Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peace did not reign for long as he provoked the ultimate chop for himself by one day taking his scissors to all of the models ' heads and cropping them . |
| 2 | I remember , for example , being sent for just after I joined the Heavy Organic Chemicals division , and asked by the then chairman of the division , Tom Clarke , to take charge of a company mission to investigate the price of naphtha . |
| 3 | The King was on a royal throne near the entrance , and the two Bishops of Durham and Ely stood at his feet A good omen had encouraged Hugh for just as he reached the chapel steps he heard the choir in full voice chanting the words " Hail renowned bishop of Christ " . |
| 4 | The quay was deserted ; soon the Black Pig was floating out on the falling tide , and for once as they hoisted the mainsail the crew were well pleased to be going back to sea . |
| 5 | The one we 've been waiting for ever since we found the Worm . ’ |
| 6 | But the woods were dank and damp , and every icy , unexpected drip on to her hair or down the back of her neck made her regret having left her umbrella behind long before she reached the tower . |
| 7 | You know what it 's been like ever since we left the Store . ’ |
| 8 | I admired what he was doing with his life from afar and I put the museum on my list of places to experience the next time I was in the Miami area . |
| 9 | Well I 'd , , I come from Lebanon and I get married in here and I said the vows but I did n't understand , at that time I was n't speaking English so |
| 10 | ‘ She says she wo n't move back in here until we redecorate the whole office from top to bottom and hold a bloody seance . ’ |
| 11 | six years ago , seven years ago and you know it 's moved on from there and I made the point , yes it was started in the point a at the level of , there 's a file it 's got information , get on with it ! |
| 12 | I ca n't name names , but the song concerns a series of people who 'd recognise themselves in there if they examined the lyrics . |
| 13 | I 've turned the taps on to refill it and the pressure taps they 're in there till we fill the I was going round , finding trickle here I was going round bleeding all the radiators , the whole system had to be drained down ! |
| 14 | Yeah but if the key 's not in there and you turn the wheel it locks in straight away anyway ! |
| 15 | You only have to sit in there and you hear the rumours and the gossip that 's going around and the thing is , in the staffroom it 's always the bad kids that are talked about , never the good ones , which I suppose makes sense in a way , but as a new teacher , you come in , you hear these rumours like , I used to hear rumours about Kevin ( an Afro-Caribbean pupil ) and I thought , ‘ Oh , God , I 'll have to watch out for Kevin , everybody thinks he 's a trouble-maker and that means he 's bound to be in my class ’ , but I mean it 's not as simple as that , it really is n't … |
| 16 | I think it was the Battle of , she came down through here and she stayed the night at House . |
| 17 | So in order to get back to the medieval level , we took it back down to there and we caused the to slope . |
| 18 | You see a woman see a woman and your man did n't know where he was , and then she walked out one night and put her hand through the window and she ripped it from there to there and she said the doctors told her the only thing that stopped her the arm from coming off was the bone . |
| 19 | ‘ There is a bloody madman over there and he requests the pleasure of your company , Piper . |
| 20 | And she sits over there and she counts the cars in the street . |
| 21 | It was his way of saying at once that he knew the worst of what was to come , and had only the details to learn . |
| 22 | ‘ Harold , come inside at once before you disturb the Prebendary . |
| 23 | You reply at once if you get the meaning the first time ( ‘ Did you get wet ? |
| 24 | Finally , it is not entirely true that the wave is the independent variable and the beach the dependent one , because the form of the wave , at least when it nears the coast , is to some extent dictated by the form of the beach and the immediate offshore bottom . |
| 25 | Let us hope then that England produce a performance of such mind-bending awfulness in order to succumb to this dodgy outfit , who probably ca n't believe that they are still in with a shout , and may thus fool themselves into believing that this is their year … at least until they hear the result from Turkey . |
| 26 | If you 're the earner , and she 's looking after the children , it 's usually down to you to make regular payments for the children 's upkeep at least until they reach the age of seventeen — and longer if they 're still in education . |
| 27 | Let's hope they keep to the field over there , at least until we leave the orchard . ’ |
| 28 | Stopping the car by the front door , Nicky said , ‘ I 'd better come in — at least until you get the lights on . ’ |
| 29 | It is also true at a more subtle level in that Nyerere , perhaps the finest political debater in Africa land responsible for the first translation of Shakespeare 's Julius Caesar into kiSwahili ) , left himself with no-one to debate with , at least until he left the presidency to be party chairman in 1985 . |
| 30 | But if you have a slow , sad delivery , try to talk faster , and reach a climax at the end of one or two sentences , at least as you reach the end of the speech . |