Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv prt] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I do I got out sort of the sort of about eight thirty and then I , I 'd work to about half three and all I 'd wan na do is , we , we 'd fucking , we 'd set up the cable then we 'd all sit down and do nothing while the old erm , the M O D people had obviously it , and then they tell us to take it down and move it and we move it and set it up again , its like out of a , out of a seven hour day , we 'd only work about three or four , like here . |
| 2 | I wandered back north towards the church . |
| 3 | He always yawns a lot and says Who ? in a bored voice when I pass on news from the Edwardian , but I suspect he 's interested . |
| 4 | I do n't want to die because I keep on thinking of the future . |
| 5 | I gave up work at the salon eight weeks before Isha was born and so I had the space and time to just do the hair work that I really wanted to do . |
| 6 | I carried out stone from the cave , and after many days ' hard work I had a large cave in the side of the hill . |
| 7 | Edinburgh is an excellent centre in which to carry out research in the history of art . |
| 8 | The Humber has been a barrier which cut off trade to the south . |
| 9 | This week , the company opened its first European office in London to serve US expatriates and UK investors with an eye on the US market — locking horns in the process with its main American rival , Fidelity Brokerage , which set up shop in the UK four years ago . |
| 10 | Middlesbrough showed more controlled football against a side that was booed off at half-time by the home crowd but which stepped up pressure after the break , only to find Boro 's defence holding firm . |
| 11 | The death of the AHA was not the last word of its members , since the caucus moved across to a position within the new Victoria District Authority , which took over responsibility for the management of the AHA 's asylums . |
| 12 | Over the years many leading members of the BDA were involved in the running of the Board before it wound up following the emergence of Social Services Departments , which took over responsibility for the welfare of the deaf . |
| 13 | He said the launch marked the start of a Skerneside Revival project which continued the good work of Railside Revival , which cleaned up land alongside the main east coast railway line through the borough . |
| 14 | This is a major cause of physical handicap , but the insertion of valves which drain off fluid to the heart have reduced the risk of brain damage . |
| 15 | And that will mean resisting those tempting offers from lenders designed to encourage us to take on more debt by making the initial costs appear cheaper , but which store up trouble for the future . |
| 16 | Do n't use soap , which dries up skin on the face . |
| 17 | It 's a thankless task then , because despite having become the most successful band of the time , you pick up flak for the next album not working commercially . |
| 18 | Authors at the conference , in social and business sessions include Shirley Hughes and Aidan Chambers , who round off conference at the Random House Breakfast on Wednesday , Anthony Sampson , Terence Blacker and Terry Pratchett , the guest of honour at the annual dinner dance . |
| 19 | Interestingly , Cassoni was recruited because Bill Lowe , who headed up development of the original IBM personal computer , left to join Gulfstream . |
| 20 | Q. So how would you sum up progress in the last two to three years ? |
| 21 | What I have always said is that way you set up supervision behind the programme is the most crucial , so therefore if I can sit down and help them to set up the most strenuous type of supervision to go along with the equipment , then they feel safe and the community feel safer that none of them will go out and commit another crime . |
| 22 | She picks up speed in the late evening , after most of the passengers have eaten . |
| 23 | Reporters who approached the hotel just after dawn yesterday said there was no sign of the rebels who took over part of the hotel in the exclusive Escalon district of the capital . |
| 24 | If you do well , some lenders will allow you to pay off part of the loan before the end of the original term — a huge bonus . |
| 25 | If the question be ( as , in the actual state of the law , I think it is ) , whether consideration is , or is not , given in a case of this kind , by the debtor who pays down part of the debt presently due from him , for a promise by the creditor to relinquish , after certain further payments on account , the residue of the debt , I can not say that I think consideration is given , in the sense which I have always understood that word as used in our law . |
| 26 | ‘ A fossil hunter is one who seeks out evidence of the past from the natural history of the rocks . |
| 27 | And as the ship freed herself from the mule-lines and her screw began to chum up a wake of umber , sludgy water , and she picked up speed towards the marker buoys and the farewell beacon on Flamenco Island , I was sure I could see the seamen still , pointing their cameras back — now with long lenses all — towards the statue of Balboa which stands on the Panama City seafront , with the great man gazing out at the Ocean into which the Poles were now , at long last , sailing . |
| 28 | He saw them lay out food on the grass beneath both trees . |
| 29 | Experts are urging everyone to give up salt for the day and thereafter cut down on salt to ensure a healthier heart . |
| 30 | We swam out perpendicular to the two to three knot current , until we were in its heart . |