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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It took me fifty five minutes to get into those awful to get up to the top . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They spurn any subjective dressing up of the naked data . |