Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't use pre-printed form letters where you just fill in the gaps for date , name , address and amount . |
| 2 | I saw parties feeding on the seed-heads of thrift in the middle of a gannet colony , on the seeds of rushes out on the windswept moors , and in my own garden where they quickly cleaned up the remaining rowan berries . |
| 3 | Torturers were either trained policemen or soldiers , or they were special commando units , or they were trained in USA or Panama , or they simply carried on the tradition of civilian torture . |
| 4 | Readers from last month will be glad to know that I finally tracked down the elusive Tequila based Marguerita in a Tex-Mex cafe in Covent Garden . |
| 5 | I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops . |
| 6 | I have a wide vocabulary , which I am continually expanding , so I often look up the meaning of words to use |
| 7 | I always had several anthologies of poetry with me , luckily including this one , so I feverishly looked up the poem : it was Ernest Dowson 's ‘ Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae ’ , with its plaintive refrain : |
| 8 | However , such was A Smooth One 's superiority that she quickly made up the lost ground to score by four lengths . |
| 9 | Now our houses backed on to each other , with only the party wall between , so she just picked up the poker from the fender and started banging on the wall so that the plaster showered a cloud of dust in the room . |
| 10 | You will be aware exactly how far the ferret has progressed down the burrow by the marking on the line attached to its collar , so you now look down the hole as the line becomes moderately tight . |
| 11 | Can I thank you for those generous comments that you say towards er , , I think they 're totally true , he 's worked extremely hard in making sure this council has a budget which balanced , and it 's due to his expertise and bullying tactics that we 've succeeded , and he should be fully congratulated for that , and I think it 's the determination of those who were elected in May as well , to make sure that we protected services and jobs , and , and make sure that we actually carried out the mandate which the electors elected us to do that we have such ach achieved what we have achieved today . |
| 12 | In the Odonata the endosternites are paired , and are inclined so far inwards , towards the median line , that they almost meet over the nerve cord . |
| 13 | In fact many parents were so anxious to sign that they actively sought out the petition holders . |
| 14 | They 're not old enough to go to the pubs , or they do n't seem old enough , so they just go down the park and get drunk . |
| 15 | It was a smell so keen that it momentarily brought back the holiday she and Martin had spent in Amalfi , the trudge hand-in-hand up the winding road to the mountain-top , the pile of lemons and oranges by the roadside , putting their noses to those golden , pitted skins , the laughter and the happiness . |
| 16 | Rober Mazur can reasonably claim to have done more than anyone else to bring down the Bank of Credit and Commerce International . |
| 17 | It is impossible that Matthew was mistaken or that he simply made up the verse as a climax to his birth story hoping that his readers would not notice . |
| 18 | I hope that the Party can use Marxism Today as its ‘ front door ’ , and as a major interface with the wider movement : MT has done more than anything else to build up the prestige of the CP , and that contribution should never be forgotten . |
| 19 | They even escorted me to the school gates sometimes — and I just bunked out the other way . |
| 20 | I admired Venables , his flamboyant style and attitude , but I could see the dangers in the temptations of life in London and I regretfully turned down the move . |
| 21 | He found himself walking through Denver Airport one day with a hollowed-out Brazilian hand-grenade fitted with a Zippo lighter , a present from Singlaub to Calero : ‘ one of the scary things was that I walked right through … and I never set off the alarms . ’ |
| 22 | She read the star 's altitude off the sextant 's micrometer , and I dutifully jotted down the numbers and the time of day for her . |
| 23 | Brian and I usually rode up the steep hillside at the back of the house to where , at 8500 feet , there was a grotto , crudely cut out of the rock below ground level . |
| 24 | It is a collection of those books which the early church accepted as written by the apostles themselves , or by their close associates , and which therefore set out the true apostolic faith . |
| 25 | and you just fill in the gaps |
| 26 | And you just look down the route now and decide whether they 're achievable or realistic . |
| 27 | She inherited from her brother a methodical and intelligent Treasurer , the Marquis of Winchester ; and she also took over the conclusions of committees which had been investigating the Crown 's finances under Edward VI . |
| 28 | Jack was standing beside her at the time filling in notes , and she quickly jotted down the address and the scant details they were offered , and turned to him . |
| 29 | There was no central heating in the Old Rectory and she seldom switched on the two-bar electric fire in her bedroom , knowing how worried the Copleys were by their her bills . |
| 30 | They look like any other novel if you just flick over the pages and they are divided into chapters . |