Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 This made me aware of how badly I 'd done with the domestic arrangements .
2 I consider how successfully I have melted into the background recently .
3 I was one of her props though eventually I got moved into the backs because I was so good looking ! ’
4 Put the driver on I want to talk to the driver .
5 Suddenly I felt detached from the baby .
6 Suddenly I start puking into the road , but nothing comes up except this slimy stuff .
7 So I put away my little brown bottle of herbal remedies , turned my back upon much I had learned at the Centre , and before leaving for Hungary and all that forbidden goulash , took three quite definite steps .
8 No apparently I 'd gone in the bog , I was n't feeling bad or anything .
9 ‘ If only I 'd listened to the old folk telling their stories . ’
10 So I had to go to the , like the job centre and they offered me this , which I did n't really fancy at the time .
11 So I had to stand outside the door
12 So I had to walk from the , you know the flats half way down Ashton Lane ?
13 I think so I said said to the bloke before
14 So I got caned on the palms of my hands .
15 So I got to stay with the dogs and
16 So I let go of the pendant , gathered myself , and looked around .
17 So I 'd to go to the washing racks for fourpence a day .
18 So I think turning to the er suggested resolutions , they 're four main issues with and firstly that we are dissatisfied er with the method and needs consultation .
19 So I have to prise off the foe unassisted , which , believe me , takes some doing .
20 So I do feel for the chump who , late for a smart dinner party , dashes into the local off-licence and forks out £50 for a bottle of Mouton Rothschild 1988 .
21 So I do apologise for the confusion .
22 ‘ I only know that during the half-hour or so I sat staring through the top windows of the tram , I saw nothing , not one single thing , that could possibly raise a man 's spirits .
23 So I happened to say to the footman , I say :
24 He asked me low long I 'd worked for the firm and what my duties were and what Doreen did .
25 Long I have lingered by the banks of the Ness , looking on the town clinging to and rising above its banks ; often have I gone to the castle hill to trace the windings of the stream , which was ever smiling back or reflecting the sadder tones of the sky , and to gaze on the distant land of mountain and plain ; and I have also spent many hours in rapt admiration of the sylvan pictures that render the walk through the islands on the Ness a walk of walks : it yielded a joy as deep as that I received from the walks on Goat Island , within hearing and seeing of the rapid-flowing waters of Niagara .
26 Then for twice that long I sat twitching on the shower 's deck , the silver snout tuned to full heat and heft but doing nothing much to wash off my rot .
27 I tell you another thing that amazes me , how any one with a Sovereign right , were a Sovereign in those days , could have given up the palace of Westminster which is so beautiful , palace , together I suppose reigned after the Duke of is it ?
28 This includes much which has gone under the name of " students ' songs " : acerbic goliardic and satiric verse , as well as a set of narrative-dramatic comoediae modelled in the twelfth century on the ancient Latin comedy plays .
29 Berndt said , as though it were his incisive wit alone which had arrived at the nub , ‘ The question is , what do we do with her in the meantime ?
30 Suddenly she seemed to take in the reality of what she was doing and all her confidence fled .
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