | Grant Simons presents a view of the inside of the North American XB-70 Valkyrie at the USAF Museum and looks back into the type 's turbulent past |
| 15 | He takes the wood and disappears back into the tent . |
| 16 | Maggie awaken from the damp heavy warmth of Ted 's body dead in sleep and the blankets piled on the single bed with a dip in the middle brushes her hair and clutches back at the ribbon of dreams from the night before . |
| 17 | A substantial stone-lined stepped culvert that supplied water to the wheel still remains under the lane and empties back into the stream via a long tail-race to the rear of the mill . |
| 18 | So the ancient species , encountering no change , makes no change and plods on across the millennia , generation after generation , an ultra-conservative . |
| 19 | Where the main dale leaves the National Park and opens out into the flatter farmland of the old North Riding is Wensley itself , now a tiny village compared to its bigger neighbour of Leyburn , a busy typical northern Dales town with its wide main street and broad pavements laid out for market stalls . |
| 20 | Before the strip cools , take the candle and tip it so that a drop of wax falls on to the strip and spreads out around the hole . |
| 21 | Fairfax leaves the tent and walks over to the fire . |
| 22 | Oak woodland covers the next stretch of hillside on the right and leads on to the Forestry Commission conifer forest . |
| 23 | The Grand National course narrows approaching the winning post and bends round to the left immediately after , and with crowds manically screaming at him in the stands and on both rails and directly in front of him it would hardly be surprising if Devon Loch had suddenly been startled by the deafening noise . |
| 24 | But if a person climbs a nearby hill and looks down on the site , the whole city can be seen and to some extent understood : viewing a site at an angle in this way is equivalent to an oblique aerial photograph . |
| 25 | She was n't sure how she 'd got there : like someone who takes an electric shock from a kitchen implement and winds up on the other side of the room . |
| 26 | Like the formal approach to organisations , such charts give us a picture of how an organisation works but it is only a partial picture and misses out on the crucial aspect of how people behave within organisations . |
| 27 | Here is Tufnell coming up again , bowls over and outside the off stump , and that one goes to Robin Smith , and he 's hit somewhere on the boot and ricochets off down the pitch . |
| 28 | And none of them have any ideas when it comes to deciding what game they should play — until wise old owl finally saves the day and comes up with the answer . |
| 29 | I stay at home and my partner — for I 'm not a wife — puts on a suit and goes out of the door to work . |
| 30 | Cosmos has been losing market share and falls out of the top four companies in 1986 as British Air Tours takes over ( Table 11.3 ) . |