Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although a picture of NCC confusion emerged from this study it still held out the hope , if only by implication , that more rigorous thinking would achieve better results . |
| 2 | And just when they seem engaged in revolutionizing themselves and things , in creating something that has never yet existed , precisely in such periods of revolutionary crisis they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service and borrow from them names and little cries in order to present the new scene of world history in this time-honoured disguise and this borrowed language . ’ |
| 3 | Besides , though sociologists may not legitimately seek to heighten or improve the speech they collect , for purposes of quotation they certainly seek out the most concentrated , the most dramatic instances they can find . |
| 4 | She says to me I 've explained to her how to do it and she says yo I 'll give you a bit of paper you just write down the answers ! |
| 5 | One morning he also opened up the building , went upstairs and came down and there was these fresh footprints on a part of the building which he had n't been at that time and he , like myself , looked all over the building and not a soul in sight . |
| 6 | When I wash the garment I just shake out the water and hang it over a clothes horse or the back of a chair . |
| 7 | When staff at the hospital realised their mistake they quickly brought out the right baby . |
| 8 | No matter they had , or aspired to , Bentleys and Rolls and MGs and Rovers — no matter they somehow winkled out the wherewithal to obtain the vehicles — Burton 's saying it was somehow too vulgar . |
| 9 | During a protracted confrontation with a drunken heckler he deservedly came out the winner both on points and then with a clear knockout ; the humiliated toper slinking out by a side door . |
| 10 | ‘ This is the time I normally ride round the hacienda . |
| 11 | Every time some new one comes out on the market he always calls up the maker and tells them about the small pools win he 's just had . ’ |