Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pron] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's absurd — I look on Margaret as my best friend , but I 've only seen her once in the last six months — I do feel guilty about it . ’ |
| 2 | After a heart-to-heart talk , she had gently ordered him home for the rest of the week , and since that time they had been friends in a reserved sort of way . |
| 3 | And he 's he 's turned over this and just gon na slap one on me and I 've turned my head and gone like that and he 's fucking caught me right on the fucking lips ! |
| 4 | In accepting Murav'ev 's proposals the regime made plain that , although it had just committed itself firmly to the emancipation of the serfs ( in the Nazimov Rescript ) , it was not yet prepared to adopt the principle of decentralization or to move towards provincial self-government . |
| 5 | I do n't know , it 's just got it somewhere from the East somewhere is n't it ? |
| 6 | He looked , she thought , as though someone had just kicked him hard in the stomach . |
| 7 | ‘ When it 's time to sleep , why not set her here on the chair to watch over you ? ’ |
| 8 | He had come into the shop with her but had not followed her upstairs to the kitchen . |
| 9 | He had not eaten anything apart from the occasional so-called mash since the crops had died and he had only been allowed that because of a special emergency food supplies being sent in from other parts of the country . |
| 10 | He had entered parliament in 1900 , twenty-six years after Balfour , he had held no Cabinet post , he had taken no active role in party institutions , and he had not involved himself much in the social world of Westminster . |
| 11 | There 's house , we 've just passed it now on the and it 's er a Montana Clematis . |
| 12 | Unfortunately IBM has not submitted it yet to the likes of X/Open Co Ltd , neither has it signed any deals with the likes of DEC to push MQSeries on its own machines : instead the firm is relying on the system 's own merits to attract software developers . |
| 13 | Perhaps they had not cleared it properly with the Romanians . |
| 14 | that 's right , well the thing is these are , I was looking at the power today I , er not read it properly in the past , there only four rounds , these have got to be A , if you want both A and B on |
| 15 | What has always impressed me enormously about the office bearers and team members I have over the years got to know is that they are never judgemental about those they help , and that , like the members of RNLI boat crews , they go out in all weathers to seek to save life and/or to assist the injured . |
| 16 | What has always impressed me enormously about the office bearers and team members I have over the years got to know is that they are never judgemental about those they help , and that , like the members of RNLI boat crews , they go out in all weathers to seek to save life and/or to assist the injured . |
| 17 | What has always impressed me enormously about the office bearers and team members I have over the years got to know is that they are never judgemental about those they help , and that , like the members of RNLI boat crews , they go out in all weathers to seek to save life and/or to assist the injured . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , no-one 's ever seen it apart from the Headmaster . |
| 19 | He had always seen them somewhere in the medical field as well as on a rugby pitch . |
| 20 | Kirov did little actual business there , for he had deliberately priced himself well outside the common market . |
| 21 | I used to have a straw teddy , a stuffed straw te I 've still got it somewhere in the attic . |
| 22 | I have carefully said nothing here about the details of particular natural sex differences . |
| 23 | I 've not really heard you much on the phone . |
| 24 | Erm , just a point of information , I think er on the hundred and thirty-one million , including the Lincoln , and I think er they would have been you would have been under serious er distress on that , because the information I have had from the Department of Transport , is that if the Lincoln scheme had gone ahead , it would have effectively blocked everything else for the next five years , and that would n't have done you any good , from where you 're elected , either . |
| 25 | It is also the case that , in practice , social purpose Adult Education has frequently concerned itself exclusively with the small minority of politically active , leftist members of the working class , usually , though not always , via trade union education . |
| 26 | Mr McTavish forbore to mention that he had n't made it quite to the same standard as his host but was obviously pleased to be included in the generalization . |
| 27 | Perhaps they had even bought them together in the same store , on the same day . |
| 28 | You have to keep the horrible thing if you have n't got anything else in the space . |
| 29 | Now that he 'd told her , she could n't understand why she had n't recognised him right from the start — she 'd seen the article , had even marvelled at the way the photographer had managed to capture those dark , brooding eyes . |
| 30 | Zara 's family and tennis friends in Northern Ireland have undoubtedly given her much of the help that she needed , but the lack of adequate facilities , together with a dormant tennis structure in the province , has left Zara — and other tennis hopefuls — without the opportunity that perhaps her efforts deserve . |