Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oliver Craddock wrote this down for me the first time I saw him and I 'd forgotten all about it , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Which was stupid — I mean , I had a really good girl right along with me the whole time . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | With all these new developments pressing in on him the last thing he could afford was an afternoon off work . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Shift him when you like but the sooner you get him over to me the better . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Does my right hon. Friend think that , election or no election , the sooner they get on with it the better ? |
| 11 | Richie caught up with them the next morning . |
| 12 | ‘ You were pretty fed up with me the other night — on the phone . ’ |
| 13 | Before that girl took up with you the most she ever did in her life was get dressed up for church . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | We have to take tough decisions and the sooner we face up to them the better . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | If what we have seen in this election is the real world , then the sooner we find a way out of it the better . |
| 19 | Seems he 's gone out of it the wrong way . |
| 20 | The Prince , who had important paperwork to attend to at Buckingham Palace , asked her to drive back with him the following day . |
| 21 | But the other way this particular Friday can be called ‘ good ’ is by reading back into it the astounding outcome on the day after the Sabbath — the 1st day of the new week . |
| 22 | Each time , like , I 've learned not to do this because that 's what got me back into it the last time . |
| 23 | She was here on a mission , and the sooner she set out on it the better ! |
| 24 | I read this poem to a group of 10- and 11-year-old children , pointing out to them the physical immediacy of phrases like ‘ tummy jiggled ’ , ‘ ears/Were cold ’ and ‘ teeth on edge ’ . |
| 25 | Sometimes she had the oddest feeling that she would have been able to confide in Paul , to pour out to him the whole bloody silly story without causing him to bat so much as an eyelid . |
| 26 | Mary Knelle pointed out to me the green ridges on almost perpendicular fields that showed where potatoes had been grown before 1847 . |
| 27 | I think , I hope we 've pointed out to you the essential differences between what Brian would be looking for as a , as a magazine editor if you like , and what I would be looking for as a , as a news editor . |
| 28 | The first is to spell out to you the precise erm constitutional position of the president and the second , and perhaps more interestingly , is to talk about the notion of presidential power . |
| 29 | Encourage the person to speak-when they stop or get stuck , allow them time to think and repeat back to them the last thing they said to help them find their flow . |
| 30 | fax numbers and things put on but that alright let's give she came back to me the other day and said I can not get this fax through and had actually typed down the wrong fax number |