Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] [pron] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His dissenting and mercantile interests came together most poignantly when he attacked the East India Company under the leadership of the court-connected Sir Josiah Child [ q.v . ] . |
| 2 | ‘ They said it would be all right if I had the serial numbers but I do n't think they expected me back , ’ she said . |
| 3 | For a while during the 1970s these counterurban tendencies were operating so powerfully that they replaced the North-South drift as a primary dimension of regional population change in Britain ( Champion , 1983 ) . |
| 4 | But I was trembling so badly that it shook the knife out of my skin , and I could move again . |
| 5 | He looked around him as he went ; but he did not slow down much until he reached the culvert . |
| 6 | ‘ So much so that she told the entire matinée audience of a Noel Coward play ! |
| 7 | So much so that I stopped the rehearsal at that point . |
| 8 | The earl mounted his horse and chased after it , but enjoyed the sport so much that he ordered the town butchers to supply a mad bull every year on 13 November in return for grazing rights on the meadows . |
| 9 | Sometimes she would climax first , sometimes he , and on good nights they would explode together so that they felt the same tingling in the very tips of their toes and even then he 'd had to remember to withdraw — just in case . |
| 10 | It 's not so long since we learned the link between eating certain ‘ E ’ numbers and the behaviour of highly disruptive children . |
| 11 | The limitations on the power of these liberal groups within protestant loyalism are demonstrated by the fact that they have only been allowed to function among the leadership of the people so long as they obeyed the basic tenets and values common to the alliance as a whole . |
| 12 | ( c. 1 ) Writing shortly after Charles 's death , he believed that a new generation of both kings and nobles could preserve the realm so long as they had the right personal qualities . |
| 13 | It might be thought that so long as one asserted the local sign theory only in principle ( that is , did not specify the precise nature of the ‘ feeling ’ or ‘ colouring ’ which is supposed to subserve localisation ) , one could rely on the testimony of introspection for one 's theory to be confirmed . |
| 14 | Warner v. Browne the lessor engaged not to turn out the tenant so long as he observed the conditions , and in this case [ the company 's agent ] engages that the tenant shall hold until the company require to pull down the buildings . |
| 15 | So long as he had the support of Sir Rufus Stone , he could thumb his nose at Cotton . |
| 16 | The King , in the Declaration of Breda , had promised that no man would be molested for differences of religious opinion , so long as he kept the peace . |
| 17 | So long as he remembered the frailty of Dad 's grip on life , Dad 's fingers would never loosen and let go . |
| 18 | Any word could follow any other word , just so long as it matched the phonetic input description . |
| 19 | So long as it invested the money in buses , that was all right . |
| 20 | So long as you got the question wrong you got a cabbage if you got it right you got a prize |
| 21 | There she could call for any food or liquor she wanted , so long as she had the wherewithal to pay the inflated prices demanded by the Sponging House keeper . |
| 22 | In the recent House of Lords judgment in the aptly named Savage case , the court ruled that a person can be guilty of actual bodily harm regardless of whether she — in that case — intended any harm or was reckless about causing harm , so long as she intended the assault . |
| 23 | She checked only momentarily when she saw the chaos in the room . |
| 24 | Most people who supported the government when it joined the ERM did so not because they believed the forecasters ( although they were happy to do this ) , but because they believed , as a matter of principle , in the ‘ New Consensus ’ — that the active use of macroeconomic policy can only have an adverse effect and that market forces alone can deliver non-inflationary growth and full employment . |
| 25 | How that happened was that Darren , the apple of her grandmotherly eye , was kicked out of the Rainbow Crche for spitting and language , so she dragged him all over till she found the butis . |
| 26 | Melissa was on her way in a flash , but not so quickly that she missed the knowing look on Iris 's face . |
| 27 | The caff now seems to have more customers than the railway , and would do better still if they cleared the tables . |
| 28 | It is often argued that we would all be better off if we followed the Warsaw Pact system of accepting their superpower 's equipment , produced mainly in the Soviet Union , but also in satellite countries like Czechoslovakia . |
| 29 | Alf is periodically nodding at his son-in-law and suggesting that he would be better off if he read the book Alf has in his hands . |
| 30 | According to Andrew , Eleanor 's verdict was that a woman would act less wisely if she chose the less worthy one . |