Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Sept. 6 President Fernando Collor de Mello ordered Justice Minister Bernardo Cabral to investigate charges by the human rights organization Amnesty International that death squads , some of them secretly operated by the police , were murdering street children . |
| 2 | We kept very still inside and in the end we could hear them slowly going down the stairs and going away . |
| 3 | However , the contract will doubtless contain other terms , some of them expressly agreed between the parties ( e.g. the date of delivery ) and some of them implied ( often by other sections of the Sale of Goods Act — e.g. as to the place of delivery , section 29(2) ) . |
| 4 | When tenants take on a lease they may make extensive alterations to the premises in order to make them better suited to the type of catering enterprise they intend to undertake . |
| 5 | • After several days on this schedule they will be going to bed and getting up at their chosen time , one that gives them enough sleep during the weekdays . |
| 6 | I became at once possessive about it … there was already talk about the war ending and Sadler 's Wells reopening and it seemed to me entirely fitting for the Sadler 's Wells Company to reopen the theatre at Rosebery Avenue after the war with a new opera by a leading young English composer . |
| 7 | Er , and I got up and I protested about it , on the grounds that if they could n't run a great big pop hall for , and I wholly agreed with the idea , of of them providing the facility . |
| 8 | It is well known that I disliked what was in the first three-year letter of intent , but I wholly approved of the principle . |
| 9 | I rarely drink in the week , and I 've never acquired a taste for wine . |
| 10 | So next day I duly went to the synagogue , rather self-conscious in my trilby hat , surprised to find women sitting in the gallery only , much impressed with the singing of the cantor and the blowing of the ram 's horn , and a little taken aback by the quick exit at the end of the fast , presumably to get back home for the first square meal of the day . |
| 11 | Although I duly applied for the Fellowship , I was unsuccessful , no doubt to my lasting benefit , as similar failures have served to prove . |
| 12 | I knew that I wanted a free and independent life although I secretly subscribed to the idea of marrying a professional , sighted man . |
| 13 | I mostly stood on the sidelines , watching the heavy-weights raging at each other . |
| 14 | They drive me to distraction : at first I refuse to fight back , on the grounds that life is sacred and it is not their fault that they are mosquitos , but I eventually join in the swatting that punctuates the quiet every so often . |
| 15 | I eventually got off the motorway and decided to drive straight to the hospital to see Toby , and paused only to buy him some fruit and a bottle of his favourite Bollinger . |
| 16 | When I eventually got off the bus back in Maseru I nearly collapsed , such was my weakness . |
| 17 | When I eventually arrived at the hospital I was feeling in the best of spirits and apparently shook the sisters by asking them to bring on the dancing girls . ’ |
| 18 | For a little while I was afraid I was going to land in the middle of a town , but I mercifully drifted to the edge of this . |
| 19 | Having a friend who lives on the Blackwater in an old Thames sailing barge , complete with sails and engine , I rather object to the notion that barges must be passively powerless . |
| 20 | I have been here over a week now , and I miss you very much , and I miss the fresh air and the fresh faces of all those people I so hated on the Tube and the fresh things that happened every hour of every day if only I could have seen them — their freshness , I mean . |
| 21 | But I was n't struck by any thunderbolts or lightning flashes , and when talking about the dance afterwards in the Met Office I merely remarked to the officer on duty that I 'd met a very nice corporal and he 'd asked me to go to the Station cinema with him on Saturday . |
| 22 | and I basically go round the bottles filling up |
| 23 | Yeah , well I manually combine at the moment the range names . |
| 24 | ‘ I better start at the beginning for lack of anywhere else , ’ Marek continued . |
| 25 | Oh , I better move out the way , I might get squashed . |
| 26 | ‘ I better look at the ones you found , then . ’ |
| 27 | On this occasion I personally moved from The Bun Shop to a pub I believe was called The Volunteer run by a well-known and aged bare-knuckle fighter from London 's East End called Joe Mullins . |
| 28 | The tent seemed eerily dark , so I gingerly drawled towards the door and unzipped it slightly . |
| 29 | Then , while going through a divorce , I literally forgot about the fish ; the filter broke down and his tank became polluted as well as becoming overgrown with algae . |
| 30 | This was perhaps the most directly inflationary aspect of Pitt 's financial management , and the bridging of the gap between income and expenditure was not helped by his stubbornly sticking to the idea of the Sinking Fund . |