Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The blocks were placed in a long tray which was just wide enough to accommodate them and the tray was then subjected to a series of sharp shocks , very similar to the succussion process . |
| 2 | Its honours for impresarios and maverick businessmen — what The Times called examples of ‘ unrepentant Darwinism , of the business survival of the fittest and of nature red in tooth and claw ’ — so appalled them and the Palace that it took several weeks for approval to be obtained . |
| 3 | ‘ The drop 's not enough to kill you and the water 's pig-filthy . ’ |
| 4 | and so divided it that the remainder went to the husband to take up the one thousand one hundred and sixty five . |
| 5 | This is nearly as demanding as the main route so I 'd only do it if the tops are covered in mist or you are absolutely worn out . |
| 6 | The size of the place alone amazed her and the bustle confused her . |
| 7 | She merely told him that the book bore a crest , an embossed crest of a hawk . |
| 8 | how much support you and the child may need |
| 9 | The right hon. Member for Blaby will be remembered as the Chancellor who dismissed rising inflation as a temporary blip and who , having put up interest rates to 15 per cent. , none the less assured us that the economy would have , to use his phrase , a soft landing . |
| 10 | The high occurrence of so-called ‘ baby blues ’ and feelings of isolation alone shows us that the birth of a child is a very stressful event — a dramatic physical , psychological and social transition . |
| 11 | If your horse is dehydrated , give the electrolytes for a couple of days and then only give them when the horse has worked hard or competed or you feel has sweated excessively . |
| 12 | He so calls it because the properties with which people committing this fallacy typically identify good are natural properties . |
| 13 | I only hit him when the situation looked like getting out of hand . ’ |
| 14 | You can spot the modern first edition collector : it is he who sifts assiduously through a pile of the new Martin Amis searching for the copy whose corner is not bumped , only to reject it because the alignment of the dust-wrapper ( not jacket ) on the spine is very slightly askew — but he does n't want that copy either because of the biro indentation on the lamination , and the nineteenth copy would have been OK had the rear cover not been soiled . |
| 15 | The stewards inquired into his running but Richard Dunwoody could only tell them that the favourite was ‘ never going . |
| 16 | There Engels more or less tells us that the scheme presented is not likely to be changed by new discoveries . |
| 17 | We only brought you and the boy as swiftly as we could to Andernesse . ’ |
| 18 | Er , I should like to the names next month and I hope you 'll all support us because the numbers are going down and if we do n't get sufficient numbers , it 'll have to cancelled like the Torbay one . |
| 19 | Angered when he heard that Louis and the Young King had deserted him , the news none the less convinced him that the cause was lost . |
| 20 | ‘ So do I , so do I. And the work has already been done . |
| 21 | ‘ I know , so did I. But the difference is , they believed you . ’ |
| 22 | Therefore , if a reviewer starts going on about something other than the game s/he is obviously telling you that the game has not really got anything different in terms of game play to offer . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm hoping to see something of Czechoslovakia while I 'm here , ’ she replied , but as it suddenly struck her that the silence emanating from Ven Gajdusek was decidedly chilly — and since the last thing she needed was to be bad friends with him if he objected to Lubor Ondrus flirting with her on his time , ‘ But now I must return to my hotel , ’ she added . |
| 24 | He had been disappointed to find Dr Ockleton absent from his rooms in the morning , but a pretty girl in jogging kit , who had come loping down the stairs whilst he was knocking at Ockleton 's door , had run on the spot long enough to tell him that the doctor lectured on Tuesday mornings and that Harry would probably have better luck after lunch . |
| 25 | The board should minute the projections thereby approving them before the Information memorandum is distributed . |
| 26 | It has just told me that the trial has proved successful and that it will shortly make the address service available nationwide . |
| 27 | ‘ You 've just told me that the girls phone their mother every night . |
| 28 | I have already told you that the tide was out . |
| 29 | The case has already told you that the records are incomplete . |
| 30 | and it 'll flow out , okay , now we know that 's the difference in colour and I 've already told you that the arteries have got muscles in their walls , what 's the difference in between the wall of the muscle , muscular wall , let's put my teeth back in , the muscular wall of the artery and the wall of the vein ? |