Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't use pre-printed form letters where you just fill in the gaps for date , name , address and amount . |
| 2 | I saw parties feeding on the seed-heads of thrift in the middle of a gannet colony , on the seeds of rushes out on the windswept moors , and in my own garden where they quickly cleaned up the remaining rowan berries . |
| 3 | I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops . |
| 4 | I have a wide vocabulary , which I am continually expanding , so I often look up the meaning of words to use |
| 5 | I always had several anthologies of poetry with me , luckily including this one , so I feverishly looked up the poem : it was Ernest Dowson 's ‘ Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae ’ , with its plaintive refrain : |
| 6 | Now our houses backed on to each other , with only the party wall between , so she just picked up the poker from the fender and started banging on the wall so that the plaster showered a cloud of dust in the room . |
| 7 | You will be aware exactly how far the ferret has progressed down the burrow by the marking on the line attached to its collar , so you now look down the hole as the line becomes moderately tight . |
| 8 | They 're not old enough to go to the pubs , or they do n't seem old enough , so they just go down the park and get drunk . |
| 9 | They look like any other novel if you just flick over the pages and they are divided into chapters . |
| 10 | draw round it , dot dot dot , draw even if you then sketch it without using a straight line , if you just join up the dots freehand , |
| 11 | say if it was yourself and father who both were n't well , he would , if you just pick up the phone and say , I 'm running short can I have a b b and he , he brings it round , like you know , j j |
| 12 | Because if you just picked up the phone and and er contacted erm a residential home |
| 13 | Okay erm , if we just turn over the sheet look at distribution of er of the F statistic . |
| 14 | It is clear from Sullivan v West Yorkshire Passenger Executive [ 1985 ] 2 All ER 134 that motor engineers ' evidence can not now be excluded per se at an interlocutory stage , but Hinds v London Transport Executive [ 1979 ] RTR 103 is still good law in so far as the trial judge is still likely to disregard such evidence if it just argues out the cause of the accident without dealing with any real engineering matters . |
| 15 | does cos he always looking out the window . |
| 16 | Apart from getting arrested in Hungary because we apparently missed out the customs post and had driven about 3 miles from the border before being caught by a car and made to return , we arrived safety at Gyor at about 10.30 pm . |
| 17 | This is a real time saver , because it automatically plays back the last few seconds of the previous shot as a check before returning you to record mode ready to take the next shot . |
| 18 | My wife finished off with a creme caramel dessert while I just finished off the litre bottle of house white , which was well worth its £8.95 price tag . |
| 19 | You can find this setting by trial and error by getting someone to speak steadily into the microphone while you gradually bring up the mixer level from zero to the point at which the volume , as monitored on headphones , ceases to rise . |
| 20 | He admitted that mistakes had been made in the five months since he personally took over the government , especially in the slow pace of privatisation . |
| 21 | Mr Yeltsin admitted that mistakes had been made in the five months since he personally took over the government , especially in the very slow pace of privatisation . |
| 22 | It was a victory for Mrs Thatcher — though a debatable one since it largely snuffed out the power of British local government at a time when many other European countries were trying to decentralize and devolve . |
| 23 | She might go on for years ; I could be as old as she is now before she finally gives up the ghost . |
| 24 | So before you automatically play back the recordings to the class , ask yourself these questions : |
| 25 | The pieces were put into ten different bags and driven away by Laing after he meticulously cleaned up the Manwarings ' house in Aldersley Gardens , Barking , east London , the jury was told . |
| 26 | And Alana Jeanette also told the jury how Darren Nichol had unsuccessfully tried to make love to her just hours before he allegedly carried out the frenzied sex attack on Josephine Chandler . |
| 27 | But he will think long and hard before he again takes on the United board . |
| 28 | I could n't have been more pleased by his decision , and told Granpa that when I finally took over the barrow we would n't even have to change the name . |
| 29 | When I finally hang up the fedora and donate the trusty Smithsonian to the Smith and Wesson Institute , I 'm gon na have a whole floor-covering of codlings . |
| 30 | I was near exhaustion as I slowly toiled up the incline beyond . |