Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [pers pn] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm just interested to know what goes on beneath that hostile little shell you present to the world , Virginia . |
| 2 | He rang her hotel , and after a long wait she came to the phone . |
| 3 | He rang her hotel , and after a long wait she came to the phone . |
| 4 | Use a sunscreen with a SPF greater than 10 from 6 months onwards , and then only let them stay in the sun for short periods . |
| 5 | Oh right , so let me know at the end of the week . |
| 6 | So let us drink to the long cool blonde |
| 7 | So let us turn to the main part of Culver 's book , and see whether his hopes are substantiated . |
| 8 | So let us turn from the obstacles to applying in practice the theoretical truism in the first proposition of the Plowden Committee — that ‘ there may now well be excessive social services for some purposes ’ — and consider the second proposition — that there may now well be ‘ inadequate ones for others ’ . |
| 9 | There is obviously a major point of policy involved in this matter , so let us look at the organisation and training of these people who play such an important part in the safety of the travelling public . |
| 10 | If we take the trouble to make a permanent magnet we would like to have access to the magnetic flux so let us look at the more practical case ( Fig. 3.11(b) ) when a narrow gap is cut into the magnet . |
| 11 | So let us look at the present day , and to take this wording , do you consider that it is now appropriate that Skelton should expand any further ? |
| 12 | Extreme weather is the greatest enemy of lips , so keep them protected from the elements with lip salves and creams . |
| 13 | ‘ Though of course there was also that long leave he had towards the end of the war . ’ |
| 14 | much do I get from the bank ? |
| 15 | so light they stir with the gentlest breath — a breakfast of papery skulls . |
| 16 | Just as Adam stands between the forces of good and evil , so do we stand between the heroic action and qualities of Christ and the fallen Angel of Light , and just as man did in the beginning , we too , as humans , fall prey to the tempter at each individual reading of the epic . |
| 17 | Not on , not only do they wee on the carpet but they also have a tendency to try and avoid , cover it up |
| 18 | How long do you sit in the sun on the first day of your holiday ? |
| 19 | Erm how long have you lived in the flats ? |
| 20 | Tennis rackets give you a lot of power but the most power you get from the body . |
| 21 | I swing round slowly , slowly , and slowly level it to aim at the spider , slowly push it forward against the pull of the concertina pipe behind . |
| 22 | However , the controversy obscured the clear military fact that Operation ‘ Apache Snow ’ was not intended to hold territory , but rather to keep the NVA occupied and thereby prevent it moving into the coastal provinces . |
| 23 | Just make them pay for the |
| 24 | If they get in if they start getting in the way the best thing to do is just let them relax to the side and try and forget about them , I know it 's difficult to forget about them but just to the conscious effort with the hands is just to put them at the side . |
| 25 | If you kick a child all his schooldays , force him to labour sixteen hours a day seven days a week , yank out his teeth with forceps when they ache , bleed him when he is ill , beat him throughout his apprenticeship , starve him when he falls on bad times , and finally let him die in the workhouse when he ages prematurely , then you have educated a man , in the best way possible , to be indifferent . |
| 26 | ‘ Just imagine him standing by the side of you , with his hands crossed before him in a Miss Mollyish style , his intended bow half a courtsey , his fat arms and legs assisting , as in duty bound ; his side glances at you every ten seconds , while he softly , sweetly and insinuatingly informs you — that he has made the arts his peculiar study for the last eight years , and that he flatters himself , by his unremitting study he has greatly contributed to their improvement ; that he came to Ambleside for that purpose ( 't is a great big lie — he came solely to get a living for himself and family , but he is too proud to acknowledge this ) and hopes that the time has been employed with equal advantage to the arts and to himself . ’ |
| 27 | I just hope he stays off the gear and we can get straightened out . |
| 28 | Just stop him falling down the road . |
| 29 | ‘ Just watch him go in the 200 metres . |
| 30 | It was an act of needlessly gratuitous violence and one which ensured for good and all , that Meryl Streep would be declining to take the female lead in the film version of this one , just like she had with the last two . |