Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may say that it is refutable and so it is empirical ; but then — see below — our criteria for cognisance are so much bound up with what the subject can do that it is difficult to see how we could assess the cognisance of a totally passive creature . ) |
| 2 | She 'd have done better to snap back at him the way he 'd snapped at her ! |
| 3 | The trouble is , I 'm a member of the Dock workers ’ Union as well , and the Brotherhood does n't always fall in with what the Union recommends . |
| 4 | It was that smell that on summer mornings most clearly brought back to her the lanes of her Shropshire childhood . |
| 5 | He had a lot to learn about operating methods from the people on the shop floor , but he could also pass on to them the fruits of his university education . |
| 6 | ‘ That baby there kicked out at me the other day . |
| 7 | Erm er , my name 's , an ordinary shareholder for long-standing erm , it would be very interesting , I do n't know whether this is possible now or maybe following on from what the speaker has said , if we had some idea of the American system which is er , I only know very little about it er I , just how that works because we have presidents and vice presidents and , er I think it work rather differently . |
| 8 | ‘ You were pretty fed up with me the other night — on the phone . ’ |
| 9 | Melanie never found out to whom the plastic toy she discovered in the bath on her first morning belonged . |
| 10 | It was still hard to tell whether he had actually cottoned on to what the name was . |