Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if you despair of ever getting the baby 's pushchair anywhere near clean , or perhaps those muddy football and rugby boots , just spend five minutes or so on them with the Steamatic . |
| 2 | These are also strongly accented as the arms straighten into 2nd position before being bent , with hands sometimes clasped behind the head , sometimes placed akimbo on the waist or sometimes with one on the waist and the other behind the large bow at the back of the head-dress . |
| 3 | At no time had she addressed herself to the credibility or otherwise of anything in the report . |
| 4 | Although not to anything like the same extent as in an earlier period in the United States , quietly and firmly the British black family was becoming the focus of official anxieties . |
| 5 | Diane Bailey , the Curtis Cup captain , seized on the Jacklin example and so did Geoff Marks and all around him at the Walker Cup in ‘ 89 , and their teams responded magnificently . |
| 6 | It was a vibrant time : the flowering of the sixties had lost some of its bloom , but the fruit was ripe and all around us in the protagonists of the new arts . |
| 7 | As we walked along the track from the car park on that sparkling May morning , swifts skimmed low over our heads after swarming gnats , dainty white lady 's smock swayed in the breeze , and a little owl stared solemnly and unblinkingly at us from the fork of an oak tree . |
| 8 | Nanna wants to have all the er plants picked out of the greenhouse and erm have them all in the trays and up to us by the end of May before they go away on holiday . |
| 9 | Dietary fibre is the substance which makes the waste matter from the food we eat pass through us and out of us at the desirable , speedy , natural rate . |
| 10 | Then he would use this information to chat knowledgeably and sympathetically to them in the lobbies or the smoking room , often concentrating as much upon the opposition as upon his own supporters . |
| 11 | She felt again the presence of the wife , looking kindly and securely at her from the photograph ; do n't resent me , said Helen , I am really neither here nor there , I very much doubt if I signify , you need n't mind . |
| 12 | The hours mean I can collect the children from school and am with them in the school holidays . |
| 13 | She had debated long and hard with herself over the course she should take , and reaching the decision she had had n't been easy . |
| 14 | None of them is , nor can be , structured as to require that those in charge of enterprises in which people invest their working lives and expectations should account primarily and principally to them for the uses they make of those lives . |
| 15 | As he did this a Maltese feller started striding slowly but purposefully towards us from the back of the club . |
| 16 | A bunch of flowers , a dozen red roses , a tiny , unimportant little gift , but not to me at the time . |
| 17 | Pennies and Singing Detective raised interest and expectation , but not on anything like the same scale . |
| 18 | I 'm interested , but not at anything like the price . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ He was last year about now but Easter 's late , I had n't thought on , and he 'll not move down until Palm Sunday like as not , and if he 's still over on the mountain he 'll be up Three Valleys Pass and that 's an hour and a half of a walk for him , going as the crow flies , but longer for us in the jeep because there 's no direct road — and then to get at him we 'd have to take a cart track that 'll be more like a river bed after yesterday 's rain . |
| 20 | This is quite a steady climb but well worth it for the superb views . |
| 21 | There was no sign of them in the next field , but ahead of him at the top of the hill he saw the young dog , looking black against the morning sky . |
| 22 | Wexford and Burden edged themselves courteously but firmly past him into the narrow hall . |
| 23 | It was because not for anything in the world would she have disturbed him and missed this spectacle . |
| 24 | Are you sure that is n't I think they were agents as well for one round the corner . |
| 25 | Where great houses , from the middle ages into the seventeenth century , had been built to contain a single household in an ordered hierarchy beneath one roof , their classical counterparts in the eighteenth century and Regency became increasingly an expression of stratification into two quite distinct classes , though as yet on nothing like the scale of the grand Victorian house . |