Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This proposition was also rejected by the revolutionary junta in Madrid , who were therefore obliged to continue their efforts to find someone willing to wear what the English Foreign Minister had described as ‘ that crown of thorns ’ . |
| 2 | I first realised it the day of Len 's funeral , when I spilled the beans . |
| 3 | But the information she actually obtains from observing the price of her good tells her the total effect of these two influences and not their individual effects . |
| 4 | ‘ Are you afraid to read what the man who loves you says about you ? ’ |
| 5 | it 's kind of you all to spare me the time . ’ |
| 6 | right , now what do you like about driving , I mean er the , you , know , you all know what the car is , what , what , what 's , what appeals , is it just something you have to do , is it a necessity or is it actually because you enjoy it ? |
| 7 | And before you leave us I want you all to hear what the Senior Medical Officer said to me half an hour ago . |
| 8 | Are we supposed to call it the Lowfields as before or carry on using ‘ The New East Stand ’ ? |
| 9 | Well , we all know what the something more is , do n't we ? ’ |
| 10 | It has particular interest in that we all know what the word means and yet none of us know what curiosity actually is . |
| 11 | ‘ … and we all know what the weary warrior wants after battle … ’ |
| 12 | Tonight should be pretty lively , political rally , we all know what the subject 's gon na be about . |
| 13 | We all know what the Labour party will do to the higher rate , but even it does not seem to know what it will do to the tax on middle managers — national insurance contributions . |
| 14 | Now we all know what the District Council view is . |
| 15 | And , having watched the recent coal fiasco , we all know what the next step is once an unwanted raw material has been identified ; you stop its production . |
| 16 | I am sure we all wish him the best of luck . |
| 17 | Yes , but when we first got it the radiator was n't on it was the summer time |
| 18 | Erm and it , it was us , I mean not only do we , I mean we develop her a a response , that means , we , we work with Councillor 's we work with Senior Officer 's in other departments and we look at the policy angles , like for example with , with that piece of legislation , when , when we first realised what the impact for that legislation was , it was gon na mean that we were ten million pound short in our housing money basically , that was , that was what it looked like on the surface and you think oh my god how you gon na make up for that short fall , that would mean an eleven pound a week rise in rent , that 's what it worked out as , so , well we ca n't do that , how , and then you have to look at the legislation and you say what are the loop holes here , and erm , and it involves contacting outside organisations and getting there opinion and finding out what other Council 's are doing and responding to things like this , and we did come up with a way , of , of reducing that deficit , but that 's the kind of thing we do . |
| 19 | We both knew what the other one meant but we never said it in so many words . |
| 20 | They all call 'im The Butcher . " |
| 21 | During the development of modern phonetics in the present century it was for a long time hoped that scientific study of intonation would make it possible to state what the function of each different aspect of intonation was , and that foreign learners could then be taught rules to enable them to use intonation in the way that native speakers use it . |
| 22 | It is never possible to be certain what the situation would have been in the absence of any such policy nor is it possible to know what the outcome of a different policy might have been . |
| 23 | ‘ The beauty and interesting nature of this little bird ’ , Gould wrote , ‘ naturally made me anxious to bring home living examples ; I accordingly captured about twenty fully fledged birds , and kept them alive for some time ; but the difficulties necessarily attendant upon travelling in a new country rendering it impracticable to afford them the attention they required , I regret to say the whole were lost . ’ |
| 24 | In the school library , time constraints make it impossible to do everything the school librarian would like to do in microcomputer applications . |
| 25 | I took a bus there , but found it hard to tell what the place might have been like . |
| 26 | I find it hard to imagine what the end of the war must have meant . |
| 27 | It all depends what the problem is . ’ |
| 28 | Well , a thousand pounds not a lot , Karen , but er it all depends what the , what what you gon na be insured for ? |
| 29 | ‘ It all gives me the feeling that I 'm in completely the wrong place . |
| 30 | And if it is , then its correlation with that belief of his wo n't depend on his wanting anything ( other than thistles ) and in particular not on his wanting to tell anyone the truth . |