Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I 've said I 've listed them well the important points for me were the Aldershot method the arousal curve and the need for audience content . |
| 2 | Below , on the terrace , Marie Claire had heard me open the windows . |
| 3 | Winning the John Moores would have given me just the confidence I needed . |
| 4 | But this new research has given me just the ammunition I need . |
| 5 | ‘ The hotline has given me just the motivation I needed to get moving . ’ |
| 6 | The girls , through some instinct that Karen resented in herself but could not isolate , had rolled onto their backs as the men had approached them up the beach . |
| 7 | And I 've not even took them out the thing . |
| 8 | and I said to him , I thought they er were fifty pence and he said I 've picked you out the biggest and the best . |
| 9 | I 've pursued him down the disappearing paths of my own psyche . |
| 10 | The commander had reminded him only the day before of the need to use manpower more efficiently : the government was no longer inclined to keep tossing money at the police force without seeing results . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's been disappointing that sometimes his emotional tension has dropped him down the placings . |
| 12 | For my tuppence worth i agree with Triffic Brooking that it was n't a back-pass but Beaney should have wellied it up the pitch . |
| 13 | We had hung them down the inside of our trousers when we got out of the car . |
| 14 | Allen hit the post Byrne had one cleared off the line … a win would have shot them up the table defeat leaves them too near the bottom … |
| 15 | If I 'd met you earlier the fact that I 'm married would have made it impossible for me to take off and fly with you like this . |
| 16 | Next day I seen him down the transport club . |
| 17 | A series of brilliant intelligence coups had pushed him up the ladder rapidly . |
| 18 | It was the fact that he felt he had done it right the first time and not nearly as well the second time . |
| 19 | No , I would have done it exactly the same , I would have just hoped that I would have been as lucky as I have been . |
| 20 | The the first question is this is this thing about nerves is n't it because that 's the first feeling you have when you got up get up here is and as said I 'm dry already and I have n't even been up there and done it yet the voice is dry and you know then you feel a bit shaky and all that sort of thing and why do we why do we feel nervous ? |
| 21 | Because it means you can always criticize the individual , for either not having done the job well enough or for having not done it quite the way you thought it ought to be done . |
| 22 | Should n't have really warmed it up the first time . |
| 23 | Millar who liked to play the canny Scot , always said ‘ I 've seen it whenever the view was mentioned ’ . |
| 24 | Yeah and she 's just ch told me completely the opposite . |
| 25 | ‘ It has surprised me how the British scene has kept up . |
| 26 | I , I 've bought you back the whip and I 'm just about to start the other one , so hang on to it at the moment , cos I do n't like too many books around that I 've borrowed , I 've got two . |
| 27 | ‘ Now look , as my secretary has told you just the six times , I am totally booked for 1990 and I ca n't possibly … oh dear … |
| 28 | ‘ I 've told you only the truth , my lovely one , ’ he breathed , and this time Fabia raised her head and kissed him , then found that she was the one being kissed , so expertly too that when eventually Ven pulled back she was feeling on a totally different plane . |
| 29 | He had shown her how the frontispiece illustration was the key to it . |
| 30 | Using the magnifying glass he had found in the left-hand drawer , Ben had shown her how the print of the reflected newspaper was subtly different from the one the man held . |