Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We suggest that you set out the following information in such a way that , in the air , you can select any item immediately , and without confusion . |
| 2 | Commission officials say that they sought out the most talented people in each field , regardless of gender or race . |
| 3 | You want that I turn up the sound ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You told me ’ , I say as we bounce along the ever-dwindling road , ‘ that you thought of marrying Lady De Marr . |
| 5 | It seems a minor , if pleasant , benefit until you mount up the cost of a weekly trip to the hairdressers . |
| 6 | New faces are arriving all the time and in some cases actors make a quick start with a first job or they may have a relatively long wait before they get off the mark . |
| 7 | ‘ I recall that you brought up the suggestion and positively hammered at it . ’ |
| 8 | They would take a lazy bottom turn , stall as they climbed up the wave , then disappear behind the curtain for a second or two , reappearing like actors at the end of a play to take a bow . |
| 9 | Does my right hon. Friend know that I gave up the opportunity of becoming a solicitor like the hon. Member for Glasgow , Garscadden ( Mr. Dewar ) because accountants put the losses on the right and the profits on the left ? |
| 10 | I noticed the leather of my shoes darken as it picked up the moisture from the grass . |
| 11 | Beefy is a hero to the thousands that turn out to see him through rain and shine as he marches down the south coast . |
| 12 | When you dig when you carry out the digging on the a site you dig trenches . |
| 13 | The cap that happened to get overlooked returns the reader 's gaze blankly yet unavoidably , like the bill from a restaurant abroad which the conspirators find when they turn out the dead man 's pockets , and like the child 's clay whistle which one of them has provided himself with to give the agreed signal — for he has lost so many teeth that he ca n't trust himself to produce the sound naturally . |
| 14 | This is the way the young sharedealers feel as they put out the bait and hook in the mugs . |
| 15 | This Sunday is observed as World Day of Prayer for Vocations , I commend to your attention the materials from the National Vocations Office and ask that you bring out the theme of vocations in your celebration of the liturgy of this Sunday of Easter . |
| 16 | and go and I tack up the horse and I get on the horse and everything and I do n't mean to say |
| 17 | I do and she walks out the room . |
| 18 | I think when we slim down the Suffolk |
| 19 | I think when they steal back the houses they make the earth smaller . |
| 20 | My legs buckle and I fall off the catwalk shouting , ‘ Stop it ! |
| 21 | I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they ! |
| 22 | Oh well , she said , you see , it 's my work , she said I work in a , in an insurance office and she said I 'm in and out the courts all the time , you see so he knocked down the wrong person |
| 23 | Notice that it takes on the formatting contained in the paragraph mark that follows it . |
| 24 | I remember thinking all numbers look the same , none of them mean anything on their own , but when you string them together they have a sort of magic to them , they 're an incantation like witches sing when they circle round the cauldron cackling . |