Example sentences of "the [adj] and [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is possible to pad out all records to the length of the largest and handle them as fixed-length . |
| 2 | On writing about his perfect country house , Baillie Scott is adamantly opposed to the vulgar and proposes what he considers to be the simple open plan way of life : ‘ Having arrived at the central idea of a hall or living room as the keynote of a home it follows naturally that one must group round this the various other rooms … first the ‘ ladies ’ bower'' , the ‘ ‘ drawing-room' ’ as we now call it . |
| 3 | He had the difficult task of taking the field around and beyond the covert and getting them to stand well back before he could attend to his hounds . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The visionary places in the ordinary the elements of the eternal and raises it to a higher plane of reality . |
| 6 | They would look after the wounded and use their still-room skills to try to contain the multitude of diseases such as consumption and fevers , that would follow a travelling army . |
| 7 | And if you 're a er golfer er you might go to the professional and say you know I 'm miss I 'm hooking , you know , can you show me how I ca n't do this ? |
| 8 | He looked a dangerous striker and got in a good header which I think you got to the right and got your hand to ? |
| 9 | The friar joined Sir John in one last cup of mulled wine , heated with a red hot poker and spiced with cinnamon , before they reclaimed their horses from the stable and made their way along the darkening highway towards Mile End . |
| 10 | We pushed our way into the stable and glimpsed what appeared to be a blood-soaked pile of rags , the gore and slime gleaming in the flickering torch light . |
| 11 | He picked up a can , ripped the ring-pull and held it out to her . |
| 12 | They introduced themselves as self-confessed leaders of the Maillotins , the French word for ‘ clubs ’ , a secret society of the Parisian poor who attacked the rich and earned their name from the huge cudgels they carried . |
| 13 | They are all out in the street now , in every city in the world , and their eyes follow the rich and plan their revenge . |
| 14 | The altitude is not very good for some of them : a box of old books that I found had congealed together with the damp and had I dared to try and pull one out from the row of upturned spines , to identify it , all the others would have risen too . |
| 15 | It is a shambles , which has resulted in local government being undermined and the role of the local community being seen as a threat rather than as a partner trying to rebuild broken economies , help the unemployed and do something about essential services . |
| 16 | The tabloid press will publish stories of dole scroungers laying in bed all day , living the life of Riley on the dole , blaming the unemployed and making them feel guilty for a desperate plight . |
| 17 | The travel agent admits he 's in the wrong and says he 's trying to ensure that Norman Culliford gets at least some of his money back . |
| 18 | There may be more security in hanging on to the old and acquiring something new as well . |
| 19 | So , he got me handbag and took off with me bottle of DFs and me book from the social and said he 'd give it me back once he 'd cashed enough to pay the bread off . |
| 20 | This study has the distinction of being both critical and radical , essentially turning the tables on advocates of the postmodern and reading their rhetoric as symptomatic of a conservative milieu 's interests in a period of overall stagnation . |
| 21 | She sucked on the joint and put her head back . |
| 22 | I licked and rolled , then lit the joint and handed it to Carol . |
| 23 | Sanchez cocked his head — a parody of listening ; he drew on the joint and held his breath . |
| 24 | The potential for disaster lurks very close behind the bright shiny facade waiting to pounce on the unwary and relieve them of substantial sums of money . |
| 25 | The brains in rock wear their disdain on the top deck , a glimpse of the ivories to warn off the unwary and make it clear that they are outsiders . |
| 26 | The brains in rock wear their disdain on the top deck , a glimpse of the ivories to warn off the unwary and make it clear that they are outsiders . |
| 27 | The signals coming from Spaak and others may in the end have led Britain to underestimate the determination of the Six and to overevaluate its own ability to pull the OEEC states , including the Six , round to its own viewpoint . |
| 28 | So the best thing is to put the piece of paper in in a wadge and then come out on the outside and pack it vertically and put them next to each other like that . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , very few people will appreciate just how much time , effort and sheer innovative thinking has gone into making the engine look similar to how it would look had we merely pressure washed the outside and mounted it for display . |
| 30 | I do n't want to see inside the castle , I just want to walk around the outside and sketch anything that looks interesting . ’ |