Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [adv] [vb infin] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The counsellor should not therefore take up the first issue raised by the counsellees which seems satisfactorily to explain their situation . |
| 2 | In other words , you should n't just hold down the chord shape and pick the notes out as they lie under your hand ; each double has its own fingering . |
| 3 | She remembered saying that she might very well buy out the others and live in the property herself . |
| 4 | The moon was not yet up and in the darkness we could only just make out the rock face of the west bank above us , a cliff some thirty feet high . |
| 5 | We 'd only just put down the phone to them . |
| 6 | That was another thing which made Mahmoud uneasy , for modern and emancipated though he was , he could not completely shake off the attitudes and sexual constraints of the old , Islamic society . |
| 7 | He was watching her closely , and she could not quite make out the expression in his eyes . |
| 8 | The relationship between waiver and equitable estoppel is obvious , as Denning LJ pointed out in Charles Rickards Ltd v Oppenheim [ 1950 ] 1 KB 616 ( at p623 ) : If the defendant , as he did , led the plaintiffs to believe that he would not insist on the stipulation as to time , and that , if they carried out the work , he would accept it , and they did it , he could not afterwards set up the stipulation as to the time against them . |
| 9 | From where she was standing , she could just about make out the shape of Patrick 's cap as he hurried down the back lane . |
| 10 | Now that his eyes had adjusted to the light , Patrick could just about make out the vague shape of the young woman before him , her face a dim grey against the paler shape of her nightdress . |
| 11 | Why was it , she wondered , that she could n't even summon up the rudiments of politeness with this man ? |
| 12 | He knew he had the tournament won , but he was so high he could n't even line up the putt . |
| 13 | Finally , it got to the point where he was driving me nuts , because I could n't even find out the reason he was screaming so . |
| 14 | Well there was always the parlour , you must have the parlour and er you , you had two living rooms and the one was the parlour and there was a cellar underneath the parlour and er the stairs used to come in from the back and go up , up the stairs over the entrance to the cellar but the stairs used to run up there underneath the stairs was the entrance to the cellar , there was a door , so that you could n't just walk down the cellar without opening the door you see , but apart from that there was er there was just the two , two bedrooms . |
| 15 | You could n't just pick up the phone at any time you liked . |
| 16 | He could n't quite make out the face , but he was certain he did n't know the caller , which was unusual . |
| 17 | Yet he could n't quite drum up the enmity that seemed necessary in the circumstances , and that fact quite pleased him , for it proved what an enduring thing male friendship was , even if Jim did look to him less than his old self , and over-dressed in foreigners ' plumes that must have cost a packet in duty , the jacket obviously being pure wool . |
| 18 | Citrine , who , despite his wrangles with Gaitskell , was keen that Labour should win , warned in the summer of 1951 that he could no longer hold back the Area Board chairmen from politically damaging attacks on the Government if the investment controls were not relaxed . |
| 19 | Swore like a trooper under his breath as the bus swayed through the leafy lanes , saying he could no longer make out the landmarks , that he knew such and such a tree or house was in such and such a place , he 'd passed it so often in the bus , but now could barely see it . |
| 20 | This meant that after thirty years had elapsed the original owner could no longer claim back the property , while the factual possessor could not be designated the proper owner . |
| 21 | When they waved to her , and held up little Enoch to see her better , she could no longer keep back the blinding tears . |
| 22 | I could never really work out the basis of his friendship with Steve and Paul They were pretty street-wise while he was just odd . |
| 23 | The pair were in the air together at the last , but Bonnie Artist stumbled on landing and could never quite peg back the leader who held on by threequarters of a length . |
| 24 | It was the cheapest , thinnest , shiniest material that Madge could find and she had told Therese it would just about last out the Season before you could start shooting peas through it . |
| 25 | That would just about sum up the general South African reaction to the record 26–3 defeat by Australia . |
| 26 | Naturally , you would not normally shut down the LIFESPAN Process while Offline is running . |
| 27 | This is independent of the distortion circuit , and presumably high impedance , so it would not completely rule out the use of tapes and CDs inputted here so that your hours of lonely practice can be enhanced by accompaniment . |
| 28 | A sociology of the unconscious would not only point out the unintended consequences of social action , where these are grasped and comprehended in terms of conscious intentions which are then misunderstood , or reinterpreted , by other groups within the social relationships , and which result in outcomes which neither the original intender nor the others could have foreseen . |
| 29 | Most were confident that his military and political genius would once again pick out the correct moment for the decisive blow against Britain , and had no inkling in autumn 1940 that ‘ Operation Sealion ’ had been postponed indefinitely . |
| 30 | Yeah It would still probably work out the same though . |