Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why is it everyone goes for the most difficult car parking spot ? |
| 2 | The prestigious Antiquaires à Paris group of dealers who specialise in eighteenth-century French furniture albeit with many sidelines is back again this year for the first time since 1986 , although with nothing to compare with the extravagantly decorated and richly stocked collective stand which caused so much jealousy then . |
| 3 | Neither of them cared for the sexually explicit — ‘ Rather like having an operation described to one , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 4 | It is also notable that where a chairman or chief executive has been brought in from outside to those organisations , this may be followed by many changes in senior management and so , from the headhunters ' point of view , putting a chief executive into an older-style organisation is usually an opportunity for them to work with the newly appointed chief executive to build the new senior management team . |
| 5 | I lived in the most beautiful house in England but I was always lonely and sad . |
| 6 | Aye er and er I got to the now on the and steamers go so far up , past Le Havre at the mouth Le Havre we disembarked when we went out to France first time and we took guns and all sorts . |
| 7 | And equally I disagree with the very poor performa poor sorry poor performance given er er in particular to the A nineteen north . |
| 8 | And here I apologise for the rather poor sound quality , but he refused to shut his parrot and dogs in another room during the interview . |
| 9 | Then on 1 November I received this telegram , with what I recognised as the consciously humorous overtones of 1914 — 18 : |
| 10 | ‘ That was because I came from the most stable period of his life and I made him feel secure . ’ |
| 11 | I signalled to the least intelligent-seeming of the soldiers . |
| 12 | Whether the particular scheme summarized here can contribute substantially to that end remains to be seen , but I hope at the very least I have been able to express why I believe that the social sciences will eventually be fused with biology . |
| 13 | It was designed to be used when knitting pile and drive lace — though I suspect from the almost total lack of drive lace and pile garments that I 've seen , or rather not seen , that is used at all it 's mainly with the rib transfer carriage ! |
| 14 | → Well , when I replied to the very first letter criticising Eric 's apparent tonal excesses , I mentioned the differences that we 've all heard between one Marshall , or Boogie , or Strat , or Les Paul from the next . |
| 15 | And then , I knocked at the very weak leg . |
| 16 | ‘ We 'll go out for a meal , to a quiet exclusive mirador I know with the most spectacular views across to Cabo de Formentor and then we 'll talk , really talk . ’ |
| 17 | I know of the most intellectual of men and women who are not ‘ earthed ’ and some of the humblest who are . |
| 18 | As Mr. Todd was expatiating upon windows I stepped over the very low sill of one that was open . |
| 19 | In an effort to develop a unique sound I stumbled across the very first pattern which I discovered I had never played before . |
| 20 | The reason why I think that there is a limit to our rational understanding of what is great art is quite simple : I believe in the fundamentally biological foundation of our reactions . |
| 21 | Wide-eyed as any of the cockpit 's meaningless dials , I flew over the most spectacular scenery , feeling nothing more than the pain from my broken wings . |
| 22 | I coped with the amazingly uninteresting savories for one of the Airds ' cocktail parties . |
| 23 | We paused on the small bridge which led to the ticket office , I looked at the now derelict railway cottages which stood silent , lost and forlorn . |
| 24 | I thought of the most dedicated cricket fanatic I had ever known back in South Africa — a man who despite repeated heart attacks , doctors ' warnings and family entreaties to stop playing the game , had persisted with club cricket to the end , in his sixties diving after slip catches as recklessly as he had in his teens . |
| 25 | but I mean , but like I said , I said , I mean , I went , I went to the like I changed then , I mean to be quite honest I did n't like it , I did n't like it |
| 26 | At other times I went into the much larger , colder Clerecia and watched the glib little gilt pendulum of an old-fashioned wall-clock next to the altar silently swinging my pain away . |
| 27 | The liner went in with no hassle at all , and I was grateful for Absat 's superior flexibility when the hose went on and I went into the rapidly filling hole to smooth out the creases . |
| 28 | I went in the today they like mad animals running round without a head on |
| 29 | I spoke about the much wider use of timetable motions . |
| 30 | Well , I think at the very least the Society |