Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the period when admirers of ‘ trad ’ adopted a purist stance , listened rather than danced and frowned on anything slick or commercial or which smacked of the professional dance band . |
| 2 | It has nothing to do with the plight of the unemployed and everything to do with the power and desire for further power of the Trade Union Movement . |
| 3 | In fact , she was very old ; she was twenty-four years old and she worked in the mill and earned eight shillings a week . |
| 4 | She was pretty and popular and she lived for the moment . |
| 5 | If you come out of our , out of a swimming pool and you 're wet and you stand on the side and you 're beginning to get cold , what 's your body reaction , what do you do ? |
| 6 | The dormitories were empty and nothing stirred in the main corridor . |
| 7 | the , yeah , twenty I mean , well that one goes different and they started at the same edge , ah two twenty twos oh |
| 8 | The driver had the good manners to signal with headlights that he was clear but he stayed in the overtaking lane , letting the twin turbos build up speed . |
| 9 | The method is simple and it relies on the duck 's instinct to try to chase away a threatening fox . |
| 10 | I know but you but you see if it came to be something big and serious and it went into the newspaper he would . |
| 11 | ‘ I finished early and I called at the library for you . |
| 12 | They were rumoured to wait until dark and them to cross into the white suburb and steal wallets from trousers draped across bedroom chairs while their white owners slept . |
| 13 | Most slopes are outside but I went to the 30 metre slope at Calshot Activities Centre at Calshot Spit in the Solent . |
| 14 | The the fire service is separate but it reports to the public protection committee . |
| 15 | Thereafter the relationship became steadily more strained and he left during the 1978 season . |
| 16 | The horse was led back to its stable and I walked to the far end of the house , where there was a lawn of coarse-bladed grass , brown with the heat , some exotic-looking flowers in a stony border , and cushioned garden chairs standing bright in the dappled shade of what looked like a cherry tree . |
| 17 | In the course of our case studies in the manufacturing sector we encountered several organisations which had recently introduced or extended their use of temporary working and which referred to the workers concerned as " casuals " . |
| 18 | The journey itself was pretty tiring , taking 21 hours in total and we arrived at the hotel at 5am . |
| 19 | His industry was prodigious and he left to the Museum a volume of files , indexes , and notebooks filled with accurate and methodically arranged taxonomic work , together with his exceptionally fine library of works on Polyzoa and whales . |
| 20 | His output is prodigious and it springs from the unbending control he exercises over every aspect of his life . |
| 21 | Sunday dawned dry and we gathered in the church again for morning prayer ; followed by breakfast . |
| 22 | Nils shoved her hard and she fell into the deep satin embrace of a sofa . |
| 23 | Their social circle was more geographically widespread and they looked beyond the local village for their friends and kin . |
| 24 | They were within sight of the airfield when Woolley inexplicably wheeled left and they climbed towards the mattress of cloud . |
| 25 | The Iraqi leaned to the left and I peered through the crack in the sandbags at the Fattal building , a yellow-painted office block whose window frames had been chewed down to an inch or two by thousands of bullets ; the Christian Phalangist front line . |
| 26 | Billie could n't believe the cold and she rushed towards the warmth of the terminal . |
| 27 | Associate species are those which are not constant but which occur throughout the community with a frequency of 60% or less , and which do not favour any particular sub-community . |
| 28 | When I asked if they could make me an identical one trimmed with black fur and beading instead , they were horrified but they agreed in the end . ’ |
| 29 | Erm , I think it 's worth saying that er us j just reiterating on what councillor has just said and that is that I think most tenants are very well aware of the right to buy and er er the motion being unnecessary but what happens with the motion is that it possibly attracts people who really in many ways can not actually afford to buy er to take advantage of their rights but who might be persuaded by very persuasive tactics to do so . |
| 30 | This would seem self-evident but it has in the past exercised the minds of many lawyers , in relation to the IMRO venture capital rules at least . |