Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was I hearing him right or had I missed the point as so often happened ? |
| 2 | Do you want me to put this one in or do you want the other one to go in ? |
| 3 | This did not stop them from associating together nor did it stop the spread of a vague common ideology . |
| 4 | The actual income of a kadi depended not only — or even principally — on his allowance , of course , but also on fees of various kinds ; and it may well be that if indeed the kadis of Istanbul , Edirne and Bursa continued to receive allowances of only 300 akce a day down to Hezarfen 's time , they did so because their allowances represented a relatively insignificant proportion of the monies they actually received , so that raising them to match the importance of the kadiliks was not a matter of particular moment . |
| 5 | You know I think we 've gone over it long enough and leave it to see the er |
| 6 | Find out what the person in doubt is believing wrongly and help him to follow the logic of these presuppositions to their necessary conclusion . |
| 7 | Cut the bad stuff out and er put the new timber in and shape it to fit the existing door casing , architrave and |
| 8 | Once I got arrested one morning for soliciting , but they let me out of the police station ; I got arrested the same afternoon , they let me out again ; I got arrested in the evening and they kept me in and took me to court the next day . |
| 9 | Erm a passing loop there , for trains to be able to just pull in and let anything going the other way , because it was mainly single track from er from onwards . |
| 10 | Stay with the man , watching him , waiting hour after hour , until eventually the man has to give in and say something to draw the whole thing to a close . |
| 11 | They 've cut it down and agreed I pay the arrears back at a pound a week . |
| 12 | ‘ Or do n't tell me that all those questions about Ryan were simply so that you could track him down and make him pay the money back ? ’ |
| 13 | Well you 've got to put your you 've got to put your hand down and hope you turn the rest turn up with the rest of the box . |
| 14 | The way we must do this is by working together to get our costs down and ensuring we provide the quality of service out customers need at the right price . |
| 15 | I remember David started crying but Ralph would not back down and say we deserved the money , or to have some of it , so we just left them at the Brummel Club before doing their thing . |
| 16 | And I would rush to the window and look down and see you turning the corner to cross the square below , or walk round it to the hotel door . |
| 17 | I remember visiting a year or two ago a project in Mexico , where an American organization had moved in and made a careful study , decided that the ideal thing for the local people to do would be to raise chickens , so they put fences up , supplied them with goodness knows how many hundred thousand chickens ; within a year they 'd killed the chickens , pulled the fences down and used them to cook the chickens and they were back exactly where they were . |
| 18 | People may actually be right but that is not an excuse for smugness , and non-interest in what anybody else thinks except to knock them down and force them to acknowledge the superiority of one 's own views . |
| 19 | Gregory was unable to do so and counselled us to abandon the lesion method altogether . |
| 20 | However , by retaining his flexibility of action the Secretary of State has drafted the Bill so as to allow him to weaken the necessary protections . |
| 21 | In one way the Chancellor is already brought into relation with the administration of justice , though not so as to enable him to modify the law at his pleasure . |
| 22 | 63. — ( 1 ) : In every factory in which , in connection with any process carried on , there is given off any dust or fume or other impurity of such a character and to such extent as to be likely to be injurious or offensive to the persons employed , or any substantial quantity of dust of any kind , all practicable measures shall be taken to protect the persons employed against inhalation of the dust or fume or other impurity and to prevent its accumulation in any workroom , and in particular , where the nature of the process makes it practicable , exhaust appliances shall be provided and maintained , as near as possible to the point of origin of the dust or fume or other impurity , so as to prevent its entering the air of any workroom . ’ |
| 23 | Wilson and Jones , in their investigations of this effect , did not test the carcinogens on cells , but on DNA extracted from cells and treated so as to make it mimic the methylated DNA of a dividing cell . |
| 24 | ‘ I suppose we are right to send you and Jeremy out to get Tristram rather than leave him to take the full consequences ? ’ he said reflectively , as he loaded her and her possessions into his car and took the wheel . |
| 25 | Strolling rather than walking he reached the point where the footpath to Trebyan left the road ; it was by no means obvious unless one was looking for it : a ditch , a screen of willows , and a stile all but covered with ivy . |
| 26 | Is n't it rather that , as Woodbridge implies , the transvestite seems to be a victim of false consciousness , and by switching gender roles rather than dissolving them reinforces the very sexual division which s/he finds oppressive ? |
| 27 | You should also , of course , warn the poor chap first so he can run your job overnight rather than have it tie the system up during the day . |
| 28 | Rather than let them squander the meagre fruits of their labour as they saw fit , their output had to be confiscated by the state for more long-lasting purposes . |
| 29 | Greenpeace in turn criticized the Commission 's proposals on the grounds that they would give industry a licence to burn waste rather than encourage it to minimize the production of waste . |
| 30 | She turned away and busied herself straightening the bed . |