Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I packed that old witch off to the village . |
| 2 | ‘ But Louise , ’ she was saying , ‘ I ca n't imagine how that old maid up at the hall could have got to know . |
| 3 | ‘ She thinks more of that old maid up at the Hall than she does of me , her own mother , I can assure you of that . ’ |
| 4 | You know the steep hill at , at erm between Martlesham and Woodbridge , you know as you left Martlesham you went down that steep hill down to the erm the pub at the bottom of the hill where you came out on the looks to me as if the new road misses that altogether |
| 5 | ‘ Well , I 'm in fer a right 'idin' if I ai n't got that bleedin' contraption out o' the 'ouse by the time my Joshua comes 'ome , ‘ specially if 'e 's bin on the turps again . |
| 6 | and I walked on a couple , two or three and picked up this bloody carton out of the road and I was right next to Linda 's car |
| 7 | I 'll look at the cricket scores and pretend I 'm some old member in from the shires with a striped blazer and a pink gin in his fist . |
| 8 | It is incumbent upon every Muslim who has access to this mercenary author to drive this harmful being out of the way of Muslims and punish him , ’ he added in a report from the Iranian news agency IRNA . |
| 9 | Miss Fergusson , on the other hand , had merely been put into a temper : first by the attempt to thrust some foolish meaning on to the scriptural verse ; and secondly by the priest 's brazen commercial behaviour . |
| 10 | Our collective obsession with soft touches smokes this dark conflict out into the open . |
| 11 | Her cab had no sooner left the Imperial than Egbert Rose tore out of his office , ran to the reception desk to enquire Miss Throgmorton 's whereabouts and , being told , continued this headlong rush out of the hotel , hotly pursued by Stitch and Naseby . |
| 12 | Again he dashed away and held on in a close finish with Atlee Mahorn , who was desperately trying to salvage some Canadian credibility out of the evening . |
| 13 | Oh , crumbs , Leith thought , and , while knowing Rosemary to be a highly intelligent girl , had a most worrying feeling that her parents had been putting some hard groundwork in on the proposition that , once married , women were n't supposed to have friends ! |
| 14 | PETROL prices are set to be slashed by up to 14p a gallon , bringing some unleaded fuel back below the £2 a gallon mark . |
| 15 | Some women wore a cloak fastened at the shoulder or breast , and some gathered clothing in at the waist with a girdle , usually secured with a buckle . |
| 16 | ‘ Sure , ’ said Morris , conjuring another long cigarette out of the air . |
| 17 | I 've come to walk with Beefy — not just to prove to myself that I can , but to bring this terrible disease out in the open . |
| 18 | Nonetheless , one can get some useful mileage out of the 1960s surveys , before moving on to an historical account . |
| 19 | All they ever saw of their guide was a faint distant tail-light , and then only rarely , at irregular moments after long periods of doubt when it seemed that they had lost the scent , made the wrong decision at some unmarked junction up in the stormy darkness . |
| 20 | ‘ Unless your estimable uncle had expensive amusements , Master Hussey , you must surely have come in for this very money along with the rest . ’ |
| 21 | The Irish must have taken some droll amusement out of the sights and sounds of New Zealand rugby being in a hyped-up state during their tour — and with not all the impact coming from the tour matches . |
| 22 | William , busily digging some unrecognizable vegetable out of the mud , was wearing gumboots and the jaunty remnants of a straw hat . |
| 23 | Now she saw him , standing on the pavement outside the church , holding his thumb out to her and grinning beseechingly as though he were some hopeful teenager off on the hippy trail . |
| 24 | It is not just the choral singing that puts this new Messiah up with the very best . |
| 25 | And he had this huge cat about with the grace of erm Whiskers there with these great big waterproof trousers on and all this mud ! |
| 26 | Blame had n't been fastened on anyone except some unknown nutter back in the wilds of Ontario . |
| 27 | Erm but I do feel that there is likely to be some positive spin off for the factories . |
| 28 | The next one is er got a meeting on it er I think the airlines are going on a very much a co- ordinated thing er I think most people are probably in agreement with this size eight exemption , make a group specific because really the idea when they put this original proposal in about the size of aircraft was to protect things like the and troops that are shall we say and I think most people would go for that line of thinking because as put in there , why the hell should something again on Cambridge when we ca n't on Stansted but it was really designed to protect certain things . |
| 29 | Noises of such intensity may seriously affect the ability of cetaceans to communicate and echolocate , especially in cold polar waters where ice cover reflects much underwater noise back from the surface . |
| 30 | We leave , saddened by the plight and determined to come for longer the next time , to stay through a winter and spring , to find out what that old woman had really been up to holding that white sheet up to the Northern Lights . |