Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bronze was cast in standard ingots that were about 0.9 metres long with inward-curving sides that made them easier to carry on the shoulder , as shown on one of the contemporary Egyptian tomb paintings depicting Minoan emissaries . |
| 2 | He seemed likely to be doing it for quite some time to come as , rather than actually having an election , it is more a case of finding someone willing to take on the job . |
| 3 | I thought it was Kim sat there when I first come down the stair , I did n't know , did n't know her . |
| 4 | Erm when I first came out the army . |
| 5 | To join the band , I first picked up the sweater piece with right side facing and then using a three pronged latch tool I picked up the band . |
| 6 | When I first loaded up the pack I really thought it would be a bit top heavy — it 's a longer and slimmer pack than most British models — but I was delighted to discover that my fears were unfounded . |
| 7 | That failed you as my own gave up the ghost . |
| 8 | The risk will grow if any of the following should happen : a spike in interest rates ( forward rates already indicate that investors expect higher rates by the end of the year ) ; an unexpected collapse of the dollar ( the Federal Reserve , at the Treasury 's direction , was intervening furiously last week to prevent the already weak currency from sinking further ) ; or , let's face it , if Washington proves itself unable to wrestle down the budget deficit . |
| 9 | It was Damian , the Dysons ' younger son , who first brought up the subject of marriage . |
| 10 | ‘ When did you first find out the affair was going on ? ’ the superintendent asked . |
| 11 | Nothing substantial hangs on the decision . |
| 12 | So we all walked down the corner there we all had our beds round there everything was laid out . |
| 13 | Either he gets it right or we all go up the Swanee . ’ |
| 14 | We all prowl around the pool in a fabrication of isolation , none of us speaking . |
| 15 | While I was shaving , peacefully surveying my baggy eyes , thick lips hinting at a recent cold sore , and ever-deepening wrinkles , I saw in the mirror something monstrous appear around the side of my grey hair . |
| 16 | Outside , the tropical summer air was still warm , and they each wound down the car window beside them as soon as they were seated in Tom 's low vehicle . |
| 17 | They are all partly true and they all make up the totality of a man whom I think very few people — perhaps least of all Niki himself — really understand . |
| 18 | And they all held out the sealskin towards her . |
| 19 | When tenants were finally given a vote , they all turned down the idea . |
| 20 | Is this a struggle inside Frodo 's soul , between his conscious will and his unconscious wickedness ( the sort of wickedness which might earlier have made him reluctant to hand over the Ring to Gandalf ) ? |
| 21 | Within a month Renate had lost her job ( ‘ the complaint was that the girl was too slow ’ ) and had suffered a sharp decline in health , having contracted chronic catarrh , nervous debility and eczema of the scalp ‘ which made her unable to summon up the courage to get a haircut after a hairdresser had been very rude to her on the subject ’ . |
| 22 | In effect , they both turn over the soil and fertilise the soil . |
| 23 | Then they both creep along the pavement , onto the concrete path , up the concrete stairs to the waiting concrete flat . |
| 24 | This may be so , but is not necessarily so , and nothing particular hangs on the fact . |
| 25 | The Federal Assembly on May 9 passed a legal amendment making it possible to speed up the purging of the security services , including the StB . |
| 26 | In 1987 lower interest rates in West Germany would have made it possible to prop up the dollar ( as the G7 countries had earlier promised they would ) without raising American interest rates . |
| 27 | However , the versatile EQ and the additional power of the bass boost make it easy to fill out the sound , and a smooth , mellow tone is little more than a brief twiddle away . |
| 28 | It applies when , through no fault of either party , events take an unexpected turn making it impossible to carry out the contract as originally conceived . |
| 29 | Nor is he likely to wind up the debate as I understand that the Under-Secretary of State , the hon. Member for Darlington ( Mr. Fallon ) , or some other English Minister will do so . |
| 30 | Many of those present had found it hard to pick up the thread of what he was saying and instead had thought with a shiver : " Needles driven into your belly ! |