Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Sept. 6 President Fernando Collor de Mello ordered Justice Minister Bernardo Cabral to investigate charges by the human rights organization Amnesty International that death squads , some of them secretly operated by the police , were murdering street children . |
| 2 | We kept very still inside and in the end we could hear them slowly going down the stairs and going away . |
| 3 | The literature which discussed his duties and the personal qualities which he needed to perform them successfully became in the seventeenth century more copious than ever before . |
| 4 | However , the contract will doubtless contain other terms , some of them expressly agreed between the parties ( e.g. the date of delivery ) and some of them implied ( often by other sections of the Sale of Goods Act — e.g. as to the place of delivery , section 29(2) ) . |
| 5 | And this makes them better suited to the longer distances . ’ |
| 6 | When tenants take on a lease they may make extensive alterations to the premises in order to make them better suited to the type of catering enterprise they intend to undertake . |
| 7 | • After several days on this schedule they will be going to bed and getting up at their chosen time , one that gives them enough sleep during the weekdays . |
| 8 | DEC , on the other hand , which has been having COSE talks at both the strategic and technical levels , feels there might still be a few loose ends to tie up , some of them perhaps circulating around the ‘ Process Paper ’ that is expected to be made public soon . |
| 9 | DEC , on the other hand , which has been having COSE talks at both the strategic and technical levels , feels there might still be a few loose ends to tie up , some of them perhaps circulating around the ‘ Process Paper ’ expected to be made public soon . |
| 10 | Jane could not bear to give up for , although she knew nothing so harrowing as the run-up to a match or a medal , she knew nothing to compare with the excitement which lay on the other side of the 1st tee : " However tight a match , I never believed that anyone was going to beat me . |
| 11 | I became at once possessive about it … there was already talk about the war ending and Sadler 's Wells reopening and it seemed to me entirely fitting for the Sadler 's Wells Company to reopen the theatre at Rosebery Avenue after the war with a new opera by a leading young English composer . |
| 12 | He returned to find the Cross of St George still flapping from the walls of Famagusta and nothing obviously changed except the weather , which would , of course , put out the slow-matches and the fire-missiles and make it increasingly unlikely that the tower of Famagusta was going to prove combustible . |
| 13 | Er , and I got up and I protested about it , on the grounds that if they could n't run a great big pop hall for , and I wholly agreed with the idea , of of them providing the facility . |
| 14 | It is well known that I disliked what was in the first three-year letter of intent , but I wholly approved of the principle . |
| 15 | I wholly agree with the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook that it would be inappropriate to oppose the Bill on Second Reading , but , like the right hon. Gentleman , I intend to look closely at what happens to it during its passage through the House . |
| 16 | I began Chapter 4 by contrasting two views of physics , which I loosely characterized as the instrumental and expressive view . |
| 17 | I rarely drink in the week , and I 've never acquired a taste for wine . |
| 18 | So next day I duly went to the synagogue , rather self-conscious in my trilby hat , surprised to find women sitting in the gallery only , much impressed with the singing of the cantor and the blowing of the ram 's horn , and a little taken aback by the quick exit at the end of the fast , presumably to get back home for the first square meal of the day . |
| 19 | Although I duly applied for the Fellowship , I was unsuccessful , no doubt to my lasting benefit , as similar failures have served to prove . |
| 20 | However , Brownie Helper 's husband would act as chauffeur , so not being able to think of more excludes , I duly arrived at the appointed hour , to find a welcoming party of six little girls , all anxious to fetch and carry equipment . |
| 21 | ‘ The books I most admire in the European tradition are , ’ he says , ‘ 19th century novels by the great Russian writers and by English writers like Jane Austen and George Eliot . |
| 22 | I knew that I wanted a free and independent life although I secretly subscribed to the idea of marrying a professional , sighted man . |
| 23 | ‘ Up until then my longest run in the side was one game ! |
| 24 | I mostly stood on the sidelines , watching the heavy-weights raging at each other . |
| 25 | They drive me to distraction : at first I refuse to fight back , on the grounds that life is sacred and it is not their fault that they are mosquitos , but I eventually join in the swatting that punctuates the quiet every so often . |
| 26 | I eventually got off the motorway and decided to drive straight to the hospital to see Toby , and paused only to buy him some fruit and a bottle of his favourite Bollinger . |
| 27 | When I eventually got off the bus back in Maseru I nearly collapsed , such was my weakness . |
| 28 | When I eventually arrived at the hospital I was feeling in the best of spirits and apparently shook the sisters by asking them to bring on the dancing girls . ’ |
| 29 | As I hold them I slowly sink to the deep dark bottom . |
| 30 | For a little while I was afraid I was going to land in the middle of a town , but I mercifully drifted to the edge of this . |