Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zborowski supplied the charcoal , paints , canvas , and brushes ; he also hired the models ( Modigliani insisted that they must be paid three to five francs an hour ) and any accessories , although the painter rarely asked for anything but the human figure for his work . |
| 2 | He was one of 4 youths who attacked jogger , Paul Lanighan because he accidently bumped into them in the street . |
| 3 | Passionate with indignation at the poverty and injustices which he daily met around him in the industrial north of Bradford , he sought , and was able to gain from , J.P.M. 's National Council of Labour Colleges , that knowledge which served him so well throughout his short working life , as a weapon with which to fight and change the capitalist system which tolerated and perpetuated such inhumane living conditions . |
| 4 | Church and state , religion , law , prejudice , custom , tradition , greed , lust , hatred , injustice , selfishness , ignorance , and arrogance have all conspired against her under the sexual rule of the human male . |
| 5 | I 've only heard of it at the fashion college . |
| 6 | There is a general expectation that people will not remember detailed facts correctly if they are only exposed to them in the spoken mode , especially if they are required to remember them over an extended period of time . |
| 7 | The Butcher remained a vivid memory because , apart from my ordeal , I was constantly remanded of him by the dangerous wobbling of my pipe at the edge of that needless gap in my mouth . |
| 8 | ‘ You do enough mumbling to yourself at the back of the shop when the child 's around , but when it comes to something constructive … ’ |
| 9 | That conflict of views has its fierce advocates on both sides , and I am neither well informed nor dispassionate enough to comment on it From the presumed perspective of John Howard , the Ellis-Beto administrations overall emerge with credit , because they did insist on the publication of official rules , and that was a big breakthrough . |
| 10 | Anwar had reclaimed Changez and was patiently explaining to him about the shop , the wholesaler and the financial position . |
| 11 | I can remember only walking beside her in the dusk towards Regent 's Park , because we both wanted darkness and to be alone . |
| 12 | De Man 's dynamic of absence and intrusion controls our response to his texts — Rousseau , Nietzsche , Rilke and Proust — and therefore to an ongoing critique on reference , because texts , like characters , apparently speak for themselves in the modes of citation and paraphrase . |
| 13 | Had he not , through the magnetic influence he was able to exert even over those of his own race , personally seen to it at the Peace Conference that these Arabs were not sent unrewarded away ? |
| 14 | Yes , I suppose he is but I mean those two those pictures we bought were hundred and twenty and I mean they 're they 're only done by somebody in the village . |
| 15 | It took many months more for me to feel safe enough to talk to him about The Fat Controller , but there came a time , when the memory of our last vertiginous encounter had dimmed , that I became prepared to risk it . |
| 16 | Mr Calvert was n't fit enough to talk to us about the bookings . |
| 17 | It is notable too that this liberal interpretation is proposed by the jurist , and merely adopted from him by the emperor . |
| 18 | To talk about God to starving men is simply a waste of time for to them God is bread ; he can only appear to them as the bread of life . |
| 19 | It deals with pains like appendicitis , coley cystitis , which is inflammation of the gall bladder — about nine different diseases — and it merely says to you at the end of the operation based on the last five or six hundred patients I 've seen , the probability of this patient having appendicitis is ninety per cent , the probability of something else being ten per cent . |
| 20 | it 's still the first one , she 's got a billion things to do , we 'll obviously speak to her in the autumn , erm |
| 21 | Hayling was also in charge of media initiatives , so Lowe naturally turned to him with the newspaper they had so often discussed as comrades in Big Flame . |
| 22 | She had owned good horses such as Manicou ( who had won the King George VI Chase in 1950 ) and Monaveen ( who had finished fifth to Freebooter in that year 's Grand National as his royal owner 's first runner in the race ) , but in Devon Loch she had a chaser who apparently had all the attributes to win her the greatest steeplechase in the calendar : he was a big horse , strongly built and bold yet intelligent enough to look after himself in the hurly-burly of four and half miles and thirty fences . |
| 23 | ‘ Not the usual kind of student 's flat , ’ muttered the Marshal , surprised to find his feet walking on fitted carpet , a thing that only happened to him in the lobbies of hotels he was checking on . |
| 24 | I think you 'd better work with me for the next few days , or if I 'm not here , then with one of my staff nurses . |
| 25 | On the flickering screen just to the right , light suddenly reflected from something in the black hole of the cell-like room . |
| 26 | His Prince Hal is never a roaring boy : he sits hunched or sprawled , with dark unwinking eyes : he hopes to be amused by his bully companions , but the eyes constantly muse beyond them into the time when he must steady himself for the crown . |
| 27 | The booming surf far below called to her like the beat of a jungle drum . |
| 28 | I do not have the room to articulate this opposition here , but only to point to it via the already observed generalising tendency in de Man 's thought . |
| 29 | In fact , I only know of one in the whole of the UK . ’ |
| 30 | Shakespeare 's technique , to let us into a secret that the hero will only discover for himself at the end , is a common one in playwriting and storytelling . |