Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Last year I won the Julie Rose 10K in a time which was within 10 seconds of my track best for the season , which is indicative of how badly I ran on the track .
2 ‘ If you really want a cigarette very badly I think on the whole I should prefer you to have one , ’ Ivy told him .
3 However little I care for the way you live , I shall concede that as long as you get your facts right , sense flavours and textures with accuracy and discrimination , think out the implications of your choices , are not deceived about your desires and ambitions , you may do as you please .
4 As a Ballyclare supporter I was not sure which fans to join in the final but thankfully I went to the South stand and found myself in the middle of the most friendly people I have ever met in my whole life .
5 Mostly I concentrate on the aerobics and swimming , both of which are available at this club , which also has snooker tables .
6 Mostly I play with the clean channel on full crunch and the lead channel on 16 .
7 But I knew I had to look , so slowly I peeped round the door .
8 Yeah , right I went in the playground .
9 Luckily I lived at the higher end of the village so my house was not affected .
10 Eventually I got onto the runway and found my wife .
11 Yeah , so yeah ah you 're alright so you 'll say yeah course I 'm alright , there 's no fee , so eventually I get to the point where I said look I did say there 's no fee involved but I 'd , I , that 's a bit of a lie because there is a fee for all the work I 'm er but it comes in the form of referrals , in the form of recommendation , not actual money .
12 Instinctively I looked around the corridor to try and spot the lurking animal activist .
13 Delicately I reached for the telephone .
14 So everyone working on the door at Ronnie 's had a good laugh at us while Strummer was hustling to get us in .
15 Ma has still not appeared , which leaves only me to deal with the scraps and slivers before the flies from the sewage works arrive .
16 But it was perhaps nothing compared with the hostility he faced over his plans to reform the legal profession .
17 So nothing goes through the docks , the income 's still there and it 's getting bigger .
18 After just six weeks , Rigby was playing her first gig behind Gedge and Solowka in a band called The Truth , who were obviously nothing to do with the chart group of the same name .
19 Suddenly I awoke to the fact that I was staring at a tree on the other side of the road and that this tree was green and delicate .
20 Suddenly I see in the calm of the garden a change , as though time has slowed .
21 No , er , I , apparently I saw on the Teletext last night
22 Suddenly someone bangs on the drum in the corner , and we all look up .
23 Naturally I jumped at the chance . ’
24 Interestingly enough I looked into the same situation in America and Germany and in all three mighty industrial countries six out of the top ten firms had gone .
25 Only I know of the old door hidden behind a crumbling shed .
26 Apparently someone recorded over the station security video by mistake , the gaunt woman who runs the kiosk is not prepared to testify .
27 ‘ Piano Song ’ , for instance , includes lines like ‘ My vulnerability rushes up to me ’ and ‘ The deeper I delve into the conciousness of me and you ’ , which sound as though they have been selected from a random computer-search for meaningful phrases in a dictionary of pretension .
28 So deeper and deeper I went into the world of science , wanting all the time to express myself in a totally different field .
29 So I came on the Monday night to the Guild and it , it was n't long after , only a matter of weeks , before this lady erm she er came back home from Canada seeing to some other woman and er she just sat down and died .
30 So I came to the dinner for 20 minutes and sat with the sponsors .
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