Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] the [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His case raises some immensely difficult issues : issues about death and dying , issues about the appropriate moral and legal responses to be made when a man who has received the best that modern medical technology can offer decides finally that he can take no more . |
| 2 | In spite of her apparent self-confidence , in spite of her twenty-five years , in spite of having had the best that money could buy since she was a little girl , there was an ingenuousness about Harriet which sprung from a yearning need to prove herself — to her father , to her contemporaries , to the whole wide world . |
| 3 | And if Gemma had chosen , at the end of the day , to bestow her well-dowered hand upon a penniless stranger then Amabel had no apologies to make for it , since the Queen had done the very same ; her German Albert , although a prince and full of education and charm , not having two farthings to call his own . |
| 4 | Still , it was particularly unnerving , somehow , to find her naked body so closely enfolded in a garment that had done the very same thing for him — strange , personal , intimate . |
| 5 | In 1746 , one of Cumberland 's officers on his way back from victory at Culloden had invaded the very same hut and raped a girl ( his troopers held her down ) then strangled the grandmother to command her silence . |
| 6 | I 've measured the so that 's okay . |
| 7 | Robyn remembered being by the fountain , all those weeks ago ; he had used the very same expression then . |