Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mattox 's campaign presented her silence on this subject as an expression of guilt , although the drugs issue backfired on him in the final days of the campaign when witnesses claimed to have seen him smoking marijuana in the early 1970s , a claim which he vehemently denied . |
| 2 | You know , if you ca n't sell it at home , you know , you get rid of it on the world market . |
| 3 | But that we become committed to it as the way to save the country and the peace appears to me full of dangers . ’ |
| 4 | Jackson quotes Freud 's view that something has to be added to what is novel and unfamiliar to make it uncanny ; this something is ‘ nothing new or alien , but something which is familiar and old — established in the mind and become alienated from it through the process of repression ’ ( p. 66 ) . |
| 5 | As a works convenor , I work along twenty shop stewards , and I can tell this Congress that the message that they 've given to me from the people from the people that have elected them , is that they 're sick and tired of the perpetual bleating of the T U C about how they have to abide by the laws , when the only laws that are there are the laws that are bringing this movement down . |
| 6 | " I 've heard about them in the Owsla . |
| 7 | So I 've looked at it at the end of day and thought well my God ! |
| 8 | Though ‘ the diagram I have in view ’ includes particular details , ‘ there is not the least mention made of them in the proof of the proposition . ’ |
| 9 | Ellen Jebeau brought her lips tightly together and drew them inwards between her teeth before she said , with deep bitterness , ‘ I do n't know about it being a time for plain speaking , I can only say that time has shown your ingratitude for what I 've done for you over the years . ’ |
| 10 | And after all the running around I 've done for you in the last couple of days . |
| 11 | When I 've written to you in the past , it 's usually been to tell you about the developments of some of our long term programmes . |
| 12 | I 've talked with him on the telephone and with any luck he should be over here on Monday . |
| 13 | He 's so bloated and , I mean I have n't seen him , I said I 've , I 've talked to him on the phone . |
| 14 | I 've spoken to him in the past about making the place over to you . |
| 15 | I 've spoken to you on the phone . |
| 16 | He makes me laugh cos he often says some , when I , it 's when I 've spoken to you on the phone |
| 17 | Then you bring your ladder that you 've brought with you for the job and you put it up leaning on this windowsill , so that essentially if that 's the windowsill the end of that table there , it 's up to here you see with the top of the ladder just above the windowsill . |
| 18 | They told me at the hospital that you 've worked with him in the past , so I thought you might be able to help me with my general enquiries . ’ |
| 19 | Oh I think there 's no doubt about that and also their their their wages were low in the beginning you know and and their their their hard work that they 've put into it for the last you know I mean it had it I mean David Price says at the best of times is not easy to run a quarry you know you know and they they ha all work in a quarry so it had to be a cooperation and you know the management said you come up with us and and they were n't complaining actually about the wages it was quite good wages for . |
| 20 | ‘ I object to the way you 've dressed like someone from the pages of a Dickensian workhouse and turned up with your belongings in carrier bags as if you 're on your way to the laundromat . ’ |
| 21 | I 've read about her in the papers of course . |
| 22 | Before doing so I write to thank you all for the Loyal support and encouragement you have given to me during the past 14 years . |
| 23 | Under the special cover we have arranged for you with the Norwich Union , all Insured Persons of any age are covered , and the Policy will cover you should you have to cancel your holiday for certain reasons . |
| 24 | The Monopolies and Mergers Commission may , under the Fair Trading Act 1973 , have referred to it by the Director of Fair Trading or a Minister for investigation and report whether a monopoly , as defined , is or is not against the public interest . |
| 25 | It would be misleading to corrall all the donated works into feminist questioning of gendered identity ; one of the freedoms women have won for themselves over the last 20 years has been precisely those freedoms from conventional definition by gender . |
| 26 | He said , ‘ Sickness has given me this fortune that this sultan has come to my side , at morn so health and well being have accrued to me from the arrival of this King without retinue . |
| 27 | Of course I have looked at it in the past , many , many times . |
| 28 | The decision to place Gareth in the care of his grandparents , who have looked after him in the past while his mother was working , was taken by Strathclyde Regional Council 's social work department . |
| 29 | We have come through it to the extent that I am north and west Belfast Branch Secretary . |
| 30 | I have come across it on the American networks , where all script conferences are attended by a legal-looking chap whose only contribution is to say ’ We do not want to offend any groups ’ from time to time . |