Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were they paid just for tying the boats up or for bringing them up the estuary as well ? |
| 2 | ‘ I had to lay him off but I had every intention of bringing him back the following season . |
| 3 | After a week of checking everything out the survey began in earnest on 9 February . |
| 4 | Indeed , his increased persistence of late may even be my employer 's way of urging me all the more to respond in a like-minded spirit . |
| 5 | And they have decided to issue part of their deficit-financing bonds to the market at attractive interest rates , instead of forcing them down the throats of reluctant workers ( though the lack of a secondary market may still make them unappetising ) . |
| 6 | The ILP Conference of 1933 made this official Party policy ; this gave the NAC the problem of deciding what exactly the RPC had meant . |
| 7 | Summat 's moving on the floor and I sort of watch it out the corner of my eye . |
| 8 | As I run I 'm computing the Mamba 's speed in that heavy black frock against my chances of making it up the north transept steps before he rounds the corner . |
| 9 | So after ten years of telling us how the future belongs to Thatcher , he will spend the next five telling us how successful Major will be in creating a classless society . |
| 10 | ‘ Talk about leading me up the garden path ! |
| 11 | Need a the , these Fiestas , but they never get them right at the , the bloke I works with got one exactly the same as this does exactly ten miles and it cuts out on him . |
| 12 | There are two reasons for giving them only the most tangential treatment here . |
| 13 | In fact subjects generally found it relatively easy to understand the rating required and found no difficulty in using it thus the general conclusion from this study is that drivers do report fluctuating levels of subjective risk . |
| 14 | In debating it today the Labour Conference should focus not on its tactical advantages but on the kind of political system it wishes to see . |
| 15 | we 're asking for public help in telling us where the travellers are gathering , especially on common or open landThe familiar police tactic is to try and keep the travellers in small groups by continually moving them away from the others . |
| 16 | actually I tend to waste money cos I thought I 'd sit here and moan about taking them out the cost of it , but then I considered spending a hundred pound on a bed that he probably does n't even need , it 's daft really in n it ? |
| 17 | But the fact that , in the face of the overpowering evidence against the addiction , he had finally managed to give up all that time ago , combined with the fact that the pain was in the shoulder blade and not the chest , had contributed to putting me off the scent . |
| 18 | she said , ‘ Just got ta get it down the step . ’ |
| 19 | and you wan na run it down the back , Deana take the wire down the back of all your books on the shelf |
| 20 | And it 's not gon na cost anything so the |
| 21 | But erm this might not believe me but I 'm gon na tell you just the same . |
| 22 | And if you go , if you 're not gon na pick them up the next day . |
| 23 | I thought you said you was gon na get one out the box and you could n't bother to or something |
| 24 | When you have typed in your work , move the cursor back to the very beginning and use it to guide your eyes by moving it down the screen at the left-hand margin as you check each line . |
| 25 | He concluded by pointing our how the work of CAFOD was an example of practical charity . |
| 26 | It is to an examination of this perspective that we now turn , but it is worthwhile to start by asking ourselves why the situation is regarded as a problem rather than a potential ? |
| 27 | Again , the viewfinder image will alert you to the problem by showing you how the camcorder is seeing the scene . |
| 28 | We hope that this booklet will help you do this , by setting our clearly the various aspects that you will need to consider . |