Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am a Labour supporter with many friends carrying cards , and , despite having observed the ‘ anti-Labour virulence ’ of the SNP , I do want Labour to come together with the Nats , the Liberals , the Greens , the Unions , the churches , the mosques , the synagogues , Uncle Tom Cobbley and all . |
| 2 | Do you want another lie down on the settee ? |
| 3 | Erm and er what I would like to see , and I 've long wanted to see this coming out of the church , is a rite of passage that I with integrity can offer to any parents who come to me with a , a , a lovely little baby in their arms saying to me parish minister can you give us something that would satisfy us , and they 're not saying it like this , but they want a rite of passage . |
| 4 | Ah but we got some left over from the others . |
| 5 | The encouragement of joint planning at area/regional level has brought together inter-agency groups for the elderly , though only in some areas has this led on to the formation of specialist sub-groups to consider the needs of dementia sufferers . |
| 6 | A ballot among 200 controllers at Waterloo resulted in a decision not to pass 999 calls through to the police or the military . |
| 7 | Over the years Aurigny has honed this to a fine art , and new pilots have to work hard to get up to the requisite standard . |
| 8 | She looks pretty shook up from the letter . |
| 9 | As part of the rationalisation programme , and following LASMO 's stated intention to withdraw from countries that were considered unlikely to contribute significantly to the Group , the Company has sold its onshore businesses in the US and Canada and its remaining interests in Australia . |
| 10 | For Moore , on the occasion of his 105th appearance in England colours , it became a miserable exposure to the inevitability of decline , an uncharacteristic positional error enabling Lubanski to surge through for the second of Poland 's two goals ; the famed captain would play only three more times for his country , and not in the climax to the qualifying group , five months later at Wembley . |
| 11 | Place two kebabs attractively against the sauce . |
| 12 | Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates reportedly came up with an ingenious solution when he was romancing venture capitalist Ann Winblad : observing that the same movies are usually playing at the same time all over America , they came up with the Virtual Date — they 'd each go alone to the same movie at the same time , and discuss it afterwards on their car phones . |
| 13 | To him , even then , it had been history , and it somehow deserved ill-fortune ; in the heedless fashion of the American suburbs it seemed right to look down on the refugees from an old , superstition-riven world . |
| 14 | Gerry Boden had last been seen alive strolling negligently along the garden hedge , and somewhere along the course of that hedge he had vanished . |
| 15 | And seen gillies going out for the Stenness Hotel s with sailing boats , I 've seen eight leaving there in the morning I went to school . |
| 16 | Who , who put that write up in the |
| 17 | I hope this comes through in the recordings . |
| 18 | On the day of his death he had done some clearing up at the home he shared with his mother , and refused tea before going out of the house unnoticed . |
| 19 | I have an appointment with Dr Dingle at 5 o'clock , so it seemed pointless going back to the Oxfordshire cottage last night . |
| 20 | However few who die are reckoned fit to enter directly into the presence of God and the vast majority of Roman Catholics expect to go first to Purgatory either on account of dying ‘ in venial sin ’ ( Catechism P. 32 ) or being ‘ indebted to God 's justice on account of mortal sin . ’ |
| 21 | In the 1950s and 60s , when Britain itself needed workers , it seemed obvious to turn again to the vast army of labour which waited in the colonies and ex-colonies , and whose situation itself had been created by colonialism . |
| 22 | I was behind a post last year and the Irish scored three tries right on the other side of it . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I know I have seen three plays already in the magnificent splendour of the Opera House . |
| 24 | We 're sure club members will have worked very hard to make this event a great success and hope all went well on the day ! |
| 25 | It soon became apparent to Lily that the wife and the young man were in the midst of an affaire , which by secret signs and language they seemed able to carry on during the journey . |
| 26 | Determined not to put a foot wrong , let alone go in over the top , as I sometimes do . |
| 27 | Creative people are often not business minded , and they do not even want to acquire such skills as self-promotion and image-projection , let alone scrabble about with the nitty-gritty of lucre . |
| 28 | He was a poor man , by the Debraces ' standards , and he might never be able to keep Madeleine in the manner to which she was accustomed , let alone do so in the foreseeable future . |
| 29 | As he became a monk at Christ Church as a preliminary , it looks as though Cnut did not feel able to ride roughshod over the church of Canterbury . |
| 30 | ( Once you get beyond knitting all-over Fair Isle , this is n't difficult to understand , because for some stitches — tuck and lace for example — the point cams are positioned two stitches in from the edge of the knitting , in order to stop pattern knitting short of the edges . |