Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'll then pass the information on so that eventually everyone in the road knows . |
| 2 | From now on everyone in the country will have the chance to recommend ‘ deserving cases ’ for an award . |
| 3 | What seems more difficult to find nowadays is genuine passion and thankfully no-one with the will to survive could ever describe Bitumen as wishy-washy . |
| 4 | Whilst it may be too much to ask that you immediately take on any responsibility for seeing that the 120,000 weekly NME s are properly recycled ( By heck , we are talking SERIOUS wank — ER ! — SW ) , you could perhaps act responsibly by doing your bit to ease unemployment by taking on someone with the job of disposing of your own rubbish soundly . |
| 5 | ‘ The old woman who was the nurse died with only me in the room , ’ said Mrs Bumble . |
| 6 | Only me in the office . |
| 7 | Out of the last discussion , titled The Merseyside Perspective , came the idea for a new umbrella organisation to bring together everyone in the business locally . |
| 8 | ‘ For example , in a utility company engineering will be important but in a financial services business computers play a much more vital role and so someone from the IT department will be essential . ’ |
| 9 | Dryden 's sister Elsie Donnelly said yesterday : ‘ The family was given the option of taking it down ourselves by the council . ’ |
| 10 | Obviously someone in the guild 's hierarchy — perhaps the clerk — would have acted as ‘ master of ceremonies ’ , informing guild members of their required attendance and possibly liaising with the parish priest and sexton on behalf of the family . |
| 11 | . He followed a difficult zigzag path from Porlock Weir to Culbone , climbing through woodland which abounded in ‘ wild deer , foxes , badgers , and martin cats ’ ; whortleberries grew in plenty beneath the canopy of trees , and as the ascent progressed , the distant sound of waves breaking on the shore below and glimpses of the Channel and the Welsh mountains were sufficient to fill one eighteenth century traveller with mingled ‘ pleasure and astonishment ’ . |
| 12 | Then he set Mick off into another spasm of laughter when he asked , ‘ Do you think I could get a job alongside you in the factory ? ’ |
| 13 | At its worst it may have been a parasitic racket representing only itself to the detriment of all , but on the larger canvas of society it gave political power to a narrow group of substantial landowners in loose alliance with merchant princes and the small towns which returned members to Parliament . |
| 14 | You depend only on yourself — no matter who 's with you in training , it 's only you in the ring . |
| 15 | ‘ Naturally we at the centre are very pleased at having developed the most advanced bionic arm in the world . |
| 16 | I , I was only one at the time . |
| 17 | What I have in mind then is a description of the route from a cyclist 's point of view ; distances , gradients , junctions ; alternative routes , eg longer loops for the more adventurous ; cafes , pubs , tearooms , and public places with benches ( because cyclists often like to ‘ eat their piece ’ out in the open ) ; some illustrations of landscapes ( these could either be line drawings based on sketches , or photographs ) ; and perhaps something on the history of the place-names , which is of interest to many cyclists ( eg where did Biggar get its name ? ) . |
| 18 | Erm , where you might use P S P , is when you 've got a client now , who 's anticipated buying perhaps something in the future . |
| 19 | ( f ) Airspace and underground It is a fundamental proposition that in the absence of indications to the contrary a conveyance of land includes not only everything on the surface but everything beneath it down to the centre of the earth and the space directly above ( Grigsby v Melville [ 1973 ] 3 All ER 455 ) . |
| 20 | - You start getting this strange maternal urge to bring in everything from the garden overnight . |
| 21 | Left one , down one onto the block marked 1 , then down one more to collect the gem . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's got something to do with lying down one beside the other , when you 're married , ’ Eve said . |
| 23 | Literally everything in the room starts vibrating to the beat of the bass drum . |
| 24 | So we to the hardware shop and we bought some mats and dishes and God knows what ! |
| 25 | but now they 're all set up and I 'm left alone and the children , three of them , have n't got time to look after me to give me what I , what I need and especially one in the truth , that one is less getting in touch with me than the ones that told me the truth , boys ring me , twice , three times a week , Julia rings every , every night , but Ted rings twice or three times a week , three times I could go , the one |
| 26 | He took down everything except the photo of Uncle John 's platoon . |
| 27 | So everybody bar the PE teacher hated me playing football and everything they could do to stop me playing football they did . |
| 28 | And you know I , I actually had phrases like bra burning thrown at me and erm I I said that feminism to me is about having the same opportunities as men and I put few of the phrases er er you know along those lines and so everybody round the table said well yes I believe in that too , I said well then you 're feminists and so it 's about valuing or devaluing words as well and you know you just made the point about changing words , but how far do we go with this ? |
| 29 | So everybody in the area is going to receive , er a house , house , house visit ? |
| 30 | So everybody in the world knows you were late |