Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charlotte only wants to marry him for the house and comforts he can provide her later in life . |
| 2 | Well I 've got lots of acquaintances but I do n't know that I necessarily want to put them on the erm |
| 3 | Did she know her husband well enough to come to rescue him from the consequences of his own indiscretions ? |
| 4 | I 've only got to do it to the end of today so , I do n't think I 'm going to use twenty do you ? |
| 5 | ‘ That 's the whole point — regardless , Miss Everett , that both you and I know that you 're never going to marry him anyway , Travis , who cares deeply for his family , ’ as you do , Leith could well have inserted , ‘ is only going to take it on the chin and let you go , by learning that the person you do love is a member of his family , who loves you in return . ’ |
| 6 | She said do well you do n't need any forms , cos it 's only you , we 're only going to alter it on the computer |
| 7 | only going to alter it on the computer anyway . |
| 8 | Yes , and I remember the tanks moving down Whitehall ; or at any rate I remember the picture I had of them in my head as Tilly Tilling , in the middle of a history class , suddenly began to tell us about the military putsch that was coming . |
| 9 | From now until the catastrophe of 1870 the Emperor 's foreign policy was to be one of expedients and compromises , all of which only served to demean him in the eyes of Europe , while simultaneously underlining how feeble was any form of ‘ court diplomacy ’ faced with the reality of Bismarck 's ‘ blood and iron ’ tactics . |
| 10 | Low-level ozone , so called to distinguish it from the naturally forming ozone in the stratosphere which accounts for about 90 per cent of the ozone in the atmosphere , is created by the action of sunlight on oxides of nitrogen and reactive hydrocarbons ( volatile organic compounds ) emitted by vehicles and industry . |
| 11 | But they only started to perfect it at the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 12 | NB If an advertisement says , ‘ write for application form ’ then keep the letter very brief and without personal details as you will only have to repeat them on the form later . |
| 13 | She constantly needed to caution him about the many dangers he was either too young or too stupid to recognize for himself . |
| 14 | Anyway , with Eric on his way , I did n't think it would be a good idea to start another War only to have to abandon it in the middle of things and start dealing with the real world . |
| 15 | Charlotte says she can only bear to recount it for the sake of others who may feel they 're totally alone in their plight . |
| 16 | He had to be assisted as he flayed himself , but he got most of the skin off as easily as a cardigan , and the minister only had to help him with the last few strips . |
| 17 | She only had to make it to the airlock , seal the inner door behind her and wait … . |
| 18 | For pupils of high ability , too much of the curriculum was often taken up with preparation for exams , and too little done to stretch them in the earlier years . |
| 19 | Even though its evolutionary course was eventually destined to lead it into the complicated and probably costly distortions involved in having two eyes on one side , even though the skate way of being a flat fish might ultimately have been the best design for bony fish too , the would-be intermediates that set out along this evolutionary pathway apparently did less well in the short term than their rivals lying on their side . |
| 20 | The amateur radio enthusiast is quoted as saying he considered destroying the tape but eventually decided to hand it to The Sun . |
| 21 | He never was — which was just as well since fate brought him a series of posts whose functions were not calculated to endear him to the public or the party . |
| 22 | The German and French leaders told the Prime Minister they did not want to see him in the run up to the Edinburgh summit , which begins on Friday . |
| 23 | It must be for the local authorities , which have the statutory responsibilities , to take those responsibilities extremely seriously and I would not want to divorce them from the primary responsibility for undertaking those tasks . |
| 24 | The federal pump-priming for their establishment , eventually extended to cover their first eight years , was not intended to support them for the long term . |
| 25 | However , this is not intended to condemn us to the conclusion that changes in society are the chance results of unrelated factors . |
| 26 | because I might want to play somewhere else anyway get caught , I just tend to leave it in the car . |
| 27 | ‘ Thank you , ’ she said , not daring to look them in the face . |
| 28 | I think from the County Council 's point of view , the safeguard is there is no proposal to make those available for other spending within the committee and therefore , if hopefully we do not need to access them during the year , they are still available for Council in future years to , to meet other spending requirements . |
| 29 | Right , well we 'll just need to stuff it in the bag then . |
| 30 | It was clear that she had not expected to find him in the room . |