Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One more piece of information you should possess before the tale unfolds is that Michael was encased in two leg callipers as a result of polio — contracted when one year old — and walked , or rather surges about with the aid of two crutches . |
| 2 | Russell and Ann Mills ' flat is particularly impressive as it is located on the upper floor of the school 's west wing ( Plate 37 and Fig 53 ) and so extends up into the apex of the steeply-pitched roof . |
| 3 | The play surrounds and only goes up to the time of Artemesia 's rape . |
| 4 | ‘ It worries me to death bringing her to the races at long odds-on , but she is a great filly and just flies out of the stalls , ’ said trainer Richard Hannon . |
| 5 | Fire , which painfully heals and floridly creates out of the slimiest reek and chaos … |
| 6 | The £750 Heineken Puppy Trophy winner has an average sectional time of 5.26 and usually flies out of the boxes and has been given an ideal trap six draw . |
| 7 | Although few in number , the Reiksguard is the most important part of the army and usually forms up in the centre around the Emperor himself . |
| 8 | It resists criticism and usually stands over against the culture of its day . |
| 9 | Michael , who stands six feet four inches and weighs in at 15 7 stone , beat Scotland 's Colin Brown in the semi-finals of the Amateur Boxing Association Championship at Gateshead Leisure Centre and now goes on to the finals in the Albert Hall , London on May 6 . |
| 10 | Kate joined Wimpey Homes nine years ago and now works out of the Middlesbrough office although covers the entire region from Berwick-upon-Tweed in the North down to Sheffield . |
| 11 | ‘ Ah ! ’ she says , and then goes over to the other side of the shop . |
| 12 | A man who mixes a cocktail of vitamins and sleeping pills to knock out Little Liz 's predecessor after she had gone off her oats and then crawls around under the bedclothes with a speculum and a flashlight . |
| 13 | Tests show that , after a slow beginning , availability of the nutrients rises to a peak in about 80 days and then tails off with the potash being held late , when it is needed . |
| 14 | Andy 's face pops up briefly and then disappears back into the bag . |
| 15 | He finishes after a bit and then jumps up on the window ledge . |
| 16 | As firms set prices alternately over consecutive periods , price falls by small steps from the upper limit of the interval until it reaches the lower limit and then jumps back to the upper limit and the cycle begins again . |
| 17 | This first capacitor charges to the peaks of the rectified sinewave potential during forward intervals but discharges somewhat through the load during reverse intervals as the rectified e.m.f. first falls from its peak value and then rises back to the potential difference retained on the capacitor . |
| 18 | This line of islands swings round to the north , and finally back to the west through South Georgia , describing a great loop , and then heads off for the extreme south of South America . |
| 19 | From here the path follows the river bank downstream and then heads back into the forest and away from the river before crossing a burn . |
| 20 | I mean if you 're honest a lot of these were really first or second draft erm manuscripts I think and er er you really got to get , if you 're going to submit something like this it has to be er it has to be absolutely watertight and you have to say exactly what it is that you want to say , erm some of the criticism I 've , I 'm not gon na mention people 's names , but I 'm just remind myself er , a whole lot of you for some reason erm , con construct things in sort of note form I suppose this being undergraduates that helps this and , and , but you construct things with single sentence paragraphs so that actually you get a whole list of sentences without any linking between them and that is terribly disjointed reading and with an account like that , when you 've finished reading it , you sort of have to shake your head and think well what did the person actually say , and when it 's actually looking for er a little bit of prose , the in addition some of your con your sentences are in , extraordinarily complex , you start off in a sentence and you actually lose your way in the middle of it , I mean the simple sentence 's much the better thing , I mean I seem to remember being told by subject , object verb , in a sentence , they must have those , those , those things , well very often you 'll have a sentence which starts with er a particular noun and as , as a subject and then finishes up with the same no noun or , or , or subject or , or maybe it 's become the object of the sentence at the very end or maybe the sentence has totally lost it 's way . |
| 21 | He comes home at 8am to snatch an hour 's snooze and then sets off on the bus for a full day 's preaching to the people whose failing legs ca n't get them to church . |
| 22 | 2 The striker pulls back and then follows through with the elbow strike , pushing the hips forward . |
| 23 | He thinks , and then leans over to the writer and asks ‘ Where we going ? ’ |
| 24 | It has a better gearbox , an engine that is simply in a different class and actually lives up to the promise made by its sleek shape . |
| 25 | She never buys a paper and never goes out for the evening . |
| 26 | He likes these contacts with the more substantial world and happily hurries off in the direction of his stationery shop and fax bureau , where I know he will encounter many difficulties . |
| 27 | Gordon John Sinclair is Gregory , a gangling , amiable misfit who falls in love with Dee Hepburn but eventually cops off with the infinitely more desirable Clare Grogan on a balmy evening in East Kilbride — which looks like heaven . |
| 28 | Programming might have started out as an ancillary task in a student 's special subject of physics chemistry or psychology but soon takes over as the dominating interest . |
| 29 | According to Halliday 's analysis , Yeats 's repeated use of the definite article in combination with an adjective before a noun ( ‘ the great wings ’ , etc. ) is unusual to the extent that , in contrast with most English usage , the article in this combination does not define anything , but instead refers back to the title ( it is ‘ anaphoric ’ rather than ‘ cataphoric ’ ) . |