Example sentences of "the [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When planning how to use the motif on your garment , you centralise the repeat down the centre-line of each garment piece , either with the row of diamonds or , as in the T-shirt version , down the centre of the large tile . |
| 2 | We are told the way in which MPs have voted on certain controversial cross-party issues such as abortion and hanging ; we are given the names of those to whom we must say farewell and those we should welcome , but no details whatsoever as to the make up the corps of MPs ' secretaries , that body of sirens from whom the more susceptible among us should be protected . |
| 3 | The inching up the cliff of dignified respectability begins tomorrow at Lancaster Park , Christchurch . |
| 4 | Now comes the second step , the act of measurement itself , the ascertaining where the electron is or how it is moving . |
| 5 | Erm the approach we 've adopted is to try and be as flexible as possible in terms of the using both the land-take and the economic activity rates . |
| 6 | The threw back the bedclothes , shed her clinging nightgown and stood under a cool shower until she began to come alive . |
| 7 | It concentrated upon Clinton 's advocacy of a " new covenant " between the government and the governed whereby the former would provide greater resources while the latter would be expected to shoulder greater responsibilities . |
| 8 | I felt sure lots of them would already have young to rear and by transporting the does elsewhere the young were doomed to die wastefully . |
| 9 | Th does n't the does n't the stepfather , sort of , say anything ? |
| 10 | The had not the least idea that their love was a crime in people 's eyes . |
| 11 | In those days the artificial leg you were given did n't meet the skin ; you had to wear thick woollen socks over the join where the artificial leg met your own leg , and a metal belt to hold it in place , which pulled your body over to one side . |
| 12 | Put the see where the , that wee mark is ? |