Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] i [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , the gravestone certainly stands by the porch and it does have a hole drilled through it , said to have been where the iron stake was hammered through the stone into the coffin , but I 'm afraid that I agree with the general consensus voiced around the bar of the Sun Inn and the George and Dragon that George Hodgson was guilty of nothing but old age , that the only thing he sucked were his gums , and that the hole in the stone was made for a railing or gatepost . |
| 2 | I mean it 's about sort of you know in it 's about increasing the erm where we are within our own particular sphere and it 's far too much I mean people it 's interesting that I mean for the , it seems to me an and once again correction but it seems to me the last five years the empowerment thing was really strong and now managers are moving away from it and saying it 's jargon as a means of diluting it . |
| 3 | I acquired the skills to do this before I knew about the world , purely because of God 's will . |
| 4 | I 'll tell you this as I sit in the centre of my maze and listen to the clear song of the thrush : the murderous soul I met at Maubisson was one of the most chilling I have ever encountered . |
| 5 | However , at the tender age of eight I was unaware of all this as I marched from the back gate of Canberra , across a narrow road and into White City for the Borough Primary School Sports . |
| 6 | I was still worrying about this when I pulled into the hotel at Huacho , the mist thicker than ever and my eyes so tired they felt as though they had been sand-blasted . |
| 7 | erm There is a general concern I think with multiple occupancy that there 's , a whole way of life of East Oxford is changing , and not for the better , and indeed I was part of this when I moved into the area ten years ago . |
| 8 | The night sky was still fairly light as I walked through the village , passing close to No. 6 Commando positions . |
| 9 | When I got indoors I was still so upset that I tore off the frock , ripping a sleeve in the process , but I did n't care ; I was so angry . |
| 10 | It began to prey on my mind so much that I went to the casualty department of Charing Cross Hospital . |
| 11 | ‘ Much nicer than I expected from the particulars , ’ she added . |
| 12 | ‘ I finished early and I called at the library for you . |
| 13 | Most slopes are outside but I went to the 30 metre slope at Calshot Activities Centre at Calshot Spit in the Solent . |
| 14 | He 's such a huge star now that I was actually nervous when I walked into the studio with him . ’ |
| 15 | It would also allow me to experiment as much as I likes with the interesting colours of the Winsor & Newton Artists ' Acrylic Colour range and with some of the techniques that are particularly well suited to the acrylic medium . |
| 16 | I 've never looked forward to new stuff from any band as much as I do from the Mondays . |
| 17 | For someone used to the tiny creatures we get in England it was something of a shock , and I said as much as I leapt into the air . |
| 18 | ‘ In as much as I cringe at the thought of making you sick a second time , yes . |
| 19 | The horse was led back to its stable and I walked to the far end of the house , where there was a lawn of coarse-bladed grass , brown with the heat , some exotic-looking flowers in a stony border , and cushioned garden chairs standing bright in the dappled shade of what looked like a cherry tree . |
| 20 | She said , ‘ I 'm sorry if I got in the way just now , when you wanted to talk about the vineyard . ’ |
| 21 | The thing is , it 's a vicious circle , it 's Catch 22 really , 'cos I used to have a good self-employed business , going painting and decorating and I used to have a good clientele and that and I found over the years that , when it became harder and harder to score and the prices rocketed and all that , it got out of hand , out of proportion , that I was spending more and more time off the job than I was on the job , looking round to get the stuff and I found I was unable to carry on working without the drug , because I just felt so bad and I could n't climb ladders and I thought I was a danger to myself and anybody else that I had working with me , y'know . |
| 22 | I dropped down from the loch only to find that the terrain was considerably steeper than I recalled on the way up , although the compass said I was doing fine . |
| 23 | It is the interactional that I examined in the chapter in some detail . |
| 24 | Jo Spence I think it was then I was ill that I understood for the first time what it was to be a victim . |
| 25 | Stiff Little Fingers was my life when I was younger and I jumped at the idea of being able to do a few gigs without spending months away from home and having to worry about recording a new album as soon as we finished . |
| 26 | And then expand on it , and so I go into each of these and I go to the and I say a few words about each of these particular themes . |
| 27 | ‘ I was fine until I got on the pitch but then it all drained away and the game just passed me by . |
| 28 | The Iraqi leaned to the left and I peered through the crack in the sandbags at the Fattal building , a yellow-painted office block whose window frames had been chewed down to an inch or two by thousands of bullets ; the Christian Phalangist front line . |
| 29 | I step back , then turn and run , the clinging wetness round my thighs going from warm to cold as I race beneath the snow-shrouded trees towards the house . |
| 30 | But I was okay when I got to the first tee . ’ |