Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb base] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you really want a cigarette very badly I think on the whole I should prefer you to have one , ’ Ivy told him . |
| 2 | However little I care for the way you live , I shall concede that as long as you get your facts right , sense flavours and textures with accuracy and discrimination , think out the implications of your choices , are not deceived about your desires and ambitions , you may do as you please . |
| 3 | ‘ Mostly I concentrate on the aerobics and swimming , both of which are available at this club , which also has snooker tables . |
| 4 | Mostly I play with the clean channel on full crunch and the lead channel on 16 . |
| 5 | Yeah , so yeah ah you 're alright so you 'll say yeah course I 'm alright , there 's no fee , so eventually I get to the point where I said look I did say there 's no fee involved but I 'd , I , that 's a bit of a lie because there is a fee for all the work I 'm er but it comes in the form of referrals , in the form of recommendation , not actual money . |
| 6 | Suddenly I see in the calm of the garden a change , as though time has slowed . |
| 7 | Only I know of the old door hidden behind a crumbling shed . |
| 8 | The local stone here is gritstone , much of it brought down I suspect from the quarries on the flanks of Penhill , and on a summer 's evening , when the children are playing on the swings and people are sat talking quietly in the dying sunlight outside the pub while an old dog wanders across the green sniffing his way towards the children , then , when every building is tinted with amber and the gardens are heavy with blooms , it could well be said to be " t'prattiest lal spot i't'Dales " . |
| 9 | ‘ I still do miss her so much , but when I 'm down I think of the way she kept so cheerful after losing Dad , although she missed him terribly … so I try to keep cheerful for her . ’ |
| 10 | But not so much I think er with a lot of henhouses and that they were better battened down I think after the first year . |
| 11 | There 's Albert he er , as though we down I expect up the other side . |
| 12 | ‘ Piano Song ’ , for instance , includes lines like ‘ My vulnerability rushes up to me ’ and ‘ The deeper I delve into the conciousness of me and you ’ , which sound as though they have been selected from a random computer-search for meaningful phrases in a dictionary of pretension . |
| 13 | So I wash in the morning here and bathe when the others have all gone out . |
| 14 | So I hate like the winter . |
| 15 | But when he gets round to it , I think he 'll control them a bit more closely , now you can invest in that sort of fund quite safely , and although it wo n't give you any capital growth , because if they 're giving you ten percent income , obviously the capital growth 's going to be limited , but er if it 's the income that you 're after , not a bad thing to do , so I mean at the moment I may actually combine one income-type er P E P with one growth and income , where the , where the , perhaps the yield is about five percent . |
| 16 | I mean , fixed rates are dangerous because once you 've fixed , if interest rates then go up , you 've lost out on your er return and you ca n't get your money out anyway , so I mean at the moment it 's really erm er er very deeply into the cycle of low , of low interest rates . |
| 17 | So I mean in the shop I , I did sell for the National Trust once but I s I sold them the . |
| 18 | So I mean in the wash |
| 19 | So I go on the same as er , weeks two to four an analysis written , and , or drawn or made of examples on one of these themes . |
| 20 | Because they 're geared to Marks and Spencers , now there 's the advert for them they work with , with mass production , that 's where it goes wrong because we 've lost our individuality and so I go to the Italians in order to get the sort of yarns they offer me , now they 're the sort of yarns they offer me . |
| 21 | So I go to the table and pot yellow one-handed , green , brown , blue , pink and black — all one-handed . |
| 22 | There is no deck chair for me so I sit on the lawn at Ma 's feet and draw some barley water up the straw , gently so as not to disturb Pa who is reading . |
| 23 | And so I wake in the night panic stricken over a lack of fuel . |
| 24 | So I think for the time being , if you allow us , we will find out which tables we want and then we will fund raise for them and get the money for them , okay . |
| 25 | Erm so I think in the m er in the lit in the middle of it you actually lost some of it , erm and then you came back to the , to the referrals erm tt so that was that . |
| 26 | so I tap on the window , had just gone past and I was just about to go in his room , you know , cos he 's standing there and I just tapped on the window come outside Nick had just walked by and Rick and were talking you know it 's not like the dead of night and everything 's quiet |
| 27 | I have to warn Professor that there 's more than one party can play that game and if he thinks that it is sensible to run the affairs of this council on deliberate obstructionism on the basis that if you go on long enough you can wear people down then I think it 's unfortunate , it 's bad for this council bad for the people we serve , it does frankly nothing for local government and I ca n't blame central government if it loses patience So I recognise at the end of the day that erm Mr has had troubles with some of his erm er newcomers he obviously needs to re-establish some control over his group . |
| 28 | The other nights when he is n't in I go into the kitchen and I find something to do — I clear the cupboards out or something . |
| 29 | before so I lent them , so he 's gone in I go by the same time as him we both got ta sign them |
| 30 | See a certain percentage have blown in I think off the grass and if I had some sort of a |