Example sentences of "[adv] the [noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could have done a little the papers let them off of the hook for years ! |
| 2 | It was as if she had said something and it had caused a click in his mind that brought down the shutters to keep her out . |
| 3 | But ineligible recipients , with higher incomes , are affected by the kink in the budget line : the attractiveness of the in-kind transfer is less for them , and so the incentives to consume it illegally ( and the costs of policing such activity ) are reduced . |
| 4 | So the Aussies blend them together and , when they apply a little oak ageing too , the result is a lovely fat wine , mildly spicy , but with a streak of lime . |
| 5 | So the executioners finished them off with bayonets . |
| 6 | Only the diehards used them now , that was the first one I 'd seen in captivity for some months . |
| 7 | Again he misses the answer — which is , of course , ‘ No , only once , — and says with a grave look that usually the dogs see it even in poor visibility , but in white-outs it has been known . |
| 8 | By now you should have picked up the signs directing you back to the Cat & Fiddle . |
| 9 | Together they rode across Hodge Beck and gathered up the flocks to look them over before the onset of winter . |
| 10 | I appreciate that we cyclists must have caused the operation quite a bit of inconvenience , particularly the stops to get us on and off ; the problems of finding suitable lay-bys etc ; the time taken ; and the dirty work for the drivers . |
| 11 | Even the snails found it too wet for comfort … climbing fifteen feet up house walls to escape . |
| 12 | You can offer pralines , cakes and so on , but there 's no point — there are n't the ingredients to make them out of ’ . |
| 13 | This was followed by a solo T.4 trip before a pre-solo dual check in the PR.3 — with first the student and then the QFI taking it in turns to quiver on the rumble seat ! |
| 14 | Then the trees swallowed us again . ’ |
| 15 | Such a song probably originated in 18th-century England , perhaps even during the American War of Independence , whence the victors captured it along with ‘ Yankee Doodle ’ . |
| 16 | Welcome back : The number of children excluded or expelled from schools in the Central South area rose by forty-two per cent last year , yet the facilties to help them still vary widely . |
| 17 | She did not even notice when the soldiers waved her on . |
| 18 | She was thirty-five when the machines wore her out . |
| 19 | Somebody comes in and runs a separate form puts all their customer and all they 're doing is when the orders change they just put the and it prints out notes and labels and if you 've got hundreds of them it saves a job in time and money and the girl . |
| 20 | I do n't suppose I was more than 10 when the harvesters sent me off to the nearest pub to get some cider in a couple of bottles . |
| 21 | It started as a movement , that is again the critics that is that again the critics picked it up and made something of it worth discussing in the mid-sixties . |
| 22 | Time and again the bumps lifted us off our feet . |
| 23 | The unit lacks any proper creche facilities for the babies and therefore the girls take it in turns to look after them . |
| 24 | These expressions of opinion may not represent overt Russian policy — indeed top men in Moscow now deny they were ever made ; but there is good evidence that they were , and certainly the Ukrainians take them seriously . |