Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pos pn] [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The frequent complaint that ships , once requisitioned , were not actually used for several months , thereby denying their owners the use of them in between times , was not always the fault of the wind or weather . |
| 2 | All the established associations are expected to meet the criteria , and so earn their members the right to call themselves organic . |
| 3 | The fact that consumer platforms will generally be convenient , all-in-one , low cost units needing nothing more sophisticated than a domestic television for display purposes , suggest that many libraries may be able to support all available platforms and so give their customers the widest possible choice . |
| 4 | ‘ A good general only briefs his troops the morning of the battle . |
| 5 | Within the assembly council I personally valued your contributions the very courteous and thoughtful way in which you presented these and the courage with which you expressed at times the stand that you had to take for the interest of the Board . |
| 6 | We all know that the common agricultural policy has not given our farmers the return that their efficiency deserves or our housewives the food prices that they should be able to expect . |
| 7 | Miss Bedwelty had said she would come over to see their horses the following week . |
| 8 | So why not give your curtains the treatment they deserve ? |
| 9 | I normally get my tickets the next day , or in two days . |
| 10 | I normally get my tickets the next day , or in two days . |
| 11 | He therefore had the choice of making a new home somewhere or making his way back to a town about whose public feelings he could have no doubt , but knowing that if he did not change his ways the whole thing might happen again . |
| 12 | Beau Williford , a respected Louisiana-based manager who can not get his boys the fights he wants , has started the Universal Boxing Association . |
| 13 | As a monthly , the magazine can not offer its readers the overnight scores , nor preview the week 's to matches . |
| 14 | I looked out of the window and it was the back garden of Dr Jane 's house , and when Mrs Pitt came up to serve me and I complained Dr Jane laughed , and it was really Dr Jane all the time and the whole place was horrible and dark and dirty and when I got outside to follow my friends the ones who were usually in the dream there were n't any people and we were in a sort of studio and the village and the inn it was so obvious now I felt a fool for going in and sitting down and expecting to be served was the crudest sort of cardboard stage set like a model for a child 's history lesson and the colours were horrible and it smelt of a sort of horrible glue and — — |
| 15 | The beauty of the versatile LM method is that we can also just choose one or two methods to gain that experience while still giving our patients the gentle but speedy improvement they desire . |
| 16 | But she later told her parents the boys had raped her and they were quizzed by police for several days before the girl confessed to lying . |
| 17 | The procedure also gives your solicitors the opportunity to peruse your file at an earlier stage . |
| 18 | Spokesman David Reynolds said : ‘ Ireland is the only country in Europe that does n't give its emigrants the vote . |
| 19 | I wo n't give my children the satisfaction of burying me until there is only one of them left to perform the ceremony . ’ |
| 20 | Visiting the ruins of Tula in Mexico , Mr Palomar is torn between interpretation and non-interpretation , between the explanations of his knowledgeable friend , who transforms each mysterious stone into ‘ a cosmic tale , an allegory , a moral reflection ’ , and the attitude of the teacher with his little party of schoolchildren who resolutely refuses to speculate on meaning , preferring simply to show his pupils the thing that is there . |
| 21 | The Nez Perce made camp on the Clearwater , which Howard dared not cross , then struck their lodges the following morning and headed for Weippe Prairie and the Lolo trail east . |
| 22 | If there was a very large output , perhaps from some other part of the world , and buyers would offer only a lower price , such as £110 per tonne , the EEC either paid their farmers the difference , of £16 , or bought the surplus grain and stored it for future use . |
| 23 | ‘ And these fellers used to go to sea like that ; and in these boats they were gone ten and twelve weeks , and they slept in little bunks , and they never changed their clothes the whole time . |
| 24 | A limited liability company therefore allows its members the privilege of being shielded by the ‘ corporate veil ’ from unlimited liability for company debts . |