Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [conj] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must take heart from our experience in Hyde Park , we must nurture that support and build up the confidence of our members . |
| 2 | There are five positional patterns that can be played laterally up and down the fretboard and which relate to any major scale ( and its relative minor scale ) : you 'll start on the lowest diatonic note in each key and move up the fretboard to the highest comfortable form ( more on this later ) . |
| 3 | he said that will all look bad on him he said if he sold it and er do n't I , he , he said he 's got two choices , he either sells that car and pays off the loan in both your names or he , he sells that car and gives you half |
| 4 | Look at figure 1 at the end of this chapter and cover up the last column . |
| 5 | here so if you get a a heavy cold , some of this gunge that runs down the back of your throat gets into this tube and |
| 6 | We need to concentrate on the FA cup , getting a deceent run will give the players some confidence and bring in the money as well as keeping us fans happy ( well relatively speaking ) . |
| 7 | We need to concentrate on the FA cup , getting a deceent run will give the players some confidence and bring in the money as well as keeping us fans happy ( well relatively speaking ) . |
| 8 | Parallel to this education and close round the school , the life of the community goes on — the child plays and is expected to play a very full part in it ; fetching water and firewood , minding little brothers and sisters , running errands , buying and often selling in the market , performing religious duties at Koranic schools , catechist classes or in traditional preparation for circumcision and other initiation ceremonies , alongside all the watching , the imitation , the play , the chit-chat and the ‘ mucking about ’ which is part of growing up everywhere . |
| 9 | His wife seemed to recognise some signal and took up the conversational baton for the next lap . |
| 10 | This paper that set out the excuse me , the paper set out the details of the I T capital code goes on to ninety-four , five . |
| 11 | Funny way of looking at it I know but it 's sort of to give you an idea of how how the different ways you can actually do this this mechanism and brings out the er variations . |
| 12 | He wished they 'd left him the radio mast , so that he could at least listen to some music and pick up the news . |
| 13 | He let me go up and made me sit on the divan and he put on some music and turned out the lights and the moon came through the window . |
| 14 | I went round another corner and took out the map to find out where I was , but it did n't help . |
| 15 | I must tell the Leader of the House that , if the election is to be on 9 April — everyone is planning for it , buying space to advertise and organising ; one hears it from sources in the advertising business who know what the Opposition and the Government are doing — then , for the good of the House , for heaven 's sake announce the date and let us do business in a sensible fashion during the next six weeks , instead of proceeding in this way and covering up the reality . |
| 16 | However , it soon became clear that Laura could not secretly organize such a major undertaking while based abroad , and , in desperation , brought in Deborah , She , realizing the potential of the project , begged another year and set up the operation openly in the company 's London workroom at Clapham . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , we often lose sight of this goal and set up the organizational layers in our managerial hierarchies to accommodate pay brackets and facilitate career development instead . |
| 18 | Supposing that I could stand on the hills surrounding this Castle and send out the Samhailt , the ancient and precious gift bestowed on the Noble Houses of Ireland ? |
| 19 | A senior corporation planner in the Northeast , who spends most of his time not so much planning as picking up the pieces of careless politics , recalled the principle of high-rise : |
| 20 | The first person from each team that calls out the answer gets a point for his or her team . |
| 21 | What is the best method of transferring the money to that author and cutting out the profiteers in this country ? |
| 22 | The teachers were shouting at each other and scrambling up the shelves but getting nowhere . |
| 23 | For westerners this may seem odd : in karate , you will see people in starched white uniforms fighting each other and letting out the odd blood-curdling scream . |
| 24 | He opted for the latter route and took up the gauntlet he saw set before him by steeling himself for a career as a boxer , a career in which he distinguished himself as a man of immense resolve and purposefulness . |
| 25 | There 's a power cut ; the lights go out and we light candles and gas lamps and end up — a hard core of seven of us ; Andy , me , Howie , another two local lads and a couple of the traveller boys — down in the snooker room where there 's a beat-up looking table and a leak in the ceiling that turns the whole of the stained , green-baize surface into a millimetre-shallow marsh , water dripping from each pocket and dribbling down the bulky legs to the sopping carpet , and we play snooker by the light of the hissing gas lamps , having to hit the white ball really hard even for delicate shots because of the extra rolling resistance the water causes , and the balls make a zizzing , ripping noise as they race across the table and sometimes you can see spray curving up behind them and I 'm feeling really drunk and a bit stoned from a couple of strong Js smoked out in the garden earlier with the travellers but I think this dimly lit water-hazard snooker is just hilarious and I 'm laughing maniacally at it all and I put an arm round Andy 's neck at one point and say , You know I love you , old buddy , and is n't friendship and love what 's it 's really all about ? and why ca n't people just see that and just be nice to each other ? except there are just so many complete bastards in the world , but Andy just shakes his head and I try to kiss him and he gently fends me off and steadies me against one wall and props me up with a snooker cue against my chest and I think this is really funny for some reason and laugh so much I fall over and have distinct problems getting up again and get carried to my room by Andy and one of the travellers and dumped on the bed and fall instantly asleep . |
| 26 | Glowing out at night — by bike with luminous tyres which allow more safety when speeding down the roads at night . |
| 27 | At the same time I felt so inordinately tired that all I wanted was to lean my face against that corduroy and shut out the world . |
| 28 | I had to think of her seeing the copy of my cock on Monday , I had to think of her first thinking , ‘ Golly , what a nut ’ , and then finding she had to stare uncontrollably at the specific image of my cock , boyoing , had to file that image away in a secret file folder where she filed away all my asterisk memos , and that some night working late , she 'd reach her long arms down to that drawer and bring out the asterisk file and go through the pages , asterisk after asterisk , until she found my cock . |
| 29 | As well as being , then , a means of administration and management of social relations , the state , and its symbols of home , land , family , nationhood and communal experience , are also seen as offering a sense of identity and security : especially to people who have little understanding and control over the processes affecting their everyday lives . |
| 30 | Arrange pieces of bacon on each plate and pour over the warm dressing . |