Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] [subord] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is nearly as demanding as the main route so I 'd only do it if the tops are covered in mist or you are absolutely worn out . |
| 2 | If your horse is dehydrated , give the electrolytes for a couple of days and then only give them when the horse has worked hard or competed or you feel has sweated excessively . |
| 3 | He so calls it because the properties with which people committing this fallacy typically identify good are natural properties . |
| 4 | Nor are glamorous stiletto shoes safe until you are at the bottom of the stairs ; do not attempt to come down wearing them as the danger is very real — Winston Churchill 's mother lost a leg that way . |
| 5 | I only hit him when the situation looked like getting out of hand . ’ |
| 6 | You can spot the modern first edition collector : it is he who sifts assiduously through a pile of the new Martin Amis searching for the copy whose corner is not bumped , only to reject it because the alignment of the dust-wrapper ( not jacket ) on the spine is very slightly askew — but he does n't want that copy either because of the biro indentation on the lamination , and the nineteenth copy would have been OK had the rear cover not been soiled . |
| 7 | Sometimes too he would take duck and geese as they floated on some high lochan , coming on them so low along the ground that they only saw him when the massive darkness of his wings came over the peat edge and shadowed out their life . |
| 8 | Er , I should like to the names next month and I hope you 'll all support us because the numbers are going down and if we do n't get sufficient numbers , it 'll have to cancelled like the Torbay one . |
| 9 | So shove it where the ! |
| 10 | She raised her arm and flung it hard at him , not caring where it hit him , wanting only to hurt him as the whole world had hurt her ; wanting to see his cold , impassive face break with ordinary human emotion . |
| 11 | The board should minute the projections thereby approving them before the Information memorandum is distributed . |
| 12 | An accidental damage option is available , which will cover you if you happen to break the tank yourself but this will not cover you if the tank breaks of its own accord or springs a leak . |
| 13 | But they 're careful not to hit him where the bruises will shew . |
| 14 | In any event , knowledge within the firm of the identity of the intermediary 's client may not identify him if the salesman or perhaps the dealer concerned did not know either that the intermediary was acting as intermediary or the identity of the client ; this is a Chinese wall-type question . |
| 15 | The few businesses that do manage to achieve this profit handsomely , but most do not achieve it once the market is established . |
| 16 | The traffic was thick through the outskirts of Ramsgate and Jim had still not made it when the traffic lights at the crossing where the Sandwich road met the London road showed up ahead . |
| 17 | ‘ Isa has not seen me since the happy news and it is that which restores me to near my old self . ’ |
| 18 | The ‘ labour movement ’ did not like it when the working man felt he could get on unaided . |
| 19 | He could not see her because the grey London light was all his end with a dab of amber from his desk lamp . |
| 20 | He had taken Nocenzi 's hand , denying him , but Nocenzi had insisted , squeezing his hand weakly , not releasing it until the T'ang accepted his resignation . |
| 21 | He soon forgot it as the filming restarted . |
| 22 | The nicest things — well , I just like it when the programmes are mentioned casually , in passing , almost as though they were like one of the elements . |
| 23 | The accountant will try to ensure that the band have given enough thought to how long this money is likely to last , and how best to use it until the next payment or earnings are due . |
| 24 | He does this because of their naivity ; they are more honest about their thoughts and feelings , and do not judge him as the adults do . |
| 25 | The bank manager says that I can not have it until the will 's executor , my stepfather , agrees . |
| 26 | But the men did not hear her because the engine was making a lot of steam and noise . |
| 27 | ‘ We want to run but we will not risk her unless the going is right , ’ said trainer Clive Brittain . |
| 28 | I shall not reach it if the gates are shut |
| 29 | The other preliminary matter is that the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 does not tell you whether the seller is liable . |
| 30 | I had not before realised that my canoe had been following me but I soon felt it as the point hit my back and then went down underneath me , dragging me down and sandwiching me between the canoe and the tree . |