Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had taken them ages to get back from the Lock and now the evening was drawing in . |
| 2 | The DHSS were playing me up over the removal grant , so one of my sons went up to the house to see if there were any letters — everything had been smashed , crocks were smashed and the beds were slashed . |
| 3 | Then one of my sons went down into the village to see if the army had left , He came back to tell us that they had destroyed everything , that they had taken all the maize , all the cows and had burnt every house in sight . |
| 4 | WHILE my heart goes out to the parents in the baby-swop drama , I have to agree with the midwife interviewed on TV who said that it was ‘ a disaster waiting to happen ’ . |
| 5 | My heart goes out to the people who are being raped , pillaged and murdered just because they are Bosnian Muslims . |
| 6 | ‘ My heart goes out to the people who are being raped , pillaged and murdered just because they are Bosnian Moslems . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ My heart goes out to the father and to all the family . |
| 8 | Because I 've had my hair highlighted regularly for the last ten years it gets really dry . |
| 9 | My hair falls out at the slightest touch , sometimes leaving little bald patches . |
| 10 | But I wanted to feel my spine tickle and my pulses beat , and my hair stir gently at the roots with suspense as that voice cried out from somewhere near our drawing room curtains . |
| 11 | ‘ My enthusiasm for my cooking spills over into the restaurant , ’ he said . |
| 12 | and my knickers fell down in the snow . |
| 13 | And home we went , in the BMW , my bike tucked away in the capacious boot . |
| 14 | My contract runs out at the end of this trip . |
| 15 | Of course , my horizons broadened considerably after the documentary . |
| 16 | ‘ I could ask him and Tim and you , and make my mum go out for the evening . ’ |
| 17 | Without you I 'd spend my summers picking morosely over the remains of train crashes . |
| 18 | I kept my fingers crossed figuratively during the first few months of our acquaintance that neither of us would be sent elsewhere on a permanent posting — permanent until demob , that is — because I had seen quite a few promising romances nipped in the bud by one or the other partner being whipped away by the unfeeling powers-that-be , and when a relationship is developing you do need a few weeks of togetherness to allow it to mature . |
| 19 | Look , ’ he lied , q have in my wallet a warrant from the Chief Justice and I shall stay here whilst my clerk hurries back to the city and brings men from the under sheriff to search this house . |
| 20 | ‘ My sympathy goes out to the people of Gateshead who have suffered a similarly sickening attack and I believe the government must now ensure that there is a positive and rapid response to meet the concerns of local residents . ’ |
| 21 | It so happened that on one of these Sundays my CO strolled by at the same time , and the AOC asked him why he had not seen Mahaddie for a pilot 's course . |
| 22 | Now one of them seizes me , and it is n't a man , it 's an octopus with claws — it holds me in its tentacles , its talons dig into my flesh and my blood drips out through the holes in my flesh and my blood is n't red human blood , it 's black like tar , like drops of liquid evil … |
| 23 | My mind cast back to the winter of last November when I stood on this same platform awaiting the arrival of a new intake . |
| 24 | My mind turns instead to the communality of this experience , of all those post-war babies competently handled but generally left alone , down the bottom of the garden in their prams , in the fresh air and out of the way . |
| 25 | I had n't really thought about what I could write , just dashed eagerly to the word processor , my mind meandering enjoyably about the £200 prize . |
| 26 | I had just winched in the staysail 's port sheet when the explosion sounded , or something so like an explosion that I instinctively cowered by Wavebreaker 's rail as my mind whipped back to the crash of practice shells ripping through the sleet in Norway . |
| 27 | He drove in silence then and I closed my eyes , pretending I was asleep , my head nodding , and all the time my mind reaching forward to the future , trying to visualise what it would be like on the boat . |
| 28 | My mind goes back to the original fifteen-year Hospital Plan , published in January 1962 . |
| 29 | My mind went back to the scene in that bedroom and the sliding doors to the paved patio . |
| 30 | Only when she fumbles with the tiny metal flap of my zip does my mind shake back to the present . |