Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was wearier , I was more tolerant , that was the only difference and that change only enabled me the better to accept what I 'd always been . |
| 2 | On the rare occasions when the cooling towers are for maintenance , the staff wait eagerly to see what the pond reveals . |
| 3 | ‘ There 's an inside to things , ’ he explained , ‘ and print only gave me the outside . |
| 4 | But most important , please decide today to give yourself the financial protection of the Midland Personal Accident Plan . |
| 5 | Its design to avoid significant loading at the output or input has already been considered in section 3.7 for the special case of a direct input , which can be thought of as a sinusoidal input of zero frequency , but the discussion and conclusions reached apply equally well whatever the time dependence of the input signal . |
| 6 | sort of sit there putting what the solicitor said in your |
| 7 | , I think perhaps give them the , the shorter years . |
| 8 | If you do then tell me the truth . |
| 9 | As I say , I 've only met her the once . |
| 10 | ‘ You 've just landed yourself the best guide on the island , Miss Chester . |
| 11 | I 'm supposed to think that you 've just given me the OK . ’ |
| 12 | Flaubert was delighted with the story : ‘ Do you know , Lapierre , you 've just given me the subject of a novel , the counterpart of my Bovary , a Bovary of high society . |
| 13 | Er so can you remember from what you 've just read what the , what the command is ? |
| 14 | Erm you know it cos you 've just told me the |
| 15 | I I I 've always called it the E flat , |
| 16 | ‘ I know you 've always told us the truth — but what are you talking about ? ’ asked Rose . |
| 17 | I 've often wondered what the odds were against breaking that same pane twice in succession . |
| 18 | Because you 've now got it the way you want it . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , I 've simply saved you the trouble , have n't I ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I 've completely forgotten what the ‘ electric tenor guitar ’ was … |
| 21 | You see the problem is , we 've yet to discover what the purpose is of all this . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've never had children , I 've never given myself the time and that 's a matter of some regret . |
| 23 | I 've never loved anyone the way I love you ! |
| 24 | When we 've actually given you the full thing in , the minutes , the mights , and where and whatever , you can look at it and say hey , there 's too much of that but what we 're addressing is the moral aspect of a child 's upbringing that perhaps we should be and say well right fine er , it might , I 'm just taking on environmental , right , now the year children to do environment there , but it 's really happening down there , I feel that these children in the past have n't he so can we take that out this year and bring in something totally new , totally different that you feel should go in erm so that it is more rationalised it 's not just my people doing what they want when you see the , the whole thing you can make suggestions and we come back and go back through it again we actually say to the form teachers this is what this will definitely happen for this term but when we 've looked at the whole five year sa side we might change some things . |
| 25 | Historians have long debated what the Globe looked like . |
| 26 | ‘ The client and I work together to see what the problem was in the past and how it affects the present . ’ |
| 27 | Supporters have only read what the press have said . |
| 28 | The beauty of its setting and its predominantly stone buildings , allied with its intellectual traditions , have justly earned it the title of ‘ Athens of the North ’ . |
| 29 | You have already defined what the worry is , so go on to look at the cause , list different possibilities for dealing with the cause and then decide on the action which seems most likely to be effective . |
| 30 | They have just given me the reasons why , which , as I see it , I am not at liberty to reveal at this stage . |