Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kinloss was a pleasant environment and the locals were extremely kind to the alien invasion , but one felt so very much out of the hurly burly of wartime England , this was made particularly clear when pupils I had trained returned for their rest period , and one did get the message that my operational background was no longer valid or right to pass on to the crews coming forward for conversion to twin-engined aircraft . |
| 2 | The track which you follow from the village of Gavarnie to the cirque is necessarily a good , well-worn one , almost a road for much of the journey , through beech woods and then across open grasslands , before the last rough and rocky stretch up into the mouth of the cirque . |
| 3 | Lydia in the leading car was loth to hoot for fear of maddening the dogs and loth to get out for the same reason . |
| 4 | Bobby Robson said : ‘ I spoke to Bryan and he declared himself fit and willing to join up with the party . |
| 5 | Then once this morning Fred 's bum was on his blanket and Windy curled up by the side of him . |
| 6 | A bird , a pigeon perhaps , took startled flight , its wings almost brushing her , and Sabine jumped back against the wall , her heart hammering . |
| 7 | Awards over and bottles emptied , marketing 's great and good drifted out into the night . |
| 8 | Because Deane is more mobile and able to go out to the wing and hold the ball up , it gives Wallace more space etc etc . |
| 9 | At least , he was unhurt and able to move around in the considerable space available to him . |
| 10 | A Japanese-led bloc of Asian nations would be militarily and economically secure , and able to stand up to the threat posed by the nations of Europe and by the United States . |
| 11 | ‘ … a more meaningful and relevant physical geography may emerge as the product of a new generation of physical geographers who are willing and able to face up to the contemporary needs of the whole subject , and who are prepared to concentrate on the areas of physical reality which are especially relevant to the man-oriented geography It is in the extinction of the traditional division between physical and human geography that new types of collaborative synthesis can arise . ’ |
| 12 | There is nothing worse than playing two superb shots to get within spitting distance of the green on that monster par five , then fluffing two chips and three-putting to end up with the dreaded double-bogey . |
| 13 | The first change they noticed as a result of the Revolution was the indiscriminate and wasteful hacking down of the woods by the peasants : large trees had merely been deprived of their thinner branches . |
| 14 | The males were dark , almost black , in colour , and difficult to make out among the shadows . |
| 15 | He thought that this solved the problem , but it did not — it was a silly , thoughtless and trivial glossing over of the essential differences in the text . |
| 16 | Even more important , perhaps , were the discussions about the notion of a women 's aesthetic : again and again , the attempt to articulate the new and unspoken came up against the absence of an appropriate language . |