Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My now dog-eared letter gained me admission again through the main gates and into the office of a Mr Saleb , a shabby fellow in slippers and an undershirt . |
| 2 | Mo gets up on the top of them stands right up the top , spreads around there 's ! |
| 3 | So that was how I came to have a new dress and boots and a real ribbon for my hair instead of the usual string . |
| 4 | My own vanity , such as it was , could not accept any of this ; in that dressing-gown , and with my hair all over the place , I was hardly something that a chance met man would want to lay claim to . |
| 5 | I much prefer expressing my views publicly in the House to my constituents and others . |
| 6 | I was so tired I had to get off my bike twice on the way up to Creeting and sit on the side of the road in the snow for a spell before I could go on . |
| 7 | So erm you see that 's , that 's why when we had this we paid somebody to put this in cos the gas company would n't put my my boiler right out the back . |
| 8 | You 've got your doubts and you know I 've had my doubts right from the |
| 9 | Herbert Matthews , who was close to the Cuban revolutionaries from the late Sierra Maestra days , wrote that ‘ I made up my mind early in the revolution on the basis of many talks with all the top Cuban leaders that their greatest preoccupation was the conviction that the United States was determined to overthrow the Castro regime ’ ( Matthews : 1969 , p. 171 ) . |
| 10 | I failed to follow his train of thought , my mind still on the meeting with Rodriguez . |
| 11 | BELVILLE : I do n't like to speak my mind twice on the same subject . |
| 12 | Because something has come to my mind only during the past few days , when I learnt that the Gipsy Working Party by five votes to four had recommended that the Rockhill site go forward for consultation . |
| 13 | Back at the Olympik , I looked up a passage in Pascal which had been in my mind earlier in the evening : |
| 14 | I had to turn my concentration now onto the Fraxilly job . |
| 15 | Yes , I did get the name of the company and the guitar — Washburn Mercury — but once I 'd dragged my eyes away from the damsel 's cleavage , the questions started . |
| 16 | I released her fingers but I could n't drag my eyes away from the gleam of gold as it winked tantalisingly at me . |
| 17 | I practised sticking my chin out and narrowing my eyes suggestively in the mirror . |
| 18 | I would like to extend my thanks also to the officers who have worked er very , very hard er both sides of the Christmas . |
| 19 | She always slings my card just at the wrong time . |
| 20 | I 've got my nerve ever since the twenty eighth of |
| 21 | On my return late in the afternoon I saw two SS soldiers outside our front door . |
| 22 | Why should God bother with someone who chose deliberately to do something foolish ? ) , so I concentrated on every step , placing my feet carefully among the slippery clods and only enjoying the prospect and the blanket of stillness when pausing for breath . |
| 23 | If I were just starting zandering from the beginning I would not even consider night fishing for them until I had got my act together in the daytime . |
| 24 | The nature of my duties both in the Province and in this House means that I have not yet had the pleasure and privilege of reading Dr. FitzGerald 's book , but I shall take on hearsay what the hon. Gentleman says about this entry . |
| 25 | I can remember doing my Mick again from The Caretaker and for Shakespeare I did an outrageous choice of Cardinal Wolsey from Henry VIII , which I do n't think I shall ever be suited to playing . |
| 26 | I knew it would be wiser to settle down and chat for a while , and drop my question casually into the conversation , but I could n't wait . |
| 27 | Damn , I think I 've left my sunglasses behind in the hotel . ’ |
| 28 | Now he 's in Me and My Girl now with the |
| 29 | Colleagues , er since we meet in Portsmouth , let me begin by pinning my colours firmly to the mast and acknowledging that the one issue that will dominate my comments here this morning , alluding to anything else in the time that 's allocated to me , in moving my report I think would simply not reflect my activities on your behalf over the last twelve months . |
| 30 | Death was very much on my mind , yet I could not tear my attention away from the cavortings of those two inhuman beings . |