Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Their children have grown up , perhaps left home and , however much they may love their parents , they no longer need them in the same way . |
| 32 | Well we usually change them into the same thing do n't we if we 're going to add them . |
| 33 | You still owe me from the last time . |
| 34 | I think they might … they still owe us from the famous Wembley farce in the 70's . |
| 35 | Christie , so adept at getting the aid of Administration for his own business , knew exactly where to look for help , and approached Lord Ilay through his deputy , Lord Milton , and without any attempt to bargain simply asked for an appointment for his son , promising that it would ‘ forever laye me under the deepest obligationes ’ . |
| 36 | From seven in the morning he 'd sit there with the thing pressed to his ear ; to preserve the batteries and to avoid alarming the guards , we always set it at the lowest volume . |
| 37 | The silence — for the sound of birds and sea adds up to silence as beautifully as we ever know it in the noisy world of today — together with the sweetly moving air , and the scents of thyme and bell heather and sun-warmed bracken , all combined to distil something very potent . |
| 38 | It is said that there is a spell within the music , and that they always spin it for the true heir , and that it protects that heir throughout his life . |
| 39 | They always play it by the bloody book . ’ |
| 40 | Many people still regard it as the Tory party at prayer . |
| 41 | ‘ I feel very angry that you always see me in the same negative way . |
| 42 | Travelling to polling stations is expensive in a country where many people earn only £100 a year , so wealthy well-organised candidates bus voters to the booths and traditionally nudge them in the right direction with sample ballot sheets with the appropriate names ticked . |
| 43 | Finds also tell us about the living conditions of the site inhabitants . |
| 44 | I also refer you to the Sub-Regional Engineer 's letter reply of 2 March 1990 . |
| 45 | Only when some convincing reason can be adduced for believing that both employers and workers not only misread market signals , but also misread them in the opposite direction from each other , will it be plausible to infer that both the supply of and demand for labour will rise with the general rise in prices and money wages . |
| 46 | These two areas of convergence also direct us to the main area of divergence and the reason why , though in actuality inextricably related , the psychic and the cultural return of homosexuality still need to be distinguished . |
| 47 | in another review of the criminal statistics , F. H. McClintock and N. H. Avison also direct us towards the relative stability in recorded crime levels between 1900 and 1914 which , they suggest , ‘ might be described as the stable but carefree Edwardian era ’ . |
| 48 | The task will fall to the manager to persuade advice workers to attend race-awareness training in addition to popular updating in welfare benefits ; managers may have the task of explaining to management committee members why they now need training after so many years without it ; it will be the manager 's job to be attuned to advice workers ' weaknesses and tactfully point them to the relevant additional training ; the manager must find a balance in workers ' meetings between training , casework and group support . |
| 49 | As well as having it in the luxury class , I now also include it in the practical , hard-wearing , well worth-the-effort class ! |
| 50 | But he added : ‘ It is not evident that most of our partners often perceive us in the same constructive light as we see ourselves . ’ |
| 51 | A man who had been sitting silently by on the wooden form got to his feet , his hand outstretched , and he said , ‘ There ! take it ; and if you want to pay it back put it in the voluntary box she was talking about . ’ |
| 52 | Though he attempted a detailed rebuttal , chapter by chapter , Milton himself had to admit that ‘ Some men have by policy accomplished after death that revenge upon their enemies which in life they were not able ’ , and that ‘ they who before hated him for his high government , nay fought against him with displayed banners in the field , now applaud him for the wisest and most religious prince that lived ’ . |
| 53 | I 'm grateful , that 's for today , erm my Lord it may sound slightly more erm contentious , but I 'd also ask for certificate for counsel for the thirteenth of August hearing , may I say the reason for that , it 's a matter that has n't come before you , you wo n't know about , it 's this , this reason , because at that period it was n't just the application under twenty eighty or twenty eight , four for delay there was another application er , which was unsuccessful which has n't been proceed today , but cost were also disallowed with more serious reason , I submit that said showed er negligent or that improper conduct , there was a substantial attack mounted , and I can use no other words fairly describe it on the professional conduct of and for that reason my Lord er both cos the seriousness of the allegations , but of course also because of the potential conflict that they acted for themselves and it would of been in situation for us solicitor hence to turn up , er they instructed counsel and my self , and so for that double reason in my believe we should be entitled to at , at first stage , ordinarily I would n't of had a very good run for argument but I , it 's my suspicion my clue recollection , be backed up by those behind me , and indeed by the documents that a substantial attack was mounted and it was in , I have to say in full flight terms , and much hence could n't be said to be unreasonable to deem if necessarily , unusually to send counsel in front of a taxing master , well I wo n't say any more on the point , but that is my suspicion |
| 54 | As the paving is all made from broken paving slabs and , therefore , all the same thickness , you simply lay it on the levelled sand bed . |
| 55 | Might I just add that if anybody does actually pay their fee by cheques erm please make it to the right department er as as Tom will give you erm the co the correct er name for for your cheque . |
| 56 | Well if it 's to do with anything you 've seen here please make it in the right quarters not at me . |
| 57 | And if you 're flying more than one bird , you can take the transmitter off when you 've finished with one and simply attach it to the next . |
| 58 | Well get it from the other Chinese . |
| 59 | I do n't see how that you can possible reduce the number of deaths within the county , or even maintain it at the same level . |
| 60 | I pulled out some money and laid it on the bar , followed by a pair of black leather driving gloves with the tops of the three middle fingers cut off the right hand , a tube of mint-flavoured lip salve and a metal hip-flask engraved with the words : ‘ I am not a diabetic ; in case of accidents please rush me to the nearest public house . ’ |