Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [noun sg] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we 've , each time we had someone of importance to bring in the people . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , I dropped the paintbrush , which of course went down the loo . |
| 3 | I thought that I would have plenty of time to work once the children went back after the 10-week summer holiday . |
| 4 | SAC announced a requirement for some 250 B-70s , but on August 10 , 1959 the Air Force announced the cancellation of the highly expensive boron fuel , which in turn brought about the demise of the GE YJ93-5 engine . |
| 5 | [ Her anger brings on an attack which in turn brings on the birth pangs . |
| 6 | In everyday conversation , this rarely happens , and even if it does , there is certainly no guarantee that the sentence will have come to an end — because , after the pause , there may be a conjunction , such as the word because — or one such as or — which , as in the case of relative pronouns , can keep a sentence moving on , along with any parentheses and subordinate clauses that the speaker thinks fit to introduce , and of course not forgetting the coordinate clauses which in fact make up the vast majority of the cases that we encounter when we start analysing real conversational speech , and which , as I said at the outset , provide a great deal of the interest when we go in search of English — if you recall . |
| 7 | Sir [ James ] Stephen added : ‘ The effect of adopting this definition would be to include under one description all the cognate offences which at present make up the crime of theft . |
| 8 | In Western Europe legislators have ceded sweeping powers to make detailed regulations to central government executives , allowing them in effect to write up the law ‘ as they go along ’ in a discretionary way . |
| 9 | But he was well liked , and his colleagues , rather than see him lose his job , would roll the old man into a hollow , covering him with heather to keep out the damp , and leave him sleeping soundly until the end of the day . |
| 10 | The gang abducted the eighteen year old daughter , and forced her at gunpoint to open up the bank in Bloxham where she worked . |
| 11 | After a break , the play had more life with it as City stepped up the pressure and encamping their opponent 's half for long periods . |
| 12 | When the dashing Cigognes arrived they pounced with glee on the dispersed German planes flying up and down in the ‘ barrage ’ , tearing through it with impunity to shoot up the Drachen balloons , the vital eyes of the German artillery . |
| 13 | The objection need not represent the judge 's real opinion ; he makes it in order to see how the student counsel responds . |
| 14 | It is my contention that ‘ time ’ is now under the control of such an individual , who manipulates it in order to do down the working man . |
| 15 | They 'd done it in Gaelic to cover up the vulgarity . |
| 16 | We can not be far from the day of the conversation robot that will relieve us of obligation to greet politely the occasional recognisable human that strays across our path . |
| 17 | Each of us in turn read aloud the splendid sentence ‘ The Board of Governors have pleasure in offering your son , Richard Simon Michael Ellis , the following School Scholarship . ’ |