Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And another good old word is the crome , now er that was one I came across for the first time when I came into Suffolk , the crome . |
| 32 | Well , I came home for the 1986 Turnberry Open expecting to caddie for Mac O'Grady but that did n't materialize , so Nick and I joined up in July 1986 . |
| 33 | When this book was donated I borrowed it ti read , and it was not until I came home from the final clearing-up , and found my ‘ man of the house ’ serenely reading it , that I remembered about it . |
| 34 | Spellbound , I drove upwards into the bright splendour , staring through the windscreen as though I had never seen it all before ; the bronze of the dead bracken spilling down the grassy Banks of the hills , the dark smudges of trees , the grey farmhouses and the endless pattern of wails creeping to the heather above . |
| 35 | I remember he laughed and I noticed properly for the first time what a lovely blue his eyes were and a little thrill went through me . |
| 36 | ‘ What was once a one mile journey into Garrison for someone living just on the other side of the border became a 26 mile round trip . |
| 37 | I look forward to the Prime Minister being present that day — but , of course , by then it will be a Labour Prime Minister . |
| 38 | Mr. Walker : I do not blame the Hon. Gentleman for making such a speech just before a by-election , but I am glad to tell him that tomorrow I shall go through every detail of the valleys programme and I look forward to the Labour party 's publishing beside each item what the Labour Government achieved in their last five years . |
| 39 | I look forward to the post-match analysis of the Leeds match . |
| 40 | ‘ I look forward to the branded Share Shop identity enduring beyond the offer and becoming a recognised symbol for accessible and affordable advisory and dealing services . ’ |
| 41 | But I 've enjoyed being here , I hope you 've enjoyed it as much as I have , and I look forward to the next time that I 'm sitting in the hot seat ; until then , from me , goodbye . |
| 42 | Above all , I look forward as the new Labour Party Treasurer to bringing the party membership fee down from the dizzy heights of eighteen pounds to the level which we in the trades unions know ordinary people can afford . |
| 43 | But when I look ahead up the white road |
| 44 | I arrived there at the due time and waited and waited , but no corporal appeared . |
| 45 | I arrived there during the last day of it , and heard Dr. Bernardo pleading eloquently on behalf of the children he labours so unweariedly to rescue from the streets of our great cities , and also saw a gathering of the colporteurs gathered from the north and west , to get a word of encouragement in their laborious work of carrying pure literature into the homes of those who in numbers of instances live beyond the reach of the minister and the bookseller . |
| 46 | I turned politely to the young man . |
| 47 | I recall that my right hon. Friend and I campaigned together on the same side in favour of a ’ yes ’ vote in the 1975 referendum on whether Britain should remain in the European Community . |
| 48 | I knocked anxiously on the wooden door and waited patiently until the door opened and a small , plump , bearded man greeted me with a cheery hello . |
| 49 | ‘ I want to wait until I know more about the likely opposition . |
| 50 | ‘ I want to wait until I know more about the likely opposition . |
| 51 | In the morning , as I walked again among the modest , secluded women in the town bazaars , the vision of the night seemed like a dream . |
| 52 | ‘ When I walked away from the Great Rebellion , my heart bled with the pity and the waste and the anguish of it . |
| 53 | As expected , I found Prince Charles very easy to talk with and we had quite an informal chat , mostly about boats of course , before I stepped backwards along the red carpet with my medal pinned on . |
| 54 | I refer here to the urgent need for an effective devolution of central powers in the British State to elected regional governments . |
| 55 | so that they are fully trained and ready to handle the problems that might arise erm there is , however , cause for some er optimism and I refer specifically to the recreational page from the Estuaries Consultation Document from English Nature and in one of their er proposals and objectives they say encouraging self regulation and observance of Code of Practice by local clubs and groups to avoid clon conflict with and or disturbance to other users including nature conservation interests . |
| 56 | I refer especially to the Sessional Order that deals with witnesses to the House . |
| 57 | I swung majestically from the very end of the crux traverse on Gimmer Crag 's Kipling Groove , in from of an audience I half expected to hold up marks for style , and had to allow my younger and less experienced partner to show me how it should be done . |
| 58 | Zak , I improvised instantly at the first enquiry , had thought the gaunt man had an interesting face and he wanted to ask if he could use him in a scene . |
| 59 | Finally , what I remember best about the Seventies were the close matches that Wales were involved in — e.g. 19–18 in 1971 at Murrayfield , where the result was in doubt until the final minutes . |
| 60 | And I heard enough about the grisly ways in which he like to make sure his questions were answered . |