Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maxton led the opposition to this view , claiming not that the Party should disaffiliate immediately , but that it should not hesitate to do so if its freedom to advocate the Socialism in Our Time policy were limited . |
| 2 | So if your resistance stays the same and we keep increasing the voltage at some stage you say ooh it feels tingly |
| 3 | It should be appreciated , however , that exactly the same kind of analysis as we shall develop here could be made equally revealingly of practical , everyday communism , Christianity , the apartheid philosophy of white South Africa , l the delusions of the mentally ill , or , as Ernest Gellner so tellingly shows , contemporary linguistic philosophy.2 So while our quest to understand the mysteries of witchcraft may take us deep into the inaccessible jungles of distant continents , we shall regularly encounter disconcertingly familiar images showing how dose to home we really are . |
| 4 | When they heard the car they went carefully downstairs , and her mother settled her in while her father held the door and Alan put her bag in the boot . |
| 5 | He woke up only when his mother slammed the front door as she went out to church . |
| 6 | So as my red skims the pocket , he tries very hard to say ‘ Bad luck ’ . |
| 7 | He leaned closer to the window , but saw even less as his breath fogged the glass . |
| 8 | Social work came naturally to an intelligent unmarried Edwardian middle-class young woman , especially when her mother visited the local workhouse once a week for half a century and when her elder sister Olive was the warden of the Lady Margaret Hall settlement in Lambeth . |
| 9 | Shortly after his father died the new Earl said how regrettable it was that he had died alone . |
| 10 | So , er Nicola was born and er the court either came up just before your dad had the after Nicola was born , when she was a month old . |
| 11 | In Belfast , sure , you can go up to someone 's door mid-evening , knock politely , and then blast the hell out of them as soon as their shadow darkens the frosted glass . |
| 12 | Whether sleeping under the starry African sky with wild animals roaming in the bush was part of the fun or genuine cause for concern it did not seem to disturb Eva who was always fast asleep as soon as her head touched the pillow . |
| 13 | Betty was asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow . |
| 14 | As soon as my mother saw the train on its way , we took the renowned Edinburgh cable car to a photographer at Piershill to have my very first picture taken , which was a shouted instruction as my father disappeared into the darkness of a Princes Street tunnel and the acrid smoke of what I was told to be a " Puffing Billy " . |
| 15 | He could remember a time when he had fallen asleep as soon as his head touched the pillow , and when he had always had a healthy appetite . |
| 16 | The goods were then taken back to Mansha 's home where his girlfriend heard the men and saw Randhawa throwing the stolen jewellery around the kitchen . |
| 17 | ‘ These have been Jeremy 's best sessions so far , and hopefully if his luck changes the team will not be surprised if he should get into the points . |
| 18 | David Buckley , 29 , was giving a friend a lift home when his car clipped the kerb , somersaulted 15ft into the air and smashed through the top of a lamp-post . |
| 19 | — More than 200,000 ecstatic Leeds United fans took part in a carnival-style street party yesterday as their team paraded the League Championship trophy . |
| 20 | Yeah it was like when my mother-in-law had the |
| 21 | ‘ I canna see it in this light ya fule , ’ the top-hat swayed angrily as its owner knocked the hand away . |
| 22 | , And even if their defence lacks the stability of United 's , Walker 's ’ realistic ’ aim of earning a place in Europe , is not beyond them . |
| 23 | And even as its sound struck the cage about him , there was a crash and a judder and the sky was falling in upon him from the darkening night . |
| 24 | In its complaint , the CFDT says ‘ the group refuses to present a social plan even though its plan means the loss of 50 jobs . ’ |
| 25 | If not erm then if your spouse died the day after you for instance , you had a road accident or something like that and you 've left it all to her , she 'll take it all and then it 'll add it would be added to her estate it as well and make the inheritance tax bill bigger . |
| 26 | It is particularly ironic that a ruler in the age of Machiavelli should have caused such obsession with personal morality , or immorality — not least because her reign produced the first politician in the British Isles , her secretary William Maitland of Lethington , who was described as ‘ machiavellian ’ . |
| 27 | Maggie moaned ecstatically as his thumb teased the tight , dark nipple that pressed sharply against the thin skin and her arms slid around his neck , her fingers lacing in his black hair as she kissed him back wildly . |
| 28 | Yet if his presence has the effect of spurring Hughes and the rest to play , then his arrival will be £1.2 million well spent . |
| 29 | Yet as its name suggests the system 's most distinctive feature is the transferability of votes , and since they are in fact transferred in large quantities it seems paradoxical to ignore them . |
| 30 | His hand was on her breast , moulding her flesh through her thin sweater , making her gasp and shudder softly as his palm grazed the taut nipple , tightening unbearably the ache within her . |