Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lush 's large audience , most of whom chatter blithely through the sensitive acoustic numbers , seem to agree . |
| 2 | Lush 's large audience , most of whom chatter blithely through the sensitive acoustic numbers , seem to agree . |
| 3 | But they take opinion polls all the time , I mean shortly after the recent general election they were taking opinion polls a week later . |
| 4 | I mean back in the early nineteen eighties when we sold our first er system abroad we were quite surprised to find out that the French did n't have a road called Edgeware Road and an organization called B A C S on it . |
| 5 | I push off into the bright sunshine , and across the playground . |
| 6 | And the handsomest Celt on earth kneels before me while I sit snugly in the big armchair , the best armchair . |
| 7 | I sit down in the grey plastic chair in the featureless room with McDunn and a man from the Welsh squad ; a big blond brindle guy in a tight grey suit ; he has a rugby player 's neck and steely eyes and huge hands that are clasped on the table , lying there like a mace of flesh and bone . |
| 8 | ‘ I warm up for the down strokes by doing fast alternate picking … ’ |
| 9 | but then on the erm , Saturday , and the , that 's , and then on I say then on the bloody Friday night what happened he fell out the bed I phoned |
| 10 | I disagree fundamentally with the hon. Gentleman . |
| 11 | I put up with the small pricking claws . |
| 12 | At this stage the fish were all a dull brown which I put down to the new environment — the photograph I has seen showed a tan coloured upper body smothered with black patches . |
| 13 | I walk up to the lefthand end of this street , where it emerges in Trafalgar Square , and check the name : Spring Gardens . |
| 14 | I walk up to the main building along a path of large brown stones with the shape and texture of unleavened bread . |
| 15 | Especially when I look around at the bug-eyed gawkers staring , almost hypnotised , at the images . |
| 16 | As I look around at the happy faces it is difficult to realise that the German Army is only a few miles away across the River Seine where they are defending Le Havre . |
| 17 | I look forward to the Prime Minister being present that day — but , of course , by then it will be a Labour Prime Minister . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I look forward to the post-match analysis of the Leeds match . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | If I look up to the blue sky , as yet I must when it is blue and bright suddenly , it is in spite of the heavy limb and relaxing back that will drag me down or cause me to hasten home . |
| 23 | But when I look ahead up the white road |
| 24 | I look out across the twinkling expanse of ocean , and decide to go and see Teddy . |
| 25 | ‘ If I look out of the right window . ’ |
| 26 | I look back at the old woman , marvelling at Enid and Philip for finding her interesting enough to talk about . |
| 27 | When I look back on the long friendship , I realize that I need not have had certain misgivings about troubling Eliot or taking up his time — misgivings due to temperamental diffidence rather than to genuine modesty , I am afraid — because he was both generous of his time and solicitous about the welfare of those in whom lie took an interest . |
| 28 | Below , I look down on the differing surfaces , the differing states of ripeness from light green through to gold . |
| 29 | But as I read on about the growing disharmony between Mrs. Proudie and Mr. Slope , Trollope rose in my estimation and count him among my favourite authors . |
| 30 | Maha followed them but Hussa and I threw ourselves face down on the warm , white sand , both of us smiling at the success of the project . |