Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hardly had I uttered the word — or the phrase signifying it — than I felt within me the need to become what I had been accused of being … . |
| 2 | The approach work is always quite nasty , but once you get into it the experience is very pleasurable . |
| 3 | However , no sooner had they built such a machine than they recognised in it the inherent dangers of a heartless device capable of original thought . |
| 4 | Once they come to us the packaging has disappeared and so we ca n't sell it . |
| 5 | A large hand smacked into his mouth and although he bit at it the thumb was forced like a gag between his teeth . |
| 6 | And in return , I promise you that if I get from you the reply for which I hope , I will be about your business presently . |
| 7 | If I said to you the communication right these are the methods that this is what actually communication is . |
| 8 | Cos she said to me the other day , she said have you been in my room and touched ? |
| 9 | Her tone teasing , she added , ‘ If you went about it the right way I 'm positive you could have her eating out of your hand in no time at all . |
| 10 | ‘ She also said if you went about it the right way you could have me eating out of your hand . ’ |
| 11 | If you listen to what the Tories are actually saying , it 's the same old I 'm alright Jack mentality . |
| 12 | Night fishing can be enjoyable in its own right , even without the added attraction of fishing at the most likely times for fish to feed , but only if you go about it the right way . |
| 13 | But squatting itself is not illegal if you go about it the right way . |
| 14 | Anna 's answer was , If you go to him the instant you are free , what will the world say ? |
| 15 | they go on about Shakespeare and Chauce Chaucer but if you spoke to them the way Chaucer used to speak they would n't understand a word you were saying . |
| 16 | If you think of it the other way when , what happens when a price , when a price falls , alright , if farmers er , assume that price fall will be sustained over a number of periods , then they think , right well in order to achieve the same level of income , right , as I did previously , if prices have fallen , I 'm going to have to increase my output . |
| 17 | Of course , if you think about it the consequences of that is these guys die and when they die , those wives that they married as young girls are now middle-aged women or possibly younger , anyway past their youth , but th th they , they may not be . |
| 18 | But it 's not easy I mean you know I was reading an article ages ago a few months ago actually and saying you know if you think about it the sort of revolution was over a year ago and still the government has n't done anything about it and I mean like a lot of provisions that have been brought into Romania sort of go in the front door and out of the back door and you know they sort of sent those of supplies like contraceptions and things like that for the women and overlap |
| 19 | I said well that 's what is , I said if you look at it the depreciation is so heavy compared with the income , and I said and the insurance as well but I said hopefully cos we have n't had any of er any claims at all this year you know , I said I know but all of the insurances of gone up , but I said I 'm hoping that we can sort of get the insurance down if possible so he said , yeah fair enough then . |
| 20 | Cos we said to him the other day how much is so and so Jonathan ? |
| 21 | But the picture can be modified if we insert into it the concept of a primeval Natural Man , who lacks the corrupting appurtenances of modern civilization , and is , on that account , closer to Paradise than ourselves . |
| 22 | For what is Scotland , after all , if we understand by it the south and east of that country , the clearly predominant power in it , but the northern part of the English Kingdom of Northumbria , with its western extension in formerly Welsh-speaking Strathclyde and its capital in the noble city of Edwin 's Burgh ? |
| 23 | ‘ If one thinks about it the President makes an ideal stalking horse . |
| 24 | But the second is surely contradicted by the first ; especially if one adds to it the sympathetic view he evinces of the widow 's plight . |
| 25 | Now the carriage cleaning inspector had a good job if he went about it the proper way . |
| 26 | It looks better , does n't it , if he agrees with what the Bishop wants . |
| 27 | These examples are more comprehensive too , because they put before us the ways people communicate visually as well as verbally . |
| 28 | Another might be attracted to it because he sees in it the possibility of calendar reform . |
| 29 | I will tell you my secret belief : that for Gustave , in a way he only half-apprehended , I represented life , and that his rejection of me was the more violent because it provoked in him the deepest shame . |
| 30 | The Austrians joined in because it seemed to them the best way to avoid a resuscitation of ‘ big Bulgaria ’ . |