Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] [pron] [det] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It needs a born Highlander to understand aright our Scottish Highlanders ’ , goes on JTR , ‘ and to gather from them all the lore they know , so as to give us pictures that will live on in after ages . |
| 2 | I 'll wait for her and walk with her all the way to Miss Lucchesi 's . |
| 3 | He leaned into it and the fielder at midwicket could only turn and jog after it all the way to the boundary . |
| 4 | He fed it lots of oil and wiped at it all the time with an oily rag so it shone . |
| 5 | He wanted the place immaculate but he 'd never tidy up , he just sat there in his chair from morning till night and got at me all the time about the housework . |
| 6 | Ideologically , he would not shift his ground ; politically , however , he began to tack to the prevailing wind , giving his regime an appearance of popular , constitutional legitimacy , and gradually taking over and presenting as his own the idea of reinstating the monarchy . |
| 7 | All these reminiscences told the same story : a big , healthy , gregarious man , full of fun and sport , always living life to the full and extracting from it all the juice it contained , and more . |
| 8 | Play some sweet music NOT noisy ‘ pop ’ and talk to her all the time . |
| 9 | ‘ The workmen were always very pleasant and chatted to us all the time . |
| 10 | He thinks about you and prays for you all the time . |
| 11 | All your friends miss you and think of you all the time . |
| 12 | People ringing up about it and talking about it all the time are n't they ? |
| 13 | She carried it through the back-door and ran with it all the way to Fred 's house . |
| 14 | Her initial task will be to try and regularise for us all the amount of information that we have about what is sent to which categories of all the Christian Aid materials and then go on to hopefully ‘ plug the gaps ’ in church contacts . |
| 15 | The actual degree awarded to an individual will be that which is most appropriate to his or her background and experience and carries with it all the rights and privileges of membership of the University . |
| 16 | But the chief matter of Property being now not the Fruit of the Earth , and the Beasts that subsist on it , but the Earth itself ; so that which takes in and carries with it all the rest : I think it is plain , that Property in that too is acquired as the former . |