Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alix suspected this , and clung on to him the more tightly , rejecting Deborah 's support , rejecting everything except a little money ‘ to see her through ’ . |
| 2 | I got right into it the first couple of series . |
| 3 | Like physical ailments and er our , our , our physical body does n't work like it used to , and as you do get older there is a tendency to more to , to need more rest , we ca n't do what the young ones er do , and we would love to do that and that goes along with what the council and the |
| 4 | He cared only about what the letter said . |
| 5 | A broad drive , bordered with straggling bushes and a few trees , led down to what the map showed as Stoney Piggott 's Road . |
| 6 | During a visit to Plymouth , Mass. , in April , Royal Bank Vice Chairman Charles Winter said the deal fits nicely with what the parent bank is looking for in its growth plan . |
| 7 | How good the meal was depended entirely on what the cook was like , you could n't believe the difference . |
| 8 | We have negotiated a special deal with one of the world 's leading car hire organisations , that enables us to pass on to you the corporate rates and preferential service for car hire that they usually offer only to large companies . |
| 9 | I stood in for at the meeting of BAIE 's Regional Chairmen in London last week , and undertook to pass on to you the name and address of the Chairman of the London & Home Counties Region , who might well like you to do a seminar or seminars for them . |
| 10 | With all these new developments pressing in on him the last thing he could afford was an afternoon off work . |
| 11 | Everyone in our sample cases agreed that the law is the law and must be enforced ; they disagree only about what the law in fact was . |
| 12 | The trouble is , I 'm a member of the Dock workers ’ Union as well , and the Brotherhood does n't always fall in with what the Union recommends . |
| 13 | If you would like to know more about what the Open University provides or wish to view any of our materials , please contact either |
| 14 | The purpose of RE is to help them genuinely to reflect upon religion , opening up for them the possibility of a self-chosen and real commitment , religious or otherwise , so that the individual can freely play his or her role in the wider community , whether this be the faith community or society as a whole . |
| 15 | After 1870 education for the Poles was seen as a way of bringing them within the German order , of lightening their Slav darkness by opening up to them the world of ‘ civilisation ’ . |
| 16 | Richie caught up with them the next morning . |
| 17 | When she caught up with him the bombshell came . |
| 18 | I rang Seddon at home before he left for New Scotland Yard and asked him to find out for me the names of the officers who had dealt with the Southwark Bridge case . |
| 19 | Melanie never found out to whom the plastic toy she discovered in the bath on her first morning belonged . |
| 20 | I merely made it possible for you to come back to me the sooner . ’ |
| 21 | The first is to spell out to you the precise erm constitutional position of the president and the second , and perhaps more interestingly , is to talk about the notion of presidential power . |
| 22 | The faster she got away from him the better , for her sanity if nothing else . |
| 23 | It can be assessed only by its appropriateness , but this depends entirely on what the pupil is writing about and for what purpose ( and so has a cross-curricular dimension ) . |
| 24 | It might bring down on me the wrath of Motherdear . ’ |
| 25 | Now when it came down to it the national government essen sorry the Supreme Court essentially said if the national government wishes to create a national bank in pursuance of legitimate aims of the constitution then it should have the discretion to do so and it should n't be interfered with by a state government . |
| 26 | The Baker Plan of 1986 was a move in the right direction but came only after what the IMF called the painful adjustment phase of 1983–4 was over . |
| 27 | The balance of effect depends largely on what the firm is trying to do . |
| 28 | Much has been said above about what the king demanded of his people : justice was among the things they demanded of him . |
| 29 | It did both , but this only drove home to her the grossness and subjectivity of her own temperament . |
| 30 | We hope the leaflet we are sending out to our motor policyholders will bring home to them the fact that most cars can be converted both simply and cheaply . ’ |