Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a matter of minutes , the attackers had been routed , only a few surviving to run back into the streets where the morning had yet to dispel the darkness . |
| 2 | If this annual clear up round the farm did n't take place , we should be in a hell of a mess by now . |
| 3 | Some then went off to the latrines behind the back of the hall , which Charlie thought smelled worse than the middle of Whitechapel Road on a steaming summer 's day . |
| 4 | People have known for some time what has been going on , and I 'm surprised it has taken this long to come out into the open . |
| 5 | Some more hurried out of the building , carrying machinery . |
| 6 | But he was sufficiently master of himself to resist , and pulled out of her , his heart thumping like some crazy locked up in the cell of his chest . |
| 7 | Nonindividualistic conceptions are likely to be among the expensive tastes since their realization depends on the cooperation of others , and they will take some convincing to come round to the agent 's point of view . |
| 8 | It 's an insult to feminism and I 'd like to know how much that cost out of the rates . |
| 9 | That all fitted in with the theory that the reason for Luke 's non-appearance must be some kind of business disaster . |
| 10 | ‘ Their hair 's usually shorter and you do n't have all that messing round with the tongs ’ as one hairdresser cheerfully explained . |
| 11 | But could all this messing about with the type of tree affect the taste of the cider : |
| 12 | All this adds up to the fact that NDBs are thoroughly unreliable . |
| 13 | All this adds up to the likelihood that the Government can not sort out the economy in the very short term and certainly can not do so this side of the general election ; they can not generate the feeling of happiness and cheerfulness about the economy which parties traditionally rely upon to win general elections . |
| 14 | All three ran back to the trough prepared to swim for it as the boys had done several times before . |
| 15 | Allen picked up the sack and slung it over his shoulder and they all three went out into the open air . |
| 16 | When both together took a few slow hops down one of the runs near-by , Hazel followed and little by little they all three moved out of the hall . |
| 17 | ‘ I see , ’ she said and then she bowed , very slightly , and Rose and Grace did the same and then all three moved out of the drawing-room , upright and daunting . |
| 18 | His slides were good and his descriptions fairly accurate , but I sensed we were all glad to get back to the comfort of the hotel and I to my electric fire . |
| 19 | Cabs and all all lined up outside the White Hart Jockey Club Rooms . |
| 20 | He had watched all four go off towards the tower with the rain beating down on them . |
| 21 | HP 's software effort for the new servers included endorsement from a veritable who's-who of mainframe software houses , all eager to stand up on the platform and say that their customers were queueing up to leave the IBM mainframe world behind . |
| 22 | It took me fifty five minutes to get into those awful to get up to the top . |
| 23 | For those just coming out onto the scene , it 's an established fact that many can come to terms with , but for those who have set patterns of sexual behaviour or who 've put themselves at risk in the past , it 's a great problem . |
| 24 | Gary would sometimes see me staring up at them , and he 'd say , you know , it 's no good trying to read the stars up there … the only real stars here tonight are those two making out on the dance floor . |
| 25 | He also gained the lovely reputation of being particularly dangerous when he was limping , since an injury to his leg simply made him hit more fours to cut down on the running . |
| 26 | They spurn any subjective dressing up of the naked data . |