Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] the [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A member of the Senior Management team , for instance , one of the faceless men , not known personally to the office girls , but whose importance was instinctively sensed from the way they looked , the way they behaved . |
| 2 | Although fourteen answers to the fragmentation question concern housework , the housewife rarely thinks about the work she is actually doing . |
| 3 | Since they have been disturbed and more than a little frightened in the process they will vacate the burrow , will very likely feed and then either lie rough on the surface somewhere or go to ground in a completely fresh burrow system . |
| 4 | By dredging up gravel , therefore , river managers were actually de-stabilizing the river bed , thereby contributing to the erosion which they were supposedly trying to prevent . |
| 5 | In some societies parents do select the marriage partner for their children , but we have very little say in the partners our children choose , however strongly we may feel on the subject . |
| 6 | The press therefore has a field day , the Labour Party is diverted and distracted and all the politicians have joined a family squabble on an alleged matter of vital principle , but it is all to do with power within the Party , so we are entirely diverted from the questions we ought to face but can not face up to . |
| 7 | I lost some weight and felt ill enough to go to the doctor who sent me to hospital in Northallerton . |
| 8 | I fully I fully accept that , er you would obviously build in the facilities which are necessary , but the most of the settlements are limited by existing physical and other constraints , and those can not be overcome , you can not duel the A nineteen as far as Easingwold without very substantial harm , for example to the open countryside , even if it were physically possible and economically possible , to expand Easingwold , sorry , to expand Tadcaster to the required size , we 'd need to roll back greenbelt boundaries , again contrary to P P G two . |
| 9 | The little creature was sitting as far back in the cage as he could get , obviously frightened at the attention he was receiving . |
| 10 | Former women compositors remembered working mainly with other women but all referred to the men who " carried the formes for us " , or " carried away the type to put in galleys " , though one remarked " my immediate boss was a woman " . |
| 11 | Predictably , excessive travel , the fact that county pros are n't better treated for the work they do compared to golfers or tennis players , and the lack of consideration for players in the winter . |
| 12 | Clearly occasions such as this are much enjoyed by the public who attend and are a valuable source of publicity for the organisations taking part . |
| 13 | To those who did not respond to his sad soliloquies on the terrible social stigma which must naturally fall upon the parents who forbade their own child the opportunity of gainful employment and condemned him instead to a living purgatory of dole-queue misery , there was always the wall of shame , upon which their names must be forever writ in letters big , for destroying the glorious reputation of the school . |
| 14 | We 're only disposing of the vehicle his spirit used for its journey on earth . ’ |
| 15 | This in itself caused her to feel guilty and so added to the distress she already suffered . |
| 16 | Andy Garcia is somewhat under-used as the man who claims the fame and million-dollar reward as the ‘ hero of Flight 104 ’ . |
| 17 | I 'm sorry Mr , I think we have to press you on this , can I can I take it from what you have said We have to press you because for the reasons we explained on Friday morning , we have to go through the sector sites , if only to find at the end it can not be done . |
| 18 | As the sacrifices were performed day after day , year after year , as the Day of Atonement came and went , Israel was constantly reminded of the sin which cut them off from God 's presence . |
| 19 | Mailer apparently concurs with the belief he attributes to Lawrence , that ‘ men and women can survive only it they reach the depths of their own sex down within themselves ’ ( p. 147 ) . |
| 20 | So I 've only written about the women who were important in my life — my mother , my daughters and my two wives — and I write about them deeply . |
| 21 | So according to the letter someone called The Guv'nor did it himself . ’ |
| 22 | I did Hope that Lord Nelson who was staying at Raby might come down to partake of the fayre which had been set out on a Royal Oak table decorated with a huge Wheatsheaf , Blue Bells and a small Green Tree that looked very much like Three Tuns . |
| 23 | Much depends on the intangibles which produce whatever it is in the ether that allows creative sparks to ignite . |
| 24 | Alleged perpetrators usually denied allegations but even when admission was forthcoming full personal responsibility for events was not necessarily accepted by the perpetrator who might allege that he was provoked . |
| 25 | Apparently named after the woman who first made them , in Bath , towards the end of the eighteenth century . |
| 26 | They went for long rambles around the hills which overlook Balmoral and as they lay in the heather he read out passages from books by the Swiss psychiatrist , Carl Jung , or Laurens van der Post . |
| 27 | Despite occasional misgivings , however , he was optimistic enough to speculate about the form which the next Labour Government might take … |
| 28 | To put it at its highest , I was in no more than so-so shape by the time I reached Caduta 's . |
| 29 | ‘ I better look at the ones you found , then . ’ |
| 30 | Er a similar cautious approach which none of them took yesterday when on examination it was found that there was more potential there than before , erm so to help with the figures I have found very helpful erm appendix eight to the er York City Council erm statement , I think it appears in both of their statements appendix eight Greater York housing provision sorry , could could I also direct you at the same time to the County Council 's N Y five appendix three now the , the two make interesting comparisons because they both start of with the same H one proposal of nine thousand seven hundred dwellings , and I 'll remind you there , sir , that only five thousand seven hundred of those are required by the existing population , four thousand of those are for migrants , and the two schedules go of in slightly different directions under the heading of completions , and the reason for that , sir , is that the the Greater York , the er County Council 's figures , as you can see were computed in October nineteen ninety two when only seven hundred dwellings had been completed , yet six months later , under item C for the Greater York er housing provision figure , York Ci York City Council figures , the completions were one thousand and sixty three . |