Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is yeah and these stories are passed on about what the British , you know , troops did a hundred and fifty years ago . |
| 2 | ‘ Oliver Craddock wrote this down for me the first time I saw him and I 'd forgotten all about it , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Which was stupid — I mean , I had a really good girl right along with me the whole time . |
| 4 | Once she 'd put the phone down on him the previous night she 'd regretted her skittish way with him , and , after a heart-to-heart with Marlin in which she 'd told him she wanted to go back to England , and he 'd replied that it would all seem different in the morning and why did n't she just take a pill and lie down , she 'd decided to call him back . |
| 5 | The reviewer summed up : ‘ For those who will not hear a word spoken against Churchill in 1940 this will be an infuriating book , as the watch the sharp , black-white chiaroscuro of Chamberlain v Churchill watered down to what the latter would call ‘ a sludgy amalgam ’ . |
| 6 | Now when it came down to it the national government essen sorry the Supreme Court essentially said if the national government wishes to create a national bank in pursuance of legitimate aims of the constitution then it should have the discretion to do so and it should n't be interfered with by a state government . |
| 7 | With all these new developments pressing in on him the last thing he could afford was an afternoon off work . |
| 8 | She knew how to win that competition , too : when he reached through to her the fourth or fifth time , she did what she had often dreamt of doing before : kneeling up against the wall , she guided his hand and put it to her breast . |
| 9 | Shift him when you like but the sooner you get him over to me the better . |
| 10 | I lay there trying to square what I heard with the new enthusiasm derived from Edward and Laura , for I 'd left the Lodge around two in the morning , ready to set off with them the next day in search of the horizon . |
| 11 | Before them the bevelled slope , fifteen feet high , cut off from them the whole upper expanse of Aurae Phiala , with all its flower-beds and stone walls ; and all its visitors had vanished with it . |
| 12 | Thanks to the recent statistical work of demographic historians we now have quite detailed information on with whom the old lived in England from early modern times onwards . |
| 13 | Does my right hon. Friend think that , election or no election , the sooner they get on with it the better ? |
| 14 | Richie caught up with them the next morning . |
| 15 | ‘ You were pretty fed up with me the other night — on the phone . ’ |
| 16 | Before that girl took up with you the most she ever did in her life was get dressed up for church . |
| 17 | Methodists , likewise , were being gathered up into what the veteran Congregational leader , J. Guinness Rogers , called ‘ the general intellectual movement of the generation ’ , even if at a slower pace . |
| 18 | The minute she set eyes on him , she seemed to take leave of her senses — and he 's been playing up to her the whole time . |
| 19 | We have to take tough decisions and the sooner we face up to them the better . ’ |
| 20 | The protection is acquired once an employee has been in a particular employment for two years , though there are special rules concerning part-time employees and for calculating the date up to which the continuous employment is measured . |
| 21 | The Housing ( Scotland ) Act , Section 8 sets a rent level up to which the Common Law Act is mandatory . |
| 22 | ‘ Apart from your flashing eyes and passionate temper , ’ he did n't hesitate to remind her , ‘ you came over anything but frigid when you snuggled up to me the other evening ! ’ |
| 23 | Interesting Pauline at work , she 's ever so hurt , could n't get over it , she came up to me the other day she said , hello , how long has it been we have n't seen one another for two months . |
| 24 | Women who did not have the heart or the will to live up to what the moral and social order said they should be , but who lived by it nonetheless . |
| 25 | Therefore , each church must work out for itself the best way and time to measure ‘ membership ’ which most accurately and helpfully reflects their situation . |
| 26 | Before them lay a pit , out of which the deadly cold vapour was still drifting up . |
| 27 | As part of their representations on the 1981 Finance Bill , the Law Society recommended that income should not be " relevant income " to the extent that it was paid away to some person other than the recipient of the relevant benefit either before or after the receipt of the relevant benefit as it had by then ceased to be available as a source of funds out of which the relevant benefit could be paid . |
| 28 | Conceptually , it is hoped that some light will be thrown on the whole question of disciplinary boundaries or subjects ; these are the bricks out of which the whole educational edifice is constructed and yet we know little about them and there are those who doubt their very existence . |
| 29 | The basal part of the tentacle itself appears to be reinforced with calcite and resembles a tube out of which the distal part of the tentacle projects . |
| 30 | You have not yet seen the document out of which the tell-tale hon. Member for Harrow , West ( Mr. Hughes ) is making a career day in and day out . |