Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Foreign Minister Joaquín Ricardo García was quoted by local radio as saying on July 18 that a total of 13,000 Haitian citizens , most of whom were migrant workers , had left the country " in the last few days " , 2,000 of them forcibly repatriated and the rest having left " voluntarily " . |
| 2 | However , I have used them enough to observe that the properly selected remedy works deeply , quickly , smoothly , and without initial aggravation . |
| 3 | Some of them apparently feel that the move flies in the face of the philosophy expressed in the document prepared by the task force which examined the way ahead for BBC Scotland . |
| 4 | The Shah would gesticulate to him to stop it , but finally the Prince and his younger sister were allowed to perform a spirited disco dance while everyone below watched and the applauded . |
| 5 | The audience held its breath … and I secretly prayed that the manager would support me — unlike her counterpart at the Philharmonic Hall who earlier this year asked a young disabled woman to leave the hall because she ‘ offended ’ the visiting conductor . |
| 6 | He and Sir John now appeared to be bosom friends and I secretly wondered if the Santerres had suborned this bumbling servant of the crown . |
| 7 | It was not that I eventually doubted that the Almighty responded to faith , but that because I had been so bound up by the desert , so full of self-interest , so neglectful of the God I was supposed to serve , that I could not have expected any co-operation from him . |
| 8 | I humbly suggest that the two counties should get together . |
| 9 | I rather doubt whether the lesson has been fully learnt by Opposition Members , but the reference to ’ some Opposition politicians ’ is too general ; we ought to make it more particular . |
| 10 | He recorded the seven pieces out of order , however , and I rather wish that the transfer engineers had re-grouped the numbers according to the order of the score . |
| 11 | No , no I 'd I rather suspect that the erm , the cancelled the contract . |
| 12 | Whether that would have been , at that time , for the benefit of the mass of the Chinese people we 're talking about erm I do n't think I , I rather think that the er turn that Mao took probably in the long run , in the long term , was to the benefit of the mass of people erm the peasantry , the workers in China because I think the alternative would have been erm international exploitation . |
| 13 | I rather think that the RN instructors on my course must have suffered at the hands of the Customs on returning from a foreign tour as they really gave us a hard time . |
| 14 | I rather suspect that the present regional disparities to which the hon. Member for Gateshead , East referred , not least the voting disparities , will change as one moves further south . |
| 15 | I rather suspect that the , I even said about the strong colour of the net , I suspect , that when |
| 16 | For a moment , I rather wondered if the hon. Gentleman was following in the footsteps of his colleagues in the trade union movement who regard inward investment as an alien culture . |
| 17 | ROS : I merely suggest that the position of the sun , if it is out , would give you a rough idea of the time ; alternatively , the clock , if it is going , would give you a rough idea of the position of the sun . |
| 18 | I merely propose that the charade of music lessons be terminated . ’ |
| 19 | Here I merely note that the ‘ wide variety of circumstances ’ clause in the principle of induction poses serious problems for the inductivist . |
| 20 | ‘ I naturally believe that the financial profits of the drug-suppliers are offensive , ’ Ellen said , ‘ which is why I 've only used cocaine on a handful of occasions . |
| 21 | I personally felt that the characters were very stereo-typed and extremely predictable . |
| 22 | Which is why I personally ordered that the thing should be tracked twenty-four hours a day . |
| 23 | I personally believe that the planting of thousands of new churches ( communities of believers ) is consistent with God 's plans for the United Kingdom today . |
| 24 | Well that means that I personally believe that the problems which many small village schools face are different problems to which many large urban schools face |
| 25 | I entirely agree that the Act forms a vital part of the resources needed by the security forces to combat terrorism . |
| 26 | I entirely agree that the Geneva convention — the fourth convention — applies to the occupied territories . |
| 27 | Mr Major replied : ‘ I entirely agree that the numbers of long-term unemployed are too high , higher than anyone would wish to see . |
| 28 | I only hope that the civic authorities have them under better control than they seem to be here . |
| 29 | ‘ I only hope that the present stupidity whereby parts of urban Colchester are in the same constituency as the yachting resort of Burnham-on-Crouch is finished with , ’ he said . |
| 30 | The manual actually fails to mention quite a lot and I only hope that the one I got is a prototype and not what the paying public will receive ! |