Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mm , but what I ca n't weigh up is there 's nothing wrong together in the first place |
| 2 | You know , I think we should tie em all up with the same |
| 3 | Taking a sip , she caught a glimpse of someone familiar out of the corner of her eye . |
| 4 | Well the other one that had it done four times said oh , I 'm on my own now with the little boy , so she was |
| 5 | From within the arena of armchairs and sofa he had been mirroring her progress about the room , two steps forward to the drinks trolley where she placed her glass , four steps to her eight over to the window , three back on her way to the door again . |
| 6 | This description does not tell us which 12 out of the specified 13 are being sold . |
| 7 | Finally , the motives for deferring to public opinion pressures are at their strongest only in the run-up to an election , when most incumbent political leaderships anyway try to manipulate government budgets and taxation so that economic and social conditions are favourable for their cause . |
| 8 | We find jobs for people up to their 70s right across the board , from top executives to cleaners , dinner ladies , gardeners and decorators . |
| 9 | so its all down to the league now … |
| 10 | Managers , who live in a constant state of anxiety , tend not to see games as others do and Joe Jordan duly declared himself happy enough with the result which , apart from extending Hearts ' unbeaten run against their city rivals to 17 , keeps them in contention for a place in Europe . |
| 11 | Taken together the expansion of the middle-class suburbs was from about 28 , inhabitants in 1871 to over three-quarters of a million ( 808,000 ) just after World War I. The other large suburbs , of mixed population , though with working-class majorities , experienced similar trajectories : Lichtenberg grew from 4,700 in 1871 to 145,000 in 1919 , Rixdorf/ Neukolln from 8,145 to 262,000 , and Spandau from 20,500 to 95,500.10 The total population growth of just these large above-mentioned mainly working-class districts was of the order of 1.3 million from 1871 to World War I , a phenomenon which taken together with the revolutionary uprising of 1918 must have been frightening to Berlin 's middle classes in a manner hardly imaginable today . |
| 12 | Almost any photograph can reveal something about its own time if read properly — even the boring cartes-de-visite portraits produced in their millions all over the world , offer evidence of contemporary fashions and attitudes . |
| 13 | You do n't get the Egyptian women on their own either on the Prince 's boat or off it . |
| 14 | Indeed , for the local authorities ( many of whom were angry that the Government were treating nationalisation merely as a book-keeping transaction within the public sector and thus paying them little compensation for the takeover ) , the maintenance of uneconomically low prices was one way of getting their own back for the local ratepayers ( who were also usually electricity consumers ) . |
| 15 | Unable to get their own back on the media hacks , Charles and Diana seemed happy to let the comic pair , clutching drinks and slurring their words , do it for them . |
| 16 | They were either born rich , or they 're getting their own back on the kids who beat them up at school . ’ |
| 17 | MIDDLESBROUGH players are out to get their own back against the team that killed their dream of a first-ever major Wembley final . |
| 18 | They ‘ memorise ’ the information she supplies , process it somehow , and then , compensating for crosswinds and the movement of the Sun , fly out on their own directly to the flower patch . |
| 19 | At Brimpsfield , a very unusual church sits on its own away to the east of the present village . |
| 20 | That first modest trickle would soon become a flood and Guinness , fuelled by its reputation and success in Ireland , would eventually need ships of its own solely for the purpose of handling Guinness exports . |
| 21 | The period began quietly enough but the re-opening of the Deep Mine and those at Paddy End and elsewhere , and the erection of mills for the dressing of the ore , coupled with the gradual introduction of ever improved machinery , led to a little Industrial Revolution all of its own there in the Mines Valley . |
| 22 | India certainly got its own back for the British Raj by imposing this horrific version of the bungalow upon us . |
| 23 | A sizable saithe dangling from its beak indicates another meal for its young up on the hill loch beyond the village . |
| 24 | The judge accepted that he at least attempted to put to her that it was an extremely onerous document and made her liable down to the last penny if Eratex Ltd. failed . |
| 25 | And then the tendrils of her inner fire licked outwards , and the buffeting of the waters around her merged dizzily with the touch of his hands as he drew her closer . |
| 26 | And they were sawing these slates in into blocks , you know sawing them square like into the size of the slate , they were quite handy . |
| 27 | Apparently FirstPerson will have a tough task to water down the industrial-strength principals of Spring and make them lightweight enough for the mass consumer market . |
| 28 | See now , there 's a lot of people who will speak to you friendly out on the street and there 's a lot more of them who 'll speak to you inside their own homes . |
| 29 | So a violent kind of self-accelerating process would take place , with the magma rapidly blowing itself up into a froth of gas and liquid rock and blasting itself clear out of the vent . |
| 30 | ‘ Now about tonight , are you still on for the pictures ? ’ |