Example sentences of "the [noun] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty minutes sitting quietly in the horsebox beforehand gives you this opportunity . |
| 2 | A human family would never return to such a scene of grisly death , but the owls just took it all calmly . |
| 3 | When the Sheikha finally arrived we all rose to greet her . |
| 4 | ‘ We have Home Alone on video and the kids still watch it all the time , ’ she said . |
| 5 | What a pity that the Opposition never tell us any success stories . |
| 6 | We saw in Chapter 3 that the law now offers you some protection if there is a ‘ transfer of undertaking ’ , although not if there is a mere sale of shareholding control . |
| 7 | They tormented her enough on the grounds of her pale skin , her thin body and her grandmother 's pretensions to gentility and the shoes only gave them another cause to tease . |
| 8 | But he felt no exhilaration , and he did not participate in the public celebrations after the surrender of the Japanese ; the noise of the fireworks actually disturbed him more than the bombs of the blitz . |
| 9 | The juice clearly did him some good . |
| 10 | Made the people there give you some hospitality . |
| 11 | But the exceptionally beautiful sunrise in the morning soon got us all up to try out the skiing in Georgia . |
| 12 | And the silly part of it is the milkman always puts it that side where you open the door , instead of this side . |
| 13 | The object somehow binds them all together . |
| 14 | The Wilsons however found it all a bit much and thinking their tank threatened , have moved the fish on to Blackpool 's Sealife Centre . |
| 15 | The man then asked her some gentle questions . |
| 16 | And if you have an increase in , in one year and the situation then throws it all out of kilter . |
| 17 | The driver added : ‘ The company naturally wanted it all kept quiet . |
| 18 | This created the problem that their English-style education taught them liberal principles , while the system then denied them that same liberal advancement to the higher echelons of power and social prestige . |
| 19 | The Tories did come near to letting Neil Kinnock steal the election from us , but if the party either blames it all on Chris Patten or just forgets the matter as a bad dream , it would not deserve to win next time . |