Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [indef pn] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was virtually impossible to say aloud that one welcomed the death of a fellow human being , but she believed that was how Ayling had felt . |
| 2 | Outside , men in wellingtons excited comment , though it was not long before everyone appreciated the value of waterproof boots . |
| 3 | It might be thought that so long as one asserted the local sign theory only in principle ( that is , did not specify the precise nature of the ‘ feeling ’ or ‘ colouring ’ which is supposed to subserve localisation ) , one could rely on the testimony of introspection for one 's theory to be confirmed . |
| 4 | How apt , especially when one considered the traits allotted to that particular sign . |
| 5 | There was a crash downstairs as someone knocked the record player over . |
| 6 | Then , just as someone mentioned the band were preparing to go on next door , my luck changed . |
| 7 | extra half hour early cos no-one heard the clock . |
| 8 | And if I may just , that 's the last thing I need to say is the Christmas Fair dates somehow were muddled up and somebody put the wrong dates to the day , it 's Wednesday the sixteenth and Thursday the seventeenth . |
| 9 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 10 | ‘ The spirit has been good through all these bad days we 've had lately , but it was even better today and everyone hoped the money was a sign things are turning round . ’ |
| 11 | Even if one assumed the uptake of Ac-ASA to be the total measured drug , including the adherent component ( 30.7 nmol/g dry weight ) , it would still be significantly inferior to the uptake of 5-ASA . |
| 12 | If any BW officer had reservations about the project they could have phoned me on 10th or 11th June , particularly as everyone knew the work was scheduled to start on the 12th . |
| 13 | but she were n't there so , whether and then I rang down Susan 's , I thought they might be there but nobody answered the phone , so I thought well |
| 14 | There was a lot of laughter , not the least when someone asked the whereabouts of Alan and Joy , and I said that Alan had gone to be induced ! |
| 15 | Do n't you wish you were joined by the umbilical cord again and nobody had the power to cut it ? |