Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man heard or sensed him at the last moment and turned with his hands coming up to a fighting stance but Maxim feinted through them and hit him low in the stomach . |
| 2 | Periodically we had lifted and turned them on the banks , where the sun and wind had shrunk and hardened them . |
| 3 | There was a bit of head-scratching as they pushed , squeezed and levered me into the passenger seat : ‘ The biggest bloke yet ’ . |
| 4 | Her children have disappointed and saddened her to the point where she has made the decision to rule them out of future considerations surrounding the throne . |
| 5 | This is updated as the system works through the files to be offlined and copies them onto the media item . |
| 6 | A sudden flurry of shots rang out from the direction of the cainca , confirming the older man 's prediction , and without further argument the two boys turned and followed him into the jungle at a run . |
| 7 | This network of friendship and patronage became one of the less objectionable instruments of nineteenth-century electoral corruption and the instrument with which the small man met and defended himself against the state . |
| 8 | ‘ The odds were 7–2 that I would disappear with the money before we even started , even money that I 'd wait until the houses were built and leg it with the money , ’ recalls the London born-and-bred ‘ community builder ’ , with all the relish of a man who beat the bookies . |
| 9 | Or else he could have fed and kept you for the rest of your life ! ’ |
| 10 | But it was not until I was at Cambridge , in the following year , that my mother noticed and took me to the family doctor . |
| 11 | Faced with the demise of their traditional courses , and with a government anxious both to increase the skills of the new unemployed young , and to be seen as doing something for the unemployed , colleges responded by mounting a programme of full-time non-vocational , or pre-vocational , courses . |
| 12 | And adequate software must be made available to ensure G M B activists can put into practice what they 've been taught and use it to the labour movement 's advantage . |
| 13 | His aims are thus established from the outset both to record the evidence he has gathered and to evaluate it for the purposes of determining the truth . |
| 14 | I chase each of the monks and nuns round the canopy until all have been similarly consumed and thrown themselves over the battlements ; for who can bear to lose face ? |
| 15 | He dreamed the actual execution , including his head being separated from his body , and then abruptly woke up to find that his bed headboard had fallen and struck him on the back of the neck in the same place as the guillotine in the dream . |
| 16 | So it 's floated and knitted it on the back . |
| 17 | Ward had not lied or misled anyone about the nature of the payment or tried to conceal the money he had received . |
| 18 | and criticizing the royal family , we have admired and criticized them in the course of the last half hour . |
| 19 | To join , just complete the simple Enrolment Form enclosed and return it in the pre-paid envelope provided . |
| 20 | He considered him as he caused coffee to be produced and established them at the big table at the other end of his room . |
| 21 | He looked surprised at her request for a word in private , but readily agreed and led her across the hotel reception hall , out through a door at the rear of the building and into the garden . |
| 22 | There was not a needy person among them , for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them , and brought the proceeds of what was sold and laid it at the apostles ’ feet ; and distribution was made to each as any had need' ( Acts 4:32 , 34–5 ) . |
| 23 | Mrs. Jarrett , whose hobbies include china collecting , Scrabble , reading and ‘ a little bingo ’ , spoke of the very many people who had helped and supported her over the years . |
| 24 | But she did not answer him , only bent and lowered herself into the water , hissing as the coldness burned into the wound , a faint moan escaping through her gritted teeth as she began to wash . |
| 25 | She let the stranger touch her for a minute , and then the woman bent and kissed her on the cheek . |
| 26 | He declined to make a decision on whether persons responsible for the shooting should be prosecuted and forwarded it to the Attorney General for the United Kingdom . |
| 27 | The feeling of numb unreality persisted and anaesthetised me through the arduous business of identifying the body and making the necessary arrangements . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've known and loved it over the years , and always wanted to put it on an album . |
| 29 | Yet it was not beyond the power of reason and foresight to know that the days of the Indian Empire were numbered , if not in years , still in decades : the best and the wisest of the British in India had known and said it from the beginning . |
| 30 | His face and body were a mass of bruises after he had been attacked at his home by a forty-strong mob who were preparing to lynch him in the remains of his once beautiful garden when the military had arrived and bundled him into the back of a police van and brought him to La Tambier . |