Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We want to go that step further and win the Bledisloe Cup after narrowly missing it in the Second Test against the All Blacks last year ’ , he said . |
| 2 | How about just keeping it in the bag ? |
| 3 | This has the advantage from the point of view of the courts of largely relieving them of the necessity to enter into the merits of business judgment , a matter to which we will return below . |
| 4 | These are the products of a technological mastery untempered by a political imagination capable of either managing it in the interest of the planet , or of inventing a machinery capable of arbitrating between differences of interest without condoning the annihilation of one side or the other . |
| 5 | I recently bought a Series IIA ex-military Land Rover with the intention of completely rebuilding it over the next few years ending up with a vehicle that will last for years to come . |
| 6 | Few of his peers scoffed , but even fewer followed his example of actually taking it on the course . |
| 7 | Add to that a predilection to falling off buses because you think you see Him on every corner , in every crowd , at every window , and the inevitability of actually seeing Him in the off-licence when you were n't expecting to , and feeling your entire stomach lurch forward involuntarily like waking from a dream of falling . |
| 8 | The result is quite striking : the richer respondents claim to be more prepared to break the law than the poorer ones , despite their apparent lesser chances of actually breaking it from the conviction statistics . |
| 9 | Would you please go to tag L two , six , six to begin with just to lead you into the chronology , you have told us that in August nineteen eighty seven , er there was really no interest in national budgeting , er national advertising budget , we can see this is a memorandum from you Kevin dated the fourth of August and you 're sending out to the regional marketing executives , there 's no national advertising next year which would be eighty eight . |
| 10 | The odds cited above would have given little comfort to the man in Kurunagala who , during a rash of cattle thefts , had to pay a ransom for the same animal seven times before finally selling it for the paltry sum of two rupees . |
| 11 | if they 're not in just slip it through the door you ca n't keep |
| 12 | Nor will the wholesaler commit any offence in supplying the goods thus labelled to the retailer , nor the retailer in similarly supplying them to the consumer . |
| 13 | The idea took shape some five years ago in the back room of London 's Bull & Gate , and it 's taken until now to get it on the road — for 32 days only . |
| 14 | A pulse of pressure from behind threw them against the factor , he turned and jumped for the door , beat on it , it opened abruptly , and he fell inside . |
| 15 | He and his friends would take us , they said , safely to the edge of the airport and from there point us in the right direction . |
| 16 | Nigel , who in any case really delighted in sows ' ears which had the faintest possibility of turning into even cotton purses , beavered away with them for an hour or more before unceremoniously dumping them in the dustbin and banging down the lid . |
| 17 | However , he refrained on this occasion from explicitly linking them to the situation around Afghanistan . |
| 18 | It left her with a great admiration for the contemplatives , even if God still has to forcibly take her by the scruff of the neck and put tier in a position where she has no option but to be still on occasion . |
| 19 | If I got one what was a bit tricky I used to perhaps tie him to the gate , but they got used to it . |
| 20 | Erm , what they need to be able to do is just be able to gently lead it along the right tunnel |
| 21 | well you 've got to snip it first , have n't you , you 've got to fucking snip it with the long hairs first , the old cut throat . |
| 22 | That , that 's a sensible kind of conclusion to draw and perhaps this would meet Kirsty 's point as well , because the what you might be tempted to say is look erm , in our cultures we have , we have absorbed from our cultures ways of seeing the world , bits about history and things restructure our thoughts and even when we try and do something new , I 'd say let's have a revolution everybody , put up your barricades , you know , actually we had some great fun in the sixties with that erm the , when this happens there 's a tendency to nevertheless do it in the traditional way , in other words although obviously the sixty eight revolution was about a completely different issue than the seventeen ninety eight revolution , it was very much later in history . |
| 23 | Angela just said to just alter it on the P forty five , but |
| 24 | So as the shop , you see , did n't pay the wages , they had to just pay it on the things that were done . |
| 25 | ‘ Sorry to just snatch you off the pavement like that , Chief Inspector , but I felt we ought to meet . ’ |
| 26 | You see , so he has to just plug it into the wall . |
| 27 | He was seventy-eight and it took four ambulance workers and Jack to finally get him in the ambulance . |
| 28 | Rather , it was the manner and forum — a press conference in Paris — in which de Gaulle had announced his verdict , without formally discussing it with the other Community members . |
| 29 | That was going to be in May so we needed it to ship in April so I said , well you 've got to you 've got to still finish it at the same time . |
| 30 | And he had begged my mother not to ever put me in the bank . |