Example sentences of "[adv] the [noun sg] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some teachers may be adept at introducing their pupils to grammatical concepts , or matters of punctuation , by means of jokes and puns which depend on ambiguities , to be cleared up only by distinguishing nouns from adjectives , or different spellings of the same word ( ‘ Giant Waves Down funnel ’ ; ‘ Gladly the Cross I 'd bear ’ = ‘ Gladly , the cross-eyed bear ’ , and other well-known punning equivalents , beloved of all children ) . |
| 2 | It goes right the way you can see over there . |
| 3 | Sometimes it was all she could do not to reproach Liza for her lack of consideration , for her supine acceptance in letting her mother take on the role which should have been her own . |
| 4 | Naturally I talked over every aspect of it with Elizabeth and the family ; and in the end I concluded that if- and only if-convincing evidence was brought to me that a substantial majority in both Houses wished me to take on the job I would do so . |
| 5 | Hang on the line we 'll sort you out with one of them , alright ? |
| 6 | Hang on the line we 'll sort you o , she 's getting all confused . |
| 7 | Hang on the line we 'll lob it all off to you , well done it was the farm at School . |
| 8 | To pin down the problem you should treat your machine like an experiment . |
| 9 | That was before my time , of course , but he obviously passed on some of his skills because during , or just after , very wet weather , Sam would go off somewhere and catch lovely brown trout , which he often gave to people who were ill ; and sometimes when he had a sheep to kill , he would send down the head which would make a really tasty and nourishing broth . |
| 10 | If you turn down the job you may feel even more upset — if you eventually have to resign , at least you 'll have tested out your resources . |
| 11 | Current levels of unemployment are relatively unimportant , hopefully some time down the line they will expect to get er as a relatively well paid job erm because agricultural incomes are so very low , you know , and urban incomes are relatively , relatively high , they may be prepared to wait for you know five or six years in the urban area , making what could be sort of a subsistence wage , simply because that 's all that they 're gon na be on anyway if they stay in the rural area , so if there is a higher probability of them getting a well paid job merely by being in the urban area making these contacts then they might as well move to the , to the urban area in the hope of some time in the future obtaining that er er an urban job . |
| 12 | Further down the coast you could see the dock tower , tall and elegant , rising out of the squat warehouse buildings around it . |
| 13 | But perhaps the moral we should draw is that criticism is not , and can not be , such a discipline ( though literary history is , or may be ) . |
| 14 | and just the , the part here , I mean this , this I do n't know if it 's right or if it 's wrong but when you said I wan na put twenty quid towards my children 's future perhaps the way I would see is I , I would think twenty quid 'll go nowhere for their future , it 's gon na be a lot more expensive so as you 're openly offering me to take the money off you for that I would have perhaps gone down to try and commit you towards that need there and then to see how important it is and then , because when I er eventually bring back erm the sort of agenda and say look it 's gon na cost you a hundred and twenty quid a month erm you 're sort of sold on the idea . |
| 15 | Yes er I think perhaps the point I 'd like to emphasis is that the increase er in runway length is really quite a modest one er and therefore it has n't had an enormous impact . |
| 16 | In total you can not actually pay more than fifteen percent of salary to erm these well to contributions so in effect you you 're already paying six percent as your basic contribution so the maximum you could pay on any of these schemes is a further nine percent . |
| 17 | So the salt you can remember it through going back to the acid plus alkali reaction , it 's the same one you get there . |
| 18 | Lakoff is a feminist , and her explanation of women 's language is not like Jespersen 's , however much the language itself may seem to be . |
| 19 | It was not only the aristocracy who could hope for promotion from a change of regime : for instance Riculf hoped that the see of Tours would be granted to him by Chilperic 's son , Clovis , as a result of the Leudast affair and Gregory 's anticipated deposition . |
| 20 | Although he did not say so , the logic is that only the company itself would have a cause of action . |
| 21 | His hands moved over her with knowledge now , stroking , caressing , bringing her within minutes to the point where she was clinging to him , wanting only the satisfaction he could give her . |
| 22 | Moreover there were functions which only the lord himself could carry out , particularly in matters of justice , for as a baron of Scotland , Ramsay had the power of pit and gallows , conferring on him the right and duty to adjudicate in most issues not reserved to the crown , a grave responsibility for a man who took his obligations seriously , and one in which his brother could not replace him . |
| 23 | To this day , investigators are still trying to piece together the evidence which will reveal precisely what went wrong . |
| 24 | The head , the deputy and the school secretary have to put together the information which can lead to first comparisons on the basis of the Guidelines for the Review and Internal Development of Schools ( GRIDS ) . |
| 25 | From inside the room it must have looked like he was just hopping off into empty space , say goodbye to Buck Rogers , a suicide leap over a thirty-foot drop . |
| 26 | It may function as a store of wealth , so that an individual or society can put away the wealth it may generate as the surplus between production and consumption . |
| 27 | As well as explaining the financial challenges of starting up a new business , Sue makes sure her students have thought through the effect it will have on their lives . |
| 28 | Thus the pattern we would expect to see if the lexical procedure is damaged but the non-lexical procedure remains intact — if these procedures really are separate — is good reading of regular words and non-words with bad reading of exception words . |
| 29 | Especially in times of political crisis , the need to delegitimate the form of protest and thus the cause itself may lead the media to slant its coverage towards a version which justifies its own ideological view . |
| 30 | I shuffled down the shingle until I felt the mush of dry seaweed , and then I explored it with my hands — yes , it was just the stuff one would expect , weed , and here and there a bit of wood . |