Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 By imparting his enthusiasm to his pupils , impressing them most earnestly with the importance of their calling , he sent them out into the world with a store of self-respect which greatly contributed to uphold their position , and gave them an impetus to endeavour to raise its standard , which was often crowned with the most happy success ’ .
2 But if the line manager if in theory the line manager is taking feedback from them on immediately after the course and then going back to them after three months or six months .
3 When Victoria found the grit from the paths got into her sandals , Richard removed her shoes and socks and shook all the gravel out of them , folding her socks for her to put them on again in the special way that her nanny did .
4 I decided to wait until the sea took me somewhere safer on the north side of the island .
5 The Lord spoke to me right there in the church and said why do n't you go ?
6 A steward with grey hair and neat moustache waved me rather wearily into the cockpit where the pilot and co-pilot were carrying on a violently gestured argument which was to last all the way to Puerto Maldonaldo .
7 But if you turned round and said to them all right with the consent of the people and with the consent of the Planning Authority we will authorize a site , we would get on and provide it , and they would n't spend four hundred thousand pounds of the taxpayers money in doing it , and it does n't stop there because having spent the four hundred thousand pounds you 've then got to provide the wardening of the site and the constant maintenance , which is a drain .
8 The other is that he heard me following , and staged the attack on himself , with the help of some accomplice unknown — for it could n't have been done alone , could it ? — to put himself in the clear , and immobilise me long enough for the other person to get away , and the body to be well downstream .
9 And they clearly hope to get them down further before the Tory conference next month .
10 Howard 's heart goes out to them — to Michael and Myra , to Jack and Miriam , to Roy and Prue — to all of them down there in the glittering darkness .
11 Sarah collected some mugs from a cupboard and set them down close to the coffee maker ; she looked impatiently at the level of coffee in the jug , as if the slowness of the process was a familiar annoyance .
12 ‘ I do n't think a horse has ever quickened for me so well from the final flight . ’
13 I turned away , no longer able to face the eyes that looked at me so coldly in the gleam of the dashboard light .
14 The only sadness was that my parents , who had supported me so fully in the earlier days , were n't there to enjoy my success . ’
15 It will see me all right for the day .
16 We have said nothing so far about the Joseph story , and we have no space here to go into any detail .
17 ‘ Oh , really ? ’ says Freddie , bending his lips upwards on one side of his face into a suggestion of general benevolence , but moving them only sparingly for the purpose of articulation .
18 ‘ So you want me in just for the plaster and to give your student laddies additional geriatric experience ?
19 ‘ Unless you change back to Mr Hyde overnight and lump me in again with the rest of the female sex you 're running away from . ’
20 Cut each cake into three equal portions horizontally , and sandwich them together again with the buttercream and jam .
21 He jerked him to his feet , and separating the thin wrists he held , twisted them together again behind the boy 's back , and so thrust him painfully before him along the passageway to the staircase .
22 He liked taking them apart and putting them together again in the wrong order to make new toys and would do this all day until he had forgotten what they looked like in the first place .
23 kept me only ahead of the hungry mouths
24 So the tractor bean set me down nowhere near the Divine Sanctum .
25 He sat me down roughly on the sofa and Mum said she was going to find out what I was on about .
26 You tell Cartier to send someone right away down the track looking for a rope or some such , eh ?
27 ‘ Was I all right in the house ? ’ he asked .
28 In National Mutual General Insurance Association Ltd. v. Jones ( 1988 H.L. ) the issue was whether the sections could operate to defeat the title of someone much earlier in the chain of events than C. Thieves had stolen a car and sold it to A who sold it to C ( a car dealer ) who sold it to D ( another car dealer ) who sold it to Jones .
29 Direct discrimination involves treating someone less favourably on the grounds of their sex or marital status ( the 1975 Act ) or colour , race , ethnic or national origins or nationality ( the 1976 Act ) .
30 Was I not right about the wee lass , saints preserve her !
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