Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I disremember if it was October or November — it was October , 'cos it was before I came up here to join the matriculation class . ’ |
| 2 | The proof of the pudding as we all know is in the eating , and I thought where better to sample the pudding than at RAF Uxbridge . |
| 3 | When I went round there to take the saw back she was er you know her little tail |
| 4 | As I refused so soon to repeat the horrors of the afternoon , the taxi ride from the Olympik to Nove Mesto ( the New Town ) was a real treat . |
| 5 | ‘ It is much to be regretted , that the owner of the Purse Crag should have cut down the beautiful trees , which served so wonderfully to enrich the prospects on this side of the water . |
| 6 | Rather however than acknowledge that the Irish state , which refused any longer to play the Commonwealth game and declared itself a republic , was therefore a foreign country , Britain proceeded to divide the world not as hitherto into two portions — British subjects and aliens — but into three — British subjects , aliens and Irish . |
| 7 | Later , brain-fatigue smearing her concentration as she tried yet again to make the balance positive : I 'm not wrong . |
| 8 | She stooped rather stiffly to offer the boy her cheek . |
| 9 | Ballymena and Antrim had more good wins through John McAdorey in the 100m and Eddie King who finished very strongly to take the 800 in one minute 52.65 . |
| 10 | It makes me wonder too , if those who decided so quickly to close the homes examined the reasons why there were so many vacancies . |
| 11 | The 1958 war is remembered now not so much for the vicious sectarian battles that occurred in Beirut but for the arrival of the US Marines , who stormed ashore only to find the beaches occupied not by militiamen but by bikini-clad ladies and street urchins who were merely waiting to sell Coca-Cola to the country 's latest rescuers . |
| 12 | Refusing to let herself think beyond the tasks she was performing , Leonora listened to the radio as she worked , and when the meal was well advanced she went quietly upstairs to find the bathroom empty , and Penry , fully dressed in fresh clothes , fast asleep on his bed . |
| 13 | The Ladies ' Open was a popular success for Nic Bothway on her stepfather Gurney Sheppard 's Rubie 's Choice , who ran on well to hold the challenge of Shedid after the last . |
| 14 | Thus the extreme subjectivism of , for example , the novels of Virginia Woolf , belongs within the same formation as the economic interventionism of Keynes , who wanted not only to preserve the economic system by rationalizing it but to do this so that , within that achieved stability , the real processes of civilized life could be extended , undisturbed . |
| 15 | ‘ Breaking down old traditions , he was the first club manager who set out methodically to organize the winning of matches , ’ observed the Daily Mail . |
| 16 | We crept close enough to see the features which set them apart from curlew : the smaller size , relatively shorter bill and pattern of light and dark head-stripes . |
| 17 | Before we came down here to clean the caravan . |
| 18 | ‘ I would have liked to have finished the season with a win but , in the end , we did just enough to win the league . ’ |
| 19 | There were crowds of people everywhere but , when they saw Burun 's banner , they moved politely aside to let the party pass . |
| 20 | Also too often they broke away only to lose the initiative by letting the cockney donkeys get back . |
| 21 | By some unspoken agreement they settled quietly together to watch the night fall and the heavy tide thunder in . |
| 22 | Andrew Bergman told me later that when they went out there to make the deal , they felt like the expedition that goes into the jungle to bag King Kong . ’ |
| 23 | The investigator gave her his attention and everyone leaned forward slightly to hear the answer . |
| 24 | He lived long enough to hear the Court announce on June 26 that it had rejected Australia 's Preliminary Objections concerning the Court 's jurisdiction in the case and the admissibility of Nauru 's claim . |
| 25 | He fought back bravely to regain the initiative of the argument . |
| 26 | He recovered quickly enough to win the Army squash championship . |
| 27 | He tried once more to see the Queen but her fat , pompous chamberlain rudely announced that Lady Yolande was leaving Scotland and had no wish to discuss anything with anyone . |
| 28 | The dog got over-excited and took exception to one of the chefs and had to be shut in the barn where he howled mournfully enough to wake the dead . |
| 29 | It had a number of clauses in it designed quite properly to protect the company , but there was n't one , not one , that was relevant to my private life . |
| 30 | He was often away a fortnight or three weeks at a time , but he came back here to use the cleaner . ’ |