Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then , so gently that she was hardly aware of what was happening — as if she was merely swaying with the tide — he gradually pulled her towards the shore , slowly drawing her up against the bare , damp skin of his broad chest . |
| 2 | Turning down ‘ loads of really tacky telly ’ , he decided he 'd rather slog it out on the alternative circuit than settle for being the new Bobby Davro . |
| 3 | I tried to keep my feelings under control and remember that all these people were mostly helping us out of the goodness of their hearts , but sometimes it was difficult . |
| 4 | I did not dare move , and yet I did : I put my hand on his thigh , and slowly moved it up towards the centre of my desire . |
| 5 | Through the Lousadas Minton was to an extent drawn into a Hammersmith circle of artists which included Victor Pasmore , Julian Trevelyan and Mary Fedden who once danced with Minton at a New Year 's Eve party until she literally dropped , whereupon he gently laid her down on the floor . |
| 6 | Ross had taken her home , gently helping her out of the taxi and escorting her to the front door . |
| 7 | It will not only knock us around on the slightest whim ; but because of its size as a mature horse , it may become dangerous for us and others to handle . |
| 8 | Stylishly made but inherently daft , unlike the other ghost movies Flatliners does tackle the unpaid debts of the past , but only to write them off in the most superficial way . |
| 9 | Trevor and then if you 've got all those bits and pieces together send them in at the end of the week using this commission claim form . |
| 10 | Because if you are I 'd better count you out of the reckoning right away . |
| 11 | Walking uphill can suddenly bring you out of the mist and into the sunshine , with beautiful panoramas . |
| 12 | Complete Works is , in some ways , easier to use and incorporates some nice ideas , but the problems I had trying to link charts , table and spreadsheets together let it down in the end . |
| 13 | I felt disinclined actually to hand to him the piece of paper I was holding , and so put it down on the end of his bed . |
| 14 | After the third ‘ Carry On ’ , the cast had been offered a profit-sharing scheme — and had all turned it down on the advice of their agents , who thought they would be better off getting increased salaries . |
| 15 | You only let it out to the girls because you got a shock when they said they 'd seen . |
| 16 | So let me in on the secret . |
| 17 | Dress your hair in the way I intended , put on my pearl necklace and — ’ Anne drew off her gold ring and carelessly dropped it on to the coverlet ‘ — my wedding-ring . |
| 18 | If you have you could perhaps use them along with the video text as a package grouped around a theme . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , we 're not polite society , lad , so tip it on to the grass and we 'll pretend we 're not locking . |
| 20 | She felt the fence give a little and then it literally threw her back into the arms of the man with the mask . |
| 21 | If we are looking for advice on a particular situation which affects us then impartiality of the second type is particularly important ; for instance , the judge who assesses the relevant facts and selects the relevant moral or legal rules must not be someone who has something to gain or lose by the outcome , although this presupposes the correctness of the rules to be applied and so takes us back to the impartiality normally associated with legislators , which is a matter of their involvement in determining rules which are not only universalisable but are actually to be universalised , at least within a given community , and to their impartiality in the third sense namely the adequacy of the consideration given to the various relevant considerations . |
| 22 | I I th would prefer to look at the vacant dwellings as a single entity rather than necessarily splitting them down between the the the various types . |
| 23 | ‘ I am going to arrange a van to transport that fish to Berkeley so get it up on the bank . ’ |
| 24 | At this point the whole argument not only takes us back to the eighteenth-century speculations about poetry versus reason , but begins to tie in with recent neurological discoveries concerning the workings of the two halves of the human brain which have been derived from experimentally induced conditions of aphasia . |
| 25 | ‘ It was n't enough to put us back in the World Cup contention . |
| 26 | When Jesus says to his disciples , ‘ You are not to set your mind on food or drink ; you are not to worry ’ ( Luke 12:29 — the only New Testament use of the word ) , he is saying that God 's care for us as Father means that food and drink are not to be a hang-up , an occasion for doubt and anxiety which constantly keeps us up in the air . |
| 27 | I was lucky enough to knock him out in the first round . |
| 28 | This time he did n't throw her down with a fury but gently laid her down among the downy pillows and started to strip off his shirt . |
| 29 | Theodora gently steered him back to the house and set him in a deckchair on the south-facing terrace . |
| 30 | It was true that she had literally brought him back from the dead . |