Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [subord] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had forgotten my way and had to look all round me slowly until I recognized the street which I had used a hundred times before . |
| 2 | He had hoped that the project would foster greater continuity between children 's experience of learning in primary school , and their experience in the comprehensive : I want to get away from [ a didactic approach ] , to the pupils taking more responsibility for work they produce and being more autonomous in the way that they do it and hoping to create more responsibility in them rather than them seeking the teacher all the time for information ; and thinking that all knowledge and information and values have to be teacher judged … |
| 3 | He waved them on as he turned the corner , and began to run . |
| 4 | She was about to pop them in when we heard the strains of the rag and boneman 's cry . |
| 5 | Initially this new German ‘ victory ’ weapon proved unnerving but before long it became possible for the ‘ V1s ’ to be intercepted by fighter aircraft over the sea , although their speed was a problem , but by moving the bulk of the anti-aircraft artillery units to the Isle of Wight and along the southern coastline of England , it was possible to shoot them down before they reached the London area . |
| 6 | He was intrigued to analyse her dreams and encouraged her to write them down before he discussed the hidden messages they may have contained . |
| 7 | See they ai n't got the concrete roads down to put them down when they bought the farm off Sam years later . |
| 8 | Dawn overtook them long before they reached the Esk , or even the Lyne . |
| 9 | Vicky Whitemore , knowing the problems that 'keepers face in these situations , was delegated with the responsibility and let no-one down as she launched the ball safely into an unguarded part of the net . |
| 10 | I though when they won the league they were bad but it is getting worse with each passing day . |
| 11 | She should have said , I do n't know where you got these things , but please put them away before somebody sees the sun glinting off them and assumes it 's me spying on the guests . |
| 12 | Rather like the children we were discussing earlier in this chapter it is possible to meet elderly people who have achieved a serenity of understanding and/or faith that supports them utterly as they develop the skill of coming towards the end of their life . |
| 13 | Where they are not specified , use them anyway if you want the best performance from your detector . |
| 14 | And let me just before we take the music remind you of er the front page of the daily mirror today . |
| 15 | People had gone up to a house and been knocking on the door waiting for someone to come because the light had come on and they thought there must be somebody in because they switched the light on when they saw me come up the drive , and these are visitors . |
| 16 | She listed the points she wanted to make , ticking them off when she found the precise words she wanted to use . |
| 17 | And it brought home to me with a rush something which had been slowly dawning on me ever since I joined the Air Force ; that I had been spoiled for quite a long time now . |
| 18 | I knew they would follow me quickly so I told the spaceship to take me to a very quiet part of the Galaxy , a long way from any planets with people on . |
| 19 | Even the fishing fleet came down the harbour as expected from intelligence reports , and might have choked the narrow 100 yards wide entrance if a burst of tracer from a destroyer had not turned them aside as they grasped the situation . |
| 20 | Well Terry confirmed that to me yesterday cos I asked the question could we not just run it |
| 21 | You can then either hem and gather it with shirring tape before it is fixed to the walls ; or let it gather itself naturally as you push the rods through the turned-over hems at top and bottom . |
| 22 | ‘ I felt I 'd like to know you better before I broached the subject . ’ |
| 23 | Fancy flogging you just because you sliced the legs off the general . |
| 24 | At the next new moon get into your boat and let the wind carry you eastwards until you reach the windswept isle of Bujan , the sun 's bright home , where shines the amber stone Alatyr , guarded by the eldest brother of all the crows . |
| 25 | Course , I 'll never talk to you again if you catch the big feller , but might make a fun afternoon . |
| 26 | In fact , she takes a wicked delight in setting me up as she explains the album title . |
| 27 | But with details Major Morton was less forthcoming , and Edward 's unease turned into something deeper when he named the ‘ traitors ’ who had drunk the shameful toast . |
| 28 | you 're not going to put the wrong one down if you know the right one are you ? |
| 29 | She found quite a rare one just as she reached the other edge of the wood . |
| 30 | brought the green one home cos I brought the three samples home , the one that we 've got down and another one and another one for the hall and stair , but I said I 'm sure it was n't the same as that , but it might have been , but I have to say he always said we would |