Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those Israelis whom this behaviour most appals have long been likening it to the earlier stages of Nazism , an analogy that found startling vindication with the recent disclosure that some units in the occupied territories draw on Nazi precedents for their own self-image , one calling itself the ‘ Mengele detachment ’ and another ‘ the Auschwitz company ’ . |
| 2 | When the Juntas were thwarted in their organization of a war effort by the spiky legalism of those local organs of the ancien régime which survived in unoccupied Spain , they could defend their authority only be deriving it from the elections of ‘ a free people who did not wish to perish ’ . |
| 3 | So what we need to do obviously is keep them in the freezer . |
| 4 | But I 've not been taking them for the last week . |
| 5 | " Just been watching you on the box — you have n't changed at all . |
| 6 | ‘ You have just been telling me about the steamy heat of New York in summer — and now you 're moaning about the cold weather here in London ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Six months ago , we never thought she would ever achieve her ambition but , fingers crossed , I 'll soon be taking her to the school gates and she can sit in class with the other youngsters , just like she always wanted . ’ |
| 8 | How- ever , the first instalment of the kingdom would soon be sent them by the ascended King himself . |
| 9 | Given the shortage of good creative talent , this is not that unusual , and if you find that your agency is using freelances , your immediate reaction should not be to fire them on the spot : give them credit for both knowing their own limitations and for buying good work from outside , always assuming that it is good ; but press them to get a permanent team working on your account soon — it is not in your interest to lose continuity of creative work on your account . ) |
| 10 | One of the troubles with wood has always been getting it in the right sizes and making sure that it is free from hidden defects . |
| 11 | Actually , as R. A. Fisher , one of the founding fathers of what is now called neo-Darwinism , has pointed out , this fact of particulate inheritance has always been staring us in the face , every time we think about sex . |
| 12 | When I 've written to you in the past , it 's usually been to tell you about the developments of some of our long term programmes . |
| 13 | As for what he 's doing now , I do n't know , he 'll still be tipping them over the bar somewhere . |
| 14 | All I 'd say is that what you have to do Is to ask questions which although are apparently about what you want to do … where you want to get to should really be telling you about the person you 're — " |
| 15 | I mean I , I mean I du n no I mean I just , I just ha , I just had to tell you because I mean it really is pissing me off the way fucking Catherine treats me , she was alright before like and when I 'm on my own , no |
| 16 | S what in fact er Mrs said is too early in the process of community care to know how many homes you have to close she really is approaching it from the wrong way , it 's equally too early in the process of community care to know how many homes you need to have open , keep open or open and that is one of the problems which I believe this council and other councils will will face . |
| 17 | Boz is the only one she 'd tell such a thing to , but she 's already told me Boz has n't been to see her since the attack . ’ |
| 18 | cummings and Edwin Morgan are , however , splendidly useful , and if practitioners keep coming across the same texts , it has to be remembered that students may very well be meeting them for the first time . |
| 19 | you certainly wo n't be getting it on the following Monday |
| 20 | Yeah if you have to moan about that you should n't be driving it in the first place . |
| 21 | You know and if it did n't be paid you at the quarter it meant you di you would n't get anything the following quarter . |
| 22 | I suppose what I did there was put them on the spot so how could I word that so that it does n't put people on the defensive so much ? |
| 23 | Rex had evidently been viewing him through the eyes of a Repo Man . |
| 24 | I would n't get the opportunity to find out who else was calling me at the same time . |
| 25 | Erm , well , I assume you mean out of recent Leeds United players ( you ca n't seriously be comparing him with the real greats of football can you ? ) . he could certainly hit it , and sometimes goal-bound ( and quite often into the wall or behind for a goal kick ) . |
| 26 | So , although this perspective still has much to teach us , we shall subsequently be combining it with the broader explanations offered by later urban social theorists . |