Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] i [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If that is the case that each of the political parties , as I assume is the case for er the Conservative party , I know it to be the case of the Labour party I assume the same is true for the Liberal Democrats and other parties represented in this house , that they undertake the very considerable organisational er er process of selecting candidates only to find a few weeks before June the ninth , that as a result of the difficulties that I 've described as far as the French government attitude towards these elections is concerned , that er in fact we have to revert to the existing arrangements and that we can not have these new er boundaries in place . |
| 2 | From the old way I took the track down to Whernside Manor and Deepdale Methodist Chapel , crossing the road there and taking the path through the woods where a millstone propped against a tree is all that remains of the old mill that once stood here . |
| 3 | During the warm weather I take the opportunity to sit in my garden where I often do my sewing up . |
| 4 | The following day I asked the young women of an all-girls ' school I was visiting if they had seen her , and what they thought . |
| 5 | In the following discussion I take the position that there are present in every social system both objective and subjective elements , objective structures and conscious social action ; and that any realistic political analysis requires an investigation of these two elements and their interrelations . |
| 6 | The following morning I put the loose pieces in my bag and took them to school . |
| 7 | At the top of the grassy embankment I check the street scene outside . |
| 8 | ‘ The previous season I missed the last 12 games through a hernia operation and Achilles tendon trouble . |
| 9 | The previous evening I used the amp in a very large club as my own backline monitor , with a line out to the PA . |
| 10 | You have the hard job I have the easy job . |
| 11 | ‘ Rosie , ’ the wild man called and the little girl I bought the heather from came out of the caravan , ‘ riddle me the Gorgios . ’ |
| 12 | In the tabloid press I became the villain who put his knife into Noddy and his boot into Biggles . |
| 13 | I think at the time of the er , of the A G M , I said we were pleased by the prospects and in the current statement I say the outlook continues promising , but I do n't think at any point we 've made more of a forecast than that . |
| 14 | Mine itches the very moment I see the ruddy school letter . |
| 15 | In the profound silence I surveyed the awesomely beautiful Himalayan landscape . |
| 16 | Bleary-eyed , at the appointed hour I loaded the car at John 's with two large display cases , posters , boxes of lead , a bag of pre-decimal coinage , two folding chairs , a roll of velvet material — and the kitchen sink ! |
| 17 | My master said they had a splendid library , as well they might , but the only work I saw the nuns do was clever and intricate embroidery of curtains , cloths and napkins . |
| 18 | ‘ It was just about the only song I knew the words to and was an impromptu thing , but it got things started . |
| 19 | The only reason I make the point is that I understand ATP have rejected an appeal by the LTA to help guarantee the long term future of the November indoor tournament in Birmingham by lowering the $600,000 prize money to around the $300,000 on offer at the two competing tournaments in Moscow and Sao Paolo that week . |
| 20 | And I 'll tell you the only reason I took the baby home was because Martin wanted her . |
| 21 | ‘ But I got punched to pieces that night and the only reason I won the fight was that I could still keep going in the 12th round . |
| 22 | The only time I change the colour of my make-up is when I have a tan . |
| 23 | The only time I considered the title of a book was when I found a large number of books from the same library together . |
| 24 | Because the only time I approached the the man was when my revolver was the holster and the holster was done up . |
| 25 | Through the thin partition I hear the greedy sucking and smacking of lips . |
| 26 | I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed . |
| 27 | At the big house I met the Officer who had been looking for me earlier on . |
| 28 | From a place on the shady side I watched the most forlorn spectacle I have ever seen . |
| 29 | As my hand came away from the trim wheel I touched the auto pilot control and , on looking down . |
| 30 | Along with the certain suggestion I enclosed the casket design and a typed selection of quotes from my letters approving the idea of ‘ over-the-counter coffins ’ and giving the address at which the originals could be inspected , in the time-honoured manner with unsolicited testimonials . |