Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I have a feeling it might be easier to mull it over at the next meeting . |
| 2 | This made her late with the lunch , and at the table she found the young men impossible to talk to because she was trying to retain the lines of what she had prepared to say . |
| 3 | No no careful bring it away from the baby . |
| 4 | That evening , after supper , I was too tired to write up notes , so I lay thinking over the day in order to make it easier to write them up in the morning . |
| 5 | If the query is of a complicated or technical nature it is quite acceptable to pass it on to the expert , but is this really necessary for a bar of soap or a DIY fitting ? |
| 6 | Some put it down to the sheer popularity of the winner Nigel Jones — others to the alleged racism of would-be Tory voters , unwilling to endorse the party 's official candidate , the barrister John Taylor . |
| 7 | For nearly 70 minutes , Ireland were in contention , but their inability to convert pressure into points when playing with the wind behind their backs in the first half cost them dearly in the end . |
| 8 | The ‘ Jowters ’ , too , would purchase some to sell them around in the country districts . |
| 9 | This leads us directly to the topic of symbols and their meanings . |
| 10 | This leads us directly onto the argument based on the manifesto . |
| 11 | This calls us back to the ideas of alternate universes which we were discussing earlier . |
| 12 | The tepidity of most British cinema during the 1950s made Anderson resistant to the values of commercial filmmaking , and this cut him off from the possibility of developing his critical argument through filmmaking . |
| 13 | This takes us out of the realm of male-female sexual relationships into another sphere , where such bonds can be used for better communication between individuals , and to foster the link between teacher and pupil . |
| 14 | It 's too high get it back on the chair ! |
| 15 | Maurin interjected that he had done it for the best , that he suspected she would spread silly gossip and it was sensible to keep her away from the English journalist . |
| 16 | Her mind was free to appreciate it properly for the first time . |
| 17 | This tells us only about the feasibility of screening , not about effectiveness . |
| 18 | This sets him apart from the ordinary and gives him a reason for living . |
| 19 | More than half did it just for the thrill of sex with someone new . |
| 20 | I 'm sorry it took all this to get them out into the open — as far as they 've come . |
| 21 | But she terrified him , because he wanted her and he liked having that grave face near him , and she was willing to have him even with the ghosts crowding at his shoulder . |
| 22 | This reminds us again of the anti-Semitism prevalent in Belorussia . |
| 23 | Doctors were hurrying to him now , lifting him with careful , expert hands , speaking soothingly as they helped support him and half carry him back towards the wards . |
| 24 | But er with the the the er the original the the first one , you had to heat it up with a blowlamp and you had to be very very careful to get it just to the right heat , before if you tried to start it too cold , it would kick back and if was too hot again , it just would n't start . |
| 25 | I know that we 're all in a state of shock and wondering where to place ourselves on the spectrum between quietism at one end and terrorism on the other , but , as a response to an altered environment , this reminded me appallingly of the turtles who , so the legend goes , were hatched on a Pacific atoll where a nuclear blast had been carried out . |
| 26 | George half carried , half dragged her back to the car . |
| 27 | Although the Greens increased their share of the vote from 2.9 to 4.9 per cent , this left them just below the 5 per cent threshold required for representation . |
| 28 | From there , if and when it became possible , he would be taken to the castle at Soragna where the Principessa Meli Lupi was prepared to take him on in the guise of a gardener — a refugee who had been rendered deaf and dumb in the bombing of Milan . |
| 29 | ‘ None of them was prepared to take you on in the middle of the semester . |
| 30 | Now Amsterdam seem to be willing to take him on despite the scandal , and are presenting him as an exciting and controversial figure , while many of his former colleagues in The Hague admire him , as do the public ; he is seen as decisive , inspiring and provocative . |