Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [coord] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I class myself as English now and I know the talent is out there . |
| 2 | So I got up then and I spoke to the room you know and we were more or less helping one another out and I thought the Chairman had done well when he said erm they do n't speak er Welsh for fancy or anything they use it as every day . |
| 3 | When you pull this out and it goes the next time start it turn it over , rewind it to the front . |
| 4 | Erm well they have n't got it networked yet but they have the C D ROM players there already . |
| 5 | The smell was unpleasant too but she resisted the temptation to remove her scented handkerchief from the cuff of her blouse . |
| 6 | nearly thirty pound off , so we did , took that off and I sent the rest |
| 7 | He was the one that got me pregnant and he says that I ca n't come home at all now and I phoned the hospital , yes , and they said that come in and if I go in then you 're going to arrest me and then you 'll just call my dad like you always have done every time I 've run away from home and then every time you lot have took me back home and then I end up getting pregnant . |
| 8 | ‘ The spirit has been good through all these bad days we 've had lately , but it was even better today and everyone hoped the money was a sign things are turning round . ’ |
| 9 | I thought well after ten years , I thought , well I want I still want to get on and erm so I heard of this job down at Cambridge Station as Assistant Manageress at the Refreshment Rooms , you see , and er it was n't quite the same because er at Ipswich , you see , although the Catering Manager 's office er my work was office work and typing you know general thing and er because he was away most of the day , most days , because of er er the ten stations er from stretching as I say from Chelmsford , Witham , Marks Tey , Colchester and er I think it was Clacton and er and Manningtree and er I think , I do n't know Manningtree and Ipswich of course and er then er Bury St Edmunds and , and that 's it and I am not sure whether you went to Newmarket or whether to Ca whether to Cambridge now Newmarket but er , you see , so the days went on and we worked every other Sunday and of course I know things were a lot cheaper then but you see the pay was n't , was n't very good . |
| 10 | But the truly dominant , characterizing feature is the use of pronouns and the movement between them : take those away and you destroy the relationship out of which the poems derive . |
| 11 | It was five o'clock and they began the trek homeward . |
| 12 | Well you took all this sort of things in your stride but the next day we heard about these houses being knocked down , you see , and I think that 's the nearest I 've been to be killed but one day , one Saturday and that was in a daylight raid , one Saturday afternoon because , you see , I was off every afternoon but I worked till ten every night , you see , and er so erm but of course Hugh worked during the day and he was off in the evening , that 's why he used to come down to see , to see us and er he used to come in er you see and leave his lodgings and , oh be about nine o'clock and he spent the last day up there perhaps with his friends , have a chat , and er , you see , and but er and I was walking along it was called and suddenly a plane came over and I thought oh I expect it 's one of ours . |
| 13 | When er I stood for the election of the national organizers for the East of Scotland and I was successful there and I left the Edinburgh branch in May nineteen sixty six to start work with the head office in nine May nineteen sixty six . |
| 14 | ‘ The girls want their room doing the same now but I draw the line at our bedroom . ’ |
| 15 | Now , most of us are middle-aged here and we remember the yard and the old times . |
| 16 | He was silent then and I had the feeling he was thinking of all that Cook had done , first in Endeavour , then in Resolution and Discovery , ships not much longer than Isvik . |