Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [prep] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The more I put into it the worse it goes . |
| 2 | When I walk on it the whole thing starts to move and I am soon covered in the grey dust I am stirring up ; it fills my nostrils and triggers a memory that links the smell with rock climbing . |
| 3 | When I look at what the new people in charge of Channel 3 are saying about Current Affairs , I am depressed . |
| 4 | She seems to thrive on heretical statements and swimming against the tide : ‘ I look at what the cosmetic trade is doing and walk in the opposite direction , ’ she declares with the kind of outspoken defiance that has made her a retailing legend in the decade it took her to turn The Body Shop into a worldwide phenomenon . |
| 5 | I mean I 've never met Mrs. Thatcher , the only thing I know about her the only facts I have about her I 've got through the press . |
| 6 | I think I know to what the hon. Member is referring . |
| 7 | If our young girls are to learn the profession , let them serve a seven years apprenticeship and when they have completed it , I ask for them the same wages as are paid for journeymen … |
| 8 | I sympathise with what the honourable gentleman says and certainly the feelings that are bi er of the er erm citizens of Gibraltar . |
| 9 | I sympathise with what the hon. Gentleman has said . |
| 10 | The more I think about it the bleaker the home life of Professor and Mrs Maitland begins to seem . |
| 11 | At the very most , it is an open issue , but , knowing the Minister as I do , I concur with what the hon. Member for Kincardine and Deeside ( Mr. Stephen ) said about the Bill being fundamentally a centralising measure . |
| 12 | I carry with me the tattered remnants of this psychic structure : there is no way of not working hard , nothing in the end but an endurance that will allow me to absorb everything by the way of difficulty , holding on to the grave . |
| 13 | You listen to it the first time you do n't like it and then after that then |
| 14 | Oh yeah , I , but I did n't realize you know with him the old man , the toughy , yeah |
| 15 | Night fishing can be enjoyable in its own right , even without the added attraction of fishing at the most likely times for fish to feed , but only if you go about it the right way . |
| 16 | But squatting itself is not illegal if you go about it the right way . |
| 17 | When you think about it the ancient Greeks had some pretty good ideas . |
| 18 | When you think about it the two big problems are transport and communication |
| 19 | When you think about it the Compact goals are just the sort of goals that every school has anyway . |
| 20 | If you think of it the other way when , what happens when a price , when a price falls , alright , if farmers er , assume that price fall will be sustained over a number of periods , then they think , right well in order to achieve the same level of income , right , as I did previously , if prices have fallen , I 'm going to have to increase my output . |
| 21 | apparently he went , he went round telling everybody erm he was doing a live exercise and he got singed or something but this , this erm , its Browndown on the South Coast and it was , it was a Christ it was a Christmas piss up , regiment Christmas piss up and anything goes , as long as you do n't physically hurt somebody , although that has been known to happen and its not criminal anything goes right , but honestly the worse you do to somebody the worse they do back to you , and people are getting tied bollock naked up the flag poles , dumped in bins , erm , tied in their beds , put out in the middle of the parade ground , fucking all sorts of things you know , like what we can do , the most common thing is nicking , you know the old walking pay slips they 've got |
| 22 | Many situations of stress feel like a tangled knot of coloured threads — the more you pull at it the worse it gets . |
| 23 | When the pope wrote to Anselm that ‘ we behold in you the venerable persona of St Augustine the Apostle of the English ’ this was more than a complimentary politeness . |
| 24 | It is only when we put to it the rude experimental question " where are you ? " that it is forced to make the sharp choice between those two possibilities . |
| 25 | And we look forward to seeing some more publicity , between us we have fingers in many pies , and the more we know about it the more chance we have to spread the word around . |
| 26 | So we commit to you the divided land of Yugoslavia , the territories occupied by Israel and the troubled province of Northern Ireland . |
| 27 | Some people prefer not to talk or to think about their tinnitus as they find that the more they concentrate on it the worse it becomes . |
| 28 | They reveal to us the astonishing cultural achievements and spirit of our ancestors ; they also document the power struggles , intrigues and invasions that have shaped English history . |
| 29 | Their retail branches are a fixed cost , so the more business they put through them the better . |
| 30 | yeah , well they need to what the main building ? |