Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had built it out of practically nothing for the local amateur dramatic society and it had sat resplendently on the stage like something fetched straight from the nearest wood , so real , yet with touches of the bizarre , so brown , so greyish , so admired , so solid . |
| 2 | The photographic sitting ends at 4.30 in the morning with Lagerfeld in very good humour , having taken portraits of virtually everyone in the studio for a forthcoming photographic book , as well as all the publicity pictures for the collection . |
| 3 | The EP rapporteur Geoffrey Hoon ( UK , Labour ) explained : ‘ The collection and processing of data permeates the daily life of almost everyone in the European Community , concern grows over possible abuses . |
| 4 | To the astonishment of almost everyone in the court , the answer came in the affirmative . |
| 5 | Unlike almost everyone in the papal Curia , unlike the pope himself , he did not understand the need for compromise ; he saw no grounds for withdrawal or discussion ; he took pleasure in obedience . |
| 6 | ‘ The old woman who was the nurse died with only me in the room , ’ said Mrs Bumble . |
| 7 | The demands of the barren Breckland effectively squeezed the more affluent sort of peasant out of Lackford hundred , where nine out of ten taxpayers were worth less than £5 , and with scarcely anybody in the £5-£19 range , it was almost entirely peopled by big farmers and swarms of poor labourers . |
| 8 | The success of the venture depends on Hopkin remaining elusive , difficult to trace , for , as the narrator avers , ‘ you can get away with almost anything in the art racket ( for a while ) , if you try . |
| 9 | History has been called the science of the future , so it seems a pity that this body of research comes up with virtually none of the solutions to the problems plaguing the American energy scene . |
| 10 | It is said that Mr Shamir appointed Rehavam Zeevi , who runs a party called Moledat ( Homeland ) , as minister-without-portfolio in his inner cabinet mainly for coalition reasons : he wanted to increase his narrow majority and to avoid being attacked from outside it by the extreme right . |
| 11 | It would appear that this parental love exists throughout the animal kingdom , including homo sapiens , in degrees of intensity varying from near nothing to the immeasurably great . |
| 12 | Leaping over fallen worshippers , Ace made for the sedan chair , but was forced to dive for cover when Richmann appeared from behind it with the Winchester drawn . |
| 13 | Eventually , after canvassing ideas from virtually everyone in the department , I came up with a design , using egg boxes and colanders which Blue Peter decided to use . |
| 14 | Definitely crossword time , I 've got ta have a go at it but there 's not a lot left in there nothing in the teapot |
| 15 | In terms of the effect on potential parties , an argument advanced by the petitioners was that the notion of ‘ involuntary agency ’ was an established part of the lex fori , and to disapply it in the case of foreign defendants would be to give such defendants an advantage denied to their domestic counterparts . |
| 16 | The emphasis is , therefore , on the conjugal bond , to such an extent that marriage has become an index of ‘ normality ’ or ‘ settling down ’ and is now a status formally open to almost everyone of the appropriate age [ … ] . |
| 17 | By the late 1980s , the ‘ golden dream ’ had lost its appeal to almost everyone in the ‘ Socialist Commonwealth ’ except the few elderly leaders from the generation which had entered the Communist Party at the height of Stalin 's predominance . |
| 18 | I 've played through it , recorded with it , connected it up to almost everything but the kitchen sink and every time it 's delivered either the sound I wanted or something very close . |
| 19 | It was a big drawcard for almost everyone at the show , and none more so that Reitzle and his boss , von Kuenheim . |
| 20 | Count de Beaumont said blonde Mona , 36 , paid for almost everything during the family 's stay — including ice creams , balls and toys for Mellor 's two sons Mark , 12 , and eight-year-old Freddie . |
| 21 | They had finished the wine and talked about almost everything but the charity that had been the purpose of the lunch . |
| 22 | He seemed willing to talk about almost anything except the effect his proposed cuts in legal aid eligibility would have on millions of people . |
| 23 | In the event I was shown into a small room with Her Majesty , where we sat together for some twenty minutes chatting amiably about almost anything under the sun . |
| 24 | The shares were suddenly suspended , and returned , worth almost nothing in the form of an investment holding company with plans to bring a Harvard director Charles Mitchell , onto the board . |
| 25 | It is all too revealing that , searching through the biographical work on Gide for further references to Athman in Europe , I came across hardly anything except the occasional derogatory , passing remark . |
| 26 | Any seminarian today will learn at least something of the Dead Sea Scrolls , of the Nag Hammadi Scrolls , of the history and evolution of New Testament studies , of the more controversial statements made by both theologians and historians . |
| 27 | The only experience of collectivization there 'd been was the Soviet one and they seemed to have known at least something about the Soviet , they knew it involved a lot of force they knew that if you were going to collect you were going to collectivize you needed the mechaniz well they thought that you needed the mechanization first and they knew that they d A they did n't have the capacity for that mechanization they did n't want to use force I mean i it would , i it would have been very dangerous , would n't it , to go back to the countryside collectivization . |
| 28 | She did not know if her efforts would save for him at least something from the wreck , poor Benedict . |
| 29 | At least someone with the car 's description and registration number had been told they were coming . |
| 30 | The first problem is identifying a pair and with no external differences , this may provide at least you with the proverbial headache . |