Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was the filthy coastal town smelling of fish oil where I 'd taken over the driving . |
| 2 | People who had had experience of the National Assembly , where much the same procedures were followed , or who had picked up the style from televised broadcasts of it , were at a decided advantage . |
| 3 | ‘ Boy ’ Mould had served in France with 1 Squadron in 1939/40 , where he had shot down the first German aircraft to be claimed by R.A.F. fighters over the Western Front ; he had over eight victories to his credit at this time . |
| 4 | Although I wanted to go down the pit because you got more money you see . |
| 5 | Now , if you look at Example 2 , you 'll see that I 've written out the same scale pattern in thirds . |
| 6 | I can not believe that I 've cut up the dress he used to love me to wear and all I get for thanks is cheek . |
| 7 | There was an abortive attempt at a ‘ Maureen Lipman says write to me about your washing problems ’ which made me squirm with embarrassment to the extent that I 've blocked out the name of the liquid detergent concerned . |
| 8 | He could take her away , I thought , he could just do that , he has such power to hurt me , this little furry creature who has n't even noticed that I 've given up the weed . |
| 9 | So that 's why , you know , three different sorts of reminders that I 've put on the front of the calendar card . |
| 10 | Not that I regretted taking on the responsibilities , but it meant shelving any dreams I 'd had . ’ |
| 11 | I was surrounded by a crowd of shouting , gesticulating Malts , who pulled at my parachute , lifted my head and drove me so furious that I had to give up the dying idea in order to concentrate completely on kicking every Malt who came within range . |
| 12 | I tell myself that I will let myself lie in bed for another five minutes though I stipulate that I am not allowed to go back to sleep and that I have to count out the five-minutes in my head . |
| 13 | I am writing to advise that I have taken over the role of Computer Liaison Officer for the Trading Standards Department . |
| 14 | The trouble is that someone has torn up the only copy of the poem that there is . |
| 15 | Is n't it true that someone tried to burn down the barn your Sparrowgrass was stabled in a month ago ? |
| 16 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 17 | As usual , once I had put down the wheelbarrow , I had stiffened up and been able to think only of aches and pains . |
| 18 | She said — and I do n't know if she was just bullshitting me , ’ and here Blufton opened his palms in a gesture of frankness , ‘ that she 'd found out the dates when a couple of lorries were due at Dover . |
| 19 | I found that after 2 hours of playing the small adventure game called Wumpus my friends youngest child lost all her worries about pressing the wrong key , except that she kept falling down the cavern when she did . |
| 20 | Parents can have such an enormous effect on your lives together that you need to work out the boundaries right at the beginning . |
| 21 | When she found a lot more shoots in different places , she decided they needed more air and light , so she began to pull out the thick grass around them . |
| 22 | You read in the papers all the time about girls being raped and murdered , and you do n't want it to happen to you , so you try to cut down the odds . |
| 23 | ‘ But why , once you 'd found out the truth about Ryan and me , did n't you drop your custody claim immediately ? |
| 24 | It contains a lot of questionnaires for which there are no answers and with not much guidance on what to do with the answers once you have filled in the pages . |
| 25 | All this becomes obvious once you have set up the machine to knit lace . |
| 26 | Once you have worked out the phonemic system of the language , if you are using a card file , work systematically through it , changing all phonetic transcriptions into phonemic ones . |
| 27 | Once you have added up the figures in the budget planner , you will have to deduct income tax to arrive at the net spending amount available to you . |
| 28 | Once you have carried out the instruction , your turn ends ( if you are sent back three spaces and land on another Point of Order , for example , do not pick another card ) . |
| 29 | Once you have sorted out the distractions like that , you can have some amazing fun re-planning your house . |
| 30 | So , let's assume that we 've gone down the line of saying that , for a maximum value , Z X times Z Y equals Z X squared . |