Example sentences of "the [adj] [conj] [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got the narrow and I 've got the thick . |
| 2 | Yes , I picked the Froggy because I think he was the most important player who 's LEFT Leeds United . |
| 3 | I mean we 've got , four , four , four cars in our house , the gran lives in the granny annexe inside , god knows how the fucking hell she got a parking space , somehow she did , mum 's got her 's in there , my old mans parked his opposite , we 've got a big double drive as well , my old man parks his on the right and I park mine on the fucking left , its like a parking lot out there in the mornings , and if when he says |
| 4 | Bu but , but the rich because they have more resources are more highly productive . |
| 5 | The poor have standards , dignity , taste , conviction : they live honestly , full of hate , shitting in the houses of the rich if they get a chance to break and enter . |
| 6 | We may not be able to plan the unplannable but we have to accommodate it in our plans . |
| 7 | It should not be too much to ask them to forgive the miserable uncertainty of a young man at Oxford 23 years ago , and it should not be impermissible to say that they are in the wrong if they refuse . |
| 8 | Such a proposition was no more acceptable to the Germans than to the British and they put an end to further talk of peace by declaring unrestricted submarine warfare in the Atlantic . |
| 9 | There are a number of such challenges , but the interesting and I think significant one comes from a group of Palaeontologists , of whom Stephen Gould , now of Eldridge , erm and Stephen Stanley are probably the best know . |
| 10 | It is not until the Carboniferous that we start to find evidence of a variety of forms including the putative ancestors of some of the living dominant groups . |
| 11 | And and I 'm all in favour as I say getting more through the letter box , it 's easier for us and it But I I think I mean I 'm quite happy to leave this now and just carry on with the bridal But we have to make this pay itself |
| 12 | Well the standpipe used to freeze up and er when that occurred the grown men in the house used to light a fire round the standpipes , of course it was cast iron it was n't copper or anything like that , and light a fire to thaw it out , I do n't remember ever being without water but we used , it was a bit primitive but burn newspaper and stuff round the standpipe and er the old as I say we used to , the water for the washing we used to pump into the sink and er fill the old dolly tub with water for the washing and use the rainwater for washing . |
| 13 | Unless you have some private arrangement with the Almighty that I do n't know about . ’ |
| 14 | Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person . |
| 15 | It 's my job to help the people on the outside and I do that by making sure the scum in here stay in here . ’ |
| 16 | Having examined the practice in different common law jurisdictions , their Lordships consider that the principles endorsed by the Jamaican Court of Appeal , particularly with regard to inconsistent previous statements , represent what will normally be an acceptable way of achieving fairness to the accused and they take the opportunity of saying that in a civilised community the most suitable ways of achieving such fairness ( which should not be immutable and require to be reconsidered from time to time ) are best left to , and devised by , the legislature , the executive and the judiciary which serve that community and are familiar with its problems . |
| 17 | For contemporaries the moral that they order these things better in France was particularly easy to draw , for Neptune had been independently and at the same time predicted by U. J. J. Le Verrier . |
| 18 | Well once I 've got you know once I 've got the shape of the story in my mind I can it down in an hour or so every time you know it 's in long hand , then it takes me hours to type it but er you know the actual once I 've got the idea I I find it necessary to get it all down you know in long hand as quickly as possible . |
| 19 | Until you 're proficient consider the following before you set out to sail . |
| 20 | In coming to its decision the Tribunal bore in mind the following and I quote : |
| 21 | In nineteen seventy , if I take you back to twenty three years ago , County recorded in the outline development plan the following and I quote growth in the town not accompanied by measures to alleviate the traffic problems in the existing road network would merely add to the deterioration in the quality of the environment in the town and without such measures no further expansion is environmentally acceptable unquote . |
| 22 | Somebody 's actually got to do the appointing if you have the , the er er er i i independent members and I do n't think it 's u is unreasonable for my Right Honourable Friend to say that the Home Secretary should do that er provided that he is not seen to have been taking an overtly political view . |
| 23 | point six million er from reserves er and the additional as we have said this to er our traffic calming proposals . |
| 24 | But we 've done that in the brief that we 've we 've worked on . |
| 25 | You can redraw with your electronic pen over the white if you need to . |
| 26 | Royal Bank of Scotland eurocheques and a eurocheque card are widely recognised , simple and most convenient payment method for personal customers in Europe and the Mediterranean whether you want to obtain cash , pay hotel bills or purchase goods over the counter . |
| 27 | An open , sunny site is best as many herbs originate from the Mediterranean where they get thoroughly baked during the summer . |
| 28 | So that 's the opposite if you like of those nutrients . |
| 29 | I am genuinely happy that South Africa are coming out of the cold and I see in their choice of countries some kind of divine justice . |
| 30 | We can only protect a national curriculum from the political dogmas of either the right or the left if we understand the reasons for these changes . |