Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may know that the vehicle has been taken , but seek positively to absent himself from the scene and the commission of the aggravated offence . |
| 2 | I know there advertising it on the T V |
| 3 | Todger practically had him by the throat . |
| 4 | I try to make a joke out of what she 's driving at , and lean forward to poke her in the belly . |
| 5 | Gaitskell never adopted me in the sense that Harold Wilson did later , but I became quite close to him and he employed me in quasi-political matters . |
| 6 | You 'll come to a track where you turn right to bring you to the main road . |
| 7 | Two terrified passers-by , caught in the middle of the second blast at Cateaton Street , try desperately to shield themselves from the force of the explosion as they are engulfed by billowing smoke . |
| 8 | Mark finally led us to the summit of Mont Blonc du Tacul just as darkness fell . |
| 9 | Mark then told him of the occasion when he had been driving down O'Connell Street some twenty or so years before , when he had inadvertently misunderstood the hand signals of the policeman on traffic duty , and had moved off before he had been cleared to do so . |
| 10 | I read a great deal of poetry , especially the Romantics , learning long passages by heart , and found some solace there to lift me above the sordid realities of everyday life . |
| 11 | For the first time since then I 'm convinced we wo n't win , and start mentally realigning myself to the joys of a hung parliament . |
| 12 | His ironic protestations — " " My wit is short ; ye may well understonde " " ; " " Blameth nat me … " " — serve only to remind us of the fact that here we have a court poet playing first the pilgrim-narrator " Chaucer " and then playing a churl . |
| 13 | You 've obviously enjoyed your career very much and we 've all enjoyed you over the years , would you be pleased if your grandchildren went into acting ? |
| 14 | We 've argued for years about meals on wheel service that there should be seven day a week service throughout this authority , we 've only got it in the City , we want it throughout the authority . |
| 15 | The Oxford ordination ceremonies have been booked for April the sixteenth and seventeenth of next year although the Diocese stresses there 's been no race to be first , they 've merely found themselves at the head of the queue . |
| 16 | Places on the workshops are limited so please apply Now by sending your cheque/postal order and the booking form opposite indicating which of the workshops you would like to attend . |
| 17 | I 've just nipped it off the top of that one , that 's not growing any more |
| 18 | I 've just asked him about the collaborative review the focus is apparently on national curriculum so that means maths , English and , but they want to look ge more general issues and because they 're in on a Wens Tuesday and a Wednesday he said that they would go in a look at , three of them would go in a look at taught tutorial lessons they will want to talk to me about the tutorial programme I would hope that that would involve somebody else cos I 've got the bit of the fence that I sit on and ask one or two of you to give your opinion if , if you 're available . |
| 19 | If you 've just joined us for the eight o'clock news , as many people do , welcome . |
| 20 | they start to ring their friends up when they 've just left them during the day , fine |
| 21 | I 've just put it to the boss to see if he 's er |
| 22 | ‘ Because I 've just found one behind the wardrobe . ’ |
| 23 | I think I 've just dumped it to the |
| 24 | We 've already complimented you on the general pass rate . ’ |
| 25 | We 've already checked everyone in the piazza once . ’ |
| 26 | I mean I think I 've already resigned myself to the fact that I 'm going to have to do one maybe two years more before I get anything like |
| 27 | Oh we 've still got them in the demijohns yet |
| 28 | You 've still got 'em round the dock now . |
| 29 | Do you want to borrow , well it 's on two tapes , well I 've still got it on the tapes if you want it , it 's quite a good quite a good film |
| 30 | They 've got enough from the stomach alone to kill him twice over and they 've still to separate it from the liver and muscles . |