Example sentences of "[pers pn] the [adj] [noun] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , he said , I expect in a minute the door will be flung back and I 'll be dragged off to some sort of temple arena where I 'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then I 'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl will show me the secret passage out of the place and we 'll liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure . ’ |
| 2 | Do they know who lies beside them the long night through , under the overhanging cliffs recorded in the Guinness Book of Records as having the only sunless spot in Britain , summer or winter ? |
| 3 | Less entrancing , I suppose , if you 've got them the other way round . |
| 4 | Let's do them the other way round let's talk first of all about the visual aids . |
| 5 | Wulfstan 's Sermon of the Wolf refers to English powerlessness against the enemy as shameful ; Ælfric to the heathen army holding them to scorn and of days when English kings had been strong and theirs the only fleet around . |
| 6 | ‘ Which way ? ’ he asked , when at last the engine spluttered into life , and she directed him the wrong way round so that they might overtake and confront the trio lurching towards Midnight Mass . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , I 'll give her the other half-crown out of my pay . ’ |
| 8 | Mrs Bradford had given her the complete day off for her father 's funeral and she did n't have to be back at the house in Newcastle Place until six o'clock . |
| 9 | He let the minion struggle and kick for a little while , then hoisted it back out , shook it , and turned it the right way up again . |
| 10 | Right , so when you measure that , okay , you best put it the right way up so you can see what you 're doing , and we 'll turn it back in a minute . |
| 11 | we 've got a hundred grams divided by twenty eight pennies , the answer is whatever it comes to grams per divided by pennies , grams per penny , so that 's a good check that you 've got it the right way up , before you go and calculate it you just have a little look , what have I got here ? |
| 12 | what would happen if you , let's have a look at G , depends on , what would happen if you were still paying fifty pence , but they gave you four hundred , four hundred grams of chocolate , well you get eight grams per penny , this is another test that you got it the right way up , if it were still only two hundred grams , but you payed more money for it , let's say they charged you a pound , I think you 'd get less grams per penny . |
| 13 | Put it the right way up then Kathleen ? |
| 14 | That one , that one , page two , get it the right way up , that one , like that , that 's it . |
| 15 | erm Now , what you 've got there is a slightly later map of 1675 , which is exactly the same , the north is at the bottom , I 'm afraid the top is not very obvious , if I could just hold it up , you 've got the castle there , and you 've got it the right way up , and actually there 's some writing as well . |
| 16 | Is it the right way round ? |
| 17 | ‘ Yes , but we want to get it the right way about , ’ said Pumlumon . |
| 18 | Critics seem to have it the other way round , so there 's a lot of stuff talked about me using different styles , but there does n't seem to be much said about whether it works , or whether it 's done with taste , or whether the end result is worth having . |
| 19 | The Hungarians have put privatisation and foreign-trade liberalisation before currency convertibility ; the Poles have done it the other way round . |
| 20 | SHE does it the other way round , because we 're convinced that not only our readers , but most UK cooks , do n't cook metric . |
| 21 | Or was it the other way round ? |
| 22 | ‘ Try it the other way round . |
| 23 | Putting it the other way round : there is no problem about how the execution of an order is ‘ foreshadowed ’ in the order . |
| 24 | Or was it the other way round ? |
| 25 | Even if this appears to have occurred , a deconstructive account will show how such a text had to dissimulate in order to cover over its own openings , or , to put it the other way round , it will show how history must always be organized by an attempted occlusion of its own conditions of historicity . |
| 26 | The proportion of tax paid decreases with increases in income : or to put it the other way round — the proportion of tax paid increases at lower levels of income compared with higher levels . |
| 27 | Put it the other way round , what incentives have the police or the white working class got not to be racist ? |
| 28 | So it 's just switching it the other way round . |
| 29 | Puts it the other way round . |
| 30 | Or , to put it the other way round , affines only remain friends so long as they remain affines ; they are bonded together by political alliance rather than by common substance , and , if the parties concerned want to maintain that alliance , they must repeatedly reaffirm that bonding by the appropriate exchange of imperishable valuables of a visible and identifiable kind . |