Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trevor , thanks very much for joining us on the programme . |
| 2 | Okay Alan , well thanks very much for joining us on the programme this afternoon |
| 3 | Well erm erm had a word with erm who was about oh fourth in line in the erm education hierarchy in those days and erm then spoke to who was the Chief Education Officer and er , I think they were a bit erm , bit apprehensive about employing a blind typist because erm it was something that they had never had any experience of but in the end they thought it was worth a try and er especially after supporting me at the College and erm also perhaps they had in mind that many of the erm employees would be leaving if war broke out and erm , in fact by that time war had probably started |
| 4 | My mother will take care of you while I get the house together , ’ he said , embracing her gently before taking us into the house . |
| 5 | The new matrix is symmetric , since both its i , jth and j , ith elements are unity ; moreover , its determinant is -1 , since in moving the jth row to the ith position unc we cross j — i rows ; but the original ith row is now the i + 1th and so in taking it to the jth position we cross j — i — 1 rows . |
| 6 | He tried to stop it but succeeded only in propelling it across the line . |
| 7 | Imagine a mercantile agent who obtains possession of the goods ( perhaps by borrowing them from the owner ) and who shows them to X , an innocent prospective purchaser . |
| 8 | The reasoning behind it being that she would not be able to come to terms with the notion of her mother being dead , so by removing her from the place where the tragedy had occurred and allowing enough time to pass , she would better be able to come to terms with her loss . |
| 9 | It is only by bringing them into the light of day that we can assess their cogency . |
| 10 | All in all , it is in no way surprising that Nietzsche should have put them to one side soon after writing them at the turn of the year . |
| 11 | British tourist Stephen Profitt , who paid £200 for Lucky in Malta , was fined £100 yesterday for bringing her into the country without a licence . |
| 12 | Talking to him is always like meeting him for the first time — he never comes out with the same old stuff and you can look forward to an interesting conversation . |
| 13 | Finally they were outside , and Luke took her hand , kissing her quickly before urging her across the road to the car park and into his car . |
| 14 | Farquhar , unhurt apart from a huge lump on his head , bandaged Lachlan 's wounds quickly before joining him at the oars . |
| 15 | The South African Grand Prix at Kyalami was also won by Lauda but Hunt came close to catching him at the end , losing by just over a second . |
| 16 | Words are essential tools for formulating and communicating thoughts , and also for putting them into the storage of memory , but words can also become snares , decoys or straight jackets . |
| 17 | It is always wise to examine a flower very carefully before placing it in the blotting paper as if it contains any tiny insects they will think they are being provided with a picnic lunch and eat their way through the contents of your press ! |
| 18 | A similar effect can be obtained for the walls by taking wads of newspaper and wetting them thoroughly before packing them against the walls in papier mache style . |
| 19 | Had he done wrong in inviting her in the first place ? |
| 20 | There was ‘ Pooper Scooper ’ Watkins , a young woman who insisted not only on picking up her dog 's faeces with a see-through plastic glove , but also on waving it in the faces of passers-by in order to emphasize her ecological soundness . |
| 21 | Occam gives extra scope for this because it is a parallel language : one can improve a program not only by reducing the overall amount of calculation , but also by configuring it for the ( possibly parallel ) machine on which it is to be run . |
| 22 | He had picked up one of the pups and examined it roughly before replacing it in the cardboard box with the others . |
| 23 | In moral matters he confined himself solely to warning me of the dangers of masturbation . |
| 24 | A turntable helps food to cook evenly by raising it off the oven floor so the microwaves can reach underneath , and by turning the food as it cooks . |
| 25 | IPSWICH TOWN general-manager John Lyall will thank Terry Venables tomorrow for saving him from the wilderness . |
| 26 | Still 's wretched luck initially followed him into management when he was replaced as Maidstone boss immediately after taking them into the Football League in 1989 . |
| 27 | I think the game I think the game has done well in tackling that problem but I do n't think we as a society have done very well in tackling it in the country at large . |
| 28 | He also played a part in developing in England , even before the full force of the new historical criticism of the Bible had been felt there , an understanding of the authority of the Bible which did not rest simply on regarding it as the inspired and inerrant compendium from which the truths about God could be read off in literal and rationalist fashion . |
| 29 | There is no way the farmer can deal with the output of hundreds of animals simply by spreading it on the fields . |
| 30 | In this way , word senses can be disambiguated simply by comparing them with the definitions of neighbouring words . |