Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [vb pp] the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Just that you 've apparently cornered the market in finding weak and easy targets , people who have neither the strength nor the wherewithal to fight you . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ This new-found modesty is very admirable , sweetheart , but a little out of place when you 've just spent the night in my arms . ’ |
| 3 | I 've just put the fiver in the bottle neck and I 'm trying to get it to unfurl so it wo n't drop all the way down , when she groans . |
| 4 | Look at the bare facts we 've not beaten the scum in the three season we 've been back up and god knows we 've had enough chances in that time . |
| 5 | Erm s so you 've now got the situation in modern times where people probably go out to work all day , come home at the end and do n't even know who the names of the people living next door to them . |
| 6 | After you 've coldly observed the way in which three large shots of alcohol chemically transform reluctant drinkers into eager tipplers , the traditional Saturday night round-buying somehow does n't seem the same . |
| 7 | So he 'd say , ‘ I 'd like you to imagine going into a recording studio , you 've never met the band in your life , you 're going to do a session for them and you 're going to be paid very well and they 're all on Acid and they 're playing rockabilly . |
| 8 | Think you 've bloody cornered the market in love , do n't you ? |
| 9 | The alarmed Hungarians initially kept this threat to themselves , but have since raised the issue in private both within the Warsaw Pact and with certain Western governments . |
| 10 | Er erm we have since had the alteration in our structure here which of course puts quite a bit of it out of date . |
| 11 | What we do have and have had for a long time in this country is an acceptance within our law and an acceptance within our definitions of freedom that there are responsibilities with freedom and those responsibilities in this particular case , we have long accepted the argument in this country , maybe not as much as erm , well more in fact than some of our colleagues abroad and maybe they could learn from us from this , but it is not acceptable to have the freedom to be unnecessarily cruel and in fox hunting we have a sport that is unnecessarily cruel , there are ways in which you can deal with rogue foxes , there are ways in which you can actually ensure that the fox community does not destroy the whole , er farming countryside . |
| 12 | It is a kind of catharsis for both the Lebanese and the Palestinians who have long understood the way in which these dreadful events should be interpreted . |
| 13 | I have only written the truth in my letter to them . |
| 14 | ‘ The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways … |
| 15 | Factors like the widespread increase in computer literacy and the contraction of the PC market have obviously effected the growth in direct sales . |
| 16 | We have already noticed the sense in which conventionalism is bilateral : it insists that if no decision of some case can be found within the explicit extension of a legal convention one way or the other , the judge is obliged to make new law as best he can . |
| 17 | Sheldrake 's hypothesis predicts that it should be easier for people who do not speak Turkish to learn the real rhyme , even though it seems no less opaque to non-Turkish speakers than the fake one , because millions of Turks have already learned the rhyme in the past . |
| 18 | I have already mentioned the debate in Presbytery in 1974 about ministers going forward in elections . |
| 19 | Graduates have already helped the University in a variety of ways — one graduate has donated the royalties from his latest book to CAMPUS — The Campaign to Promote the University of Salford , and a Convocation Appeal raised £3,500 to help the cost of improving access to the Peal Building for disabled students . |
| 20 | They often get lost because they have not kept the airfield in sight and within easy gliding range . |
| 21 | However , others have not read the judgment in that way . |
| 22 | Finally , we have not discussed the way in which elected representatives themselves reach decisions in the legislature and its committees . |
| 23 | One has to admit , nevertheless , that geographers as a group have not taken the lead in the interdisciplinary study of the human environment . |
| 24 | United have not won the title in 25 years since , and though there might be a spiritual and timely link between a player of Cantona 's style and those noble Reds of old , it is Eusebio , the Black Panther , who takes centre stage tonight . |
| 25 | I have just read the letter in the September issue of Todays Horse and have to say that I agree with the comments of Lisa Robillard on the point of using ‘ he ’ instead of ‘ she ’ . |
| 26 | I have just read the article in November 's Today 's Horse on gadgets by Carolyn Henderson and I would like to say that in my opinion she has done a very good job pointing out the dangers of people with their own horses who resort to gadgets to get an outline and not to time and schooling . |
| 27 | Japan 's strong economic ties with Taiwan have largely withstood the shift in allegiance . |
| 28 | Or does it mean that you have somehow glimpsed the anguish in me , or even guessed at the cause ? |
| 29 | been a lot of crucial areas this afternoon Alan but I for me I think by and large Leicester have always had the edge in midfield . |
| 30 | The major overseas markets of the United States , Canada and Australia have traditionally led the way in our export league , but since Britain was admitted to EEC membership , Wedgwood has further strengthened its business with member countries in Europe . |