Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [pron] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No no careful bring it away from the baby . |
| 2 | If the query is of a complicated or technical nature it is quite acceptable to pass it on to the expert , but is this really necessary for a bar of soap or a DIY fitting ? |
| 3 | Then I remembered someone who could : the person could not stand cash , but was maybe prepared to put something up of the value of £500 . |
| 4 | It 's too high get it back on the chair ! |
| 5 | Maurin interjected that he had done it for the best , that he suspected she would spread silly gossip and it was sensible to keep her away from the English journalist . |
| 6 | Her mind was free to appreciate it properly for the first time . |
| 7 | But she terrified him , because he wanted her and he liked having that grave face near him , and she was willing to have him even with the ghosts crowding at his shoulder . |
| 8 | This might suggest that France won the War of the Spanish Succession but nobody in Britain and not many people in France saw the result this way ; it was regarded more as a struggle in which the British asserted themselves militarily on the continent of Europe and began to show signs of a policy of taking over the smaller colonies of other European powers by conquest . |
| 9 | But er with the the the er the original the the first one , you had to heat it up with a blowlamp and you had to be very very careful to get it just to the right heat , before if you tried to start it too cold , it would kick back and if was too hot again , it just would n't start . |
| 10 | From there , if and when it became possible , he would be taken to the castle at Soragna where the Principessa Meli Lupi was prepared to take him on in the guise of a gardener — a refugee who had been rendered deaf and dumb in the bombing of Milan . |
| 11 | ‘ None of them was prepared to take you on in the middle of the semester . |
| 12 | Now Amsterdam seem to be willing to take him on despite the scandal , and are presenting him as an exciting and controversial figure , while many of his former colleagues in The Hague admire him , as do the public ; he is seen as decisive , inspiring and provocative . |
| 13 | He found another vessel whose captain ( a Scot ) was prepared to sign him on for the voyage to New York . |
| 14 | AT LEAST Barnet players could always turn to Barry Fry , but now he 's gone , they are prepared to follow him out of the club in a mass exodus . |
| 15 | He hoped the Frenchmen would be content to drive him away from the high road rather than pursue and capture him , but as he quickened the mare 's pace , so the Frenchman spurred their own horses . |
| 16 | Today he would have liked to remain at Hillmarden for another night , but he had promised Celia he would call in at the clinic on his way back to London , knowing he had a very busy week coming which might make it impossible to see her again until the following weekend . |
| 17 | The new mothers were ravenous and it was easy to coax them back into the house . |
| 18 | It 's almost impossible to put him down in the tackle , and there are few players about who you an say that . |
| 19 | He was content to give himself up to the occasion , similar to others he had described in his own books but none of which had ever seemed to possess the colour , the noise , the smell , the sheer vibrancy that was before him now . |
| 20 | It 's a powerful , emotional song and looks set to put them firmly on the chart map indeed , it entered The Northern ‘ s North-East chart at No 1 this week . |
| 21 | ‘ D' you know , Jessica , it 's impossible to do it badly on the coast of Ireland . |
| 22 | It can be dangerous to over-exert yourself greatly at the beginning of your fitness programme . |
| 23 | Dominic Wetherby 's right hand was clutching a packet of cheese so tightly that it was impossible to prise it out of the dead grip . |
| 24 | She became so tame it was impossible to release her back into the wild . |
| 25 | The columnist Peter Simple tells us most about the British , each Sunday in this newspaper . |
| 26 | It was impossible to distance herself physically in the small room — doing so mentally was the next best thing . |
| 27 | As I have to come back to the airport to pick up a member of tonight 's convention it will be easy to drop you off at the same time . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I push you up the hill and then you 're not content to take it steady on the track , oh no . |
| 29 | But he is flying in the face of opposition from the ruling Labour group who recently boycotted a visit by a South African diplomat saying it was too early to bring them in from the cold . |
| 30 | A sound engineer was supposed to fade them out at the start of the first edition in July '67 , but failed . |