Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 I usually make her coffee , and if she runs out of fags or needs summat from the shops , I go for her .
2 or tramps him off the kerb and into shit .
3 A throw forward occurs when a player carrying the ball throws or passes it in the direction of his opponents ' dead-ball line ’ .
4 If the last counter-offer came from the buyer , then the seller will signify acceptance ( depending on the type of goods and the nature of the transaction concerned ) when he ei ther appropriates goods to the contract , puts their manufacture in hand , or delivers them to the buyer .
5 In addition , protestant — loyalist politics has always been a zero-sum activity : one either has a monopoly of power or concedes it to the opposition .
6 The chances are that the felon who takes your car , raids your house , or robs you in the street will be no older than 15 , the national peak age for Britain 's criminal underclass .
7 Scotland is extremely lucky in this context , with its record on beef , whisky and salmon — not to mention oatcakes and haggis — which sets it apart or differentiates it from the rest of the market place .
8 The end result will be no different whether the shareholder takes up his or her rights or sells them in the market ; the end value of the holding will remain unchanged .
9 There will be some conflict over who owns or earns what between the 26th and 28th but , as June gets under way , your chances of clinching a deal or celebrating a major coup are extremely high .
10 ACT is now a separate computer maintenance company that was split off from Apricot before it was bought by Mitsubishi , the Japanese conglomerate that produces everything from the four-wheel Shogun to equally rugged Nikon cameras .
11 It had begun to rain : the kind of damp , penetrating drizzle that chills you to the bone .
12 However , he begins , after a fashion that is less rare with him than is commonly supposed , by apologizing for the impressionism that supplies him with the terms he needs :
13 ‘ I 've been telling myself I would n't let this happen , ’ he rasped , ‘ but there 's something about you that drives me to the edge of my control . ’
14 ‘ It is the quest of our ego that drives us along the eternal and never-ending journey we must all explore … what am I ?
15 Female sexuality and reproduction were seen particularly as representative of the mortality that separates us from the eternal and binds us to temporal corruptible life .
16 For example , does an animal recoil from a naked flame because it can feel the heat or because it can ‘ see ’ the heat — or because it has some completely different sense that alerts it to the danger ?
17 That shooting The London boxing promoter Mickey Duff said : ‘ The only thing that worries me at the moment is his speedy recovery . ’
18 The latter declares *John was seen leave ungrammatical because the embedded clause seen leave is " unsupported " , i.e. constitutes " a subject — predicate sequence that exhibits none of the internal inflectional structures of a full sentence or clausal complementation " ( i.e. neither tense , nor infinitival to , nor progressive -ing ) , whereas John was seen to leave is said to be grammatical because here leave is " supported " ( by to ) , and can therefore serve as an argument for the verb see ( pp. 123 – 4 ) .
19 Unlike the singer-songwriter creed , attention is always drawn away from the song to the figure of the person working at it : there 's a flagrant exhibitionism that forces us into the role of voyeur .
20 It is this ability to produce flowers throughout the summer and early autumn that ranks them with the true annuals when it comes to creating the most colourful and long lasting planting schemes .
21 I am hopeful that we will find a consistent model that describes everything in the universe .
22 In addition , she is keenly involved in Headway ( I 'm the Avon patron ) , the Frenchay based charity that concerns itself with the effects and remedial care following head injuries .
23 Not only can responses be fixed in a way that reveals something of the foundations which underlie them but the method itself can also act as a catalyst for the kinds of looking that lead to increased perceptual awareness .
24 As Packer ( 1968 ) has pointed out , the criminality of their enterprise acts as a kind of ‘ tariff ’ that protects them from the competition of ‘ legitimate ’ entrepreneurs unwilling to take the risks of illegal enterprise , and provides them with customers who have no legal redress against the most excessive forms of exploitation .
25 The main lawn and border shapes have been laid out in a flowing line that leads you through the garden , echoing the curve of the path .
26 Because now I know there 's nothing behind the fancy shirt that interests me in the slightest . ’
27 between different production systems , institutions , schemes and social organisations in which business enterprises figure prominently but are nonetheless only one component of a network that links them with the educational system , the technological infrastructure , management/labour relations , the relations between the public and private sectors , and the financial system .
28 So everything in between has an unfulfilling lack of immediacy , and instead of being drawn more vividly into the drama ( which is presumably the principal justification for recording live ) we experience a remoteness that characterizes none of the studio recordings with which this version has to be compared .
29 Initial domiciliary assessments are carried out by either a medical or a non-medical team member by using a semistructured schedule that guides them through the various clinical , functional , social , and other components of the assessment .
30 Perhaps they feel it is a way of getting back at the system that keeps them in the poverty gap .
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