Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first drive I went on made me wonder about the sanity of grouse . |
| 2 | Perhaps he secretly thinks I belong to the same world . |
| 3 | Notice that the right shift truncates the result ; some computers provide a version of arithmetic right shift which adds to the right-hand bit position of the result the value of the last bit shifted out . |
| 4 | See , in America they 're being touted as ( cough , splutter ) ‘ The New Smiths ’ , which presumably has nothing to do with The New Seekers and a lot to do with , ‘ Hey , these guys are grreaat ! ’ |
| 5 | The postman eventually found him canvassing on the High Row and handed over the State secrets there and then ‘ I was very impressed , ’ says Fallon . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm just interested to know what goes on beneath that hostile little shell you present to the world , Virginia . |
| 7 | What right has he to comment on the ‘ quality of fans ’ at the Levellers gigs ? |
| 8 | What right has he to comment on the ‘ quality of fans ’ at the Levellers gigs ? |
| 9 | Surveying the results of her handiwork , she stayed only long enough to see him scrabble for the safety of the bank . |
| 10 | Dolly suddenly made herself heard from the bedroom . |
| 11 | Like the Anglo-Irish , they had lived long in that country and had built its prosperity , only to see themselves betrayed by the politics of moderation and compromise . |
| 12 | No employer will willingly train a craftsman only to see him go down the road to work for another employer who has invested nothing in training . |
| 13 | In a business where fees are usually paid on a success only , rather than an hourly , basis , this may come a bit hard to people who have worked hard for two or three months on a deal only to see it fall at the last hurdle . |
| 14 | She felt like someone who suffered from vertigo and suddenly found themselves standing on the edge of a deep abyss . |
| 15 | They played ‘ ’ Invitation to the Waltz' ’ on Radio 3 this morning' — she was speaking faster and faster , edging towards the gun — ‘ such a heavenly tune , I played it at school , and suddenly found myself waltzing round the kitchen , then Ethel leapt up and waltzed with me , and I thought perhaps there is a life after Hamish . |
| 16 | On the evening of 13 May on top of all his other preoccupations particularly the dangerously weak operational position of his Corps Gen Keightley suddenly found himself threatened by the possibility that within 48 hours Carinthia would be swamped by a further huge mass of some 600,000 surrendered personnel and refugees , without food . |
| 17 | Patrick suddenly found himself standing in the hallway , his heart tripping frantically , his breathing too fast to be comfortable . |
| 18 | At that moment , as she faced to him , waiting for an answer , Guido swung the steering-wheel round to negotiate a corner , barely bothering to decelerate at all as he did so — so that Ronni suddenly found herself lurching towards the dashboard . |
| 19 | One night , waiting in her car outside a pub to which she had followed him , she suddenly found herself crying for the first time . |
| 20 | First , it obviously has nothing to do with the actual gender of the words , since all of them refer to ungendered objects or substances . |
| 21 | Keen mountaineer Thomas Hargreaves , 39 , left to go on a day 's hiking in an area frequented by grizzly bears last Thursday , but friends only reported him missing at the weekend . |
| 22 | Congratulations to Mr Howard Bloody Wilkinson , not only has he presided over the transfer of David Batty , the sale of the League to the scum but he now seems intent on pissing off Rocky . |
| 23 | Time and again intelligence organisations chase after these grandiose projects only to find themselves lost in the wasteland of truth created by their own stupidity . |
| 24 | I have only seen one badger in the so-called ‘ wild ’ , caught in the beam of car headlights as it dashed across a small country road in Cornwall . |
| 25 | He has only seen one defeat at the ground . |
| 26 | And er he apparently told her to sit in the car while he finished his |
| 27 | He rang her hotel , and after a long wait she came to the phone . |
| 28 | He rang her hotel , and after a long wait she came to the phone . |
| 29 | Use a sunscreen with a SPF greater than 10 from 6 months onwards , and then only let them stay in the sun for short periods . |
| 30 | Oh right , so let me know at the end of the week . |