Example sentences of "the [noun] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Athelstan turned to the porter and tossed him a silver coin . |
| 2 | So I 'm afraid you 'll just have to contain your Aries impatience a little longer — unless , of course , you intend to call the porter and have me put out … ’ |
| 3 | Naturally the inherent constraints of the archaeological evidence , our caution about the relationship between the archaeological record and the activities that formed it , and the limited research which has been carried out determine the cohesion and balance of a work of this type . |
| 4 | The visitors might have replied almost immediately when Mark Stepney rounded the defence but put his shot wide . |
| 5 | Northumberland National Park were pleased at the response and felt it was a very worthwhile event , while in the Peak District 17 schools took part . |
| 6 | To achieve more precise control over the response and quantify it , the researchers immobilized the slug by pinning it to a stage and standardizing the tactile stimulus by using a jet of water delivered with a water-pick . |
| 7 | Mansfield Park , for example , is no less a great house because it has recently arrived , or because the income that supports it is drawn from the West Indies and not from its own land . |
| 8 | Now does that have a er I , I know you lose the income but does it , does it penalize you at all ? |
| 9 | ( See Hall v Marians 19 TC 582 , Wild v King Smith 24 TC 86 , IRC v Gordon 33 TC 226 cf Lord Radcliffe in Thompson v Moyse 39 TC 29 at 337 ; it is not felt that Harmel v Wright 49 TC 149 at 159 alters the position because if one is " keeping one 's eye " ( p157E ) on the income and benefit it does not find its way to the United Kingdom ( it is hardly the case that the income and benefit " come in at one end of a conduit pipe and pass through certain traceable pipes until they come out at the other end to the taxpayer ( in the United Kingdom " ) ) . ) |
| 10 | All the Official Custodian was doing was receiving the income and paying it over to the charities . |
| 11 | The dominant tone is of jubilation , not the hysteria that makes me swoon in Prince . |
| 12 | They came before the tent and prostrated themselves on the ground before following their chief to prison . |
| 13 | The evening was cloudless and warm and after pitching the tent and cooking something called " Hunter 's Goulash " ( a freeze-dried meal that I 'd brought home from a trip along the Appalachian Trail — it tasted like fried sofa stuffing doused with monosodium glutamate ) , I walked up the narrow lane above the youth hostel to watch the sun going down behind Pikedaw Hill tingeing the sky a dusky orange — a wonderful sight . |
| 14 | It was Sir John Hawkins [ q.v. ] , writing in 1776 , who stated that John Shore devised the tuning-fork , which he used in preference to the pitch-pipe when tuning his lute . |
| 15 | It is a body that simultaneously defines the continents and divides them from each other ; at the same time it knits together some of their distant and improbably linked civilizations , as well as their anthropologies and histories . |
| 16 | It was a means of providing controlled access to the unspoilt beauty of the Park and keep it that way . |
| 17 | Her eyes were clear of tears ; she looked from a great height down into the park and saw its order and its beauty so determinedly brought forth . |
| 18 | ‘ Second , once sterling left the ERM , and with inflation sharply down , we were right to take the opportunity that gave us to relax policy and get interest rates down . |
| 19 | Magnus seized the opportunity and led his troops forward . |
| 20 | Pople seized the opportunity and applied his mathematical skills to carbocations — renegade molecules that violate conventional structural rules , square planar as opposed to tetrahedral four coordinate carbon . |
| 21 | In other words , in each image Picasso synthesizes information obtained from viewing the subject from various angles , and , relying on his knowledge and memory of the structure of the human figure , he gives a complete and detailed analysis of the nature of the forms that compose it . |
| 22 | She said a tiny minority were making life miserable for the majority and said it was time to tackle the root causes of crime . |
| 23 | She said a tiny minority were making life miserable for the majority and said it was time to tackle the root causes of crime . |
| 24 | When the crowds had left after the second home match , Chapman met the helpers in the stand and asked them to take him on trust , asserting that the changes were in the club 's interest . |
| 25 | If you just put the figures in the calculator and write it down and it 's wrong or this one times that one . |
| 26 | There they give just the same protection to their new owners as they did to the jellyfish that developed them . |
| 27 | ‘ Then it was the horse-riding that brought you here ? ’ |
| 28 | I strode over to the bookstall and bought myself a map of the place . |
| 29 | After the prayer that ended their silent repast that evening , the cadets were filing out of the refectory to return to their barren cells . |
| 30 | Meanwhile the Goths drove the Britons from Bourges , but the comes ( count or more precisely companion ) Paul , who led a force of Romans and Franks , attacked the Goths and took their booty . |