Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [verb] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was my own fault , I suppose , for not telling you the whole truth , but I did it for your sake , because I loved you so much ! ’ |
| 2 | I shall always be grateful to him for not giving me the usual reply of an adult to a curious child 's questions , ‘ You 're too young to understand . ‘ |
| 3 | Of more use us the rounded front handle , which twists on to the neck of the body , just aft of the chuck , and serves to hold the depth stop . |
| 4 | The canny scribe had just persuaded the RAF to effectively give him the ultimate freebie , one which will remain the envy of flying hacks everywhere for many decades to come . |
| 5 | And he should n't have admitted to not knowing what the Emerald Isle was . |
| 6 | It enables you to perfectly predict what the other score would be . |
| 7 | Well I think the thing to do is to actually give you the higher dose patches . |
| 8 | It used to be thought that , when Offa was styled on occasion in the charters of the period rex Anglorum , this signified that he aspired to lordship over all the Anglo-Saxons or at least to make himself the only king south of the Humber . |