Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [conj] [adv] [vb base] the " in BNC.
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1 | Yes , cos they usually all water underneath there and that used to be pumped out , every so often the engine room would pump all that out and to heat any water up the cabins there used to be a , a small pump what used to pump the fresh water into the boiler and I used to have a a piece of er copper off that and just turn the steam on a little bit put it into a bucket of cold water and then instead of driving the pump that 'd go into the , the er bucket and heat the water and boil it . |
2 | The teacher working with this pupil tells how children would ‘ … exchange one mistake for another and incidentally change the syntax so that an appalling mess developed ’ ( Meek et al. , 1984:189 ) . |
3 | We must be aware of this and constantly compare the copy with the real thing to see if it is still valid . |
4 | You will sometimes be asked to er look at something like that and then put the time signature in . |
5 | Today a car manufacturer might make engines in one country , steering wheels in another and then assemble the car in a third . |
6 | To make the most of your longhaul holiday , why not combine a stay in one resort with a stay in another and really get the best of both worlds ? |
7 | Base the idea and structure building on that and then increase the incidentals as you go along . |
8 | This passage sheds much light on the method of ‘ Mr. Eliot 's Sunday Morning Service ’ where the self-mutilation of ‘ enervate Origen ’ is placed in the same lineage as the sexual origin of ‘ the Word ’ , and where the initial ‘ sapient sutlers of the Lord ’ who ‘ Drift across the window-panes ’ is a passage with an ambiguous , or better ambivalent , reference , since it holds together in one term both the ‘ sable presbyters ’ who bring offerings to church and ‘ the bees ’ who bring pollen from one part of the plant to another and so perform the ‘ Blest office of the epicene ’ . |
9 | But what really bugs our Sharon is that they dare to show any football at all and thus interrupt the daily stream of soap sludge . |