Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The revenge of the self on the others here ( for assuredly the Friend will not enjoy the experience either ) acts to lower the self to their level , or even beneath it . |
| 2 | This seems to have helped for eventually the topic ceases to be discussed . |
| 3 | FOR perhaps the 50th time since lunch , the hotline rings . |
| 4 | For perhaps the best of reasons , parents were reluctant to subject their daughters to even the slightest diminution in their standard of life . |
| 5 | Romantic love is the nearest most people reach to the peak experience , for the lover loses himself in the beloved and while he is in the state of love , he forgets all his problems and is happy for perhaps the first time in his life . |
| 6 | They used the straight original as the starting point for perhaps the most elegant demonstration of photographic compositing by computer yet devised . |
| 7 | ‘ But I have n't done anything — except be an absolute misery , ’ she added honestly as she realised for perhaps the first time what a wet blanket she had been . |
| 8 | ‘ I think , for perhaps the first and only time in his life , William had been trying to shake off his obsession , and he did it by getting as far away from temptation as possible . |
| 9 | For perhaps the first time in her life there was no feeling of restlessness deep in her soul , no desire to be somewhere else . |
| 10 | This time last night she 'd been lying in Dane 's arms , feeling safe , secure , at peace with the world for perhaps the first time in her troubled life . |
| 11 | By now she was really yelling , letting her natural feelings show for perhaps the first time in her conscious life . |
| 12 | Laura had felt , for perhaps the first time since her husband 's reappearance in her life , the warmth of a shared companionship . |
| 13 | He was saying what happened was the last three years there 's been no plums about so the supermarkets have sort of found something else . |
| 14 | It drenched the prize , his skin : smooth belly and thighs , for all the more exciting . |
| 15 | She therefore concluded that ‘ it may be necessary to make the State system a flat rate one and secure the necessary gradation by supplementary allowances from an occupational pool for all the higher grade occupations ’ ( Rathbone , 1949 , p. 236 ) . |
| 16 | Furthermore , is it certain that the consumption of more than the daily requirement of methionine in this combination would be safe for all the more than 20 million adults in the United Kingdom who currently consume paracetamol each year without harm ? |
| 17 | " I woll that the said Felliship shall have for evermore the presentement , nominacion , and admyssyon of the said two Preestes of the said two services and the removing and puttyng out of them … |
| 18 | In these conditions there was no place for what H. E. Bates called ‘ the air of silent refrigeration , the arid cross-examination of stares ’ ; the war had ‘ smashed the silence ’ , for long the hallmark of railway travel in Britain . |
| 19 | Since watches were for long the toys of the rich , it is not surprising that often when ordinary folk encountered one they were extremely puzzled and were even inclined to look upon it as something evil and dangerous . |
| 20 | But also , and more importantly , the normal upward movement that was for long the solvent for discontent has been arrested . |
| 21 | Its method of integration was to be more gradual , retaining for long the right of national veto . |
| 22 | Between palace and castle runs the processional route of the Royal Mile , for long the arena for the city 's most important activities , climbing as it does up a narrow ridge cramped between steep slopes carved out by ancient glaciers to either side . |
| 23 | As for public relations , who could dislike for long the public relations man with his gin and tonic in hand , carnation in his button-hole , and soothing , helpful words ? |
| 24 | A party that had thrown itself so uncompromisingly into the campaign against Home Rule , and which had long ago accepted the need for " organization " in domestic affairs , could hardly accept for long the leadership by ineffective compromise which was what Asquith offered . |
| 25 | It is also a famously independent place , for long the capital of this little region of Baréges , and sufficiently cut off to administer itself as another of the remarkably enlightened mountain ‘ republics ’ . |
| 26 | The same approach can be found in successive studies published between the 1950s and 80s by Leonard Schapiro , for long the doyen of Russian studies at the London School of Economics and one of the most influential western historians of the revolution . |
| 27 | For long the shaman was treated in Marxist-Leninist writings as a mere charlatan who exploited the ignorance of his fellows in order to extort high fees for his services . |
| 28 | Left penniless when her husband dropped dead suddenly one Monday morning as he was putting his horse between the shafts to go to the country on his weekly door-to-door round , her pride had not allowed her to accept for long the charity of the community 's Board of Guardians . |
| 29 | Humans , we are told , never tolerate for long the predatory and revolutionary power of money without constraining it . |
| 30 | He also liked the occasional drink , for much the same reasons . |