Example sentences of "i [verb] [prep] [det] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes er I mean they er they , they want the whole peasant movement involved , I mean after all the peasants they 're , although they 're a wealthy peasant , these people are not enormously wealthy , they may be wealthy on a relative scale in a village , but certainly not er you know er er er half as weal anything like as wealthy as , as a , the , the landlords , the large land owners and so on and that it is a peasant movement , the whole peasant strata they wanted to involve |
| 2 | ‘ Listen to me carefully and pass on what I say to all the others . |
| 3 | It was from my teacher and her two other pupils , who were older than me , that I learnt about all the intrigues and scandals that went on in the village . |
| 4 | Would n't I like to curl up on the sofa ? — and mostly I enjoyed the sweaty heaving pleasures of the British Legion do , where the guests galumphed and the men got drunk and waved bottles around — and one thing I noticed through all the ranks of society , no matter what the background , or the income , or the form the party took , was that as the evening wore on women would begin to look pained and patient and longed to get home , but did n't like to say so for fear of being accused of ruining the evening 's fun . |
| 5 | I speak for all the servants of the embassy in Paris . |
| 6 | Paragraph , as far as the nineteen ninety two harvest and seed is concerned I list below all the allocations for the various units including your own . |
| 7 | I look at all the jobs that 's got , that have to be done in the day , right , and look at which ones I should do , and then all the other jobs I just share out between the relevant people . |
| 8 | I look after all the bills and accounts . |
| 9 | I feel kind of cheated myself , and I stare at all the shops and people knowing this time I really wo n't be back . |
| 10 | The shelves looked good , and I piled on all the books , heavy ones at floor level , lighter ones at the top . |
| 11 | I suppose with all the students wandering about pedestrians Yes I wonder where that was cos I 'm sure there was a Henry Moore sculpture . |
| 12 | I looked in both the cemeteries , among the Christians and the Jews , and found the names of all my neighbours . |
| 13 | I thought about all the books I had read in the past and remembered one in particular which I had enjoyed immensely . |
| 14 | I thought of all the multitudes who had lain upon its hard , steel bed staring upwards , their fears and hopes filling the room , waiting only for its pronouncements when can easily turn into a foe . |
| 15 | I thought of all the possibilities , and it seemed to me it was there all the time , but I had n't seen it . |
| 16 | Then I thought of all the trees I had taken for granted in the past — beside the Cherwell at Oxford or on the pavements of a Surrey suburb . |
| 17 | Sheffield , like Rome , is built on seven hills and I had to cross most of them , anger fuelling my journey as I thought of all the excuses I 'd swallowed . |
| 18 | I went to all the customers and offered to carry on delivering for threepence a week . |
| 19 | I went to all the lectures and they 're easy to go to , because you 're spoon-fed , they do n't sit back and they do n't philosophize , a lot of it , it 's all material on the board , which can be a bit boring sometimes , but we 've done some big course like quantum mechanics and there have been a few other theoretical ones which have been really involved but the lecturers have been really good , you can see how excited they are , and it starts spilling over to you . |
| 20 | I di last night when I was up there and he said to me what was that noise , I went through all the piles and I had a quick look in the bureau but , I did n't find that , I do n't know what I 've done with that |
| 21 | I agree with all the items on four two , but I think also the local press except for |
| 22 | I agree with both the judgments that have been given and with the reasons given in those judgments for allowing this appeal . |
| 23 | I think about all the things we used to do . |
| 24 | ‘ I think of all the boys that came after , all the ones that went before too and were subjected to Gilly 's approach to education . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ When I think of all the hours you spend trying to help people with their problems … ’ |
| 26 | Now could I ask for all the members to say the Mothers ' Union prayer , the nineteen seventy four one which you will find on page three . |
| 27 | This enabled me to put in all the words I consider legal and thus go on to win the game . |
| 28 | This enabled me to put in all the words I consider legal and thus go on to win the game . |
| 29 | You are such a bad man bringing women home for me to cook for that the courts would acquit me . ’ |