Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [prep] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The line screamed out as Trent beat to windward off the reef . |
| 2 | Competition in the Merseyside championships at Bebington starts at 10am with the boys hammer and junior girls high jump events , and is scheduled to finish just before 6 pm . |
| 3 | Abandoning his landing party , Emden 's captain Karl von Muller made at once for the open sea and opened fire with his ten 10.5cm guns , destroying Sydney 's fire-direction system . |
| 4 | The two counties met in last year 's Ulster final at Armagh and in one of the best games seen in the province all year Tyrone came from behind in the second half to pull off a memorable victory after having been reduced to fourteen players . |
| 5 | Almost instinctively , people worried that so outstanding a year might tempt Helen to switch at once to the professional circuit . |
| 6 | ‘ You ca n't go down to Lucifer , ’ Miles said from somewhere in the refectory . |
| 7 | Belinda thrilled at once to the beauty of it all , and knew that she would enjoy the opportunity of finding out more about where all these lovely things came from … if she took the job , she reminded herself hastily , just as Dr Russell had recently done , even while she suspected that the matter was a foregone conclusion . |
| 8 | The census returns show that when people left London they usually moved only short distances but that migrants into London came from all over the place . |
| 9 | The first is , where is Lincoln going , Lincolnshire going to left after the local erm , government commission put their proposals forward and the government have a look at them , and then secondly , what our , as we note from Item Eleven , a fuller report will be brought to this sub-committee when the local government staff commission or the Secretary of State to give us definitive advice . |
| 10 | Rosy-walled Urbino and the fairytale Castle of Gradara beckon from just over the border in Marche . |
| 11 | There seems every reason to believe those 1917 recollections in which Chaplin spoke of how from the moment that he had first seen the light of Brixton he was aware that ‘ unkind fate must have struck his knife unto me ’ and of how he had been ‘ through more hardships and downright poverty than one per cent of the world 's worst Jonahs can tell of ’ . |