Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [conj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Holywood 's best period came just before the interval , with Carl Anderson getting in behind the defence but just failing to pick out Colin Irwin . |
| 2 | This new evidence was held by the defence and only came to light during the trial . |
| 3 | Ten o'clock — we come in from the park and then write up what we saw and do a project on it . |
| 4 | Gordon Durie , suffering from double vision , was allowed to stay on the park and then missed the game 's two clearest openings . |
| 5 | It carried her into the park and only wavered when she saw the playground . |
| 6 | He should have told Cottee to go and do his talking on the park and perhaps tried to change the team plan to assist his strike-force ( if that 's the right word ) . |
| 7 | It was such a fuss putting up the stand and then filling and emptying the bath . |
| 8 | The conversion of fractions to decimals is a requirement for effective use of the calculator , and a further calculator question about the wages received for a 37½ hour week produced evidence that a number of pupils worked out the wages for a 37 hour week using the calculator and then made , or tried to make , a pencil and paper calculation for the remaining half hour 's money . |
| 9 | Now that one , you 're doing , sort of doing this bit , erm , you can do that bit on the calculator and then do times six hundred . |
| 10 | But it is hard to see it making much headway against the ideology that now pervades academic institutions . |
| 11 | The more normal ‘ indirect ’ system has two water circuits : a primary circuit which is heated in the boiler and then circulates to a heat-exchange unit inside the hot water cylinder before returning to the boiler to be reheated ; and a second circuit which runs from the boiler to the radiators . |
| 12 | Gauging a suitable moment , he dragged his servant to his feet , bowed towards the Prince and quietly withdrew . |
| 13 | All the paperwork had been removed and burnt , but the caravan had been the working place of the squadron — the squadron headquarters in other words — and so against the CO 's most urgent requests and orders the airman turned the tractor round and raced back , grabbing " Jane " and her pants off the caravan wall , thrusting them into the arms of the CO and then retraced his steps in the direction of El Alamein . |
| 14 | The main effect of wind is probably to be seen in undercutting and fluting at the base of upstanding rock masses , while such things as wooden telegraph poles and stone monuments may be undercut at the base and even worn through . |
| 15 | Floribundas Pruning for Floribundas follows the same general principles as for H.T.s , except that it should & not so hard — the first year cut-back should be T-2 inches ( 2.5–5cm ) longer , leaving some 4–6 inches ( 10–15cm ) of stem from the base and still aiming for outward-pointing buds to develop the open cup shape . |
| 16 | It will be chaired by Steve Pinhay , the producer of ITV 's Saturday Night At The Movies , a programme which keeps on sending me press releases saying how wonderful it is but , when I actually watch it , seems to ignore the independent cinema entirely , particularly the variety that actually dares to speak in a foreign tongue . |
| 17 | The first clerk went into the stockroom and never came back . |
| 18 | But there were plenty of beautiful and recognisable faces to be seen amongst the anonymous , but none-the-less powerful , fashion editors , still enough buying power in this room alone to rock empires , even if no house made a profit from the couture but rather used it for a loss-leading advertisement and a mark of prestige . |
| 19 | It is better not to colour it to match the bones , as the natural while clearly shows future workers what is false . |
| 20 | 510–550 , which can be viewed as attempts ' to reproduce the same recognisable prototype' , thereby playing down the change that actually occurs . |
| 21 | I feel that that is a good time at which to review the implications for the future , and I very much hope that the expertise that now exists will not be lost to the industry . |
| 22 | Her fingers felt the warmth of his skin through the silk of the shirt and innocently lingered over the heavy beat of his heart . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , it 'll definitely be this Tuesday , ’ he told The Scotsman but then told the Irish Times it would be 1 April . |
| 24 | They dropped specially-adapted mines which it was hoped would , if they missed the Tirpitz , roll down the steep slopes of the fjord and still cause damage . |
| 25 | But it has to be said ( it has to be said ! ) wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , typing , smiled to himself , it has to be said , wrote Harsnet , that if every project is likely , if not certain , to result in the addition of a little more shit to the shit that already exists , there is also the possibility , faint it is true but real , of the unexpected , and this is what delay makes possible and what the onward rush of time , the ever-increasing acceleration of time , perpetually denies , and in addition to the possibility of the unexpected appearing in the coils of delay , in addition to that , it has to be said , he wrote , that whatever the project , however trivial , however exalted , it will always say more than its maker knows , and , if genuine ( I will return to genuine ) , something will emerge which is distinct from whatever came before , from whatever elements went to make up the whole , a tone , a voice , which is not the tone or the voice of the maker but something else , something which , in my more optimistic moments , or perhaps my less clear-sighted moments , seems to be distinct from the shit though inseparable from it , a tone , a style , which links it to its maker 's other genuine ( I will return to genuine ) productions . |
| 26 | brick inset was all the brick and then plastered over and that gave the black and white effect , but that was the original and the , the proper way to do it |
| 27 | The boy was in Nunnery Lane when another youth asked him for a ride on the bike and never returned . |
| 28 | Weary of the struggle and increasingly harassed by both right-wing and left-wing elements , the Assembly gave way , repealed the Law of Exile and allowed Louis-Napoleon to take his seat . |
| 29 | He added : ‘ We have targeted this and we will look next at reducing waiting times to 18 months across the board and eventually hope to get it down to less than a year . ’ |
| 30 | Do not be tempted to use a hair drier , for instance , as this will simply blow dust onto the board and also create unevenness in the lacquer . |