Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was the filthy coastal town smelling of fish oil where I 'd taken over the driving . |
| 2 | ‘ Boy ’ Mould had served in France with 1 Squadron in 1939/40 , where he had shot down the first German aircraft to be claimed by R.A.F. fighters over the Western Front ; he had over eight victories to his credit at this time . |
| 3 | Although I wanted to go down the pit because you got more money you see . |
| 4 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 5 | As usual , once I had put down the wheelbarrow , I had stiffened up and been able to think only of aches and pains . |
| 6 | When she found a lot more shoots in different places , she decided they needed more air and light , so she began to pull out the thick grass around them . |
| 7 | You read in the papers all the time about girls being raped and murdered , and you do n't want it to happen to you , so you try to cut down the odds . |
| 8 | ‘ But why , once you 'd found out the truth about Ryan and me , did n't you drop your custody claim immediately ? |
| 9 | It contains a lot of questionnaires for which there are no answers and with not much guidance on what to do with the answers once you have filled in the pages . |
| 10 | All this becomes obvious once you have set up the machine to knit lace . |
| 11 | Once you have worked out the phonemic system of the language , if you are using a card file , work systematically through it , changing all phonetic transcriptions into phonemic ones . |
| 12 | Once you have added up the figures in the budget planner , you will have to deduct income tax to arrive at the net spending amount available to you . |
| 13 | Once you have carried out the instruction , your turn ends ( if you are sent back three spaces and land on another Point of Order , for example , do not pick another card ) . |
| 14 | Once you have sorted out the distractions like that , you can have some amazing fun re-planning your house . |
| 15 | That meant the tyre would be that amount smaller than the actual wheel , so we had to heat up the tyre to expand it in order to get it on to the rim . |
| 16 | So I had a meeting with Dailey to talk about the workshops and so on , so we 've bashed out the format and er , and what we think we 'd like to do , but it 's partly dependent on D T I , because it is their event , and we want to be seen to hijack it . |
| 17 | ‘ So we have to hand over the reins of Chester 's to a man whose only interest is money for money 's sake ? ’ she persisted in a low , intense voice , ‘ when anyone can see all the company needs is a re-think of direction , a bit of diversification … ’ |
| 18 | Once we have ruled out the secular notion that authority implies superiority , we can then get it back into perspective as simply a necessary tool in executing responsibility . |
| 19 | Almost immediately they began working out the details of their new counselling service — or , as they preferred to call it , their chat-line — and how and where they could fit it into their already busy schedule . |
| 20 | It was Saturday so they had put up the green fee from four and sixpence to seven and six and she could n't bear to waste the money . |
| 21 | In order to seal off the source of nutrition it is necessary for the activated lymphocytes to gather round the blood vessels once they have used up the local resources . |
| 22 | The groom said one of her horses died of colic or some such recently , from eating the wrong things , and the trainer did n't want any more accidents , so he 'd made up the feeds himself . ’ |
| 23 | With everyone else gone Tonks had to fend for himself so he tried to find out the truth . |
| 24 | The cleaner is a nondrip gel descaler , so it stays put on the vertical surface , dissolving the scale . |
| 25 | If I 've set up the play that leads to goals , that 's OK by me . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ But I would always have regretted it if I had turned down the chance to find out whether I could make it at this level . ’ |
| 27 | But if I want to move up the ladder I 'll have to go elsewhere . ’ |
| 28 | The only conclusion I can draw is that the two-pack AC lacquer that was used on the first table was something that I will not use again on dark timber if I want to bring out the full colour of the wood . |
| 29 | Looked as if someone had pulled out the HT lead , actually . ’ |
| 30 | Giving in to the inevitable , and until she had found out the truth she had as yet no quarrel with his mother , Ellie relaxed her rigid stance . |