Example sentences of "[vb base] [art] [det] [subord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mortgage rates may fluctuate , but the administration and the repayments remain the same until the time comes to adjust . |
| 2 | Who , some calculate , will each on average receive no more than the equivalent of £500 for loss of family , loss of earnings and permanent physical damage . |
| 3 | The sounds produced have a fractal sound quality — they sound the same whether the sample generated by the program is delivered quickly or slowly . |
| 4 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 5 | We know no more than the narrator , within whose obsessively observant mind we wander , searching , like him , for some sure knowledge . |
| 6 | His books were not widely circulated and in one of the last two which were dedicated to his son ( and unpublished ) was the assertion that it contains instances " that will make you a better interpreter of dreams than all , or at least inferior to none ; but , if published , they will show you know no more than the rest " — a sentiment which T. R. Glover rather pithily describes as suggesting science declining into profession . |
| 7 | I work the same as the rest of them ; I 'm very much a working Head Gardener as opposed to a white-collar Head Gardener . |