Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , I 'd had the feeling before , a bit , the first couple of times I went up on the End , it was that much closer to the spindle . |
| 2 | A few times I sat down in the kitchen and almost told mum but changed my mind . |
| 3 | Thinking to steal a march on watchful eyes I set off from the Cross Inn ( not long established as the only hotel and bar ) at 6.15 a.m. and headed for Port of Ness and the Butt of Lewis . |
| 4 | Several times in the next few months I went up to the top floor again , where I could look out of the high windows in the roof to see the surrounding countryside and be alone with my thoughts . |
| 5 | Well now , during this twelve months I went out on the beats etcetera , I just merely picked it up , if I was in doubt about anything my sergeant would put me right and the atmosphere , the amount of discipline was quite severe , for instance , I always , we had always to parade at least ten minutes before the hour to be acquainted with what had happened since we were last on duty . |
| 6 | Aunt Bedelia and I were trying to watch Brookside , but it was an impossible mix , like tripe and onions with Bolognese sauce , so when Otley went down to the pub to see the lads I strolled down to the villa . |
| 7 | When you 're having another one of those parties I read about in the Sport . |
| 8 | That was a case in which the house had a path running to the steps which went up to the road , the house being at a lower level than the road , and the plaintiff met with an accident on those steps … |
| 9 | Detailed Description : the steps which led up to the problem and any messages or codes that were included . |
| 10 | He pulled up in fourth gear at the foot of the balustraded stone steps which led up to the solicitor 's office : Totteridge , Spruce and Hardnut , Commissioners for Oaths , said the brass plate . |
| 11 | Beyond it fell a flight of stone steps which led down to the bank 's vault . |
| 12 | Rachaela left the house and went to the steps which led down to the beach . |
| 13 | Rousing herself , she glanced at the huge diamond solitaire on her left hand as if for reassurance , before picking up her luggage and heading for the steps which led down to the landing-stage and the vaporetti . |
| 14 | It reproduces by releasing single-celled spores which drift off in the sea and grow into new plants . |
| 15 | When ripe these pear-shaped fungi are filled with dust-like spores which pour out of the small central opening at the slightest movement . |
| 16 | Once in front Dunlop never really looked like being beaten , although he gave his supporters plenty to worry about in the middle of the 30-lap race . |
| 17 | Once in front Dunlop never really looked like being beaten , although he gave his supporters plenty to worry about in the middle of the 30-lap race . |
| 18 | The incident was one of many domestic crises which crowded in upon the royal couple in those tumultuous early days . |
| 19 | The state also has authority to determine disputes which arise out of the operation of its laws . |
| 20 | Unlike a bus , its wheels are guarded by lifeguard trays which drop on to the rail when the hinged gates under the front of the tram are swung back upon impact . |
| 21 | Every few weeks he will have to spend a weekend at home near a telephone on call to handle any emergencies which crop up in the area . |
| 22 | The surface of each of the dendrites which branch out from the neuronal cell body is covered with synapses — perhaps up to ten thousand in all — arising from the other neurons which thus make contact with them . |
| 23 | Charles remembered from working on The Strutters with him that George had always had an approximate approach to the text , relying , as did so many television actors , on a sort of paraphrase of the speeches which homed in on the right cue . |
| 24 | The fact that trajectories which wander out of the region may later return ( after wandering chaotically near the strange attractor ) is of no concern ; we are concerned only with trajectories that remain forever within the small region , and a strange collection of these is removed . |
| 25 | This is overlain by further sandstones and silty red-beds which pass up into the Triassic Sherwood Sandstone . |
| 26 | Instead of being built on a mound , natural or artificial , and surrounded by a moat , Dunbar 's rose in lofty towers on a series of pointed rock-stacks which thrust out of the sea , these linked ingeniously by covered stone bridges . |
| 27 | In the attic they uncovered an exciting collection of 19th century Cambridge University calendars year books which fit in with the fact that Mr Edelson was closely connected with Trinity College . |
| 28 | We offer four £5 book vouchers to readers who come up with the wittiest gag about scientists and engineers . |
| 29 | These large , rather crudely decorated , earthenware teapots were made at Coalville and Swadlincote , and many of the East Anglians who went up before the 1914–18 war brought ‘ Burton teapots ’ back with them because it was part of the experience of going to Burton , like buying a new suit . |
| 30 | A test was arranged involving a detachment of Guards who lined up along the WCs and flushed in unison . |