Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its proximity to another , larger , Binns store in Middlesbrough only made it the obvious candidate for the axe . |
| 2 | Bert and I both noticed it , independently like , even though Bert only saw him the once when he were so taken up looking to Celia . |
| 3 | Although Edward apparently promised him the captaincy of Berwick in September 1319 , during the English siege of the town , and grants continued to come his way during 1320 , his allegiance was soon to be severed by the ambitions of Despenser , whose attempts in 1320–1 to enlarge his share of the Gloucester inheritance in south Wales raised the whole march against him . |
| 4 | Eleanor simply gave me the excuse I needed . |
| 5 | Knowing my ability as a direction finder , Ann kindly left me the map and wandered off . |
| 6 | Marlon just give me the tracksuit bottoms . |
| 7 | Gould virtually admitted it the other day . ’ |
| 8 | I shall not follow the hon. Member for Newry and Armagh ( Mr. Mallon ) who spoke about Ireland , because I am not qualified to do so , except to say that Ireland recently gave us the best rugby match in the world cup . |
| 9 | And Managing Director Richard Doyle-Davidson once showed me the ceiling of his office where water was seeping in . |
| 10 | Benetton just showed us the pictures not the background to the pictures . |
| 11 | There was no arguing with that and Jenna had visions of Alain simply giving her the ride and leaving her to it . |
| 12 | The emphasis on Edgar 's law is understandable , as Wulfstan evidently considered it the most favourable to the church and the most conducive to righteous rule . |
| 13 | well certainly I believe Mr he , I do n't think he went into the same detail as Mr I , but Mr certainly left me the impression that some at least of the brochures were , went into more than one addition , yes |
| 14 | And in that moment , Joseph suddenly knew who the three men were ; only Katherine Lundy 's men would be enquiring after Patrick . |
| 15 | The BBC again found itself the unwilling accomplice of the advertisers . |
| 16 | The AFO now called itself the Anti-Fascist People 's Freedom League ( AFPFL ) and its general secretary and political spokesman was Thakin Than Tun . |
| 17 | God alone knew what the traffic would be like on the freeway , through the mean streets of Edgware , down to the inferno that was the A406 , on through gloomy Tolworth and Chessington , out to the no-man's-land that was Leatherhead . |
| 18 | God alone knew what the girl did after the golden boy had gone off to sell his 57 varieties , heaven only knew why she could n't get herself dressed before ten o'clock . |
| 19 | Every weekend now , tens of thousands , perhaps hundreds of thousands of people are taking tablets containing unknown substances , and God alone knows what the real long-term consequences of that are likely to be . |
| 20 | God only knows what the KGB will do to them , poor wretches . ’ |
| 21 | Professor Miller , for such he has to be called for identification purposes , was first asked to give a definition of what psychology was , though the other Miller probably knew what the answer would be . |
| 22 | Whenever a favourable opportunity offered , Captain McKellar obligingly allowed me the use of a boat , and by this means enabled me to collect nearly all the species of this interesting family that we fell in with … ’ |
| 23 | Sara silently handed him the ingredients he wanted and found the mustard pot . |
| 24 | He also hit out about his departure from Upton Park saying : ‘ West Ham never showed me the door . |
| 25 | Jack recently told us the plot of a 1951 Jane Wyman movie called The Blue Veil and we both broke down sobbing at the same point of the story and sobbed for minutes . |
| 26 | Burton always thought it the finest thing he ever did . |
| 27 | Mrs Green also sent me the cardboard box in which the gift had come and , curious to find out more about the cake 's origins , I rang the Yorkshire Farm Bakery . |
| 28 | South Shields found themselves having to rely on a mix-up in the defence late in the first half to let Gary Davies in to give them the lead at the interval . |
| 29 | Durkin soon made himself the principal object of attraction . |
| 30 | Terry eagerly gave me the whole picture ; he seemed to know enough about Pyke to write his biography . |