Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're looking at it the wrong way . |
| 2 | We are going about it the proper way and er nevertheless it will be assessed and costed at the end . |
| 3 | Nonetheless , she seemed to be coping with it the best of all of them . |
| 4 | So he ordered to be brought to him the finest silk cloth and brilliant threads , and made for pleasure what he had once needed to make for harsh necessity . |
| 5 | No , well I 'm I 'm saying to you the same sort of things , in general skills and abilities there are certain things that we required to put in the er numeracy the literacy er , to some degree attendance and punctuality , although we do n't have to do it on a subject specific basis erm we , everybody wants to know about he young , ho whether their youngsters are trying i.e. effort ha , whether they behave in lessons . |
| 6 | And erm these things used to used to sort of wind the r the the the spring or the leather thong around th top and start it off to spinning you know and then you 'd keep whipping it like that and you could make these things jump into the air , in fact a friend of mine was telling me , we were talking about it the other day . |
| 7 | The incident leading to the court case had been sparked by a beer bottle being thrown at him the previous night . |
| 8 | His natural talent and readiness to learn , together with irregular but extremely fruitful attendance at the Istituto di Belle Arti , were to make of him the amazing so-called ‘ painter of Old Masters ’ . |
| 9 | Her heart had been lost to him the first moment she had set eyes on him . |
| 10 | A NEW company has been set up to exploit an automatic bicycle transmission system , which is claimed to he the biggest breakthrough in bicycle gears since Derailleur invented his system in the 1920s ( New Scientist , 6 January , p 23 ) . |
| 11 | Science explains what is happening around us the whole time . |
| 12 | 34.1 ; see also 32.49 ) , and with God 's supernatural eyesight is shown by him the whole extent of the Promised Land from Dan in the north to Zoar in the south , and right across to the Mediterranean sea in the west . |
| 13 | But he 's moaning to me the other week about you know , er and I bloody near said to him , well er , things have come back on you know , but I should of |
| 14 | Conservative Republicans like Maura and Alcalá Zamora , and even some individuals on the left , recognized the desirability of a modus vivendi between the Church and the Republic , and of the latter 's attracting to it the Catholic sectors of the urban middle class and peasantry . |
| 15 | Was writing to her the nearest he could be ? |
| 16 | was looking at them the other day and they 're really brilliant . |
| 17 | I was looking at it the other day and I was thinking all the bits that are out now . |
| 18 | Perhaps I was going about it the wrong way . |
| 19 | There was a car waiting , but because of the fog they abandoned the idea of driving down and went to the railway station , caught a train with minutes to spare , picked up the car that was waiting for them the other end , rang the studio from the car phone to let them know where they were , and ran into London Weekend Television . |
| 20 | He was in the middle of more grief than he could deal with , yet he was piling onto it the commonplace misery of subterfuge , as if he had to protect some clandestine happiness that did n't even exist . |
| 21 | As I was saying to you the other day , laddie , because I was aiming to be a fighting man I would n't get married . |
| 22 | You know I did , I was entranced by them the other day . |
| 23 | If I was left to it the first pint would go about |
| 24 | With a broad smile , he explained , ‘ When I was talking to him the other day , and I happened to mention that an old friend of my sister 's was coming to Ireland , and that I was going to show her round Dublin , and that we 'd agreed to meet here , and about how scatty … ’ |
| 25 | I mean she does n't does n't see a lot of her erm you know and but she and she was talking to her the other day because she does n't like to get involved or say a lot but |
| 26 | I was talking about it the other day and you go and it all comes , it hurts and , and it comes out and you ca n't even hold it down either cos it just comes in your mouth dribbles out the side . |
| 27 | Anyhow , he , he bakes bread and he was talking about it the other day and I said oh that 's lovely homemade bread . |
| 28 | I was thinking of them the other night , well they er , five at least erm they were |