Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | That I got up in the night and walked into an open press . ’ |
| 32 | It was n't until some years later that I came back to the question of the receptors and showed that the most dramatic effects involved the NMDA glutamate receptor I mentioned in the last chapter ( but wo n't discuss further here ) . |
| 33 | I had n't intended to speak on the external affairs section , but the discussion had widened so much that I came in with the attached remarks . |
| 34 | At about the same time that I went up into the Boys ' School , my friend Hubert Gould moved away to Bournemouth and my other friend Alf Norris moved from The Friary to Greencroft Street and , as this was only two hundred yards from our house , we saw quite a lot of each other . |
| 35 | Erm that I went through at the beginning you know which is basically write to lots of people |
| 36 | In my own defence I can say only that I went along for the ride , as it were , if you 'll forgive the expression , Mr Milton . ’ |
| 37 | The figures that I quoted were given in a written answer to a question that I put down about the cutbacks in regional preferential assistance . |
| 38 | The only person that I know about at the playhouse is Gordon . |
| 39 | So good am I that I turn round on the runners to photograph Tony . |
| 40 | But this was a wee sort of lump that I had down at the bottom of my vagina . |
| 41 | Expenditures , er some of the the er higher amounts are printing at ninety pounds fifty , cons conference fees at sixty pounds , er Euro Election er donation of twenty five pounds , photocopies of forty pounds , er bank charges Which er was a point that I took up with the bank erm Mr Chairman last December . |
| 42 | Which is a bloody good thing , really that I started off with the tape , hands |
| 43 | But the wind was behind me and each wave picked up the boat and surged her ahead , so that I tied up at the pier some fifteen hours after I had left , a little tired but satisfied that another small gap in our knowledge of birds had been filled . |
| 44 | So was it very surprising that I picked up on the African presence moving around the island ? |
| 45 | allow and they reckon that soft ones are better suited too sports because , because of the great action they 're harder to , to knock out , whereas soft ones er , have better other qualities , I 've got this little fucking book , book that I picked up in the Boots in Farnborough the other day yes , its quite interesting . |
| 46 | The main points that I picked out from the game affecting the law changes are : |
| 47 | But I , I , I know that I missed out on the , the private education one because I should 've come back on that . |
| 48 | So flustered was I , in fact , that I became entangled with the bicycles in the hall ( my sons always keep them there , and other things being equal I usually get past them without too much difficulty ) , and I arrived in the dining-room even more distraught than I set out from the study . |
| 49 | But I was anxious to see Mr Rochester , who had been away on business , so I ran out of the quiet house to meet him on the road . |
| 50 | But that alone did n't daunt my spirit , so I set off on the second day with a little more trepidation but just as much determination to learn to sail . |
| 51 | But it made sense at least to stretch my cramped legs , so I strolled down to the edge of the lake and lit a cigarette . |
| 52 | The Sierra had parked about a third of the way down the street , so I went on past the junction and ran Armstrong up on to the pavement . |
| 53 | There was no answer to my knock so I went round to the side door facing the canal . |
| 54 | There was only a bit of spare paper left and some of it had got streaks of cheese-grease on , so I went over to the newsagent 's stall and bought an exercise book for 35p . |
| 55 | ‘ It was made in his atelier so I went over for the fittings and in those years I was very sure of myself . |
| 56 | ’ So I went down to the canal . |
| 57 | It seemed as good a time as any to go , so I went down to the squat in the King 's Road where I was living and picked up my passport . |
| 58 | It went on and on until I was nearly frantic , so I went out for the evening several times in one week to release the tension . |
| 59 | ‘ Killer blah , ’ he said in a strange tone of voice that I took to be a warning so I went back under the chair . |
| 60 | By early evening , I was just too bored to stick the place any longer so I went back to the hotel . |