Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [conj] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I did wonder , after a year or more , how it was that he and Mme G expected me to use the public baths rather than offer me the convenience of the bathroom in the pavillon . |
| 2 | She put her lips together and blew him the tiniest of kisses . |
| 3 | When surveyors started sizing up her land , ‘ I got my shotgun out and showed them the gate , ' she said . |
| 4 | Will the Foreign Secretary go a bit further and say what the attitude is of the British Government ? |
| 5 | Porter , one of the country 's most respected authorities on paediatrics , had taken a shy Puerto Rican intern called Carmen Rodriguez under his wing twenty years ago and given her the confidence to start up her own practice soon after graduating from medical school , and she was now one of New York 's most popular and in demand paediatricians . |
| 6 | Reflecting on the new and indeed unlikely scenario Collie Curran said : ‘ PJ McGowan came in three years ago and showed us the way ahead . |
| 7 | I thought it was Annie , and we 'd go home together and see Marie and they 'd both be proud of me and we could sit in front of the Christmas tree together and guess what the wrapped up presents were , and eat mince pies and all that . |
| 8 | After saving up my hard-earned wages for the past four and a half years I managed to scrape the 1750 or so quid together and bought myself the most stunning quilted maple P.R.S. Custom you ever saw . |
| 9 | He adds : ‘ In the last year , most restaurants have brought their prices down or kept them the same as last year . |
| 10 | It will provide spacious accommodation for the journey home and spare you the expense of my fare . ’ |
| 11 | How Alan kept his temper I will never know , but he quietly sorted out the mess , mounted a huge Loch Ordie , rowed out from the shore again and handed me the fly rod : ‘ Here , Bruce , you fish , I 'll work the dap and mind the oars . ’ |
| 12 | Go and visit the marchioness to-morrow and tell her the story . |
| 13 | Louis and his great men deliberated , and decided : at the summer assembly in July , the Ordinatio Imperii accommodated Lothar 's ambitions by giving him the title of co-emperor forthwith and promising him the whole of Francia on his father 's demise . |
| 14 | Who can put their hand up and tell me the next number ? |
| 15 | Our table felt it was worth £20 of tickets for a woman to put her hand up and show him the error of his ways , but we 'd already forked out enough , honest . |
| 16 | Walked in the lady said Oh right , you can can have a look round and showed us the rooms . |
| 17 | Cos I call on them everyday , I can pick the tools up and deliver them the next day . |