Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is clear , however , that Law Lords while for the most part restricting themselves to the obviously technical are not averse to speaking on social questions like capital punishment , the treatment of offenders and adultery . |
| 2 | 4 ) In several places it was felt that the paper provided further evidence of the gap that exists between how we perceive things and how our constituents see them who , for the most part see themselves as the ‘ money raisers ’ — a role they also fulfil for several other organisations as well . |
| 3 | So Dustin found himself in the odd position of acting in English , while all around him the cast spoke Italian . |
| 4 | So Bobby found himself on the carpet — on the silk dressing gown — and on Rachel ! |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps Nigel killed him on the Saturday night . ’ |
| 6 | So Brenda told her about the adventurous ride by the short cut . |
| 7 | As for venue , only 58% made it to the bedroom . |
| 8 | Which he did n't like to eat so Cider ate it in the end . |
| 9 | Back in Baidoa , little Issi knows nothing of the complex politics behind his hunger . |
| 10 | Finally Reddie addressed himself to the ‘ After-Puberty ’ group for sixteen-to twenty-year-olds . |
| 11 | Thus Jeffrey found himself on the Island of Sombrero in the Leeward group . |
| 12 | Elsewhere Salim separates himself from the doers and makers of the big world beyond him , of whom it is said : ‘ They 're making cars that will run on water . ’ |
| 13 | Shortly Mala joined me in the control area losing no time in calling her FedPol friend , Chertro , to suggest that he contact Ardakke and offer his services . |
| 14 | Generally Lori distanced herself from the relationship . |
| 15 | And finally Rachel swept them from the kitchen and down the stairs , chatting amiably as she went . |
| 16 | Eventually Connor told her about the intruders and they had agreed not to discuss the burglary in front of Danny . |
| 17 | Still others throw themselves on the mercy of God without being able to name the name of Christ because they have never been told about him . |
| 18 | Two months later Minton visited him in the country , pale from a pub crawl in Ipswich , and seemed to Lehmann ‘ more settled with Rickie [ sic[ off the booze ’ . |
| 19 | In addition to dealers , other objects of anger were farmers who were thought to be withholding grain from the market and thus creating an " artificial " scarcity ; merchants who attempted to buy up corn to move it from the district in which it had been grown at times when local markets were under-supplied ; and millers who were considered to be either bulk buying and hoarding corn or else charging the poor too much for grinding grain . |
| 20 | In summary , the questions in studies of more and less have revolved around three issues : ( a ) whether children have full or only partial lexical knowledge about the pertinent word meanings ; ( b ) the extent to which children rely on non-linguistic strategies in the absence of lexical information ( clearly children know none of the pertinent meanings at first for a domain , and several studies have documented the kinds of non-linguistic strategies they then rely on in responding to instructions — see Clark , 1973b , 1979,1980 ; Donaldson and McGarrigle , 1974 ) ; and ( c ) whether children observe the principle of Contrast . |
| 21 | Half-an-hour later Akram touched him to the keeper , and as lunch loomed , another gutsy and valuable Mujtaba innings , this time of 50 , cam to an end as Smith scored a spectacular direct hit from midwicket . |
| 22 | Right Rod thank you for the opportunity . |
| 23 | When he 'd moored the boat and helped her out Michele followed her through the rear lobby and into the foyer . |
| 24 | Byrkin had twice found out Holly to tell him of the sailing of the frigate Storozhevoy from the naval harbour at Riga . |
| 25 | The Premier could just as easily have been on the slalom — ducking and diving as MPs taunted him over the Exchange Rate Mechanism fiasco . |
| 26 | He looked so downcast that even Angalo patted him on the shoulder . |
| 27 | Instead , Eubank clinically TKO 'd him in the ninth . |
| 28 | We bought it off the city , well Michelin bought it off the city council and they gazumped us and erm but we , we have tables and chairs onto the dance floor on other nights and just pull them back when it 's clear |
| 29 | Did n't Celia tell you about the awful time she had giving birth to Donna ? ’ |
| 30 | The reasons that we need guidelines now is we had n't time to study them at the time and up to the present moment , as far as I 'm aware there 's one section that 's just been formed a couple of months ago . |