Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old land-owning families prospered and built under Queen Elizabeth I 's reign , but many of them became badly unstuck during the Civil War . |
| 2 | It does seem to me that there are still relatively few women who become professional scientists , and today I hope that you two ladies will help me explore perhaps some of the reasons why this is the case . |
| 3 | Save them walking too far up the road if they |
| 4 | As the campaign progressed , I became increasingly angry at the attitudes of my friends at home and how different they said things were there , believing , as I did and still do , in the importance of a Labour victory for Britain as a whole . |
| 5 | In the Southern Ocean , in that great reverberating blue-green world I shared with nature , I became intensely aware of the way in which men and women have trapped themselves within cities . |
| 6 | As the months went by , I became quite excited by the prospect of weighing myself every Monday . |
| 7 | And in that time I became very close to the bunch of desperadoes I 'd first flown out with . |
| 8 | But I can tell you this : she and I became very close over the years . |
| 9 | Phil Andrews and I became very friendly with the owner , a very talented engineer who then had an engineering works in Cardiff . |
| 10 | I became very interested in the trade union movement and my first appointment was as a collector in collecting the union dues and taking them up to the union office . |
| 11 | I belong to the species that believes in replicated nuclear power stations , but I remain obstinately unconvinced by the pressurised water reactor option . |
| 12 | Despite the slick advertising on television I remain totally unconvinced of the case for primary tests . |
| 13 | I fear that much of the ‘ anti ’ feeling is really part of the class war . |
| 14 | I pick up some of the papers that have escaped from their boxes , pages of unidentified figures that are meaningless in their isolation , and use them as a duster to clean the top of a solidly filled Quaker Oats box and make a chair for myself Then I open up the next nearest box , labelled Squeez-Ee Washing-up Liquid . |
| 15 | And I got really annoyed at the manipulation of the young , and the godfathers who are sitting free today . |
| 16 | On one occasion I got together twelve of the most prominent crimps ; they were a soulless and cold blooded lot . |
| 17 | I was gon na but I , I thought , I thought if sees me when I come in , cos I had make up all down my face cos I 'd been so upset , I got so angry with the whole thing |
| 18 | Without any apparent break in the text and without any change of tone in my voice I got out some of the things I so badly needed to tell you . |
| 19 | ‘ I got more popular in the sixth form . |
| 20 | I used to lie down and have a sleep because I got very tired towards the end with the baby . |
| 21 | ‘ Actually , one of the things I found very tiring on the ‘ Brothers In Arms ’ tour was soundchecking . |
| 22 | I 'm a 19-year-old Scottish university student- But why am I becoming so interested in the Personal columns ? |
| 23 | I squat down next to the little kid and point again . |
| 24 | ( I woke up chilly in the morning . ) |
| 25 | Instead , I cut back some of the more boisterous forest plants in my garden . |
| 26 | Here I cut down several of the largest trees with my knife , and made two wooden boxes . |
| 27 | Now , when I came back from Stop Hill the other night , must have been , oh must have been Thursday , cos Paul erm , was going out with Alec and then they were going to Alec for dinner and when I came back one of the erm wooden staves was off here , had been prized off . |
| 28 | I put aside some of the money I got for the silver , because Daddy meant to divide his things between us both . ’ |
| 29 | I mean here we are , we 've been talking about taking holidays in this area , and I imagine that much of the work that you do as a local Tourist Board is not actually directly aimed at people who live in this area . |
| 30 | I 've , I 'd got a few stares from some of the women there , I mean , there are some women there that are huge , and maybe they looked at me and thought oh I hope I can wear leggings like that one day , I mean I do n't think I look too bad in the leggings , I mean I would never have done it when I used to go to Weightwatchers when I was thirteen and a half stone , I would never of gone in leggings , no way , but it does n't |