Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does seem to me that there are still relatively few women who become professional scientists , and today I hope that you two ladies will help me explore perhaps some of the reasons why this is the case . |
| 2 | I fear that much of the ‘ anti ’ feeling is really part of the class war . |
| 3 | I put aside some of the money I got for the silver , because Daddy meant to divide his things between us both . ’ |
| 4 | I mean here we are , we 've been talking about taking holidays in this area , and I imagine that much of the work that you do as a local Tourist Board is not actually directly aimed at people who live in this area . |
| 5 | I read carefully all of the somewhat defensive Book Tokens publicity material but , like his reactionary letter , it did nothing to lessen my conviction that a gentle broadening of advertising emphasis from the safely converted — adults buying for children — to embrace the message that tokens also give pleasure to adults could only be beneficial . |
| 6 | I know too much about the guys who write the rest of the stuff to be able to stomach it . ’ |
| 7 | If I know very little about the firm or the people in it , then , to reduce my uncertainty , I will invent my own snapshots of what to expect . |
| 8 | I remember very little of the four years spent in Windsor except the arrival of a small suit sent by one of the powerful aunts for my fourth birthday . |
| 9 | I remember very little of the coronation — only two faces . |
| 10 | I was only there a few weeks and was so bored and anxious to be gone that I remember very little about the place . |
| 11 | Perhaps the strange lack of concern in ‘ A ’ Squadron 's diary and reports , and the fact that I heard so little from the regiment subsequently , may reflect a suspicion ( or knowledge ) on their part . |
| 12 | He went on : ‘ Although I was already a member of the Church of England before joining the Friends ’ School in 1937 , I lean very much towards the Quaker faith . |
| 13 | I own a Yamaha FL10 MII , but I find that much of the drive and body of my bass sound is lost when I operate the flanger . |
| 14 | I talked too much to the other girls over coffee , I went on and on about Eliot 's Chinese jar moving perpetually in its stillness , how ironic , and you could hear them wishing I 'd stop and somehow I could n't . |
| 15 | I felt very much on the outside . |
| 16 | This was obviously not a state of affairs which could continue indefinitely and , although I knew as much at the time , I could n't will myself into sleep . |
| 17 | I thought I knew that much about the country . |
| 18 | ‘ I gathered as much from the admiral . |
| 19 | These bodies My Lords are after all precepting authorities and I think it crucial that those who 've been elected by their local communities should be in a clear majority and I sympathise very much with the er proposition in this regard , set out in the Noble Lord , Lord 's Amendment number twenty-one . |
| 20 | I think just some of the song 's already on the morning show have proved that . |
| 21 | I avoid so many of the things that used to cause me stress before . |
| 22 | I have here some of the letters which the Select Committee has received from the TECs . |
| 23 | It reminded me of all I disliked so much in the United States , of being called Ray before even shaking hands . |
| 24 | It 's very rare that I stop in , so I see very little of the wife and kids . " |
| 25 | But I do n't think the readers of Aura will want me to dwell too much on the pain . |
| 26 | Among all the letters in Anselm 's letter collection written by others than himself , there are no others which display so much of the heightened emotion of friendship characteristic of Anselm 's own letters , and they show Osbern 's state of near despair at Anselm 's long delay . |
| 27 | Now the fund-raising starts to redevelop the famous high-rise East Terrace , which housed so many of the 75,031 that saw Charlton 's Cup tie with Aston Villa in 1938 , and the temporary West Stand . |
| 28 | In the vital years before a child was apprenticed he or she could be captured from the streets , confirmed in God-fearing ways and inoculated against those habits of sloth , debauchery and irreligion which propelled so many of the lower orders to crime , prostitution and heathenism . |
| 29 | According to the mythic cultural history which contributes so much to the discursive architecture of the Report , the " native language " only achieved cultural history which contributes so much to the discursive architecture of the Report , the " native language " only achieved cultural maturity through its spontaneous generation of literacy art . |
| 30 | According to the mythic cultural history which contributes so much to the discursive architecture of the Report , the " native language " only achieved cultural history which contributes so much to the discursive architecture of the Report , the " native language " only achieved cultural maturity through its spontaneous generation of literacy art . |