Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | probation officer with the state in Texas and they decide they want a trial at monitoring and they ask if I would be interested and so we begin the programme , the first in-house operative programme in Texas , and we set up our programme from scratch and started just kind of working on trial and error trying to make the thing worked . |
| 2 | It was just similar and then they had the little hall then and the farmers women all did it , the big farmers but the women did it . |
| 3 | He has been most supportive and indeed we have the Canon to thank that our Centenary Celebrations have taken the form they have , and I think you will agree it has been a very fitting culmination to our 100 years history . |
| 4 | However if you say erm oh well you know erm boys will be boys that 's natural , tha that sounds as if you 're kind of making excuses for them and condoning them , so I think you 've got to be very careful about how you use the word natural and clearly it raises the whole question of how far you can , you can push erm cultural ideals against natural constraints an and what really is the issue . |
| 5 | He 's got a musical test which says do n't they 're tired they 're tired and then he said the pig says I 'm not and then the people said Oh dear and then he said I 'm hungry and then they said they 're hungry and he says I 'm not and he 's sleepy . |
| 6 | ‘ But I 've made it with United and now I want the chance to show what I can do at the highest level of all . ’ |
| 7 | I mean — it 's almost a 60% increase in the market over the last 10 years and that market is growing and here we have the one and only major car company owned by the British being threatened with closure when all the Japanese and the Germans and the French and the Americans are trying to expand to meet this growing market and it does n't make sense and that point came out very very strongly this afternoon . |
| 8 | She nearly gave in to the temptation to open it straight away , but the kettle was almost boiling and so she pushed the cards and letters to one side while she spooned coffee and sugar into a mug . |
| 9 | Last month he won the Madeira Island Open and now he heads the field after two fine rounds over the tricky Golf Del Sur course . |
| 10 | Except where the bureaucracy rules through the military and so itself constitutes the executive branch of government , the executive and bureaucracy should not be confused . |