Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well we 'll send them altogether the weekend hang on , bung it in . |
| 2 | Monsieur le Curé said the sooner we buried them properly the better , he 's not going to tell anyone . |
| 3 | unclear get to buy your own I , I er did n't have rubber boots , I had big leather boots up to me thigh , that 's what I bought and that leather then they did n't have nails in the shoes in the , in the bottom they had wooden pegs , so that the , your leather was held by wooden pegs and the and the leather at that time were the thigh boots , you could roll them right the way down , . |
| 4 | Robyn , perhaps you 'd like to help me clear the dishes , ’ he instructed , giving her a warning glance . |
| 5 | In a way this makes them all the more impressive . |
| 6 | But as well as having this comparatively obvious advantage , Althusser 's awareness of the radical implications of his claims makes them all the more interesting . |
| 7 | The duties attached to some of these appointments were not too arduous , which made them all the more attractive to a landed gentleman with other interests but a great desire for an increased income . |
| 8 | Tribesmen might indeed be benighted savages , but they could still stir the liberal conscience — especially when their very primitiveness and simplicity made them all the more vulnerable to exploitation by unscrupulous Europeans . |
| 9 | Instead , he laughed aloud and beat them all the fiercer . |
| 10 | Always small things , nothing she could have a qualm about accepting , which made them all the more delightful . |
| 11 | Their small majority made them all the more conscious of the problems they needed to surmount to win the next election . |
| 12 | Ladies and gentlemen , I 'm very grateful to Professor Eppell for his characteristically kind and generous remarks , and erm I accept them all the more readily because I know you will treat them with a healthy degree of scepticism . |
| 13 | I 'm serious about that , it grieves me greatly the possibility that he may not hear what the patch has to say . |
| 14 | And naturally , because for me hitherto the world had held no woman . |
| 15 | Nor could you just shut your eyes and throw them down the hatch ; because the whole pleasure of a chicken 's foot would come from sucking and nibbling it slowly , seeking out the tasty skin and the fragments of flesh like the last moments of a particularly luscious spare rib . |
| 16 | And they have decided to issue part of their deficit-financing bonds to the market at attractive interest rates , instead of forcing them down the throats of reluctant workers ( though the lack of a secondary market may still make them unappetising ) . |
| 17 | Reluctantly I put down my book and followed them down the garden . |
| 18 | When old Mother Jacobsen had unlimited time at her disposal and the opportunity to take up the strands from where she had laid them down the previous day or week , she embroidered her stories with meticulous and colourful detail . |
| 19 | Throw them down the bloody banisters and then lock them up . |
| 20 | The tongue acts as a pump , helping to suck in small forms of water-life and squeeze them down the throat . |
| 21 | However , when you lay them down the first card is laid on the M of mutus and the second on the m of nomen . |
| 22 | The Japanese treat valuable fish much like Bonsai , handing them down the generations as living heirlooms . |
| 23 | He 'd get his mam to do them , or taken them down the launderette like Nick Kamen did . |
| 24 | Then The Sugargliders — their hair still glossy from the blood of Metallica , who tried to stop them coming in — stride across the shattered bar-room floor and pull their own heads off and ram them down The Rosaries ' throats . |
| 25 | Out of all the bands the NME posse catches at the CMJ , RATM are by far the most brilliantly relevant : the first to grab political issues by the scruff of the neck and ram them down the toilet pan . |
| 26 | So I stuffed them down the waste-disposal unit . |
| 27 | That I told Oliver I 'd put them down the waste-disposal and the phone went silent , and when I finally said , ‘ Are you still there ? ’ he just answered , ‘ I love you , ’ and hung up . |
| 28 | When English resolution faltered and they turned to flee , the Scots pursued them down the Lowlands and across the Border , laying waste to Northumberland and Cumberland . |
| 29 | The voices rose to a piercing shriek , and the crowd of silver helmets went flooding in pursuit , chasing both of them down the dunes to the sea . |
| 30 | He shepherded the twins aboard without losing either of them down the gap and found seats for them in the same row . |