Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Bending the runners is simple enough using a development of a technique , which I first came across in the book ‘ Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America ’ ( Adney & Chapelle , unfortunately long out of print ) , used by American Indians to form the stem pieces on birch bark canoes . |
2 | Would you all go home on the same day ? |
3 | You can imagine these lads ca n't you all giggling together at the back |
4 | I do not know whether the other two also had prior knowledge , but no one gave any indication to this effect as we all filed silently to the Cabinet Room . |
5 | We all looked anxiously towards the platform . |
6 | Before the match we all looked quizzically at the pitch . |
7 | As we all dance forward towards the next episode , I realise that for one brief hour we have escaped from the drab monotony of the Oxford English Culture . |
8 | There were only four women at the time but we all believed firmly in the need to organize women . |
9 | Silence for a moment , while we all gazed meditatively at the floor . |
10 | But we all slept badly in the thinner air , suffering headaches and breathlessness . |
11 | We all went often to the cinema ; it was the great escape , and we drew comfort from , and identified with , films which ennobled or sentimentalised our situation — films such as One of our Aircraft is Missing , The Way to the Stars , and Mrs Miniver . |
12 | so , erm , they rang and they rang , and they rang for a good twenty to twenty five minutes and we just erm , we , we all huddled together in the living room , and erm , anyway about half an hour went past , and then they finally went , we saw them , we live in a flat , and we saw them from the window , we saw them going back to the station you see . |
13 | We all complained bitterly about the uneatable breakfast . |
14 | And so we all look forward to the day the renovation will be finished . |
15 | A balding Brummie called Martin throws his arms around Sue , and Samantha suggests that we all head upstairs to the room that locks from the inside . |
16 | By this time the light was dreadful , and it was quite a surprise when the Kent innings started , but only eight deliveries were bowled before the umpires decided that the conditions were not good enough , and we all trooped home through the fine drizzle and semi-darkness . |
17 | We all worked hard at the lesson , no time wasted . |
18 | For instance , we raised enough money for the materials to build a decent house for a single mother who was living in a hut made of cardboard and we all worked together on the construction . |
19 | We all clustered silently by the door until a chilling moan from Mandeville and a despairing shout of ‘ Oh , no ! ’ sent us hurrying into the church . |
20 | The runner soon returns and we all shuffle soggily into the hut . |
21 | when we first started there on the course itself , typists first time we got into the erm it was the twenty sixth of erm of December . |
22 | It must have been three or four seconds in before we both came simultaneously to the thought : this is not stopping . |
23 | This made him easier to take home for the night ; people who would normally never have approached such a beauty felt that they could . |
24 | On Tuesday they all got together in the Trades and Labour Hall and they were very excited at that stage . |
25 | However , they all sit together in the same circular chamber which has various doors marked ‘ Clergy Ayes ’ or ‘ Laity Noes ’ through which the members of the Synod troop to vote in the way MPs trudge through their voting lobbies . |
26 | ‘ Have Mercy , oh Lord , on the soul of thy dearly departed servant Samuel , ’ they all incanted dutifully in the crowded church . |
27 | But do they all live here in the one street ? ’ |
28 | Yet they all move together in the right way at the right time to carry out part of a complicated manoeuvre . |
29 | I E th there , there is no guarantee within the May the fourth directive that , that the poor do significantly a as a group all do well because th th they , they , they , there 's nothing to guarantee that they all share properly in the fruits of struggle . |
30 | In this solemn moment they both gazed abstractedly at the sweet trolley . |