Example sentences of "[num] [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A split-half reliability carried out on the data from children in the standardisation sample between the ages of 4 years and 8 years 11 months produced correlations of between 0.64 and 0.84 for the different items . |
| 2 | In due course , ninety moran marched off to the mountains , embodying , unbeknown to them , the proudest traditions of the British Colonial Service . |
| 3 | Nobody envies 33 Squadron flying out at the start of winter . |
| 4 | Each lesson is one hour in length and there is an hour break for lunch and a fifteen minute break in the morning after my first lesson and a ten minute break in between the two lessons in the afternoon . |
| 5 | One punter ran out of the draw in Madrid screaming . |
| 6 | On we went past the grandeur of Mount Edith Cavell and Castle Mountain , through Banff and Lake Louise to Kicking Horse Pass and the Great Divide , where rivers on one side flowed back to the Atlantic , and those on the other side ran west to the Pacific Ocean . |
| 7 | One study carried out in the region showed that a forested slope lost 0.03 tons of soil per hectare per year , whereas a deforested slope lost 138 tons a landslide . |
| 8 | And the other group of ten have another ten pounds , and so you 'd get , each group of ten would have one pound shared out between the ten of you . |
| 9 | Some of the older blokes , they come out , and they started fighting as well ! ( laughter ) One bloke come down from the flats with just a pair of trousers and a vest on and he started having a go ! |
| 10 | I cast one longing glance up at the cliffs of Coire Ardair , where the sun was glancing off the icy tips of gleaming rock , and I knew that next time I 'd get the sucker . |
| 11 | One child goes out of the room while all the rest are in a circle . |
| 12 | First one child sidles up to the teacher with some trinket to show in order to allow the warm , cheerful voice of teacher questioning and encouraging to wash over the beginning of their school day ; then another , more venturesome , rushes into the teacher 's arms , with breathless news to convey ; and finally a third arrives preoccupied with the task in hand and refers inadvertently to teacher as ‘ mum ’ . |
| 13 | The clear , imperious voice , lately gagged by the folds of an archer 's cloak , was singing gently to itself , and did not fall silent even when he instinctively took one dancing step back from the collision , and then as readily translated the movement into a forward lunge that almost passed Adam 's startled guard . |
| 14 | In October 1973 war broke out in the Middle East . |
| 15 | From his new station he could see the three lakes — Loweswater , Crummock Water and Buttermere — lined up in the valley like three barges ready to be towed down to the shore ; he could see the bivouac huts of some woodmen and he spotted more than one flock coming down from the high pastures — but Mary chided him . |
| 16 | He had managed to find the General , but with one eye pointing up at the sky and the other angled down at his nose , there was little scope for effective communication . |
| 17 | There he stood leaning against it , his arms outspread , one cheek pressed on to the black wood , with his breath coming in gasps , as if he had just surfaced from drowning . |
| 18 | ‘ But for some reason , on this occasion , one firework came down into the crowd . |
| 19 | And we used to have one gentleman come in from the country . |
| 20 | But this is just one development following on from the introduction of sets , autumn-planted sets and , of course , F1 hybrid onions . |
| 21 | But he did n't like being imprisoned any more than me and one night made off across the wire with a pal of his , disposing of a sentry along the way . |
| 22 | After a lengthy period of looking , one respondent ended up with the following list of constructs : |
| 23 | One person sets off across the pool facing away from the children and says ‘ What 's the time Mr Shark ’ ? |
| 24 | It was non-stop activity as one event moved on to the next , together with a feast of fizzy drinks , buckets of ice cream , crisps and many balloons . |
| 25 | The Germans had launched a counter-offensive against the Allied bridgehead at Anzio and air support , against enemy troop concentration and lines of communication , became vital in preventing loss of the bridgehead. 223 Squadron moved from Foggia to Biferno/Campomarino to join 3 ( South African Air Force ) Wing on March 13 and after one day to settle in to the new surroundings was tasked against the San Benedetto marshalling yards . |
| 26 | A great inducement of ‘ start-ups ’ or ‘ green-field projects ’ , where the original investors are in on the ground floor , is that they will make a killing if the company one day goes on to the Stock Exchange , or is gobbled up by a predator in a takeover bid . |
| 27 | The argument is put forward that if a badger associates humans with food it may one day wander up to the wrong person , with fatal results . |
| 28 | Alan Heath science teacher says the girls learn more about life than anything else they 've grown up three years in one day purring along behind the girls are one of 20 teams from Japan … this one is the cat 's whiskers … |
| 29 | The tusks branched , one limb reaching up to the leafy mass on the head , the other reaching down , becoming tendrillar , tendrils curling round the torso and the arms , then down the spindly legs , supplying lobate oak-leaves as a covering for the scored , scoured , bark-like flesh below . |
| 30 | One finger pointed up to the bright flood-light that was showing me all this . |