Example sentences of "[unc] the [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Oh as I sa the part-time job we used to get , two shillings a week and he used to give us tuppence for ourselves the two shillings was for our parents , and the tuppence was supposed to be our pocket money , but er when we 'd finished on a Saturday night if , if there were any stale cakes we 'd all get a bag of stale cakes each you used to make a terrific fuss of those on a Sunday .
2 Cos somebody was saying something about the la the last time they got in , it all went
3 Now in order to understand this and not to misunderstand terms , we 've got to unders the first thing we have to understand is what Darwin 's Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection is all about and the problem with this , and in some ways this is analogous to the problem with Freud , and I 'll be talking about this later , is that er when Darwin put forward his Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection in eighteen fifty nine it was confused and misunderstood because of the ideas of other people like Herbert Spencer and the so-called Social Darwinists , who coined slogans like , for example , survival of the fittest .
4 Cos e the other day I left her forty pound dad .
5 Women out if anything , we se the first book we read was back in seventeen hundred
6 comments fair that he did , he did come in twice and se the third time he said I 'm sorry I had to .
7 I referred sir at the beginning to er the limited experience I 've had in Nottinghamshire where erm a criteria based policy was put into a structure plan erm for er in that case for a prestige business development I think is what they call it , prestige business park , that was a criteria based policy as a way of containing , stopping this strategic issue becoming a Trojan horse for lots of other things .
8 It 's the er the only way we can see of effectively enforcing that part of the law .
9 Er the only point I wish to make is that there is considerable variability we have found in the grading erm and the Ministry of Agriculture maps can not be relied upon for relatively small er or larger areas .
10 Well I , I 've , but er , no but er the only reason you have n't got it off , if you use Jif , I 've used Jif
11 And er the only thing we could do then was to chase them away go round you know and just chase them away .
12 Er my Lord er the second observation I make about erm Mr opinion erm and the facts upon which it is based is that his opinion is hotly disputed er , not least because of what it would be submitted is the highly speculative nature of this enterprise er , when you are being asked to consider with the benefit of hindsight , whether or not a business entered into some eighty years ago , was likely to have failed and er it is also an exercise which in my submission is entirely irrelevant if your Lordship would find the basis of compensation which I contend for is the one because the logic of not having to become involved in any investigation of whether or not this business would probably have been unsuccessful in any event .
13 Yes I 'm sorry that I 'm having to scribe all this out but er the new documentation they 've changed the erm that 's a Monday sorry about this
14 Well as you know er to be a basic rate taxpayer , you 're paying twenty five pence in the pound , apart from the er the new rate you know the first two thousand five hundred you get at twenty percent , which came in at the last budget .
15 I used to know , I used to play at tennis with Bay , the daughter and er the eldest daughter she married another chemist and he ran the place afterwards I think , then there was Jack but er I , I used to know , I used to know quite a lot of the er people on the , who kept these shops .
16 Er the industrial life I never experienced before .
17 Two first cousins from the Caithness area and er their their grandfather left a croft to the youngest son and these two first cousins were on the rock on Skerrymor and er the principal keeper he was an Orkney man .
18 Er there and er it 's therefore er the best use we can make of it , not specifically for any particular school in any particular circumstances as I read in the , that the , that the Tories proposals have been in , on , on , on the issue .
19 E at least when I have er , er the easy work I get my maths right .
20 So that was er and then I came back here I was demobbed and came back to , I was er the highest rank I had was corporal you know , in the acting corporal actually .
21 But er the extra money they got was no worth taking the job .
22 er The first day we reckon we 'll have to cycle about er eleven hours , and the second day , slightly less time — ten hours probably , so it 's about twenty one hours cycling .
23 Er the first day I did n't stay dinner .
24 Er you also basically er the first thing you did was erm the second thing you mentioned was these two hurdles , the third thing you did was check when you was to proceed .
25 Certainly you would er the other aspect you do n't even mention your the company 's name .
26 Er the other point I would make about the the figures under H One , really is that erm the twelve thirty figures that you 've seen in the tables is our best estimate at the present time , based on the site survey we 've carried out .
27 Er the other thing I 'd like your advice on is that the coffee room 's franchise er is due for renewal in nineteen ninety three .
28 The reason why of course and I take this as a matter of pride because er not only am I , I think probably the only member of the L S E as published in Nature recently , but erm er the other thing I take pride in is the fact that erm one really ca n't ignore it , because all the time stuff is being published in the world 's leading science journal which is directly relevant to this course and how many other courses are in L S E are like that ?
29 Er the other thing I did mention is we 're not the only people who have erm problems with typing .
30 Erm oh well I 'll er the other thing I was thinking of is that er we could be looking er towards beginning , you know even now , to doing a trips network and things like that .
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