Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Put simply , everyone has come together for the common good and economic prosperity of the river . |
| 2 | Separate studies by the Roper Organisation , a research group , and DDB Needham , an ad agency , have found that the proportion of shoppers seeking out particular brands and willing to pay more for them has fallen sharply since the late 1980s . |
| 3 | So what 's interesting here is that they seem to be having a conversation about un the university matters , the history department and so on but in fact there 's this kind of subtext going on here in which both of them want to find out about the other person 's children and both of them are being very mysterious and avoiding the question . |
| 4 | I have just sat down on the wet grass when everyone around me starts to move swiftly in the direction of the wooded area just visible through the mist and gloom . |
| 5 | Coober Pedy ( form the aboriginal kupa piti meaning " white man 's burrow " ) has a large migrant population but it was an Australian who dug me out when I became bogged down in the dull-dust , and an old swagman on the road who warned me to keep an eye on the weather . |
| 6 | I began to realise that life like this could not last for ever and so I asked to go back to the Cheshire Home for a holiday . |
| 7 | After that I avoided looking down towards the woodpile until , when it was almost too dark to see , I glanced down one last time — and she was gone . |
| 8 | ‘ Did I tell you I 'ad to run away in the end because he got to fancy me too much ? |
| 9 | I mean turn out in the er in , in in er er European elections was er in nineteen eighty four it was thirty two percent and in nineteen er eighty nine , thirty seven percent . |
| 10 | If you put down the example I I actually marked the example but then I realized going back through the book that obviously the example was given for you there anyway . |
| 11 | I intend to travel extensively during the summer and I may not have the pleasure of meeting you . |
| 12 | Rod , working on his own life story with a ghost writer , has promised : ‘ I am going to leave no stone unturned — I intend to delve deeply into the numerous stains I have left on the tapestry of life . ’ |
| 13 | Well , a bit I intend carrying on as the parliamentary candidate and somebody had obviously asked Dave why it is something has nothing whatsoever to do with the constituency . |
| 14 | Next summer mum was told she would have to go back into hospital for a long time , and because I already knew the place , I agreed to go back to the Cheshire Home for this period . |
| 15 | Here I sit looking out over the sea , on this little rag of an island , Uskair . |
| 16 | I planned to stay there for the summer , and then learn how to be a better actress . |
| 17 | The abbeys and priories I passed slumbered gently in the lee of fresh green hills , unaware of the destruction about to crawl from the hellish pit of Henry 's lusts . |
| 18 | The door was open and I did hear that much when I passed to go in to the ladies ' toilet . |
| 19 | ‘ No , they did n't throw me out , miss ; I got fed up with the chatter . |
| 20 | If I got fed up with the foster parents there was no one I could turn to really . |
| 21 | When the doctor had gone , Dot said , ‘ I got to go back in the hospital , ai n't I , Mrs H ? ’ |
| 22 | I was eating my tea that afternoon — they would n't let me go too — and I got called over to the Centre [ the prison officers ' operational centre within the prison ] . |
| 23 | So I was close by and so they sent me in so the way I , I got dressed up in the minister 's cassock , and I got in revised the books of Genesis , like through and I get genned up to be a minister and I took in a bible and er well anyway I killed five men and they got out alive . |
| 24 | I got dressed quickly in the bitter cold of the room , and washed when I could . |
| 25 | ‘ I got hauled up before the chief psychiatrist because of the champagne that was flowing . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ No , I got held Up at the office . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I got held up at the office . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I got held up at the last minute . ’ |
| 29 | Sometimes I got to get up in the night and walk about and |
| 30 | Sometimes I got to get up in the night and walk about and |